What does creativity look like and do?
Creativity has a face and a role in pretty much everything we do. I suspect the greatest fear we have, and the reason we hide or suppress our creativity, is for fear of rejection. Lets face it we are very judgmental and instead of celebrating a person putting their idea out there, a simple example [...]
A little hockey advice
When I think about how to advance what I do in the classroom or on the radio I have come back to a little Wayne Gretzky often. While the “Great One” was talking about ice hockey these words apply to pretty much every activity we engage in. What I really enjoyed about TEDActive was that [...]
Why go to TED?
As I sit at Paris CDG airport waiting on a connection to Dubai I am reading email, and a few questions about why go to TED when you can watch many of the talks online for free? JD Schramm, Director of the Mastery in Communication Initiative at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business has written a wonderful blog post [...]
Why I love TEDActive
TED is not just a conference it is a mental re-boot! Too many conferences are at you this conference is with you and those attending become part of something for a week. Here is another piece of what makes TED and TEDActive different than any other conference around. The video! [vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/20660248[/vimeo] This was filmed, edited [...]
More From TEDActive
This is a must see talk from this year! About this talk As a democratic revolution led by tech-empowered young people sweeps the Arab world, Wadah Khanfar, the head of Al Jazeera, shares a profoundly optimistic view of what’s happening in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and beyond — at this powerful moment when people realized [...]
TEDActive Day 3
TED is leaving my mind spinning and that is a great thing to be able to say. I must also say that the best thing about a TED conference remains the people you meet. Here are my audio updates for the last 2 days. And here is Day 4 of the experience Day 2 of [...]
Get out of your comfort zone much?
All I can say is imagine doing this? [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/19470246[/vimeo] Maybe we all need to get out of our comfort zone once in a while! And we need to get out of our comfort zone to the extreme!
Essential TIPS from TED…
A few lists from the TEDx workshop that apply as much to a TED event as they do to any event you may be planning. Bruno Giussani on how to do a great TEDTalk have 1 idea and focus keep it short, 18 minutes is a ceiling make it fresh and new act as a [...]
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 [...]
OLD School For My Ted Sharing.
TED is all about sharing ideas and I am all for that. But the TED experience is an odd thing because it is more than just listening to people tell a great story. The TED experience is also about grabbing onto the subtle nuance that happens in the space between the obvious. The problem with [...]
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