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  • Creativity versus Your Smartphone Addiction

    Creativity versus Your Smartphone Addiction

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    Brio Group

    I recently read this post by Ogilvy’s David Long, espousing the creative benefits of using a pen and notebook over purely digital means. Call me an old fuddy duddy, but I’ve always felt my best work comes from putting pen to paper. Reading David’s first point (“digital is distracting”) I was reminded of this TED…

  • Tim Berners-Lee: A Magna Carta for the Web – TED TALK

    Tim Berners-Lee: A Magna Carta for the Web – TED TALK

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    Brio Group

    In this enlightening TED talk, Mr. Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, talks about how far we have gone since the Web was first invented and released to the world in the late eighties. Since its launch in 1989, 40% of the world is now using the World Wide Web, allowing us to…

  • What has happened to our Communication?

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Wow, I’ve just watched a fascinating TED Talk with the Brio Group Team this morning that really makes you think about what has happened with the backward evolution of our human interaction, communication and lack of personal contact. Sherry Turkle, author of ‘Alone Together’, explains how todays generation of teenagers have been brought up competing…

  • Monday TED-spiration: Nurturing Creativity

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    I have a confession. I’ve never read Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat,Pray, Love. I’ve never had any urge to read her story of finding herself following the breakdown of her marriage. I will confess, I begrudgingly sat through the movie adaptation of the book and it didn’t rate for me. While I can’t explain why I’m yet…

  • The Orangutan Saviour

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Willie Smits, a conservationist who has devoted his life to the orangutan, gave a powerful TED Talk where he describes his work restoring the rainforest and saves the lives of countless orangutans. He expresses the horrific ecological barbarity resulting from the palm oil and timber industries as a result of greed. It’s saddening to hear…

  • What adults can learn from children

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    In this TED talk Adora Svitak, American child prodigy and published author reminds us of what we can learn as adults, from children. She reminds us that when we were children we had crazy ideas of doing and achieving anything we could imagine. Then as adults we look at these ideas as impossible or too…

  • Five ways to listen better

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    In this concise TED talk, Julian Treasure addresses the concern that we are losing our hearing. He suggests that conscious listening creates understanding, and without understanding we can’t achieve complete communication and peaceful relationships. He provides us with 5 easy tricks for improving our listening skills. One of these is using the acronym RASA: Receive, Appreciate,…

  • Design considerations

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    I chose this TED Talk to share with the Brio Group team this morning as I liked how Thomas Heatherwick’s London Architect firm considered their designs in a holistic approach. Not only did they consider the impact their designs have on the existing natural and built environment, but they also considered how it affects the…

  • How to make a splash in social media

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Making headway in social media can be quite difficult without the right training, direction and information. Let’s face it, there is nothing worse than being given bad information that you pay some ridiculous sum of money for. Well… as Alexis explains below, sometimes letting people run their course, you end up with something great that…