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TED Time!
Ideas worth spreading. This is the mission of the nonprofit organization TED, which works toward changing attitudes, lives and the world. It began with two annual conferences where some of the world’s greatest innovators and insight-givers were challenged to give the best talk they could in 18 minutes or less. Videos of the talks are regularly posted online for everyone to watch, share and love.
A woman—who was blind but didn’t know it until she was a teenager—uses her experience to change the way we view differently abled people. Best-selling author Elizabeth Gilbert delves into ancient Greek ideas to battle an overwhelming pressure felt by artists to be “geniuses.” These are just a couple (badly butchered descriptions of) talks I’ve seen. They had me smiling through tears, fully inspired. TED has branched out, creating more worldwide conferences, a TED award program and the TEDx events, which allow other communities to have their own conferences.
On Sept. 10, Albuquerque will wrap its arms around a TEDx talk at the National Hispanic Cultural Center. So far, the lineup has more than 12 speakers, including poet Hakim Bellamy, social entrepreneur Susan Matteucci, architectural designer Rachel Preston Prinz and Nina Simons, co-founder of Bioneers.
The first two people to comment on that blog with their own favorite TED talk will each win a pair of tickets.
TED Tickets
Tickets go on sale for Friday, July 15, and they’re only $45 instead of the mint it costs to attend the international conference. These babies are going to go fast, guaranteed: Visit tedxabq.com for details. But the Alibi has two pairs to give away. Here’s how you can nab them. In the next couple of days, I’ll be posting a blog on the Alibi site, about the most-watched TED talks. The first two people to comment on that blog with their own favorite TED talk will each win a pair of tickets. Start watching alibi.com on Thursday, July 14. I could post at any time!
- TED talks [ Fri Jul 15 2011 5:48 PM ]
TedX Talks [ Fri Jul 15 2011 5:45 PM ]
My favorite Ted Talk:
Benjamin Zander, "classical music with shining eyes"
And other great ones:
Barry Schwartz, "Practical Wisdom"
Doris Kearns Goodwin, "on leaning from past presidents"
and the recent one from Matt Cutts: "Try something new for 30 days"
Jean Hopkins
- Fav TED video [ Fri Jul 15 2011 8:30 PM ]
My favorite TED video is the one by John Wooden on True Success.
He makes you realize that we need to be able to close the doors behind us in order to open the doors ahead of us. Also what he says about doing the best you can will get you what you SHOULD get, not necessarily what you want. Finally, the quote by Cervantes "the journey is better than the end"...getting there is the fun.
I've never been able to attend a TED Conference in person but always hear about how they have changed peoples lives. I'm in that phase of my life now after turning 50 yrs old in 2009. Still on my journey....
- This is not the ticket-winning blog [ Mon Jul 18 2011 3:16 PM ]
This is the automatic post of the article where I describe how to win tickets.
