The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

• The Creator Of TED Aims To Reinvent Conferences Once Again | Co. Design

  Symposium-style v conference-presentation-style?
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  Not that anyone believes the slick-presentation conference approach will go away, nor should: Wurman thinks TED and other shows will continue to be crowd-pleasers. But he sees it as a 20th century model. “What I’m trying to think of,” he says, “is how to do the best conference for the beginning of the 21st century.”
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  tags: tedco richard_saul_wurman conferences

• Rory Stewart: Time to end the war in Afghanistan | Video on TED.com

  Rory Stewart makes a lot of sense.
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  British MP Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan after 9/11, talking with citizens and warlords alike. Now, a decade later, he asks: Why are Western and coalition forces still fighting there? He shares lessons from past military interventions that worked — Bosnia, for instance — and shows that humility and local expertise are the keys to success.
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  tags: tedco rory_stewart war afghanistan video

• Adam Lisagor Is The Quietest Pitchman | Fast Company

  “But his tone is his real strength. “I try to identify that thing in a product that matters most to me,” Lisagor says. “I’ll glom onto that element and try to recreate it in this linear story I’m telling.” That calm, Billy Mays-free approach conveys an inherent trust. It assumes that the viewer is the kind of person smart enough to appreciate the product’s value. That’s exactly the kind of customer tech startups want, which does much to explain their love for him: Lisagor is sui generis–“the best and only one doing what he does,” Dorsey says–and his promos blend “the aesthetics and techniques of advertising with the storytelling of an instructional video,”says Malthe Sigurdsson, Rdio VP of product design.”

  tags: lonely_sandwich adam_lisagor video advertising

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