At the beginning of class, Prof introduced an amazing website, TED.com. It is a conference which brings together the world's greatest minds, challenging them to make an 18 minute presentation of their lives. Speakers talk about a wide range of topics so there will be something up everyone's alley. Every year, 3 speakers will be crowned as winners and be granted one wish, called TED Prize. They get one chance to change the world with their wish and one year later, they unveil their wish during the conference.
TED2009 is now underway! Check out their blog as the conference goes on. First day speakers include Bill Gates who pulled an interesting stunt. Read more about it here.
Personally, I've been inspired by many TED videos. Will be talking about them in later posts as well as some thoughts on this year's speakers.
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Saturday, February 7, 2009
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Too Many Tools... Too Little Time
I've got a couple of thoughts I really want to lay down on this blog but before that, this one thing keeps bugging me.
Where does everyone get enough time to explore all these social media tools?
There's always the argument that we have tools to combine everything into one easily accessible page/program. The only problem is, new versions of these tools seem to keep popping up everywhere.
There has been quite some buzz about social media and web 2.0 being the next big thing in communications. I cannot claim to be an expert in the subject at present, but as a beginner, I can say that everything is overwhelming. Whilst I can visualise the benefits of employing such tools for communication, I believe it will take quite some time, effort and resources before it becomes really applicable for the average business.
After a couple of weeks trying to play around with what's available in the market, I only have one conclusion - Web 2.0 is a lifestyle. Without immersing yourself into it, there is little chance and hope of being able to fully benefit from its functionality. The only problem and difficulty is, how to find the time to make it your lifestyle.
More thoughts on social entrepreneurship, social innovation and presentations coming up in the next few days. In the mean time, here's hoping that I succeed in becoming 2.0... that's Web 2.0.
There has been quite some buzz about social media and web 2.0 being the next big thing in communications. I cannot claim to be an expert in the subject at present, but as a beginner, I can say that everything is overwhelming. Whilst I can visualise the benefits of employing such tools for communication, I believe it will take quite some time, effort and resources before it becomes really applicable for the average business.
After a couple of weeks trying to play around with what's available in the market, I only have one conclusion - Web 2.0 is a lifestyle. Without immersing yourself into it, there is little chance and hope of being able to fully benefit from its functionality. The only problem and difficulty is, how to find the time to make it your lifestyle.
More thoughts on social entrepreneurship, social innovation and presentations coming up in the next few days. In the mean time, here's hoping that I succeed in becoming 2.0... that's Web 2.0.
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