I’m someone who works with social tools for a living. My job is defined by the level of expertise I bring to using them and the way I can use them to connect with people in communities of expertise, mostly in a business context. In a grand failure (or, is it?) of work-life balance, my […]
Stephen Collins Posts 3 business, change, government, research, social capital, social innovation, society, TED
Like Stilgherrian, I’ve been invited by the organisers of X|Media|Lab Sydney to attend their event tomorrow and talk about their event online. I appreciate the gesture. And attend I will. And write I will. But like Stil, I attend very many of these sorts of events, and am of the mind that liveblogging them, or live […]
Stephen Collins Posts 12 conferences, focus, interesting south, media, TED, TEDx, xmedialab
As a TEDster, the emergence of the TEDx events gives us the opportunity to share the TED experience with our friends, colleagues and interest groups in a smaller, more intimate, less big bang (and definitely less expensive) setting. At acidlabs we’re incredibly proud to announce that TED has granted us the right to host the […]
Image via Wikipedia This post started as a comment on my pal, Linda Johannessen’s blog post about TED and conference organisers. Then it got long, so I figured I’d bring it over here. Not least because I want to discuss conference models this weekend at BarCamp Canberra 2010. I’ll start with a story. Attending something like […]
Stephen Collins Posts 6 BarCamp, change, conferences, passion, TED, uxaustralia, web directions, webstock
As a part of an event I have coming up, the organisers asked me to do a litte future speculation on the direction the cultural and technological aspects of social networking are taking. Here’s what I put together for them. Since late 2008, Australia and NZ have seen a significant spike in awareness in the general […]
Stephen Collins Posts 6 Australia, business, community, conversation, government, new zealand, social networking, society, TED
I gave the opening keynote yesterday at Michael Specht’s HR Futures conference. Michael asked me to speak on the recent trip I made to the US to attend TED and reflect of the experience, what I learned there and it’s applicability to business and HR. I was only too happy to help Michael out. He’s […]
Stephen Collins Talks 3 business, change, collaboration, community, conversation, engagement, hrfutures, learning, TED, work
Like my friend, Tara Hunt, I thought Barry Schwartz’s talk on practical wisdom at TED 2009 was brilliant. It was definitely one of my favorites. You really should watch it and see for yourself how this man has imagined a kinder, better world for business where moral fortitude is a key underpinning. I am strongly […]
I still have a lot of session summaries to write up (or perhaps I won’t as it’s pretty easy to find great alternatives to me, such as my new friend, Chel O’Reilly). But what I will do is try to summarize what this ride has been like. I first became aware of TED around 5 years ago, […]
Stephen Collins Posts 4 change, inspiration, TED
Things got better for me in this session. The kickoff speaker, Nina Jablonski had what I think was the best stage presence so far. Others will disagree, but I really liked her — I’d totally study Anthropology if she was one of my professors. Nina Jablonski this month is the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth Origin […]
Stephen Collins Posts 2 creativity, design, diet, food, math, research, TED
Today started oddly for me. Tired after too few hours sleep (I was on Canberra time last night), the first session, while certainly interesting didn’t feel like it resoonated with me quite so much as the previous day. I am neither artist, scientist nor musician and the morning was dominated by these disciplines. Don’t get […]
Stephen Collins Posts 1 art, culture, design, engagement, movies, science, TED