TEDxNottingHill - Bill Liao - 10/09/09

Bill Liao is Co-Founder of Xing.com and a pioneer in Social Media. Bill is also a philanthropist and leads several international projects geared at massive social change.

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[JeffMowatt]

When the illusion of capitalism, money imagined as debt was suggestedin 1996, it was the beginning of people-centered economics:

"Economics, and indeed human civilization, can only be measured and calibrated in terms of human beings. Everything in economics has to be adjusted for people, first, and abandoning the illusory numerical analyses that inevitably put numbers ahead of people, capitalism ahead of democracy, and degradation ahead of compassion."

[billneoorg]

alison.com/courses/Stone-Soup

Its free :-)

[billneoorg]

There is a fun course to assist startups to be more successful faster;

[MrHuggins30]

This is such an inspirational man. He is giving a keynote speech to third sector organisations in the UK about the digital age and the potential this gives them to change the world - follow at @nfpsm

[marksyntek]

@garvic7 what kind of actionable information are you looking for? change a lightbulb, smile to strangers, volunteer in africa, eat less meat, don't shit where you sleep... ?

this guy is sharing his ideas, which are incredibly relevant to moving us all forward... and I find your criticism ironic because it does not have any action items itself... you're justing spitting blind catharsis for something you don't care to understand.

where do you find your moral virtues if you don't mind me asking?

[garvic7]

Great feel-good Buzz, but once pants zipped-up -- no actionable information.

Branding hot air for personal profit to a predominantly white, spoiled, over-educated, underemployed, middle class that is desperate for spiritual sustenance that converts intellectual and moral vanities -- into virtues, yet require little in the way of commitment or accountability.

An opiate for the self-absorbed.

(and pretty clever spiritual marketing for a high school drop-out -- gotta admit :)

[tomminter]

TEDx was awesome. I really enjoyed Bill's talk. He's doing great work at WeForest.

To see Bill's video that was edited out of the above video, you can go here:

bit [dot] ly / 6898Px

(Just copy and paste into your browser, remove the spaces and replace the [dot]!)

The link is an article about WeForest's partnership with Socks for Happy People - two organizations dedicated to helping the world become a happier place. :-)

Tom