Archive for the tag: "ted"
Weekly inspiration #33: LIFT talks
While TED talks are now widely spread over the Web, reaching a total of 250 million views in April, one sometimes tends to forget about other sources of highly inspirational videos. With LIFT conference starting on Wednesday in Geneva, we would like to bring the excellent LIFT Talks to your attention, recorded over the last 4 [...]
TEDxVolcano: When a “Why not” turns into a “Hell yeah”
A team lead by Sandbox member, founder of Assetmap, and co-editor at change.org, Nathaniel Whittemore, has made conference history. Born out of the reasoning that most of the high-profile delegates of Skoll’s Social Entrepreneurship Forum and the TEDx Conference in Cambridge would be stranded in London, Nathaniel and his team turned Eyjafjallajökull’s ash into a [...]
First TEDx Volcano happening in London!
With volcanic excitement, we’re thrilled to announce that a team lead by Sandbox member, founder of Assetmap, and co-editor at change.org, Nathaniel Whittemore, has made conference history. Within 36 hours, Nathaniel rallied support of partners such as Sandbox and Ludic Group to put together a line-up that is undoubtedly fulfilling TED’s standard of thought leadership. [...]
Weekly inspiration #23: Internet Lovin’
Sunday being Valentines and the Chinese New Year, I tried to find a theme somehow connecting the two – ultimately settling on our love affair with the internet. Google’s first TV advertisement in the US captures the sentiment quite well. The internet enables and initiates almost everything, from information sharing to something potentially much more. [...]
Weekly Inspiration #13: TED special
Among all the ideas we have heard, some of the most inspiring ones came from TED. For those who don’t know TED, it started organizing exclusive conferences devoted to “ideas worth spreading” in 1984. It reached a truly global audience more recently when the content of the conferences was published and made freely available on [...]
On the surprising science of motivation
Traditional rewards aren’t always as effective as we think, that’s what Daniel Pink demonstrates in this talk. There is a mismatch between what science knows and what managers do. How to best motivate people to do work? This message should have been heard by every bank manager two years ago. And is a must-hear for [...]
SWING THAT STRING
I’m sure you know that feeling: You hear people talking about something over and over again, but you just don’t really get what it’s all about, what’s really behind it and how it actually works. Everything sounds complicated and confusing – until somebody comes along, explains it to you in an understandable way, and in [...]
