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Who would you nominate among the TED community to give a talk worth spreading? In a virtual TED conference?
In our interactions with our fellow TEDsters, there are those who can converse very succinctly and clearly their ideas and you can sense that they have a marvelous perspective that you wish to hear or learn more.
Personally, I know that I can go through their comments and conversations and learn about this great TEDster but considering how long and varied the conversations are, it's rather overwhelming.
So the idea is why not "TEDsterize" your perspective? - present it in a 15-minute talk and give the gist of your biggest ideas that you think that is worth spreading?
Take Julian Treasure for example who have somehow mastered the science of sound, silence and listening and see it as way to transform our world. He also presented his ideas in websites, blogs and enterprise. What would be your specialty, your expertise or passion that you see that can transform our world?
Organizing an event takes a lot of effort and although it's all worth it, can we have a virtual TED conference for example, live talk, live streaming, live audience or group of audience? How can we present the dynamics of a live conference in the digital world?
For those who have interacted with me so far and know the kind of ideas that I'm spreading, you know that I would nominate every single TEDster to give a talk with my firm belief and assumption of our own individual greatness and passion. You and I know that that's not possible right now so let me nominate 5 Tedsters as an example:
Colleen Steen
Thomas Jones
Krisztián Pintér
Salim Solaiman
Scott Armstrong
(Edit: You can also suggest what topic or what is your impression based on your interactions. Please exclude my name as this conversation would be self-promotional though that itself is presumptuous (:>))
Jam Cipres 500+
• Birdia Tak Wai Chan – Poetry as your IWS
• Genevieve Tran –TED talks to ponder on
• Jimmy Strobl – TED bringing wonder
• Nic Marks – Bliss
• Debra Smith – Cognitive styles
• Linda Woodard -The Real Art of Teaching
• Meher Like Spring Rabbit - Pursuit of knowledge
• Nicholas Lukowiak - The young Ken Robinson
• Muhammad Aizat Zainal Alam - Faith
Joe Delsen 20+
Jam Cipres 500+
Juan Jimenez
Autumn Frisco 10+
ask questions to listen deeper
I see you do this all of the time on these boards especially in this conversation, I have learned a thing or two from you on here. What do you think?
Joe Delsen 20+
What would be your great insignts from your uniqe life experiences? I'm betting that the energy of your own great convictions, blended with your own life experience or from the great TED talks or great people, you'll have a great talk. Nursing care is one of the excellent example of how our love can concretely translate in making our world a better place.
Banani Acharya
one of my favouritess!!:))
Juan Jimenez
Kate Blake
Matthieu Miossec
Christophe Cop
Joe Delsen
Joe Delsen 20+
Juan Jimenez
Shokrullah Amiri on his take on peace as a way of life.
Kate Blake on embracing differences, acting as one.
Matthieu Miossec on being humble and his experiences translating.
Christophe Cop on his lessons learned with Ideas Worth Executing
Joes Delsen on his take on converging.
Regards!
Matthieu Miossec 100+
Juan Jimenez
Kate Blake 50+
Juan Jimenez
My impression without direct conversation is that you are a very conscious person that is concerned of acting and participating in whats going on in the world, someone that is capable of recognizing when a person is ready for a question or debate and will provide a richer content to the conversation, humble, blunt, kind and seems to portray a unity in diversity mindset.
Hope this clarifies.
Saludos!
Kate Blake 50+
Many see my 'bluntness' as a fault ... but I need to be honest ... doing it kindly is the challenge
NB A timely reminder to all that others are listening ... our choice to be nasty or nice!
Autumn Frisco 10+
Great idea- and yes I sometimes go rooting through others comments to find conversations I also value from a person who commented wisely on a conversation I was currently on.
Joe Delsen 20+
Autumn Frisco 10+
A cacophony of ideas, topics and views from all the TED community
A poetic invitation for the thousands of people who are watching the video to do more and join 'the conversation'
This past week, I sat and refreshed the latest talks page to see how quickly the views multiplied, it was really fun- yet we see the same commenters who consistently participate
I would not want to single any one person out, we are we. The people on my favorited list, a majority, are people I chose to invite to participate on the community boards by their profiles about a week ago- what if we all invited others to the boards- seriously- lets engage more!
Krisztián Pintér 200+
Joe Delsen 20+
Krisztián Pintér 200+
i don't have any idea. have to think about it. the main task is: how to shake people's unshakable beliefs.
Kate Blake 50+
How about when we reach 100 or 200 TEDcred [debate the figure] - Christophe and Coleen are only qualified ones so far - that if we feel we have a 'talk' in us then we submit a paper outlining it? Same as we would do to talk at any conference ... Then TED could assess it on merit with respect to the considerable input on Conversations; and maybe include one Conversation presenter at each conference? Those who didn't make the grade can keep applying with different ideas each conference ... until they run out of ideas or give up.
Seems quicker to get points by either attending a Conference or organising a TEDx event ... we babies are doing it the hard but fun way with hours on TED; point by point..
Must add that its a shame about the age limit of the TED Fellows ... could they put it up a decade??? Some people have traveled or bought up families or have a change of career ... such a young age doesn't allow for character!
Muhammad Aizat Zainal Alam 30+
p/s: Did you get my e-mail? Have a nice day!
Joe Delsen 20+
TED is also evolving as noted somewhere in the website. Will True (TED Customer support Manager) had a conversation about improving TED and it might be great also to see its progress. Let's also be reminded that TED accepts suggestions by contacting them at contact@ted.com.
Kate Blake 50+
http://www.ted.com/pages/250 There you'll find this:
Q. Do applicants need to be a certain age?
A. We are targeting applicants of ages 21-40. However, anyone over age 18 is welcome to apply. While a majority of the Fellows will fall within this range, we will not discriminate based on age.
Joe Delsen 20+
So TED Fellows program is one way to have a chance to give a talk in TED conference with it's great potential of collaboration with other TED fellows . It basically challenges us also to exert a positive influence into our spheres of influence before we can qualify. It's one collaborative project that we all can support as professionals, companies or NGOs.
Your original idea would sitll have a good point as TEDcred points from conversations could indicate our influence among our diverse community?
I was also thinking that TED conversations could later evolve with some kind of structure to simplify the flow and process of the interactions possibly channeling it more into collaborations.
Debra Smith 200+
Here is a priliminary list:
Kate Blake- on loving humanity more completely
Jimmy- on how to get the best out of TED websites
Colleen- near death experiences
Salim- lessons learned in parenting
Matthieu- on conscousness (so I can really understand his position and learn from him)
Christophe- on living a moral life day to day
Shokrulla- How to really help Afghanistan
Birdia- on beauty
Lindsay- on Banking reform
Andrea- On women's roles and women in business and academia
Muhammad Aizat- Optimism and hope for young adults
Duncan Mabona- Life in Malawi
Michael McALeer- Intercultural understanding
Joe Delsen- how to encourage your fellow human beings
Luigi Varga- A peek inside the Vatican Archives
Conte Di Salaparuta and the Baronessa - Labrynthine thinking
Father delacourt - Shakespearian insights
Jaime and Adrianna- The life style and joys of Mexico
Shokrullah Amiri 10+
Joe Delsen 20+
Shokrullah Amiri 10+
I lack so many things about Afghanistan to talk as speaker, but I have to fill those gaps by accepting some challenges. Millions of Afghans including children, women and men are suffering and tired of their life.
Yes, I am learning a lot from TED. We have a lot of resources here in Afghanistan, what we need is idea to make the recipe.
Matthieu Miossec 100+
Joe Delsen 20+
Matthieu Miossec 100+
Joe Delsen 20+
Colleen Steen - NDE and the convergence of beliefs and science towards fundamental unity
Thomas Jones - insights from his globe-trotting work experience and the important role of China
Krisztián Pintér - dynamics of freedom, democracy and capitalism
Salim Solaiman - new ideas that can impact people positively
Scott Armstrong - music, language and words and the power of "paradoxical" relevance
How about you Debra? Salim had suggested "Women Rights, Peace & Humanity"
Debra Smith 200+
Michael M 30+
Salim Solaiman 50+
Very good topics you started.
Really greatly honoured & obliged as I see my name in your short listed five !!!
Very difficult job it is even than trying to select my top 5 with subject to talk
Birdia on Poetry & Art
Richard Dawson on Logic & Reasoning
Tim Clogan on Science & its impact on humanity
Joe Delsen on Power of Love
Debra Smith on Women Rights, Peace & Humanity
More names are in my head but restricting to 5 for the time being
Kate Blake 50+
You've got me thinking ... so many names ...
Debra; Colleen; Helena; Maureen; Andrea; Birdia; Joe; Muhammad; Salim; Shokrullah; Kristofer; Christophe just for starters.
I think so many, probably all, TEDsters have something great to offer .. great to get the ball rolling on a virtual TED Conference. Second the debate between SR and Colleen, and a few more debates on repeated topics?
Joe Delsen 20+
We have TEDActive for collaboration and I'm wondering if TEDActive virtual is also possible.
I've been trying to understand TED more and the TED prize which is like the hightlight of the greatest ideas since 2005, I felt should be more visible.
I'm getting ideas that TED can be as huge as Google. TED could be the great evolution of our information age.
Kate Blake 50+
Hope someone senior in TED reads these particular comments ... it will be some years before I am ready to give a talk, but thanks to those who put my name up. No idea where I'd start or what I'd say ... public speaking is a real art! Put me at the bottom of the list please?
Joe Delsen 20+
In my perception, the biggest challenge today are (1) the acceleration of global awareness (both in caring and understanding) with the little time that we may have in averting gathering crises and (2) the transformation of the structures of our systems to more adequately reflect the global nature of our relationships.
One area that I'm still trying to understand is the dynamics of power and fame and the sense of justice and truth that should equate to the people that empowers it.
It seems that TED itself is on the crossroads with the many initiatives that's diffusing into the world. Our role I believe is to help promote the convergence of our unique perspectives into our universal ideals. I hope that as long as we continue to raise the level of global awareness, we can simply have faith that we will all do the right thing.
Kate Blake 50+
So like Star Wars the 'force be with you' will win, and you and the TED team here are all contributing to that by raising global awareness of the real issues, of presenting much more positive outlooks or attitudes ... and so our world keeps spinning. Thank you one and all ... will email a couple of these ideas off to TED now.
PS Have made them aware of this conversation and a couple of suggestions I thought worth passing on!
Chris Aldon 20+
Joe Delsen 20+
Do you have any ideas for a great TED talk or we already have the 1000 TED talks that we all need?
Kristofer Björnson 10+
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Colleen Steen 500+
Either you believe I can perform miracles, or you are trying to punish me...LOL:>)
Joe Delsen 20+
Colleen Steen 500+
I believe in the miracle of unconditional love too...maybe THAT'S the conversation we could have?
My thoughts are what they are in any given moment and I don't choose to feel "pushed" about anything:>) Thank you for your confidence, and it looks like a good interesting project:>)
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Colleen Steen 500+
The "miracle" I participated in 20 years ago was supported by the beautiful unconditional love of many wonderful people, working together. It showed me what can happen when we combine our energies in a beneficial way:>)
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Joe Delsen 20+
"Wisdom and science and other tools can find truth. But each have errors and limits."
"I try only spread ideas and truth from Koran and have minimum sayings from myself. If there is something from myself it is my personal mistake"
My invitation to S.R. would be this: Our own belief system or principles has wisdom and truth when it can take any other perspective and see its translation into our own, realizing our fundamental unity. If seeing fundamental unity is not yet possible, let's talk about our mutual interests: freedom, justice, truth (wisdom and science) and basic rights (food, shelter, education, work, security). When the time comes to give the actual talk to a diverse group such as TED, the challenge is to translate our "truth" into the universal language of love, hope and trust and clear scientific insights.
How about you Iqbal, do you feel you are now ready to give a talk worth spreading?
Christophe Cop 500+
Although I do not agree with a lot of what he claims, I do think he has an idea worth spreading.
Christophe Cop 500+
TEDxVirtual (or some other name)
I think there are a lot of partners who would/could participate in this to do the technical support.
Let's ask Lara Stein what she thinks about it.
We can open the event to anybody who wishes to participate... though there might be some kind of voting to do some selection of the topics.
- It can be live or a pre-recorded clip...
- We can ask TEDx Organisers if they want to broadcast the stream for their crowds
- As it is worldwide, we can aim for a 24h non stop session
- Timing is quite easy: after 18' (or 12, 9,...) you just cut the connection ;-)
- Show some TED (x) talks in between to fill possible empty spaces.
I think a small technical team is needed to ready everything, check connection strength and timing...
As for nominations:
I think all big contributors of these conversations are possible candidates...
But names right?
- Birdia
- Debra
- Jimmy
- Colleen
- Matthieu
- ... (I should go through the topics and replies to dig up some more names)...
again, a great idea... very do-able.
Joe Delsen 20+
Debra Smith 200+
Shokrullah Amiri 10+
Colleen Steen
Debra Smith
Joe Delson
I am keen about following topics:
“You have lost it even you have one the WAR"
"The voice of illiterates"
Joe Delsen 20+
I do see TED as an anti-thesis of the information overload that our information age also brings. TED and Wikipedia actually. I would challenge Google to support TED in big ways because the "Google phenomenon" is the exposition of the power of information and TED and Wikipedia could be seen as the simplification of disparate information.
When I saw how long our TED conversations could go, I felt that it is in itself an anti-thesis of TED. When I interacted with our fellow TEDsters, I did see some spark of ideas that's worth spreading. When a proud fellow TEDster (a Tedsterian) says that he had seen and understood many of the TED talks, the consequential challenge is "Are you now ready to give a talk that's worth spreading?"
You seem to have listed my name and I would love to give a talk but I'm not yet ready. Sometimes I have to spend more than 15-minutes just to reply to a conversations like what he have.
I wish also to follow the topics that you suggested. My perception is it's better to wage a global war of awareness and consciousness than to sacrifice precious lives. That there is no such thing as "illiterates" when our human expression in art and culture is essentially the same as our limited language and ideas can express. That we have the power to transform our world into a just and sustainable one.
Shokrullah Amiri 10+
Autumn Frisco 10+
Muhammad Aizat Zainal Alam 30+
Debra Smith
Kate Blake
Joe Delsen 20+
Muhammad Aizat Zainal Alam 30+
By the way Joe, this was an awesome idea.Thank you for creating it.Have a nice day.
Joe Delsen 20+
I would love also to hear your ideas about bridging the gap (in a separate conversation or blog?). Thank you my friend. (:>)
Kate Blake 50+
Muhammad Aizat Zainal Alam 30+
Muhammad Aizat Zainal Alam 30+
Kate Blake 50+
And ultimately the Muslims, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Humanists, etc are all going the same place ... just slightly different paths. ALL should unite, and vary their rituals according to the person or local group ... NO MUSTS!
PS Joe's idea of a separate blog or conversation is a good idea ... think about it and do it in your own time, please?
Muhammad Aizat Zainal Alam 30+
Matthieu Miossec 100+
- Colleen Steen (would definitely be one, we agree)
- Cristophe Cop (as a wise TEDx organizer would probably have a story or two worth spreading)
- Birdia Tak Wai Chan (I have a feeling she would have something interesting to share)
- Gabo Moreno (he works in a similar field then me, a 15-minute talk from him would be priceless)
- Someone who is a TED translator who could share his experience about the process, I'm curious to know how other TED translators approach the whole thing.
As I said, extremely hard question (but good idea, maybe this conversation could get the ball rolling...) and undoubtedly I'll think of someone else as the fifth person and be like "aww shoot why didn't I think of her/him?"
Joe Delsen 20+
We have great talks and we have great conversations and what I would characterize as being true to the apparent culture in TED is we would wish also to hear from TEDsters who rises from the rubble of our conversations and present as one great talk their marvelous idea that is worth spreading.
Within the TED system, we can also look into the TEDcred points. This conversation is only an informal discussion and a challenge to fellow TEDsters to be ignited by one thing they are passionate about and contribute it to TED and to the world. When one is ready, we can do it like a TEDx event, a TEDxVirtual like Chris Cop suggested.
For those who may not be aware, there is of course a formal process in TED for anyone who wish to give a talk in TEDx or TED conferences. http://www.ted.com/pages/73