You Know TED how about GEL?
Posted on | May 27, 2010 | 1 Comment
You know I am a TED fan and will be going to TED2011 as well as co-curating TEDxDubai this coming December.
But there is another group that you might not have heard of and need to also look at!
GEL Short for “Good Experience Live”
You are scratching your head right?
Well here is what it is all about.
Gel is a conference and community exploring good experience in all its forms – in art, business, technology, society, and life.
Gel was founded by Mark Hurst in 2003 and has run a spring event in New York City each year since. Gel 2010 was the 8th annual event.
Instead of focusing on just one thing (design, technology, user experience, business, etc.) like many conferences, Gel touches on many things. This challenges attendees to find, and learn from, the patterns that underlie good experience, even in disciplines vastly different from their own.
The best way to understand the Gel experience is to attend.
I have not attended yet BUT like TED I do love the videos.
You can find the videos on VIMEO
One of the recent greats is this one!
- Matt Haughey
- Founder, Metafilter.com
- Posted: 05/26/10 | Recorded at Gel 2010
- As the founder of Metafilter.com, Matt Haughey has created one of the most successful and vibrant online communities in the world. At Gel 2010 he describes some of the lessons he’s learned along the way. Matt is a longtime Gel attendee and it’s a privilege to spotlight his outstanding work.
(Coincidentally, just days after Gel 2010 the online community of Ask Metafilter stopped a human trafficking attempt in New York City. See also the Mother Jones article on the incident.)
See also: Matt Haughey on Twitter
The point is there are a bunch of people doing great things and making it available, live, learn and pass it on!
I really love this little talk and for me it frames a lot of where I think education in the field of media needs to be going and fast.
David Bornstein at Gel 2010 (author, “How to Change the World”) from Gel Conference on Vimeo.
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May 27th, 2010 @ 8:09 pm
Hey James… we have something like this in Colorado -called Ignite- though it’s smaller, more localized, and takes place on a monthly basis in more than 100 cities across the U.S. I think that, globally, people have really embraced the idea of meshing discussion, media, and technology as a way of connecting with one another outside of the computer screen -which is why these types of events have become so successful. In any case, thanks for the tip on Gel -I’ll have to go raid their video section now.