If you ever wondered why some presentations and keynote speakers really connect with you, it’s often because they use the power of storytelling and great images (rather than bulletpoints) that help their audiences to visualize their message.

David McCandless makes infographics -- simple, elegant ways to see information that might be too complex or too big, small, abstract or scattered to otherwise be grasped.

Sheena Iyengar studies how we make choices -- and how we feel about the choices we make.

Larry Winget, an 'irritational' speaker and host of Big Spender on A&E, talks about why Americans aren't getting as much done as they can.

Are you getting the whole truth and nothing but?

Steven Gaffney, president of the Steven Gaffney Company, is a leading expert on honest, interpersonal communication, influence and leadership .

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This presentation gives numerous tips for improving your interpersonal communication.

I want to talk about the transformed media landscape, and what it means for anybody who has a message they want to get out to anywhere in the world.

We worry that IM, texting, Facebook are spoiling human intimacy, but Stefana Broadbent's research shows how communication tech is capable of cultivating deeper relationships, bringing love across barriers like distance and workplace rules.

About This Talk The founding mother of the blog revolution, Movable Type's Mena Trott, talks about the early days of blogging, when she realized that giving regular people the power to share our lives online is the key to building a friendlier, more connected world.

Howard Rheingold talks about the coming world of collaboration, participatory media and collective action -- and how Wikipedia is really an outgrowth of our natural human instinct to work as a group.

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About This Talk Inventor, entrepreneur and visionary Ray Kurzweil explains in abundant, grounded detail why, by the 2020s, we will have reverse-engineered the human brain and nanobots will be operating your consciousness.

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In the year leading up to this talk, the web tool Twitter exploded in size (up 10x during 2008 alone).

About this talk Nokia researcher Jan Chipchase's investigation into the ways we interact with technology has led him from the villages of Uganda to the insides of our pockets.

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About This Talk In his typically candid style, Richard St.

Get a fascinating, behind-the-scenes look at a new business, Artisan Flavors Ice Cream, and how its owner is exclusively using social media and electronic communication for promotion, including videos (YouTube), podcasts (iTunes), press releases (PRNewswire), maps (Google), photos (Flickr), conversations (Twitter, Facebook), blogs (WordPress), and reviews (Yelp).

Has the textbook you've been using to teach business communication or business writring become obsolete?

Get a fascinating, behind-the-scenes look at a new business, Artisan Flavors Ice Cream, and how its owner is exclusively using social media and electronic communication for promotion, including the following: videos (YouTube), podcasts (iTunes), press releases (PRNewswire), maps (Google), photos (Flickr), conversations (Twitter, Facebook), blogs (WordPress), and reviews (Yelp).

Because of the social media revolution and electronic communication revolution, what is being taught in a typical business course should be changing.

Adele McAlear discusses the overlooked issue of our online legacies and how to ensure the appropriate preservation of our binary ashes.