TEDTalks+(Matt+B.)

 Overview
TED (Technology, Education, and Design) is a non-profit company that puts on conferences in both the United States and Europe. As these conferences a variety of speakers are brought together with the objective that their lectures will be “Ideas worth spreading.” The best/most interesting lectures, all ranging in length from 5-20 minutes and are then posted on the Ted website and called TEDTalks and are available on-demand.

The site holds a wide variety of lectures on topics ranging from world politics, societal structures, to the latest in research analysis. They are all presented by incredibly talented speakers, for example Malcolm Gladwell, Jane Goodall, Al Gore all have lectures posted to the site. Though I certainly understand that looking at educational lectures isn't the most exciting way to pass the time it's way more rewarding than looking at music vidoes, howto, or fighting babies on YouTube.

The site is set up so that viewers can sort the talks by theme (technology, education, business, art, etc,) speaker, or conference where the talk was given. Talks can also be sorted by most viewed, e-mailed, or discussed.

Visitors to the site can interact passively by solely viewing the videos or by creating a free account they can join in discussions about each video in thread format (much like YouTube without all the trolls). Visitors can now also interact with the TED Conversations forum where they can join in discussions, pose questions, or debate important topics. TED also runs a blog. By creating an account on the site users are then able to save their favorite videos to their profiles.

All in all it is a really great site and offers visitors access to some really interesting lectures given by some of the worlds leading leaders, authors, scientists, and speakers all for free, on-demand.

Here are some links to a few of my favorite TEDTalks. Malcolm Gladwell on Spaghetti Sauce Stephen Nye on global power shifts Simon Sinek: How Great Leaders Inspire Action Hans Rosling shows the best stats you've ever seen

Sources: [|www.ted.com] []

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