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...

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...

A few weeks ago, my husband and I went to hear Tony speak.    It was one of those watch him spill his guts and hope he doesn’t barf from the saki speeches.  Really, it was entertaining, engaging and a delightful change from the typical Saturday night routine which involves a bath, some Fancy...

I’m not quite done reflecting on the amazing experience that was TEDxColumbus.  I tried to categorize the talks we curated and came up with this quirky tree analogy.  It made me think about the larger way we organize the stories we tell.  Which one would you be? 1.  Trunk:  The speaker sticks...

Last Tuesday at TEDxColumbus, Reade Harpham, one of our most inspirational speakers asked us the question: What are you going to do about it?  As the organizer, I didn’t give it much thought until this morning, when I had time to actually do so, when I looked in my daughter’s trash can and...

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...

(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. ...

This marks day 9 of the annual BIA Parade of Homes this year held at Tartan Ridge in Dublin.  Fortunately for me in the last 2-3 months, it’s been a dynamic parade of work. As I watch the “returns” from the campaign, I’m delighted that online assets have given us PR junkies really...

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,...

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,...