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Nov 5

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TEDx 2011: Embracing Risk (Live-Blog)

The schedule for TEDx 2011

Tedx Middlebury is back with a brand new series of speakers. Put on for the first time last year by Chloe Sasha ’11, the event was a huge success. This year, a team of organizers including Annie Makela ’12 and Hudson Cavanagh ’14, took on the endeavor of getting some 16 speakers to come to Middlebury for free to talk for twenty minutes about the theme of “embracing risk.”

TEDx derives from TED, the exclusive global conference that features the cutting edge of innovators, philanthropists, scientists, artists, etc. showcasing their “ideas worth spreading.”

Here is the explanation of TEDx found on the Middlebury TEDx website:

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event.

MiddBlog is in charge of Live-Blogging TEDx this year. We will be updating our TEDx Live-Blog page (see menu bar at top of page) with summaries/impressions/quotes from each speaker throughout the day. Also check out our Twitter and Tedx’s twitter.

Mar 6

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How to turn networking from sleaze to steeze

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Networking has got a bad rap. You know this because you can just feel the sleaziness of it. I’m sucking up to so-and-so to get a job. You feel like the brown-noser you always hated.

I’m here to speak out on this. Networking is not sleazy if you don’t think about it as trying to weasel your way into a job. I’m not, however, the first person to try to convince you to reframe how you think about it. So maybe reframing your mindset is not enough. I say just throw the word “networking” out. If you feel bad about it, you’re never going to do it, and networking has long lost its usefulness as a word. I’d argue there is a significant psychological block to networking for a lot of people, so just forget it.

Instead, let’s reconnect to where my last two posts leave off. You’ve first gathered your passions and skills and then curated memorable stories based on those passions. Right? So the question now is how to apply your stories to the people you know.

Who do you know? Who would help you without a thought in the world? That is your core group. Chances are you see or speak with this group almost daily or weekly and it includes family and friends. These are some of same people you turned to in discussing your passions and they care deeply about your well-being. Read more

Oct 2

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TEDxMiddlebury: Live Blog

As we noted this morning, today marks TEDxMiddlebury, the college’s first ever TED-like conference organized by Cloe Shasha ’11 and her team of fellow students. Titled “How We Started: From Idea to Impact,” the TEDx event features a prominent lineup of writers, journalists, athletes, activists, and thinkers — many of them Midd alumni — and several TED Talk videos. The afternoon session is currently ongoing in BiHall 216. For those elsewhere, watch the live stream here.

Hit the break below to read our live blog on today’s presentations:

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Oct 2

Live feed: Middlebury TEDx Conference

Middlebury College’s TEDx Conference is happening right now.  Here’s a live feed of the talk:


Aug 3

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We’ve all heard of TED – Technology, Entertainment, Design. The annual conference in Monterey, CA makes for some of the most amazing, forward-looking videos on their site TED.com. Middlebury will be hosting a TEDx conference on October 3rd, 2010. A TEDx conference is an independently-organized TED conference that has speakers that follow the TED conference format. Our TEDx follows in the footsteps of TEDxMonterey, but will be open exclusively to Middlebury faculty, staff, students, and alumni. Videos, of course will be posted after the event which will occur in BiHall.

Cloe Shasha ’11 is the lead organizer with help from the Project on Creativity and Innovation in the Liberal Arts. So far, she has announced these speakers:

Stay tuned. Check out the Facebook group to stay up-to-date.