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Less than week left to be a speaker for TxR2010!
As mentioned in my last post, the deadline for speaker submissions for TEDxRochester 2010 is next Monday, July 26th. We’ve had a great response from the community and have a lot of folks to look at in the coming weeks. But, having lived in Rochester for almost two decades I know there’s more voices out there just waiting to be heard. To serve as a reminder, this year we’re...
read moreOpen call for speakers for TxR 2010!
As of our latest planning meeting, we have got a really nice list of potential speakers for this year’s event…but we could use more! Where better to go to ask than the TEDxRochester community itself? We’re looking for exciting speakers with ideas that need to be spread, so if you’ve got someone you think would be a fantastic addition to our lineup feel free to drop me a...
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Tony and I will be walking around the Imagine RIT festival this year, hoping to meet exciting people and see great ideas. If you see us at the festival with our TEDxRochester shirts, stop and say hi! The event is free on the RIT campus on Saturday, May 1 from 10AM – 5PM. Go to http://www.rit.edu/imagine/ for more information. Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival is a...
read moreOh, TEDxRochester 2010 is so on!
The blog’s been fairly quiet of late, and that’s entirely my fault. The hustle-bustle of the holidays right after TEDxRochester and a change not only to a new job but new hours has left me drained. I still need to post the last few videos from TEDxRochester 2009 and I want to express my sincerest apologies to Scott Eberle, Deb Stoiber and Ali Yapicioglu for falling behind on...
read moreTEDxLila: a resounding success!
One of the drawbacks to the time of year we held TEDxRochester is that right after this amazing event we slammed head first into the holidays. The exultation of having pulled off the event, plus the hustle and bustle of the holiday season has left me drained for months. I was beginning to think nothing could pull me from the funk I was in…until last Sunday night. The Rochester area...
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We are very excited about the TEDxLila tomorrow at the Harley School. The speaker lineup looks great, and I’m sure it’s going to be an incredible afternoon. Our warmest wishes go out to the coordinators of the event, knowing that they are running around making last minute preparations and probably will not be getting any sleep tonight. If you haven’t seen the speaker list, go...
read moreLet’s help Larry Moss get Elastic Park some funding!
Earlier this year, Pepsi made a responsible decision: instead of spending $20 million on Superbowl ads, they would spend that $20 million on projects and charities that needed it. The project is called Refresh Everything. Every month, they’re going to give out grants to community projects and they expect to fund thousands of local efforts this way. In my own opinion, it’s a...
read moreThe other TEDxRochester
There’s been a rumor going around for some time now that there is another TEDxRochester coming soon that isn’t organized by the same folks. The question invariably arises “How can this be? How can you have two of these in the same area?” My answer: “Because the Rochester area has a lot to offer. A lot more than can be presented in one day!” The fact is,...
read moreRochester innovator named TED Fellow
Gary Jacobs, one of my fellow TEDxRochester organizers, really sums up what TEDxRochester is all about: it’s about what Rochester IS. For the last few years, talk has centered around what Rochester was or didn’t have. We WERE a world leader for imaging. We don’t have a fast ferry. We don’t have a casino. We don’t have a downtown cultural center. No, we...
read moreGeorge Smoot invents the Total Perspective Vortex
As a TED fan, I love watching the videos on the main site, but I love sharing them with my friends and family even more. This is why, after more than a year of regularly sharing videos via Facebook, I was quite disappointed when I told everyone that I’d gotten the license to hold TEDxRochester. Their response of “What’s TED?” was a bit unexpected. I hadn’t intended...
read moreCharter for Compassion
For those who didn’t get to attend our inaugural event, one of the requirements of hosting a TEDx conference is that we play at least two videos off of the main TED website. Because of its power and timeliness, we decided on Karen Armstrong’s “Let’s revive the Golden Rule“. In this powerful talk, Karen reminds us that at the center of all religion and all morality...
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