TEDBlog February, 2011 Archive
07 February 2011
How to make work-life balance work: Nigel Marsh on TED.com
Work-life balance, says Nigel Marsh, is too important to be left in the hands of your employer. At TEDxSydney, Marsh lays out an ideal day balanced between family time, personal time and productivity — and offers some stirring encouragement to make it happen. (Recorded at TEDxSydney, May 2010, in Sydney, Australia. Duration: 10:05)
Watch Nigel Marsh’s talk on TED.com where you can download it, rate it, comment on it and find other talks and performances from our archive of 800+ TEDTalks.
05 February 2011
15,000 translations and counting!
Today TED’s Open Translation Project published the 15,000th TEDTalk translation! Last year at TEDActive, TED translators set an ambitious goal to reach 15,000 translations by TEDActive2011. Three weeks ahead of schedule, TED translators surpassed this huge number. Now with subtitles in 80 languages, our volunteer translators are helping TED reach more people worldwide. Thank you, translators, for your extraordinary effort!
04 February 2011
Poems of war, peace, women, power: Suheir Hammad on TED.com
Poet Suheir Hammad performs two spine-tingling spoken-word pieces: “What I Will” and “break (clustered)” — meditations on war and peace, on women and power. Wait for the astonishing line: “Do not fear what has blown up. If you must, fear the unexploded.” (Recorded at TEDWomen, December 2010, in Washington, DC. Duration: 5:52)
Watch Suheir Hammad’s talk on TED.com where you can download it, rate it, comment on it and find other talks and performances from our archive of 800+ TEDTalks.
04 February 2011
Fellows Friday with Andriankoto Ratozamanana
Interactive Fellows Friday Feature!
Join the conversation by answering Fellows’ weekly questions via Facebook. This week, Andriankoto asks:
What features, strategies, or marketing would help Internet-based companies in Africa better integrate with international markets?
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Tell us about the different projects you’re working on.
I help run two NGOs, and I’m working on a social enterprise e-commerce project.
The first NGO is Foko, which means “tribe” in the Malagasy language. It’s the first project I started when I came back to Madagascar in 2007. Foko teaches people here in Antananarivo how to blog. When we started, there were few bloggers, but we had 500 bloggers by 2009, which was very important for Madagascar that year. When we had political trouble here in 2009, our bloggers brought the information to the international community. Our journalists didn’t have a good presence on the Internet. Foko showed the international community exactly what was happening in Madagascar. That was a really important thing.
Now Foko is moving from these political things to issues about improving people’s lives. Foko bloggers write about the environment, health care, women’s empowerment, and other things. The 2009 political situation brought poverty and many people lost jobs. Now we have to focus on how people can improve their lives, under the new crazy politicians in Madagascar.
Vakanala, which means “Pearls of Forest” in Malagasy, is my other NGO. It’s a product of all my experience from my studies, blogging, and everything I care most about. This is my main baby, Vakanala. With Vakanala we are helping one village in the south of Madagascar, offering professional environmental experience. The village asked us to come to protect their forest. So the pilot site is there in the Manambolo Forests. Our ultimate goal is to implement a new, sustainable economic paradigm in the area.
03 February 2011
Phil Zimbardo and the Heroic Imagination Project: TED Blog exclusive video
Philip Zimbardo (watch his other TEDTalks) introduces the Heroic Imagination Project at TED University 2010. Zimbardo, whose work has studied the depths of human evildoing and the heights of heroism, is passionate about inspiring people to take heroic action. Learn how to practice everyday heroism.
Learn more about the Heroic Imagination Project >>
03 February 2011
Watch JR make his TED Prize wish live on the web
In one month, the 2011 TED Prize winner, the amazing artist JR, will unveil his TED Prize wish live onstage in Long Beach. And you can sign up to watch along with him — and be among the first to join his new global project.
Visit JR’s page on TEDPrize.org, and sign up for the mailing list. You’ll be sent a link to watch the entire TED Prize session live on the web, starting at 5pm PST on March 2, 2011. Watch JR share his wish to change the world … get updates on exciting past TED Prize winners including Jamie Oliver and Sylvia Earle … and share in some onstage surprises.
Once JR unveils his wish, the TED Prize team will email you three exciting ways to participate in the wish. (None of them are a call for money…) It’s an opportunity to join in a global … we can’t tell you what yet.
Sign up, mark your calendar, and hear firsthand what JR has in store >>
03 February 2011
Djimon Hounsou reads the Charter for Compassion
With a little help from Dave Stewart, actor Djimon Hounsou reads the stirring words of the Charter for Compassion. As it plays, onscreen, visit some of the places around the world — synagogues, mosques, churches, ashrams, even a prison — where the Charter for Compassion is hung and its words are lived.
03 February 2011
Are we born to run? Christopher McDougall on TED.com
Christopher McDougall explores the mysteries of the human desire to run. How did running help early humans survive — and what urges from our ancient ancestors spur us on today? At TEDxPennQuarter, McDougall tells the story of the marathoner with a heart of gold, the unlikely ultra-runner, and the hidden tribe in Mexico that runs to live. (Recorded at TEDdxPennQuarter, July 2010, in Washington, DC. Duration: 15:52)
Watch Christopher McDougall’s talk on TED.com where you can download it, rate it, comment on it and find other talks and performances from our archive of 800+ TEDTalks.
02 February 2011
Social media and the end of gender: Johanna Blakley on TED.com
Media and advertising companies still use the same old demographics to understand audiences, but they’re becoming increasingly harder to track online, says media researcher Johanna Blakley. As social media outgrows traditional media, and women users outnumber men, Blakley explains what changes are in store for the future of media. (Recorded at TEDWomen, December 2010, in Washington, DC. Duration: 8:27)
Watch Johanna Blakley’s talk on TED.com where you can download it, rate it, comment on it and find other talks and performances from our archive of 800+ TEDTalks.
01 February 2011
Registration is open for TED2012
We’re thrilled to announce opening of registration for TED2012: Full Spectrum. Under this theme, we are assembling our most diverse group of speakers ever, with just this in common: they have something remarkable to share, and they are able to share it in a remarkable way. We’re inviting them to develop “full spectrum” presentations: blizzards of images, new uses of music, extravagant use of under-used senses, intricate choreography between speaker and screen, new ways of involving the audience, breakthroughs in animation, and intense, campfire-style storytelling …
TED2012 happens February 27-March 2, 2012, in Long Beach, California, with TEDActive at the same time in Palm Springs, California. A regular Long Beach pass is $7,500, and TEDActive in Palm Springs is $3,750. Learn more about additional membership levels.
(Note: Applications have not yet opened to apply to be a TED2012 Fellow, but we are now accepting applications to become a Fellow for TEDGlobal 2011, with a deadline of March 11, 2011.)
How do you attend a TED? It starts here: Apply to attend. For both TED in Long Beach and TEDActive in Palm Springs, we curate an audience that is engaged, passionate and diverse. We do anticipate TED2012 will sell out, but all applications to attend received by February 7, 2011, will be evaluated with equal consideration, and will get a response by April 7, 2011.
Learn more about TED2012: Full Spectrum >>
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