<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Richard Adler</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:richardcadler@gmail.com">richardcadler@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 7:16 AM<br>Subject: TEDxDetroit<br>To: <a href="mailto:paulbhartzog@gmail.com">paulbhartzog@gmail.com</a>, Samuel Rose <<a href="mailto:samuel.rose@gmail.com">samuel.rose@gmail.com</a>>, Michel Bauwens <<a href="mailto:michelsub2004@gmail.com">michelsub2004@gmail.com</a>>, Matt Berlin <<a href="mailto:mattberlin23@gmail.com">mattberlin23@gmail.com</a>><br>
<br><br>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.<br>
<br>Now another tweet provides this link: <br><br><a href="http://www.detroitmoxie.com/home/2011/1/10/the-super-secret-detroit-ted-event-delivers.html" target="_blank">http://www.detroitmoxie.com/home/2011/1/10/the-super-secret-detroit-ted-event-delivers.html</a><br>
<br>I've cut-and-pasted the last part of the blog post below. I'm mentioning it because, frankly, it leaves me speechless. <br><br>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?<br>
<br>RCA<br><br>--------------------------<br><br><p><i><b>Why the secrecy?</b></i></p>
<p><i>I have no idea. My thought is that TED (<a href="http://www.tedxdetroit.com/" target="_blank">without the x</a>)
is an exclusive brand and Lincoln was aligning themselves with that
elite group. Lincoln surely delivered on the slick event; it was top
shelf.</i></p>
<p><i>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.</i></p>
<p><i>To be fair, it is my understanding that the invitation was sent to the entire <a href="http://www.detroitmoxie.com/home/2010/9/22/big-thinkers-to-share-at-tedxdetroit.html" target="_blank">TEDxDetroit</a> database. So, why weren’t those that were planning on attending talking about it? A simple line in the invitation reads:</i></p>
<blockquote>
<p><i>Also, please, no blogging nor tweeting this invitation/event before it takes place.</i></p>
</blockquote>
<p><i>TED@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.</i></p>
<p><i>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.</i></p>
<p><i>Feedback, makers, reinvention, connection, and sharing. That is our “New Tomorrow.”</i></p>
<p><i>TED@MotorCity not only delivered world-class speakers but it was world-class all the way around. </i></p><br>
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<br>Think tank: <a href="http://www.asianforesightinstitute.org/index.php/eng/The-AFI">http://www.asianforesightinstitute.org/index.php/eng/The-AFI</a><br><br><br><br><br>