TEDActive Starting…
Sunday at 8am the fun begins with the TEDx workshop. We pick up the conference bag in the morning but were teased with our badges and facebooks today. The badges are huge, the sponsor book a pocket guide and the facebook is fantastic! As I worked my way through immigration at LAX the immigration officer [...]
Go Old for New
We spend an enormous amount of time looking for the new thing. Maybe we spend too much time doing that? Pepsi and McDonalds in the Fast Company piece called Super Bowl Stories show that once again creativity does not have to mean reinventing the wheel. There is a lot to say about using nostalgia in [...]
Basis of New Ideas…
John Kolko, author of the new book, Exposing the Magic of Design, has been writing in FastCompany and I think hit on an issues that is not just important to the design world but organizational change in general. In communication, well journalism, we are constantly teaching and being told to think about objectivity! Good advice [...]
180 degree turn—you ready?
I spend a lot of time thinking about career options. Part of the reason for this thinking is I have children. On another hand I am a professor and like to hope I am educating for tomorrow. Maybe I am even thinking a bit about myself? The days of being married to one job/career, for [...]
Mash up the University Experience with TEDx
If you are a TED fan then you have to also be fanatical about TEDx events. I find it amazing how many events there are globally and wonder if I can plan a vacation or year sabbatical attending TEDx events, writing, filming, blogging and creating the ultimate learning resource? Think of it as the resources [...]
Get on With Things Part One.
Ideas, we all have them and we all have the means to act on them, ideas, but how often do you act on your ideas? I know form my own experience that I tend to act on some ideas but because of self doubt I tend to reject most ideas that pop into my head. [...]
You can help!
This is very unusual for me, to post a letter from a friend in my BLOG, but I know so many of you are looking for ways to engage with global communities for change. Read this and please do what you can! Hi, My wife Masarat and I are heading next week to Dhaka, Bangladesh [...]
Export the smart from smartphones.
Smartphones are changing the world we live in. Sure there are many people who are not riding the smartphone wave. But the sad truth is in the very near future the smart phone is going to not only be the primary resource for storing and communicating information but it will also be the primary tool [...]
How-To part 2 (be happy at work)
We are all looking for the clue, cue, map, instructions on how to not just go to work but make work an experience we live for. I mean come on, if you go to a desk and get angry why are you going to the desk? Sometimes the how-to guide is sitting right in front [...]
TEDx / still relevant?
I have been part of 3 TEDx events since I went to TED2009. TEDxDubai in its 1st incarnation was an amazing achievement. A team of 5 with 10,000 Dirhams cash managed to ignite the imagination of Dubai bringing together 1000 participants and a stellar cast of speakers. And the whole thing was done with no [...]
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