October 2011
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WatchVideo from the third TEDxBandung: Counting Forward, which occured at October 9th, 2011.
The video features Sundanese tunes.
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This Week's TEDxTalks Playlist
Hundreds of talks from independently organized TEDx events around the world are published on the TEDxTalks website weekly.
Each Tuesday, we’ll choose four of our favorites, highlighting just a few of the enlightening talks from TEDx community, and its diverse constellation of ideas worth spreading. Browse all TEDxTalks here »
Are climate change and the global economic crisis related?...
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This Week's TEDx Talks Playlist
Hundreds of talks from independently organized TEDx events around the world are published on the TEDxTalks website weekly.
Each Tuesday, we’ll choose four of our favorites, highlighting just a few of the enlightening talks from TEDx community, and its diverse constellation of ideas worth spreading. Browse all TEDxTalks here »
65 million years ago, an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs. ...
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TEDx Teams Up With IDEO to Relaunch "TEDx in a...
TEDx has teamed up with IDEO.org to launch the second phase of the TEDx in a Box initiative, first launched in December of last year. The IDEO.org team – Emily, Marika and Robin — were excited to work on their first project as IDEO.org fellows: Emily: “I’m thrilled to be on this project with TEDx. One of my priorities this year with IDEO.org is to get my hands dirty and design...
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WatchA futuristic promo video from TEDxBologna.
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TEDxKids@BC: A day filled with dreams,...
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” — Dr. Seuss
On September 17, we held our inaugural TEDxKids@BC event. It has been an overwhelming experience and words can’t describe how we all felt at the end of the day! We worked really hard and the past few months leading to the event have been particularly tough as we all...
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TEDxBeirut's 7 tips for being agile
Do you want to recruit 40 employees, attract more than 800 customers, get financed within months, have social media buzzing about your company, and throw an event in a very short period of time? It sounds impossible, but the TEDxBeirut team did it. TEDxBeirut was created by a young group of people who have full-time jobs and yet worked around the clock to introduce something inspiring to...
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TEDxPeachtree Q&A: Sarah Miller Caldicott
Sarah Miller Caldicott is a great-grandniece of Thomas Edison and co-author of the book “Innovate Like Edison” is also a speaker at the upcoming TEDxPeachtree in Atlanta, Georgia:
How did you start on this path?
I was concerned by the lack of innovation momentum in the United States at the turn of the millennium. There was so much excitement about entering a shining new era but we...
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TEDx Seattle Organizers Meetup
Earlier today, Kartik and I skipped our first day of Fall Quarter classes to attend a TEDx Organizer meetup at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. If I had to use one word to describe the event, it would be Ignite.
Conversations were diverse- we discussed sponsors, speakers, developing dialogue, and more. Our group was equally diverse- the spectrum ranged from new, young TEDx Organizers...
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This Week's TEDxTalks Playlist
Hundreds of talks from independently organized TEDx events around the world are published on the TEDxTalks website daily.
Each Tuesday, we’ll choose four of our favorites, highlighting just a few of the enlightening talks from TEDx community, and its diverse constellation of ideas worth spreading. Browse all TEDxTalks here »
How do you engage students? In this talk, Tom Gibbons...
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TEDxMadtown 2011
This past March, I had the privilege and honor to be a speaker at TEDxMadtown, and to share my dream of growing fruit and building community.
I wanted to share my story and what the future of my work is shaping to be as a result of TEDxMadtown.
In 2009, I started the process of diversifying our Community Supported Agriculture Farm (CSA) to include more perennial fruits — transitioning an acre...
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WatchA simple yet beautiful promo video from TEDxValedosVinehehos
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Top 10 Reasons You Want to Attend TEDxPeachtree -...
It’s like a massage for your brain. Thinking out of the box takes work. Here’s a chance to grow some new connections in your brain!
It’s a great way to network with some fantastic, diverse people from all walks of life.
You’ll be blown away by the performances. These are top performers in Atlanta in their fields of dance, music and comedy. You won’t forget them, we promise!
You’ll be inspired...
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TEDxRedmond 2011
It’s 12:45 PM at the Microsoft Conference Center, and people are beginning to take their seats. But contrary to the surroundings, this is no corporate conference or group of CEOs; this audience of hundreds is all youth. (At least in the main room.)
TEDxRedmond is a TEDx event for youth, by youth that we organized this September. We had an organizing committee of sixteen people, all under the age...
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TEDxPeachtree Q&A: Michael Horn, author and...
Michael Horn is the co-founder and Executive Director of Innosight Institute, and will be a speaker at TEDxPeachtree in Altanta, Georgia on November 4th, 2011:
1. How did you start on this path?
I was an innocent student in Clayton Christensen’s class trying to figure out what I would do after school. The theories that Clayton taught us just changed my life. We ended up coauthoring a book...
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WatchRobert X. Fogarty, founder of Dear World and speaker at TEDxTampaBay 2011 has the amazing ability to share TED-style ideas without uttering a single word.
On April 22nd, 2011, Robert presented at TEDxTampaBay for over sixteen minutes and uttered only a few words near the end of his presentation. Incredibly, his carefully choreographed music, photo slideshow and poster notes moved the crowd to...
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“Every successful business, product, or concept started with a simple creative...”
– Jennifer Spruit, TEDxOttawa Organizer
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This Week's TEDxTalks Playlist
Hundreds of talks from independently organized TEDx events around the world are published on the TEDxTalks website daily.
Each Tuesday, we’ll choose four of our favorites, highlighting just a few of the enlightening talks from TEDx community, and its diverse constellation of ideas worth spreading. Browse all TEDxTalks here »
Nate Garvis encourages us to re-imagine our common cultural...
