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• A comment on Conversation: Create a 'Learn with TED" open-education program to encourage TED talks projection and amplification in Business Schools

  6 days ago: I've got a call with them in a few days, I'd love them to be ok :) Let's connect !

• A comment on Conversation: Create a 'Learn with TED" open-education program to encourage TED talks projection and amplification in Business Schools

  6 days ago: Feel free to shout out some ideas!
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  A reply on Conversation: Create a 'Learn with TED" open-education program to encourage TED talks projection and amplification in Business Schools

  May 15 2013: Less than 5 minutes ago: Yep, I love it and will use it as a tool for this module!

• A reply on Conversation: Create a 'Learn with TED" open-education program to encourage TED talks projection and amplification in Business Schools

  May 14 2013: Thanks for your suggestion! I would definitely include that talk in the selection, maybe as the first part of the module, it's amazingly inspiring.
  
  I love the morning inspiration idea, it's great

• A reply on Conversation: Building an app to deepen relationships we have with people.

  Nov 21 2012: We believe that for relationships to blossom we need to have real life interactions. So we need to spend less time reading and liking statuses online and more time with people in real life.
  
  We might have 500 friends on Facebook. Yet, we end up either always seeing the same 4-5 people, or seeing nobody.
  
  Why? Because texting our best friends to go out is easy, and because Facebook isn't the right place for us to shout "Who's up for sushis tonight?". We want to create that place, that comfort zone!
  
  http://getpeople.co if you want us to ping you when it's available!

• A reply on Conversation: Building an app to deepen relationships we have with people.

  Nov 21 2012: Yes, we want the people to use more their phones to meet up with friends in real life, and less liking, commenting and sharing statuses! We're ready to ship in 2 weeks on the app store!

• A reply on Conversation: Building an app to deepen relationships we have with people.

  Nov 9 2012: Merci beaucoup for the time you took to think with us, Myf! We mainly think shame is at the bottom of why connections don't occur. Because people are afraid they are not worthy of connection. More precisely, they fear that if they ask someone to hangout, they'll decline. So they endup hanging with the same few people, or staying alone. The networking, signing in to a group chat is an answer to those fears. We want to create a place where those fears don't exist, and where you can just see who's of your friends are available to hangout, and just hangout with them easily!

• A reply on Conversation: Building an app to deepen relationships we have with people.

  Nov 9 2012: Thanks a lot for your insights Sarah! We totally agree! When we feel alone we go to our phones and we refresh our facebook/twitter/social feeds. This is wrong because this is a bottomless pit. We want to create a digital place -an app- that you will go to when you feel alone, but the only purpose of this app will be to see friends in real. Think of it as if on facebook you'd have your 'online friends available to chat' plus your 'friends available to hang out'. Would that make you see (different) people more often, and more easily?

• A reply on Conversation: Building an app to deepen relationships we have with people.

  Oct 30 2012: The mobile App have as only goal to ease the "knocking on a friends 'digital' door and inviting him/her to have coffee! We think that mobile tech potential to help see each other more in real life has not been reached yet, we want to go this way!

• A reply on Conversation: Building an app to deepen relationships we have with people.

  Oct 24 2012: Thanks again for your time Fritzie, thrilled to have that kind of thoughtful feedback! We basically think that people need to stop spending evenings commenting and liking statuses, and start hanging out more, not only with their best friends, but also more easily with people they want to see, but don't see that often because they are afraid to ask out (on a friendship level). Let's say you and I meet and spend a great time at a party. There are a lot of chance we won't hang out and grab a coffee afterwards, because asking out is awkward and demanding. We want to change that. Do you have any email address so I can privately and concretely explain the solution we thought of? Thanks again!