{"id":9149,"date":"2010-09-08T09:29:16","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T13:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=9149"},"modified":"2010-09-08T09:30:20","modified_gmt":"2010-09-08T13:30:20","slug":"how-ted-connects-the-idea-hungry-elite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/09\/08\/how-ted-connects-the-idea-hungry-elite\/","title":{"rendered":"How TED connects the idea-hungry elite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/magazine\/148\/how-ted-became-the-new-harvard.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9150\" title=\"TED-HowConnectsIdeaHungryElite-9-2010\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/TED-HowConnectsIdeaHungryElite-9-2010.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"How TED connects the idea hungry elite\" width=\"622\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/TED-HowConnectsIdeaHungryElite-9-2010.jpg 622w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/TED-HowConnectsIdeaHungryElite-9-2010-150x91.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 622px) 100vw, 622px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">These two things &#8212; great ideas and the human connections they create &#8212;  make TED a unique phenomenon. Other conferences, such as the World  Economic Forum in Davos and D: AllThingsDigital in Rancho Palos Verdes,  California, have similar elite A-list rosters. But TED, which takes  place annually in Long Beach, California, is the only one that fully  exploits the power of what you might call, with apologies to Cisco, the  human network. In the nine years since publishing entrepreneur Chris  Anderson bought TED, it has grown way beyond a mere conference. <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>By  combining the principles of &#8220;radical openness&#8221; and of &#8220;leveraging the  power of ideas to change the world,&#8221; TED is in the process of creating  something brand new. I would go so far as to argue that it&#8217;s creating a  new Harvard &#8212; the first new top-prestige education brand in more than  100 years.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. These two things &#8212; great ideas and the human connections they create &#8212; make TED a unique phenomenon. Other conferences, such as the World Economic Forum in Davos and D: AllThingsDigital in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, have similar elite A-list rosters. But TED, which takes place annually in Long Beach, California, is the only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9149"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9153,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9149\/revisions\/9153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}