{"id":1299,"date":"2009-05-15T08:26:06","date_gmt":"2009-05-15T15:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2009\/05\/the_ted_commandments\/"},"modified":"2009-05-15T08:26:06","modified_gmt":"2009-05-15T15:26:06","slug":"the_ted_commandments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/the_ted_commandments.php","title":{"rendered":"The TED Commandments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/assets_c\/2009\/05\/ted_commandments-6577.php\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/assets_c\/2009\/05\/ted_commandments-6577.php','popup','width=800,height=720,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/assets_c\/2009\/05\/ted_commandments-thumb-200x180-6577.jpg\" alt=\"ted_commandments.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 20px 20px; float: right;\" height=\"180\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/span>I&#8217;ve often expressed my admiration for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/\">TED conference<\/a> keynotes &#8212; 20-minute nuggets of insight, humor, provocation, and revelation by really smart and engaging people. A perfect fit for my bus ride home. <\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;m thrilled that the ground rules behind those great presentations are available on-line. Tim Longhurst (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presentationzen.com\/presentationzen\/2009\/05\/making-presentations-in-the-ted-style.html\">Garr Reynolds<\/a>) offers a transcription of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timlonghurst.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/16\/the-ted-commandments-rules-every-speaker-needs-to-know\/\">the &#8221;TED Commandments&#8217;<\/a>&#8216; that arrive on a stone tablet to those invited to speak (no, really, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bensaunders.com\/2005\/01\/the-ted-commandments\/\">a stone tablet<\/a>). Not to say that the rules make the speakers great, but they certainly help frame a positive space for greatness.<\/p>\n<p>Worth remembering for any public presentation or conference session:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Thou Shalt Not Simply Trot Out thy Usual Shtick.<\/li>\n<li>Thou Shalt Dream a Great Dream, or Show Forth a Wondrous New Thing, Or Share Something Thou Hast Never Shared Before.<\/li>\n<li>Thou Shalt Reveal thy Curiosity and Thy Passion.<\/li>\n<li>Thou Shalt Tell a Story.<\/li>\n<li>Thou Shalt Freely Comment on the Utterances of Other Speakers for the Sake of Blessed Connection and Exquisite Controversy.<\/li>\n<li>Thou Shalt Not Flaunt thine Ego. Be Thou Vulnerable. Speak of thy Failure as well as thy Success.<\/li>\n<li>Thou Shalt Not Sell from the Stage: Neither thy Company, thy Goods, thy Writings, nor thy Desperate need for Funding; Lest Thou be Cast Aside into Outer Darkness.<\/li>\n<li>Thou Shalt Remember all the while: Laughter is Good.<\/li>\n<li>Thou Shalt Not Read thy Speech.<\/li>\n<li>Thou Shalt Not Steal the Time of Them that Follow Thee.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve often expressed my admiration for the TED conference keynotes &#8212; 20-minute nuggets of insight, humor, provocation, and revelation by really smart and engaging people. A perfect fit for my bus ride home. So, I&#8217;m thrilled that the ground rules behind those great presentations are available on-line. Tim Longhurst (via Garr Reynolds) offers a transcription [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1299","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}