[P2P-F] Fwd: TEDxDetroit

[Michel Bauwens]

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Richard Adler <richardcadler at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 7:16 AM
Subject: TEDxDetroit
To: paulbhartzog at gmail.com, Samuel Rose <samuel.rose at gmail.com>, Michel
Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>, Matt Berlin <mattberlin23 at gmail.com>


So apparently there was a TED event in Detroit last night, but good luck
finding out about it. I only know it happened because of tweets posted from
the event by a reporter with the Detroit Free Press whom Paul and I met a
couple of years ago.

Now another tweet provides this link:

http://www.detroitmoxie.com/home/2011/1/10/the-super-secret-detroit-ted-event-delivers.html

I've cut-and-pasted the last part of the blog post below. I'm mentioning it
because, frankly, it leaves me speechless.

Apparently, these people believe the future of Detroit should be an
invite-only process?  Why, if the city "on the precipice", does it make
sense to restrict attendance and quite likely exclude people who might have
wished to participate and contribute?

RCA

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*Why the secrecy?*

*I have no idea. My thought is that TED (without the
x<http://www.tedxdetroit.com/>)
is an exclusive brand and Lincoln was aligning themselves with that elite
group. Lincoln surely delivered on the slick event; it was top shelf.*

*The usual pre-event buzz wasn’t their priority. Instead they had many local
Detroiters in the twitterverse scratching their head in a “how did I miss
this” type of way.*

*To be fair, it is my understanding that the invitation was sent to the
entire TEDxDetroit<http://www.detroitmoxie.com/home/2010/9/22/big-thinkers-to-share-at-tedxdetroit.html>database.
So, why weren’t those that were planning on attending talking
about it? A simple line in the invitation reads:*

*Also, please, no blogging nor tweeting this invitation/event before it
takes place.*

*TED at MotorCity and Lincoln proved that an event doesn’t need the “this event
is going to be so cool” buzz to, in fact, be cool.*

*Detroit is on a precipice and the people and their actions and decisions
are going to decide which way it goes. Our “New Tomorrow” is up to us.*

*Feedback, makers, reinvention, connection, and sharing. That is our “New
Tomorrow.”*

*TED at MotorCity not only delivered world-class speakers but it was
world-class all the way around. *




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