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Have you spoken at a TEDx Event? Are you interested?

Hi ipower Team, i have seen many of your videos on the individual accounts and i think everyone has his unique specialty, so i wondered if anyone of you spoke at a TEDxEvent. I think the TED…Continue

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Edward L. Bernays - Inventor of PR aka Bullshitting People
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Do you know where "America Breakfast" came from?Edward L. Bernays had to sell bacon in the 1920s for one of his customers, so he used his contacts to Hollywood and some directors included it in the…Continue

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Communication is so complicated
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Hi everyone,It's kind of hard to introduce myself, because I don't know what my life is about. I was grown up in a bar/restaurant in a small village (4k) in Germany and met a lot of (drunken) guests…Continue

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Have you spoken at a TEDx Event? Are you interested?

Hi ipower Team, i have seen many of your videos on the individual accounts and i think everyone has his unique specialty, so i wondered if anyone of you spoke at a TEDxEvent. I think the TED Community is a great way to find some like minded people who are not gamers.If you are interessted in speaking at a TEDxEvent i could write an email to the official mailing list (i organized an event in Germany). There are many people who are always looking for new, great speakers and i think they will be…See More
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Have you spoken at a TEDx Event? Are you interested?

Hi ipower Team, i have seen many of your videos on the individual accounts and i think everyone has his unique specialty, so i wondered if anyone of you spoke at a TEDxEvent. I think the TED Community is a great way to find some like minded people who are not gamers.If you are interessted in speaking at a TEDxEvent i could write an email to the official mailing list (i organized an event in Germany). There are many people who are always looking for new, great speakers and i think they will be…See More
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Alex Boerger replied to Alex Boerger's discussion Communication is so complicated
"an example from germany is stuttgart21, there where protest against an totally underground mainstation, that would cost more than 10billion € and there where many signs of corruption. There where protesters in all ages and the police had to…"
Jan 23
Alex Boerger replied to Alex Boerger's discussion Edward L. Bernays - Inventor of PR aka Bullshitting People
"i think it is a bad thing, if the majority can decide what the minority has to do.  Its even wors, because the majority is dominated by the opinion of an extreme minority (Team Shareholdervalue FTW). If this knowledge is only used by an elite,…"
Jan 23
Bernhard replied to Alex Boerger's discussion Edward L. Bernays - Inventor of PR aka Bullshitting People
"And I always wonder... is this neccessarily a bad thing? As said in the text above it creates common behaviours which make it easier to live together. In our time it's also pretty easy to observe the effects of this manipulation through media.…"
Jan 23
Alex Boerger replied to Michael V.'s discussion Self-Development Trough Religion
"maybe i´m wrong with mohamed, in southpark he looked like a nice guy ;) "
Jan 23
Alex Boerger replied to Michael V.'s discussion Self-Development Trough Religion
"My first experience with narrow minds came from religion. I asked always questions: When Adam and Eve where the first an only people, how can we become so many without inbreeding? Same for Nohas animals and how did they come to his arch? Why did god…"
Jan 23
Alex Boerger replied to Michael V.'s discussion Self-Development Trough Religion
"Maybe you can learn something from Jesus, Mohamed or Budha.... They where open minded and had their own ideas, but the churches are only bureaucrats trying to preserve themselves. Look for the core not for the clutter."
Jan 23
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Wikit: How to stop traffic jam and save the world

Hi, here is one of my older projects.
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Michael V. replied to Alex Boerger's discussion Edward L. Bernays - Inventor of PR aka Bullshitting People
"One who invents, brings progress to the human race."
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South Park is an ongoing (16 seasons, so far) American animated television series created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone for the Comedy Central television network. Intended for mature audiences, the show has become famous for its crude language and dark, surreal humor that lampoons a wide range of topics.See More
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After i read Propaganda (1928) from Edward Bernays i understood how massmedia formed our understandig of the world. But there is a dramatic change in the last 30 years. Everyone can broadcast today, the audience is getting bigger and i'm happy to be part of this change.
Favorite movies:
Fightclub
Dogville
Team America
Favorite books:
Edward Bernays - Propaganda
seth godin - linchpin, tribes
malcolm gladwell - tippingpoint, blink, outliers
Don Tappscott - Grown up digital, Wikinomics
The Starfish and the Spider
Peter Kruse - next practice. Erfolgreiches Management von Instabilität
Georg Franck - Ökonomie der Aufmerksamkeit
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To meet interesting people and visit awesome places. I stopped having goals, because they only distract me from the way.
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At 5:26pm on January 22, 2012, Anna said…

Hi Alex,

welcome to Ipower. Your post sounds interesting, especially when it comes to percepetion and media. Du machst also "auch was mit Medien" ;-) I am curious about your contributions, so welcome again and have fun!

Anna

 
 
 

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Why I argue so "aggressively" | Distorted views can kill | Teenager kills herself after researching 2012 doomsday theories 18 Replies

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Capitalism and profit 32 Replies

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Bardasu Florin replied to SparTom007 - Tom's discussion Why I argue so "aggressively" | Distorted views can kill | Teenager kills herself after researching 2012 doomsday theories
" From the beginning of the human kind, fear was necessary to keep us alive and avoid certain dangers lions, bigger monkeys, ecc. so is well preserved in our brains because we can't compair 500 years of so called evolution with two…"
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Timo Kerremans replied to Tim Young's discussion Capitalism and profit
"Yes I agree with that, a global change in the state of mind.I think if every single person in the world has an enormous feeling for solidarity, it is possible to create a working system where money would be obsolete. This unfortunatly is an utopian…"
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Tim Young replied to Tim Young's discussion Capitalism and profit
"I believe an entirely new paradigm is required.  A global mindset shift away from the notion of "profit" and towards co-existence within a cooperative framework."
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Timo Kerremans replied to Tim Young's discussion Capitalism and profit
"What might be a solution for this profit-based society?They say money can solve a lot of problems, but these problems are mostly created by the bad use of money. I think you can't solve problems with the same thing that caused them. "
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Tim Young replied to Bart Skraeling's discussion dealing with trolls
"Yes that's similar to the usual advice one might see.  And most of it is good advice. The only problem I have is with the "ignoring". Good in theory but in practice not always that easy - especially with the more persistent…"
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Bart Skraeling replied to Bart Skraeling's discussion dealing with trolls
"i liked this blog http://networkbloggingtips.com/dealing-with-trolls-and-negativity/ especially the part about about fighting off the troll with dwarfs"
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Tim Young replied to Bart Skraeling's discussion dealing with trolls
"Yes well, you could speculate forever as to the why.  But how will you ever know the real truth - unless you get some actual trolls to fess up. I am guessing honesty is not their strongest suit. I would also suggest that most of them probably…"
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Bart Skraeling replied to Bart Skraeling's discussion dealing with trolls
"when i looked down on the page i saw someone was trying to discuss their view on immigrants in a calm and intellectual way, that didn`t work out. so then he responded with rage afterwards. i found an article about how to deal with…"
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Tim Young replied to Bart Skraeling's discussion dealing with trolls
"The moment you let a troll get under your skin and you react with anger or similar - then they are getting exactly what they want. So anything BUT getting angry or pissed off with them works a lot better.  Sarcasm can work well. Like commenting…"
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dealing with trolls

yesterday it was the eurovision song contest.I went into a newspapers internett site (dagbladet if anyone is interested) and saw they had a forum for discussing the results (the results where coming in at the time). much of the forum was covered with the comments of two people, both trolls, one in norwegian and one in english. they where claiming that norway lost because we sent an immigrant to the finals (the guy was born in Iran but came to norway when he was just over 1 yrs old), and other…See More
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