Live and Tweeting

Oct 12, 2010 | 28 comments

Last wednesday evening i remember catching up with Sandeep at the Subway F4 meet and talking about weekend agenda… Thursday was spent getting a new battery for my laptop, which happily died on me friday evening and i was left in the mercy of my awesome phone!! Oh well!! … 
The weekend was already there and now its over and gone!! Saturday and Sunday spent at IIT Madras being a part of the TEDxChennai … Its been over a year since i was inside the IIT campus, and it was a lovely feeling walking through the road enveloped by lush greenery..
 
I had been curious about TED and wanted to attend a conference atleast, and that is a wish that came true quite fast!! One day i read a tweet from Sandeep inviting Tweets/Bloggers and photographers for the event.. i replied expressing interest and voila, i was in!! 
Saturday had me landing in IIT at 11am, enjoying a few speeches [which were actually a trial run for Sunday] and ofcourse the TEDx chennai workshop run by Laura Stein, giving inputs on how to go about having your own TEDx conference….
Kiruba shankar and Ram Sahasranam, the duo who brought TED to India
Tweeting was basically giving updates minute by minute on what was going on, something interesting someone said, a picture, a person, and so on. My phone did save grace by being alive through the day, well almost…and then luckily there was wifi in the workshop room which meant i pulled out my iPod touch and swung into action.. vroom tweet vroom tweeet vroom tweet!! 🙂
 The whole bunch of us- tweeter me & Sylvian[on the mac] and rest were blogging…
 As the day ended, and i walked out of the campus, i started wondering how Sunday would be,  and if my phone would sustain through the day…. There was wifi in the Auditorium but not accessible
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… Charged my phone to full, and headed to the Audi at 8am excited and anxious…. 
The day then flew by with speaker after speaker enthralling us with their experiences, videos, pictures and life lessons… during a break, we went out exploring the Product stalls… Met Balaji Lakshmanan[part of F4 gang] and is an IIT student, robotics expert who was showcasing a robot he had created… Next to him stood a small guy, who wasnt fluent in English, but had invented a machine that wowed us… This was a device that he says will detect mobile phones when they are in silent mode… He has pitched to Egmore Jail and they have expressed interest. Said he hadnt gone ahead marketing it as he was waiting for funding…. !! Was so overwhelmed…. 
The guy in red shirt in the middle…the one in suit is Balaji Lakshmanan
For those interested, the videos/speeches will be up on TEDx website shortly… you can however read the blogs posted live on TEDx blog There is also an interesting post made by an attendee, Venkatesh on yourstory
It was one awesome experience- not only did i manage to attend the conference, share the expereince, i also managed to take home some lessons as well.. …. And i did get some cool feedback from those present and others on my tweets.. Looking fwd to more such opportunities….
 The entire social media team- Bloggers.. tweeters… photographers!

A weekend well spent… 

Group Pics Courtesy the Photographers at the event…
Others: Me!! Shall upload others i had taken and share link

28 Comments

  1. Prats
    Prats on October 12, 2010 at 6:25 am

    Sounds like awesome fun

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  2. rauf
    rauf on October 12, 2010 at 9:32 am

    you have more than the required moolai to be there Orteedee. i am an award winning dimwit. Look at the brains and the lapteetoptees. Wowwee !
    i blinkee blinkee and i say
    Aiyoo !

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  3. rauf
    rauf on October 12, 2010 at 9:41 am

    deeah o deeah ! where's your moojic box gone ? it was giving me heart attacks alright Orteedees, its kinda quiet in here. it used to wake up a bit latee, dass was da vonly probelame, making me jumpee all of a suddann. please put it back on.

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  4. Anonymous
    Anonymous on October 12, 2010 at 1:22 pm

    Wow man, lucky u… I'm sure you had a ball!!!!!!!!!!!

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  5. aartikrishnakumar_6ouo6m
    aartikrishnakumar_6ouo6m on October 13, 2010 at 1:01 pm

    Prats – it was fun, n a good learning opportunity..so many inspiring people!! makes me wonder "what have i accomplished in life" 🙂

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  6. aartikrishnakumar_6ouo6m
    aartikrishnakumar_6ouo6m on October 13, 2010 at 1:02 pm

    Raufee– dimwit or smartypants.. there is a place for all in this worldu.. 😀

    Oh, i removed the ipod,like u few others also complained of the music suddenly scaring them.. 🙁 will put it back up!! 😀 eeee!!

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  9. Ash
    Ash on October 14, 2010 at 10:10 am

    Looks like a great time!! Thanks for sharing…and very nice to "meet" you!

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    Anonymous on October 14, 2010 at 1:17 pm

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  11. Shrinidhi Hande
    Shrinidhi Hande on October 15, 2010 at 1:05 pm

    Good to read the updates. I missed the action

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    Anonymous on October 16, 2010 at 7:09 am

    Hello,

    This is a message for the webmaster/admin here at words-flow.blogspot.com.

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  13. kanagu
    kanagu on October 16, 2010 at 10:44 am

    nice to read this Aarti.. would have been a different experience from blogger meets 🙂 🙂

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    Anonymous on October 17, 2010 at 7:02 am

    Thanks for sharing this link, but argg it seems to be down… Does anybody have a mirror or another source? Please answer to my message if you do!

    I would appreciate if someone here at words-flow.blogspot.com could post it.

    Thanks,
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  15. Chakoli
    Chakoli on October 17, 2010 at 11:54 am

    Wow aarti
    lucky you :))
    its real fun!!

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  16. Hans
    Hans on October 19, 2010 at 4:47 pm

    我讀研究所的時候,老師也放過此公司的短片!!可以親身經歷真是太棒了…

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