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Hi, I’m Karen Hochberg. I continue to be an avid fan of the TED Talks since they debuted. I attended the first TEDxCMU and look forward to helping to shape the 2010 event. I hope to bring my marketing skills to help our team grow the local TEDX event. I believe TED ideas are worth spreading. My goals this week is to make a list of marketing ideas we can dicuss at our first meeting. See you this Saturday.

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Hey there everyone, my name’s Brian Rangell.  I was the stage manager of TEDxCMU 2010 and I’m incredibly excited this year to help make Carnegie Mellon University a forum for interdisciplinary thought.  As a theatre technician, I’m always looking for the intersect between the arts and technology.  Left brain and right brain, right?  I’ll finish my first post here with a video that illustrates to me the spirit of TED: it’s poignant, artistic, and intelligent.  Enjoy.

Will Hoffman and Daniel Mercadante’s “Words”, as presented on NPR’s RadioLab

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Hi everyone, Rahul Pandey here! This is my first year at Carnegie Mellon as a graduate student at Heinz. As a devout follower of TED Talks, I love the idea of shared learning, intellectual debate and, as Brian aptly puts it, of interdisciplinary thought. Needless to say, TEDxCMU was one of the first places I sought out when I joined CMU. I am excited to be a part of the incredibly dynamic TEDxCMU 2010 Team! Event Logistics is going to be my domain and having handled other events in the past, I am here to deliver my best and have fun! Looking forward to meeting the team this Saturday.

Hey, it’s Yongho here.

We are launching a simulcast of TEDxChange at Carnegie Mellon University on September 20, 2010. We are looking for self-driven, ambitious, and passionate members to join our organizing team. (learn more about TEDxChange here)

This program is for you if:

• You want to work on an area of event planning, budgeting, marketing, content planning (and more) that YOU are most interested in
• You want to work with amazing team members working to launch the best TEDxChange simulcast in the world
• You love thinking of bold new ideas and seeing them come true
• You want to work with a small core team that actually gets massive things done without being slowed down by bureaucracy

This program is not for you if:

• You are not interested in TED
• You are looking for something to put on your resume
• You like working with people who wish other people did their work for them
• You want to join “just a random” student organization
• You like having people tell you what to do, and spending hours on meetings that don’t go anywhere

Join the organizing team: email me at yongho@tedxcmu.com by THIS Wednesday, August 25 with your short (short!) answer to the question:

Why should you be on the TEDxCMU organizing team?

Thanks, I will talk with you soon!

Yongho