1. Yang Lan: the generation that's remaking China http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/yang_lan.html this video is about Chinese Young
Generation. interesting and thought-provoking.
2. Dan
Pink on the surprising science of Motivation
Http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation.htmlThe central concepts is that more rewards cocould not lead to better performance but three elements: autonomy, mastery and purpose cocould.
Autonomy (autonomous): the urge to direct our own lives. mastery (proficient in something): the desire to get better and better at something that matters. purpose: The yearning to do what we do in the service of something larger than ourselves. bytes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
** Two videos about Twitter **3. Evan Williams on listening to Twitter users
Http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/evan_williams_on_listening_to_twitter_users.html
In early 2006 Twitter was launched as a side project at Odeo. Twitter is based around a very simple concept. The fundamental idea is that Twitter lets people share moments of their lives whenever they want.
It seems like when you give people easier ways to share information, more good things happen.
Evan Williams 've learned to follow the hunch, but never assume where it will go.
4. clay Shirky: How social media can make history http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/clay_shirky_how_cellphones_twitter_facebook_can_make_history.htmlcruelFirst change: The Internet is the first medium in history that has native support for gruops andconversatioin at the same time. whereas the phone gave us the one-to-one pattern, and television, radio, magazines, books, gave us the one-to-learn pattern, the Internet gives us the maximum-to-maximum pattern.
Second Big chage: all media gets digitized, the Internet also becomes the mode of carriage for all othermedia.
Third chage: customers can be content produers as well as consumers
Then Clay Shirky told a story about China's big earthquake in 2008. he classified that China is probably the most successful manager of Internet censorship in the world, using something that iswidely described as the Great Firewall of China, but great firewall was facing in the wrong ction for this challenge.
At the end, Clay proposed interesting questions: "How can we make best use of this media? Even though it means changing the way we 've ve always done it ."
5. Albert to Cairo: there are no scraps of men
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Alberta to Cairo have been in Afghanistan for 21 years. He is an Italian, work for the Red Cross as a physical therapist. In his speech,
He told a story on his experience in Afghanistan. at first, he just helped people make arms and legs. but a accident happened before he decided to leave there made Albert to reopen their orthopedic center, and what matter next also made him moved. he began
Do more than a physical therapist. He trained people and helped them get jobs, and more important, regain dignity. There are some impressive sentences in this speech as below.
"Yeah they were the legs, thank you very much -- but as a first step, it was the dignity .""I have a wish, a big wish, that this way of working, this way of thinking, is going to be implemented in other countries .""He has regained his full dignity thanks to that job .""When you have 20 people in front of you, looking at you and you are the one who has to decide ..."6. Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action
Http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspire_action.html
Simon Sinek has a simple but powerful model for inspirational leadership all starting with a golden circle and the question "Why? "His examples include Apple, Martin Luther King, and
Wright brothers...
Simon said that we do business to make people believe what we believe. That's great points, especially for high-tech products,
We don't just make people what they need, we also make people what they want and what they believe.
The inspire from this speech is that the business, science, technology and so on which are foundation stones of modern society, are not cold to us,
They must be connected to the humanity that Simon mentioned as "why". Anyway, this is a very impressive speech. Thanks Simon Sinek! 7. Michael Anti (Zhao Jing): Behind the Great Firewall of China
Update 8/11/2012 http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_anti_behind_the_great_firewall_of_china.html? Utm_source = newsletter_weekly_2012-08-02 & utm_campaign = newsletter_weekly & utm_medium = Email last year, Yang Lan have ever spoken in TED conference as a Chinese, especially a famous moderator.
Last week, excitedly, I found another Chinese face in the big stadium. this speech is from Michael Anti, Zhao Jing, a key figure in China's new journalism. unlike Yang Lan, Mike seems to represent a view from
Grass Roots. Thus it appears to be more real, and more close to the voice of ordinary citizens, even including his typically Chinese accent.
In the speech, Mike says that hundreds of millions
Microbloggers are in fact creating the first national public sphere in the country's history, and shifting the balance of power in unexpected ways. but at the end, I think he shoshould be a little negative to the impact of new media tool "microblog", "So this
Kind of freedom is a targeted and precise window. So Chinese in China, censorship is normal ", he said in the end part of the speech.
All in all, we can see more Chinese speaks in the world stadium with active face and sincere heart. That's a nice thing for us to gain respect and
Affection fromthe world.
8. Lisa
Bu: How books can open your mind
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Update 6/2/2013
Thanks
For the sharing from Lisa Bu and I'm really proud of another Chinese speaks and it even comes to the email as the headline!
This point of this talk is to inspire and encourage people to read which is not really
New.
The beginning of the talk about the dreams not come true, maybe it is not really relate to the key point, more or less.
Excerpt two sayings from this session, which enlighten me.Compare and contrast gives scholars a more complete understanding
Of a topic. If comparative reading works for research, why not do it
In daily life too?
9. william Ury: the walk from "no" to "yes" http://www.ted.com/talks/william_ury.html recommended by TP Tang who is my teacher in the training of "principled negotiation ". 10. eric X. li: A Tale of Two Political Systems
Http://www.ted.com/talks/eric_x_li_a_tale_of_two_political_systems.html maybe it's the most controversial speech on TED.com criticism http://blog.ted.com/2013/07/01/why-democracy-still-wins-a-critique-of-eric-x-lis-a-tale-of-two-political-systems/ to be continued
