What makes a successful TED Talk?

Here at the Science of People we endeavored to find out. Why do some TED Talks rack up millions of views, change lives and are talked about everywhere?

All TED Talks are good. Why are some great?

We set out to answer this question with one of our first crowd-sourced Citizen Science projects. Over…

Data is confirming what we already know: recruiting is an imprecise activity, and degrees don’t communicate much about a candidate’s potential and fit. Employers need to know what a student knows and can do.

Something is clearly wrong when only 11% of business leaders — compared to 96% of chief academic officers — believe that graduates have the requisite skills for the workforce. It’s therefore unlikely that business leaders…

Malaysian Creative Industry: In A Nutshell

Creative Multimedia, Arts & Culture, and, Heritage, Where's our future?

With only 45,031 workers, creative industries gave Malaysia USD 2.7 worth of revenue, what is the magic formula?



Is it just timely or too late to talk about creative industry in Malaysia?…

Today, more than ever before, technology plays an important role in society. It is changing and will continue to change every aspect of how we live. It is changing the way we communicate, the way we do business, how we learn and teach, and even it’s changing the way our brains work.

Because the arrival of technology, the learning environment is changing. Students have more options than they ever would have imagined. In olden…

Massive Open Online Courses, known under the widely used acronym MOOCs, have taken the modern education world by storm, offering a wide variety of options for students worldwide. Their greatest advantage is, of course, the fact they are provided for free or at low prices, which is why both people with no official education and those with a university degree are readily embracing the opportunities.

Clearly, the rapid rise in…

How you present your eLearning content to your audience is critical. Engaging your learners requires a creative approach to visual design and, more often than not, effective online presentations are creative presentations. Luckily, there are several tools you can use to build your own presentation, such as Prezi, Aurasma, and Powtoon; all you need to do is bring in your fresh ideas. In this article, I´ll share 10 creative ideas for online presentations eLearning…

Creative Content Association Malaysia (CCAM) is an industry led government funded association of the leading content creators in Malaysia formed in 2012 for the express purpose of promoting and exporting local content and creative services to overseas markets and international broadcasters. This will be done by utilizing the latest digital technology, creativity, as well as by exploiting the unique cultural of Malaysia.…

Chapter 1·Concept and context of the creative economy

1.1 Evolving concepts and definitions

Fundamental to an understanding of the creative economy — what it comprises and how it functions in the economies of both developed and developing countries — are…

1.1.3 Cultural industries

The term “culture industry” appeared in the post-war period as a radical critique of mass entertainment by members of the Frankfurt school led by Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, followed subsequently by writers such as Herbert Marcuse.4 At that time,…

Overview

The Creative Economy Report 2008 is the first study to present the United Nations

perspective on this emerging topic. It is an initiative of the partnership between UNCTAD

and the UNDP Special Unit for South-South Cooperation. Furthermore, it is a pioneer

example of the work being…

Too often, a conversation results in wasted time — and nothing productive to show for it. Whether you’ve run into someone at a conference or you have a scheduled call, you can use specific tactics to have a more meaningful conversation. Here are 13 ways to add meaning to your conversations:

1. Don’t get too excited about your next thought.

People can tell when you aren’t truly…

I’d rather have 10 helpful individuals in my network than 1,000 people who aren’t so inclined. I’ve learned that a network is only as helpful as the people within it.

For instance, you can be connected to Bill Gates, Mark Cuban, or another idolized success, but if the relationship isn’t strong enough to help you out, is it really that valuable? It’s important to not get distracted by aiming for relationships with big-name…

It’s that time of year again — the time when marketers are doing everything they can to prepare and acquire a budget for their 2016 initiatives. However, you can’t just walk into your meetings and open your hands to your C-suite like a small child asking for an allowance. You need to walk in with solid information, a documented strategy, and objective support behind each dollar you’re asking for.

Here’s a list of 10…

Shi Yinhong says above all, Beijing needs to respect other nations involved in the project and seek to allay their concerns through soft power

When President Xi Jinping visited Kazakhstan and Indonesia in September 2013, he promoted for the first time building, with various other countries, the "Silk Road Economic Belt" and the "21st Century Maritime Silk Road". At that time, no one could have anticipated the priority,…

Last week one of the Big Three credit rating agencies, Moody’s, issued a vote of confidence to Beijing’s One Belt, One Road initiative. Moody’s reported that the Chinese initiative to enhance economic integration with more than 40 countries across Asia, Europe and the Middle East is “credit positive” for the emerging market sovereigns involved. Indeed, it is assumed that One Belt, One Road Strategy will have a cathartic effect on China’s impoverished neighbors,…

After almost every 'rude Chinese tourist' story, unfortunately, made SCMP.com's top-10 list, I decided to give the question some serious thought

They are seen as pushy, loud, impolite, unruly, and they are everywhere.

And although destination countries welcome the tourism dollars the Chinese spend, they loathe the chaos and hassle some mainland tourists bring upon their cities and…

The challenges facing China’s Silk Road strategy — and how to overcome them.

In 2014, “one belt and one road” (OBOR), a reference to the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, were the keywords for Chinese diplomacy. The OBOR strategy has become China’s major foreign policy goal, Beijing will promote this initiative economically, politically, militarily and culturally over the…

The MSR is designed to pacify neighboring countries threatened by China’s territorial claims, but will it work?

Ever since Xi Jinping announced the creation of a Maritime Silk Road in an October 2013 speech to the Indonesian parliament, China’s vision for “one road” running through Southeast and South Asia has driven a significant portion of Chinese foreign policy in its periphery. This has led to both…

In 2009, former deputy director of China’s State Administration of Taxation Xu Shanda submitted to the Ministry of Commerce a proposal titled the “Chinese Marshall Plan.” In the wake of the global financial crisis, slumping exports, and extensive internal discussions on how to “create demand,” Xu’s strategy concept suggested utilizing China’s vast foreign reserves to offer loans to developing countries, which would then contract Chinese enterprises for major…

XIONG Chengyu·Maritime Silk Road and cultural industries with special characteristics

The Maritime Silk Road is an overlapping but not identical notion with the application for world heritage listing of the Silk Road and maritime route. The application for world heritage listing is mainly about the inheritance and preservation of cultural heritage, and maritime route focuses more on the possibility and…