Where there is a TED video link, I am clicking and watching … my favorite!  The TED conference has been helping to blow people’s minds for many years now, and that’s in large part because they put videos of many of the TED talks online for anyone to watch, share, and spread for free. But there are a number of other conferences held each year around the world that also bring together visionaries, intellectuals, and luminaries from a wide variety of disciplines to discuss innovative ideas.
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With that in mind, below is a list of the top 7 places to watch great minds in action. What makes these conferences special is both the people they’re able to assemble together in one place and that they put videos of the experiences online for everyone to enjoy. What other conferences attract the top minds in the world? Let us know in the comments. |
A 5 minute video by Olivier Blanchard (The Brand Builder) on ROI Let me throw a little moment of divine clarity your way: If you can’t solve their problem, your value to them and the value of your idea are both precisely zero. So watch this video and see if something clicks: |
Instead of talking about social mention and brand loyalty to a guy who thinks that Marketing falls into the L section of his P&L, maybe you should focus on what matters to them, right? Read more at thebrandbuilder.wordpress.com |
An interview with Josh Bernoff, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research. He is the co-author of the book “Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies,”
Great video. I deal with clients who want to know all about social media and know they need to get involved but are cautious about taking the first step. I like the idea of focusing on one core objective with stakeholders and using this success to build momentum for social media.
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Earlier today we reported on YouTube’s plans to roll out a new real-time product that adds a new social layer to YouTube, allowing friends to share the videos they’re watching with each other in real time, without having to turn to outside chat programs or Twitter. |
RealTime appears as a toolbar at the bottom of every YouTube page with three main items. The most prominent button is an indicator showing when you have Realtime sharing turned on, obviously to ensure that you don’t accidentally share some videos you aren’t too proud of watching. The ‘Online Friends’ tab shows which videos your friends are currently watching (if any) and their recent history. It also allows you to send an invitation to come watch the video you’re watching, which will pop up on their screen (you can turn notifications off). This is where the real power of the new product lies, as it allows friends to instantly share videos with each other. |
Finally, there’s a button for ‘Watching Now’, which allows you to see any random YouTube users who happen to be watching the same video as you. This isn’t a privacy issue because you’re only shown in the list if you opt-in, but it seems pretty pointless. A chat feature with other users could potentially be entertaining (though I’d hope for some decent filtering given the YouTube comments I’ve seen), but what’s the point of a list of people I don’t know? Read more at www.techcrunch.com |
 One of this week’s most widely reported and talked about stories has been the appearance of Susan Boyle, a 47 year-old singer from Scotland, on the show Britain’s Got Talent.
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| video of the performance is approaching levels of some of the biggest viral hits of all-time. Visible Measures, which tracks online video usage, estimates that so far Boyle’s performance has already been seen more than 47 million times in all, taking into account all of the reproductions of the original. |
| While Boyle’s performance has a lot of natural appeal, the conditions have never been riper for a video to go so incredibly viral. Between Twitter, Facebook ( |
| , and other social media sites - not to mention mainstream media - the performance has been impossible to miss this week. Meanwhile, if and when Boyle decides to jump into social media for herself, she’ll have a built in audience of millions of fans hanging on her every word. It’s a fairly incredible, albeit not completely surprising story. |
And just in case you haven’t seen it yet, the video of Susan Boyle performing “I Dreamed a Dream” from the musical Les Miserables can be found here (embedding appears to have been disabled, making the video’s viral growth even more impressive). Read more at mashable.com |
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