• TEDx Greenville March 5th

    Posted on February 22nd, 2010 by and currently 3 commenting.

    “Cross Section of the Mainstream” via Lynn Greer

    Sometime last year a group of people came together with the single-minded purpose of bringing a little piece of TED magic to Greenville.

    Been under a rock? Haven’t heard of TED? You’re gonna thank me.

    The TEDx Greenville team is an eclectic and interesting group. And like a lot of volunteer groups it was made up of really busy people. There were some hiccups and starts and stops early on, but I am so impressed with what this small team has put together in such a short period of time. Many, many people played a part in pulling this off including a great list of sponsors, but I have to give a lot to credit to these super bright and shiny folks, who took an idea and super sized it:

    Marc Bolick, Brenda Laakso, Susan Sebotnick, Aaron Von Frank, Peter Waldschmidt, and Philip Whitley.

    You, know…it’s easy to get discouraged when working with a large committee and these folks never did.

    Check out all the details here. From what I hear, there are only about 45 seats or so left. So if you are in the neighborhood, come on. We’ll have some fun. Believe it!

    BTW, here are a few of the TEDx Greenville Team’s favorite TED videos:

    It is our humanity and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.

    Instead of trying to exterminate a problem, why not use the momentum of that problem to your advantage?

    Often times we make decisions, assumptions, and even statements that we want to believe are based in a “hard fact” or a tangible reality when in fact we are being influenced in ways that we are completely unaware.

    Now take a minute and share your favorite TED video with me and why. Come on. Spread some remarkable ideas on this Monday morning.

  • http://www.lehilender.com Chris Jones

    Right now, my top TED is not even really a TED, although it’s on the TED site, which is JK Rowling’s fantastic speech at Harvard on Failure. I’ve been thinking about lessons from that talk for two weeks.

    Before that, it was David Pogue’s (now old, but still fantastic) review of the iPhone, and Aubrey de Gray’s exposition on why I will live to be 1000 years old.

  • http://deliverbliss.com Tim Sanchez

    One of the first TED videos I ever watched was Jeff Han’s demo of his multi-touch touchscreen applications. I remember being absolutely awe struck with the possibilities that type of technology could provide us. It’s funny watching it now, only four years after it was filmed, and being able to do most of what he demoed on my cheap little iPhone.

    http://www.ted.com/talks/jeff_han_demos_his_breakthrough_touchscreen.html

  • http://www.burtonrunyan.com Burton Runyan

    Chris, Aubrey de Gray’s speech is definitely at the top of my list. Haven’t checked out JK Rowling’s speech, but Steve Jobs’ 2005 Commencement speech at Stanford is one of the best I’ve seen.