On Jamie Oliver’s TED Talk.
Last week at TED, Jamie Oliver, the winner of the TED Prize, gave a talk about how we are slowly killing our children (in America) through not educating them about basic things like how to prepare food. He’s right. We are a sickly obese nation.
This, the first in a series of posts where I’ll start to opine about presentation styles, comes down to three simple thoughts:
Jamie has a personality for TV, ideas worthy of TED, and a presentation style perfect for radio. I counted...
It’s been 13 years s...
We were in a plane between Lincoln and Omaha Nebraska during another week-long tour of some remote part of the US during the presidential campaign in 1996. That year, we did 74 cities in 28 states in 10 weeks. And we did it without data-enabled cell phones. Really, how did we survive?
On that flight, I got a text page (you know, the old fashioned kind, where just a number appears?). I had...
TEDx Columbus...
(After a sabbatical of sorts, I’m back to work. Coming off of the busy summer, a vacation and a child starting school demanded a break in most things routine like my blog entries here.)
I noted in an earlier post that I had an idea around TED, the conference that blasts out ideas worth spreading. TED, standing for Technology, Entertainment and Design, has intrigued me for a while as their...
Where were those tissues?...
We should all be so lucky to work or volunteer (or both!) on a project that is as deeply meaningful as Flying Horse Farms. I was a part of the team that planned today’s groundbreaking for this $20 million, 200 acre camp for children with serious illnesses outside of Mt. Gilead.
Let me say, I’ve organized or participated in dozens of “milestone” events such as this one. But...
I am not a geek....
I tried to be one recently. I signed up and went to the Wordcamp (seminar? workshop? geek fest?) this last weekend. I even recruited about 8 other people to go too.
Wordcamp is the official ‘brand’ for a gathering of Wordpress geeks. But I’m just a huge fan. Just an end- user that knows enough to be dangerous. For those that might be still wondering what is Wordpress - it’s...
Is the blog the new press ...
In reading one of my favorite industry, insider blogs from Brian Solis, who writes on “PR 2.0,” he summarized what I’ve been preaching for the last two years. While the press release has not gone away, the way in which we distribute news in them has changed dramatically. Moreover, the advent of the blog itself is a powerful tool to channel consistent, relevant and fresh messaging...
One Minute = One Hour....
Yesterday, my TEDxEast (New York) colleague and I hosted the first ever webinar in the TEDx Learning Series (that we coined) for TEDx organizers literally around the world. Of course I was ambitious to take on my first webinar with such a broad audience, but our evaluations were off the charts, so luckily success prevailed. The topic was speaker preparation - and how to get the most out of working...
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