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First TEDx Volcano happening in London!

Sunday, April 18th, 2010

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.  [...]

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Weekly inspiration #23: Internet Lovin’

Monday, February 15th, 2010

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. [...]

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Weekly Inspiration #13: TED special

Monday, October 26th, 2009

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 [...]

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On the surprising science of motivation

Thursday, August 27th, 2009

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 [...]

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