Posts Tagged ‘TED’
One Sneaky Trick
Like all of you, I am frequently given the opportunity to learn “one weird tip” or “one little trick” or “one weird old trick” or occasionally “one sneaky trick” that will enable me to improve something very suddenly with a minimum of effort. Mostly, these are the things that normally bedevil people, like losing weight [...]
This is the TED talk from TED 2012 That You Need to See
And to illustrate the difference between what happens live and what happens when you just see something after the fact, on video, this talk by Bryan Stevenson earlier this year at TED 2012 was by far the most impactful TED talk I have seen in five years of attending TED on the audience at hand. [...]
If We’re Not Getting Better, We’re Getting Ignored
If you follow Broadway at all, you probably heard that Julie Taymor was fired from Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark yesterday. Last week at TED 2011, she was talking about a time when she was crawling on a narrow precipice between two volcanoes and realized that the only way she’d make it out of there [...]
TEDxGoldstar: A TED 2011 Simulcast Event
Last week, I announced that Goldstar is hosting a TED 2011 simulcast event on March 2nd in downtown Los Angeles. We’re broadcasting the live feed of TED for the entire day. Last time I looked, only 60 places worldwide had a license to do this simulcast and we’re the only ones in Los Angeles. Speaking [...]
Our Partnership with TED
Last week, I traveled to New York City to announce Goldstar’s partnership with TED. (If you’re not familiar with TED, do yourself a favor and spend some time on the website.) I’ve been a TEDster for several years and feel strongly that their mission of spreading good ideas is important and powerful. Since Goldstar as [...]
Frank Eliason Coming Up on Live 2.0 and What About Web 3.0?
I was honored to get a chance to speak with Frank Eliason (of Comcast Cares and @comcast fame). Our conversation will be in next month’s long-awaited Customer Service Edition of Live 2.0. Today, Frank is talking about Seth Godin’s new book Linchpin and about whether Social Media in itself is a fundamental shift in customer [...]
The Long (But Not Necessarily So Valuable or Relevant) Tail
This is a continuation of the discussion yesterday, wherein I share some of my thoughts on the work of Chris Anderson, all the while keeping a straight face pretending that he cares what I think. Specifically, I’m going to talk about the Long Tail concept. (If this isn’t familiar to you, catch up here.) Restated, [...]
My Problem with Chris Anderson’s Work
I have a love/hate thing with Chris Anderson’s work. (Not the TED Chris Anderson…I have a love/love thing with his work.) And perhaps “hate” is too strong a word for the downside of how I feel about Anderson’s stuff, but my delight at his fresh and provocative ideas has always had a subtle accompaniment running [...]
Only You Can Make You a Star
As I have said before, this is the age of the Live Entertainment Entrepreneur. You could be talking about big, established successes like Cirque Du Soleil (or a successful upstart in a similar business like Lucha Va Voom), individual comics like Johnny Steele or Tina Kim or Craig Shoemaker who don’t have sitcoms but still [...]
Bruce Springsteen and the Future of Entertainment
No, I’m not talking about his involvement with the alleged shenanigans at Ticketmaster and Ticketsnow. I’m talking about how being a Bruce Springsteen fan for 25 years as I have can show you the way to the future of entertainment. I gave this presentation at the TED conference in February (as part of TED-U), and [...]
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