Links to TED Global Talks That are Creating Waves

Thanks, Nancy. These are great presentations. Love your slide design. I’ve tweeted your post.

Very cool, Nancy. I had already watched all three videos, so it was interesting to take a second look at each, knowing you had worked on all three. (Actually, I had already watched Dan Pink’s talk several times.)

What was was most interesting though, was to watch Paul Romer’s talk at Stamford and then see his transformation at TED. It’s almost like watching an entirely different person. It just demonstrates a person’s ability to improve (at any level) and shows that all of us can become more powerful communicators. Great stuff.

BTW, the Taryn Simon embedded video in the blog post isn’t playing, so you might want to check the link.

Thanks for another great post… Steve

Thanks for sharing. One question, if I may: what is shown at TED on the 3 teleprompters only the speaker sees? I can imaging the projected slide to be there, but what’s in the other two?

What a brilliant presentation, just love the slides…Nathanael

The Taryn Simon video does not play. (The other two were great). Thanks.

Glad to see the good work Duarte’s been doing.
On Paul Romer performances, I don’t really think there’s an improvement. He sure can speak in front of an audience, since it dedicates its full attention to what he’s delivering. The real difference is that at TED he was not speaking to an audience which was still paying attention to what was happening over their tables, maybe still eating or even toothpicking, and he was not restricted to a smal stage and holding to a “criminal” tool that should be banned from presentation stages – the pulpit!
On his presentations contents, even with good intentions is a pitty he did a not so good homework, misleading the audience in some points, and in two crucial point in special – Hong Kong was not a Chinese/British partnership! Hong Kong was an absolute british colony, just like Macao was an absolute portuguese colony – both being now “Special Economic Chinese Regions”.
Another misleading point – comparing the ratio between city and arable areas, he “forgot” that
the arable area he refferred included Antartica, Greenland, Sahara Desert, Gobi Desert, Australian Central Desert and… Amazon!
He also “forgot” to remeber a special rule which
is preventing development in some regions like the one he used as starter – Corruption.

Oh, and as some tfellows already reported,
Taryn’s video isn’t working.

Great work – small changes can make a real difference and transform the credibility of a speaker.