Jamie Oliver’s TED Prize Wish: Teach Every Child about Food
Posted on Feb 19, 2010 | Categories: Communities, General Interest, Innovation, Learning, Life, Work Life Integration | 1 Comment
Oh, and talking about inspirational videos one gets exposed to every now and then. Here I am back again with another one; slightly longer (Nearly 22 minutes), but one of those that will not leave you indifferent. Forever! Of course, it had to be one of TED‘s videos; one that will surely make you think about it twice next time you go and grab a bite! I am sure plenty of you folks out there have seen it already and have been WOWed just as much as the rest of us, to put it mildly!
However, if you haven’t, I am going to keep this blog post rather short, so you can go and have a look into "Jamie Oliver’s TED Prize Wish: Teach Every Child about Food" and enjoy 20 minutes, approx., of pure genius, joy and inspiration! Whether you are well built or slim, whether young or old, whether you care or whether you don’t, this is one of those incredibly thought-provoking videos that will surely make you change and / or adapt some of the food habits you may have gotten used to over the course of the years and those from those around you.
And all of that coming from someone like me, who keeps struggling to find the right balance, specially when travelling abroad and being away from home for a few days, but who, after watching the video clip, clearly sees the light at the end of the tunnel and is already on a mission to take on board some of the helpful tips shared throughout the video clip by Jamie. And, believe me, it’s worth it. Very much so!
Thus without much further ado, here is a little bit of homework for you for over the weekend, in case you may not be able to watch it in the next few minutes. Go and click on PLAY, sit back, relax, and enjoy one of those TED presentations that will help change your life forever. For good! For better!
Tags: TED, Videos, Inspiration, Inspiring, Life, Health, Healthy Habits, Habits, Fit, Fitness, Food, Jamie Oliver, Travel, Travelling, Making a Difference, Things That Matter, Break the Habit, WOW Factor
The Smart Work Company — What We Do And Why
Posted on Feb 19, 2010 | Categories: Collaboration, Communities, Enterprise2.0, Innovation, Knowledge Management, Knowledge Tools, Social Enterprise | 1 Comment
There are times when you bump into YouTube videos that surely give you shivers of excitement from some of the superb ideas that permeate throughout the video clip altogether. There are times when you bump into one of those short videos you just can’t stop playing them back and forth, trying to absorb every single nugget that comes out of them! There are times when you watch one of those and, after going through it, you never expect you would be so energised about the stuff that really matters to you, even if it comes from the most unexpected places. Well, What We Do And Why is one of those video clips.
It features a quick introduction by Anne Marie McEwan (Who I started following in Twitter a little while ago and from whom I have learned quite a bit so far), and in it she spends a little bit less than 5 minutes describing what her company, The Smart Work Company (Gotta love that name, too!), is all about and what their main mission is: help people, and their businesses!, become smarter at what they already doing through better ways of learning and managing.
If you care about Web work, about the next generation of knowledge workers, about the impact that social technologies are having in the current business world, about how meaningful the concept of networks is in helping shape the next wave of our leaders, this would be one video you would want to watch! Yes, indeed, it’s that inspiring and surely a treat to watch!
And you know the best part of it all for me? The narrative! It’s so beautifully told and with such a nice pace that it surely makes you stick around till the very end and when you are done you keep wondering where you could get more! Well, I guess that would be The Smart Work Company. I am sure that Anne Marie and her team would be incredibly successful with such important mission and if you ever wonder how it is all about working smarter, but not necessarily harder this video clip and its various messages clearly show, and lead!, the way!
Hope you enjoy it, just as much as I did …
Very very nice piece of work, don’t you think? 
Tags: Anne Marie McEwan, The Smart Work Company, TheSmartWorkCompany, Smart Work, Working Smart, Learning, Managing, Management, Leaders, Innovation, Enterprise 2.0, Social Software, Social Networking, Social Computing, Social Media, Collaboration, Communities, Knowledge Sharing, KM, Knowledge Management, Innovation, Networking, Social Networks, Productivity, Knowledge Workers, Knowledge Work, Narrative, Stories, Storytelling
