Leading your followers, sliced bread, whales, Twitter,and history

Note: This was orig­i­nally posted Tues­day 2/9/10 but taken down due to code con­flicts that were effect­ing the site’s per­for­mance. I’ve fixed the bugs so these out­stand­ing TED talks could be avail­able to you.

The fol­low­ing TED talks occurred last year, they talk mostly about change and the shift we are all feel­ing. More impor­tantly they also offer insights into the depth of the shift and pos­si­bly if you lis­ten care­fully glimpses into what our pos­si­bil­i­ties can be. We are lucky to be liv­ing in the time because his­tory is being made to the scale of sig­nif­i­cance as the print­ing press, elec­tric­ity and the tele­phone. Each speaker pro­vides a dif­fer­ent point of view from a dif­fer­ent van­tage point of the same thing.

Seth Godin talks about how shifts occur and how that shift is helped by the way ideas are spread. Stephana Broad­bent talks about how our ever chang­ing ways of com­mu­ni­cat­ing within our net­work are tak­ing use back to our roots by shift­ing the con­trol of our per­sonal space back to us. Evan Williams the co-founder of Twit­ter talks about how a sim­ple side project to help peo­ple stay in touch has ini­ti­ated unex­pected improve­ments for shar­ing and stay­ing in touch from the per­son­ally mun­dane to con­trol­ling wild­fires in Cal­i­for­nia. Alexis Ohan­ian talks about how his social book­mark­ing site started a move­ment that helped Green­peace in their efforts to save whales from the Japan­ese whal­ing indus­try. Finally, Clay Shirky talks about how social media like Face­book, Twit­ter etc have fueled his­tor­i­cal changes from pres­i­den­tial elec­tions to stay­ing in touch with family.

Seth Godin: cre­at­ing and lead­ing your tribe and stand­ing out

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Alexis Ohan­ian: how social net­work­ing helped Green­peace save the whales

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Evan Williams Twit­ter co-founder

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Stephana Broad­bent: how the inter­net is redefin­ing our per­sonal space…for the good

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Clay Shirky: social media and history

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