Posted: December 17th, 2010 | Author: jillfoster | Filed under: Awesome events, Exercises, Practice, Public speaking mojo, Social media and public speech, TEDx and TED | Tags: Janie Hermann, mental preparation, Princeton, Princeton Public Library, public speaking, TED, TEDWomen, TEDx, TEDxPrincetonPL | No Comments »
Last week I spent time (great, wonderful time!) with the TEDx Princeton Library community, or @TEDxPrincetonPL on twitter, and keynoted their event supporting TEDWomen.
It’s been an ongoing meditative exercise since giving the TEDx talk last Tuesday…pondering questions like:
What worked while preparing for this TEDx talk?
…with a more vulnerable follow-up question: what was excruciatingly difficult to prepare (and why?!)?
There was a lot of pure nuts-n-bolts process to this speech; at the same time – it was one of the most fulfilling yet absolutely gut wrenchingly difficult speeches to deliver. Heck, not just deliver but to cull out.
For starters, there was a huge mental wrestling with the TED brand plus internal feuds with my ego; there were so many re-writes that it seemed moving to Alaska to instead cut wood for a living would be the best career move (…vs plugging along in what seemed a sea of obscurity in discerning a story arc); there were many brainstorms with speech coaches; there were unexpected decisions with slide decks.
Whew Nellie!
Some parts of this were expected but so many aspects of preparation I did not foresee.
And it all comes down to an unforeseen mind game where my perceptions of storytelling came head-to-head with the daunting TED brand.
It was all humbling and energizing all at once. Not to mention that through the whole experience, the patience of my husband was crystalized in renewed vibrance.
The recesses of my brain are sorting out core details to this strange, satisfying, wrestle-of-a-process. And I look forward to conveying more (and learning from your thoughts) in the next week.
In the meantime, what was your favorite TEDTalk from TEDWomen?
Image Mind Game by Claudio Schwarz, Creative Commons
Posted: December 8th, 2010 | Author: jillfoster | Filed under: TEDx and TED | Tags: secretary hillary clinton, TED, TEDWomen, TEDx | No Comments »
…as
Secretary Clinton makes a surprise visit to TED’s stage and just said:
“Issues related to women and girls are security issues; they are issues of peace too.”
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Posted: May 22nd, 2010 | Author: jillfoster | Filed under: TEDx and TED | Tags: TED, TEDx, TEDxPotomac | No Comments »
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Posted: May 22nd, 2010 | Author: jillfoster | Filed under: TEDx and TED | Tags: Juan Botero, Lina Almansa, Neil Takemoto, TED, TEDx, TEDxP | No Comments »
Talented.
Creative.
Keenly professional.
That’s Lina Almansa and Juan Botero, founders of D’Blend. They’re the digital production team that created the dynamic interactive video for Neil’s TEDx talk. Heck I may not be very objective with them as I worked with this team as Neil’s presentation
coach ie I’m a fan!
They were fantastic — and resilient in the face of mysterious tech challenges plus demands of some unique creative goals.
…on mobile now so more links and context forthcoming.
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Posted: May 22nd, 2010 | Author: jillfoster | Filed under: TEDx and TED | Tags: Affinity Labs, Berit Oskey, TED, TEDx, TEDxPotomac | No Comments »
At TEDxPotomac this Thursday, Berit shared why she sees the DC region as an ideal leader for the business philosophy called co-opetition.
-Really enjoyed her talk and her kind, intelligent leadership that framed it.
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Posted: May 22nd, 2010 | Author: jillfoster | Filed under: TEDx and TED | Tags: TED, TEDx, TEDxPotomac, Yoko K | No Comments »
Thanks to Yoko for the artistic beauty at TEDxPotomac and an energizing, distinct coaching dynamic.
More to follow…
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Posted: May 22nd, 2010 | Author: jillfoster | Filed under: TEDx and TED | Tags: crowdsource, crowdsourced placemaking, Neil Takemoto, open source, TED, TEDx, TEDxPotomac | No Comments »
Wow.
What a fantastic experience meeting Neil through this TEDx gig; his sincere conviction for crowdsourcing is addictive — as is his drive to express a presentation well.
Take down of his TEDx talk here:
http://www.cooltownstudios.com/2010/05/21/tedx-transcript-on-crowdsourced-pla…
My pics are going up via mobile now with a blog series brewing in the brain on the whole, incredible coaching dynamic that emerged.
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Posted: May 20th, 2010 | Author: jillfoster | Filed under: TEDx and TED | Tags: France Moore Lappe, TED, TEDx, TEDxPotomac | No Comments »
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Posted: May 20th, 2010 | Author: jillfoster | Filed under: TEDx and TED | Tags: Craig Newmark, Craigslist, Social networks, TED, TEDx, TEDxPotomac, Trust | No Comments »
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Posted: May 20th, 2010 | Author: jillfoster | Filed under: TEDx and TED | Tags: Bob Corrigan, TED, TEDx, TEDxPotomac | No Comments »
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