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

Here are the sevev benefits that drive human behavior and will you help write more persuasive messages.

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.

This presentation all started one day on a plane, on my way to TED, seven years ago.

20 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web.

Learn to make the transition from teaching in a traditional classroom to teaching online.

Politicians are strange creatures, says politician Omar Ahmad.

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.

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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.

About This Talk Why build a virtual world?

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

Courtland Bovee explains that social media isn't a fad.