Although only showing professional videos, TED.com inspires ideas and creativity along with developing relationships. This technology is a personal knowledge repository for public voices which new concepts an
d ideas. The community however works in parallel to this repository because it provides further thought to these opinions. As a source the information found here is very deep, opinions are objective, open minded and honest. Not only does it connect people with common interest but it assists in exposing academic individuals and makes them reachable to the general public.. Commenting within this environment about someone like ‘Seth Goodin’ is much more validating that commenting in YouTube.com, because the community in this environment is more focused and more unique. Each individual has an accessible profile making them real and approachable.
The community improves knowledge and most certainly improves productivity. As videos are uploaded weekly information is dynamic and thoughts and perceptions are kept active. The TED.com site suggest hosting a TED session during a lunch break for example. It’s a great way to encourage thinking and information sharing on current up-to-date topics. This has now been proposed within x.loc for feedback from other individuals with the company.
And of course because I absolutely love Ted.com, you can find me here.
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Im so excited as TED.com gets ready to go live with a the 2009 TED Prize winners webinar today at 5pm PST.
Ill be watching it here: http://www.ted.com/webcast/watch/event/tedprize