Be better — Social media ideas for the tourism industry
acidlabsSlides for the talk given at the Leadership Drives Success conference for the Tourism Industry Council ACT.
Slides for the talk given at the Leadership Drives Success conference for the Tourism Industry Council ACT.
Something read to us at TEDxSummit by Jason Hsu of TEDxTaipei and then in the native Greek by Katerina Biliouri of TEDxThessaloniki. There are real messages in it for those of us who wish to create change in the world. When you set out ...
I had the honor of meeting Hans Rosling briefly at TEDxSummit. Now it’s time you listened to him.
Last week was a profound experience for me; I attended my third official TED event — the TEDxSummit for TEDx organisers, held in Doha, Qatar. Bringing over 650 TEDx organisers from in excess of 90 countries together in one place (and m...
I’ve just returned from a week sharing experiences and learning from fellow TEDx organisers from around the world. It was quite the experience, with workshops among organisers (I gave two), a day in the Qatari desert, talks by TED spea...
At TEDxSummit, I had the privilege of being asked to impart some of my experience in organising TEDxCanberra to my peers from around the world. In doing so, I was asked to run a short talk plus Q&A for newbie organisers and a longer, ...
I’m yet to try to write about TEDxSummit, which I attended in Doha, Qatar last week to spend time collaborating and sharing experiences with 650 other TEDx organisers from around the world. Suffice it to say, it was a profoundly affec...
So next time you hear something, or someone, talk about an idea, pitch an idea, or suggest an idea, give it five minutes. Think about it a little bit before pushing back, before saying it’s too hard or it’s too much work. Those things may b...
Don’t have sex with anybody who isn’t turned on by knowledge or the very many ways to get it. Make this your creed. Put it on a T-shirt. And then don’t take that T-shirt off for anyone who violates your very impressive, lovely standards. What a gl...
This essay, Against TED, by Nathan Jurgenson at The New Inquiry raises some important perceptions (and misperceptions) and isn’t the first criticism of TED we’ll see. Nor will it be the last. It’s really not that hard to find such criti...
This pointless brouhaha over the Kevin Rudd video has once and for all decided the fact that political reporting, and those that do it, in this country are incapable of what should be political reporting’s very core – objective policy an...
Creativity, innovation and inspiration comes in many forms. It doesn’t require a scientist or an inventor or an ethicist. Sometime, the sheer pleasure of being present to the thing you love doing most makes for the most transcendent ...