TED: Ideas worth spreading

TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is an invitation-only event where the world’s leading thinkers and doers gather to find inspiration. Initially an annual conference, the scope of TED has expanded to include a bi-annual global conference, a humanitarian prize, and free audio/video podcasts of extraordinary talks.

The website www.ted.com contains videos and audios of some of the greatest thinkers, doers of our time.  I challange you to pick a category and not find something inspiring. 

Topics span Technology, Entertainment, Design, Business, Science, Culture, Arts  and Global issues.  The people who participate… well talent highlighted within TED’s site is nothing short of amazing.  From David Rockwell to Al Gore to Michael Moschen to Benjamin Zander.

Learn more about TED here:  www.ted.com

Learn more about the TED conference here: http://www.ted.com/index.php/pages/view/id/177

The Magic Happens

Just a year old The Magic Happens http://themagichappens.com/home.html is a quarterly online magazine that features authors from a variety of backgrounds.  The focus is on “Thriving Outloud”!   As it says on the web site:

Our Intentions For The Magic Happens:

• To be an advocate of living now in personal freedom
• To be an example to those who are seeking personal freedom
• To provide entertaining, interesting and growth promoting content
• To assemble a team of Thriving contributors to offer many examples
• To speed up our personal growth through exposing ourselves
• To reach one million or more readers by July 1, 2009

The articles are insightful, uplifting, personal, and touching.  If you go though the magazine without at least one Ah Ha! moment, you are reading too fast   Check out The Magic Happens and while you are there, read my first article for the magazine, introducing myself http://themagichappens.com/melissa.pdf