I am a big fan of TED Talks, they have created a list with the Top 10 TEDTalks. My favorite among those ten is Jill Bolte Taylor talking about My stroke of insight.
You can view the talks by Themes, Speakers or the Talks List. And while you are there, sign up for their newsletter and get information when new talks are available.
This was originally posted at Forty Plus Two, another blog of mine.
Over at TED is a talk from 2005 by Clay Shirky about Institutions vs. collaboration. It is a very interesting talk about how closed groups and companies will give way to looser networks. Clay talks about institutions compared to collaboration, like Microsoft versus Linux. He shows the graphs behind the 80-20 rule, few contribute a lot and many contribute very little. Still, the small contributions can be very valuable.
Clay mentions Flickr and their tagging feature that makes it easy to find photos on a topic regardless of who uploaded that photo.
Clay also talks about Meetup, with the tag line Meetup Groups meet face-to-face to pursue hobbies, network, get support, make friends, find playgroups, and how that system is used as a tool for stay at home moms to create a real life social network.
This was originally posted at Forty Plus Two, another blog of mine.
At TED talks is an interesting and entertaining speech by Sir Ken Robinson, author of Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative, and a leading expert on innovation and human resources.
In this talk, he makes a case for creating an education system that nurtures creativity, rather than undermining it.
This was originally posted at Forty Plus Two, another blog of mine.
TED stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design. At TED Talks are videos with some of the speakers they have had. It is an impressive list with names like Malcom Gladwell (Blink), Richard Dawkins (The Selfish Gene), Jimmy Wales (founder of Wikipedia), Nicholas Negroponte, Al Gore and more. A website worth a visit!
This was originally posted at Forty Plus Two, another blog of mine.
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