This year’s event will again be held at Savannah’s Jepson Center and discounted tickets are now available for purchase. Buy some now!
Stay tuned to this site for more information on the event… We’ll post as it becomes available.
Cheers!
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I have just spent a week attending “Stuff of Life” at TEDGlobal in Edinburgh, of which the first two days were spent with other TEDx Organizers. I would not say they are your TED speakers or Fellows. They probably will not discuss how they built, with their own hands, a robot that moves around on a ball — one really bright 24 year old speaker will do just that — or the latest breakthroughs in neuroscience and renewable energy.
However, one characteristic that sets them apart in a beautiful way is their immense love and connection for their communities. It is no wonder that they have devoted an intense amount of energy, time and financial expense to organize a TEDx event.
Organizing a TEDx event means that one has to connect to and guide the best elements of his or her community on stage while simultaneously soliciting support from various sectors and individuals who believe in the person and his or her team.
This has profound experience on both the organizers and the communities. The TEDx initiative has caused them to seek to understand their own issues and to learn how to move forward. Best espoused by Houssem of TEDxCarthage: “This is just my view: but hearing about the story of Aboubakr Jamaï who’s talk titled ‘Madness 2.0 crazy enough to believe in ourselves’ was more meaningful to me more than speakers I have seen on the TED stage”.
Ahmad from TEDxCairo displayed the myriad of Organizers and the brilliant idea of “community representatives” which showed the egalitarian mode of working and the amazing love and sense of community that was engendered. (TEDxCairo has a community numbering over 20,000 people)
John Werner of TEDxBoston has founded Citizen Schools and went to amazing lengths in organizing the biking ride to a Scottish castle. John was marvelous in making sure that TED’sters did not end up in Ireland — he cycled back and forth to make sure we had a wonderfully organized bike ride.
Other examples of TEDx Organizers include Adam from TEDxDirigo in Maine who talked about rethinking and working with communities and the agricultural industry to be more sustainable, John Mardin of TEDxVictoria talked so passionately about his farm -which will perhaps one day be a permaculture farm — and Ramy Nassar of TEDxWaterloo and his passion for photography.
TED espouses cutting edge research, state of the edge technology and design by the thought leaders of our world. TEDx is more community-centric, celebrating those that are serving their own community, or even sometimes the wider global community.
The word “serve” is beautiful and should be adopted more frequently in our everyday language. It indicates humility, caring and having an appreciation of the fabric of society.
I could not end this article better than the parting words of Ahmed (echoed later by Houssem) that accompanied a bear hug: “This is not a goodbye, this is to let you know that you have a home when you come to Cairo”.
Written by Ramzi Jaber, TEDxRamallah Organizer
(Source: tedx)
We’re thrilled to have this great highlight reel of our 2011 TEDxCreativeCoast.
Also, be sure to check out our speakers, if you haven’t already - all TEDxCC talks are now conveniently located within the TEDx site here: http://bit.ly/k7XrfN!
Cheers!
by Mark Finnern
Making Savannah our new home, I got to think a lot about: What actually makes a city attractive a good place to live? Besides climate and proximity to family members, the second being our main reason for moving to Savannah, the economy and future prosperity of a region should be on top of the list for deciding where to live.
How do you know whether a region will be successful going forward?
(Source: tedx)
