TED Talk Thursday – What makes something go viral? by Dao Nguyen

According to TED.com : “What’s the secret to making content people love? Join BuzzFeed’s Publisher Dao Nguyen for a glimpse at how her team creates their tempting quizzes, lists and videos — and learn more about how they’ve developed a system to understand how people use content to connect and create culture.”

“Dao Nguyen is the Publisher of BuzzFeed, a reinvention of the traditional title in which she oversees the company’s tech, product, data and publishing platform, as well as ad product, pricing, and distribution. Nguyen joined BuzzFeed in 2012 and has been instrumental in its rapid growth as the largest independent digital media company in the world. Prior to joining BuzzFeed, Nguyen oversaw product for a financial careers venture within Dow Jones. She also previously served as Chief Executive Officer of Le Monde Interactif, publisher of the leading news site lemonde.fr. Before moving to France, she was Executive Producer at Concrete Media, a small web agency, and a consultant at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). She has a degree in Applied Mathematics / Computer Science from Harvard and is based in New York City.”

What makes something go viral? by Dao Nguyen

 

For those of you not familiar with TED Talks here is a brief summery from www.ted.com: “TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with two annual conferences — the TED Conference in Long Beach and Palm Springs each spring, and the TEDGlobal conference in Oxford UK each summer — TED includes the award-winning TEDTalks video site, the Open Translation Project and Open TV Project, the inspiring TED Fellows and TEDx programs, and the annual TED Prize”

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I look forward to your thoughts and comments!

Mandala Monday – How to Draw a Mandala with a Galaxy Card Design by Creative Chhori

How to draw a mandala with a Galaxy Card Design: Tips and tricks by Creative Chhori is today’s tutorial.

You can see her tutorials from earlier Mandala Mondays: https://nwcreations.com/how-to-draw-yin-yang-mandala-by-creative-chhori and https://nwcreations.com/how-to-make-a-mandala-dreamcatcher-by-creative-chhori/https://nwcreations.com/draw-mandala-snow-flake-design-creative-chhori/ and https://nwcreations.com/how-to-draw-a-mandala-tropical-design-by-creative-chhori/. This video provides step by step instructions as you watch her create this mandala. Here is what she has to say about this tutorial:

“This is another video in the series of how to draw a mandala. As mandala is nothing but your version of understanding of universe, I decided to put some part of it in the mandala itself. It is easier to create and also I have shown in the video that how can you rectify mistakes if you make any. ”

How to Draw a Mandala with a Galaxy Card Design by Creative Chhori

 

 How to Draw a Mandala with a Galaxy Card Design by Creative ChhoriTo find out more about her work see:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CreativeChhori/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/annu205v

Kraftly: https://kraftly.com/handmadecardsandmoreby

About her Facebook page Creative Chhori says: “This page will help you activate right side your brain and will help you get more creative. Like this page to receive creative decor and handmade card ideas.
Happy DIY people !!”

 

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I look forward to your thoughts and comments!

 

TED Talk Thursday – Simple designs to save a life by Amy Smith

According to TED.com : “Fumes from indoor cooking fires kill more than 2 million children a year in the developing world. MIT engineer Amy Smith details an exciting but simple solution: a tool for turning farm waste into clean-burning charcoal.”

“Mechanical engineer Amy Smith’s approach to problem-solving in developing nations is refreshingly common-sense: Invent cheap, low-tech devices that use local resources, so communities can reproduce her efforts and ultimately help themselves. Smith, working with her students at MIT’s D-Lab, has come up with several useful tools, including an incubator that stays warm without electricity, a simple grain mill, and a tool that converts farm waste into cleaner-burning charcoal.”

“The inventions have earned Smith three prestigious prizes: the B.F. Goodrich Collegiate Inventors Award, the MIT-Lemelson Prize, and a MacArthur “genius” grant. Her course, “Design for Developing Countries,” is a pioneer in bringing humanitarian design into the curriculum of major institutions. Going forward, the former Peace Corps volunteer strives to do much more, bringing her inventiveness and boundless energy to bear on some of the world’s most persistent problems.”

TED Talk Thursday – Simple designs to save a life by Amy Smith

 

For those of you not familiar with TED Talks here is a brief summery from www.ted.com: “TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with two annual conferences — the TED Conference in Long Beach and Palm Springs each spring, and the TEDGlobal conference in Oxford UK each summer — TED includes the award-winning TEDTalks video site, the Open Translation Project and Open TV Project, the inspiring TED Fellows and TEDx programs, and the annual TED Prize”

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I look forward to your thoughts and comments!