[Ailist] Wonderful collection of on-line resources - World Thinkers

Tue Nov 20 12:33:20 MST 2007

Hello Everyone:

Over the last year, I have come across an amazing number of conferences,  
etc. which have video recorded their sessions and made them available   on-line 
for free.  There are incredible riches of ideas on these  webpages from all 
kinds of professions.  If most of  these predominantly US-based... Imagine all 
the other forums, dialogues and  incredible thinking that is occurring around 
the world. 

In the spirit of American Thanksgiving and as we head into the  holiday 
season, I thought I would share all of these amazing resources for  which I have 
been grateful and thankful for over the past year or so.  I  have included the 
descriptors from their webpages.  

1)  TED stands for Technology, Entertainment,  Design. It started out (in 
1984) as a conference bringing together  people from those three worlds. Since 
then its scope has become ever  broader.   
The annual conference now brings together the world's most fascinating  
thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives  (in 18 
minutes).  
This site makes the best talks and performances from TED available to  the 
public, for free. Almost 150 talks from our archive are now  available, with 
more added each week. These videos are released under a Creative  Commons 
license, so they can be freely shared and  reposted.     _TED | Speakers_ 
(http://www.ted.com/index.php/speakers)  
2)  Pop!Tech is  a one-of-a-kind conference, a community of remarkable 
people, and an ongoing  conversation about science, technology and the future of 
ideas. The  conference brings together 500 visionary thinkers in the sciences, 
technology,  business, design, the arts, education, government and culture.  
_Pop!Tech - archive_ (http://www.poptech.org/archive/)  

3) Aspen Institute Programs 
_http://fora.tv/partner/Aspen_Institute?q=1&page=10&sort=date_ (http://fora.tv/partner/Aspen_Institute?q=1&page=10&sort=date)   

The  Aspen Institute, founded in 1950, is an international nonprofit 
organization  dedicated to fostering enlightened leadership and open-minded dialogue. 
Through  seminars, policy programs, conferences, and leadership-development 
initiatives,  the Institute and its international partners seek to promote 
nonpartisan inquiry  and an appreciation for timeless values. The Institute is 
headquartered in  Washington, DC, and has campuses in Aspen, Colorado, and on the 
Wye River on  Maryland's Eastern Shore. Its international network includes 
partner Aspen  Institutes in Berlin, Rome, Lyon, Tokyo, New Delhi, and Bucharest, 
and  leadership programs in Africa, Central America, and India. 

4)  2007 Skoll World Forum on  Social Entrepreneurship  March 27-29, 2007
Saïd Business School,  Oxford University, England.  This year's Skoll World 
Forum on Social  Entrepreneurship attracted nearly 700 social entrepreneurs, 
thought leaders,  policy makers, corporate representatives, financiers, 
philanthropists and  students from more than 40 countries.
_http://skoll.org/skollcentre/skoll_forum.asp_ 
(http://skoll.org/skollcentre/skoll_forum.asp) 
5)  Clinton Global Initiative  -CGI is a non-partisan catalyst for action 
bringing together a community of  global leaders to devise and implement 
innovative solutions to some of the  world’s most pressing challenges.

_::  CLINTON GLOBAL INITIATIVE ::_ 
(http://www.clintonglobalinitiative.org/NETCOMMUNITY/Page.aspx?&pid=1434&srcid=1610)  

This debate on the BBC also occurred at CGI   _BBC  News Player - The BBC 
Debate: Can the USA Take the Heat?_ 
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_7020000/newsid_7022700/7022750.stm?bw=nb&mp=wm&news=1&ms3=6&nol_storyid=7022750)   
   or 
_http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_7020000/newsid_7022700/7022750.stm?bw
=nb&mp=wm&news=1&ms3=6&nol_storyid=7022750_ 
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_7020000/newsid_7022700/7022750.stm?bw=nb&mp=wm&news=1&ms3=6&nol_storyid
=7022750) 

6)  This next conference occurred two weeks ago at the NY Public  Library and 
was very interesting as we go into this next elections.    
THERE YOU GO AGAIN: Orwell Comes to America

On the 60th anniversary of Orwell's Politics and the English  Language, 
George Orwell described political speech as consisting “largely  of euphemism, 
question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness.” Some six decades  later, many 
symptoms of manipulation and propaganda diagnosed by Orwell persist  on the American 
political landscape, along with new disinformation techniques  enabled by 
modern technology.

Historians, scientists, philosophers,  linguists, cognitive experts, 
journalists, image-makers, and public figures will  debate in three separate sessions 
the current state of political discourse—and  journalism's response to it— on 
the dawn of a bitterly contested presidential  campaign.
Part I Propaganda Then and Now:  What Orwell Did and Didn't Know
Part II  Deceiving Images: The Science of Manipulation
Part  III Solutions: The Future Political Landscape

Each session will  explore the past, present, and future of deceptive 
political speech, and assess  what can be done to bring more realism and honesty into 
the conduct of America’s  public affairs. This event is co-sponsored by the 
Open Society  Institute     _http://www.mapdigital.com/orwell/welcome.html_ 
(http://www.mapdigital.com/orwell/welcome.html) 

7)  Harvard Classes by Tal Ben Shahar - All of  which were wonderful 
on Positive Psychology   
_http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k14790_ (http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k14790) 
Psychology of Leadership   
_http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k14803_ (http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k14803) 

8)  Business as an Agent of World Benefit at Case Western  Reserve  
The Center for BAWB  advances extraordinary business innovation and 
entrepreneurship by turning the  global environmental and social issues of our day into 
core value-creation  opportunities.BAWB provides solutions to the how of 
sustainable value  and social entrepreneurship, helping companies become the 
leading-edge stars of  their industries through _applied  sustainability,_ 
(http://worldbenefit.cwru.edu/practice/default.cfm)  _research_ 
(http://worldbenefit.cwru.edu/research/default.cfm) , and _education_ 
(http://worldbenefit.cwru.edu/education/default.cfm)  efforts.  The Media library offers  video and digital 
audio stories of more  innovative business practices that bring benefit to the 
world, with the hope to  expand the know-how knowledge around business as an 
agent of world benefit.  Resources from various BAWB events, such as 
presentations and speeches are also  included in the Media Library. 
_http://worldbenefit.cwru.edu/mediaLibrary/_ (http://worldbenefit.cwru.edu/mediaLibrary/) 
I will give this advisory... there are months of viewing above  and you can 
get very lost in all of these, but I've gone into these sites  when I needed a 
break or some new ideas and have heard some wonderful  people doing many 
wonderful things, that give me lots of hope.  So,  Happy Thanksgiving for all of 
you celebrating it this week and may that spirit  circle around the world for 
peace, hope and joy. To all, have a wonderful  holiday season.  

Warm regards,
Denise Lalonde

Denise  Lalonde
Lalonde Consulting and Coaching 

212-974-1438
_dlalondeny at aol.com_ (mailto:dlalondeny at aol.com)  
New York, NY 

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