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The TEDxTokyo Team will be posting the 2009 TEDTalks shown at the TEDxTokyo launch event – all translated and subtitled into Japanese – here for your viewing pleasure. To start it all off, watch Chris Anderson introduce the TEDx Program!
Every week we’ll be posting more talks shown at the TEDxTokyo event – for even more TEDTalks in more than 50 languages, check out TED’s Open Translation Project.
In this short video, TED Curator Chris Anderson introduces the TEDx program, a new way for local communities to independently organize their own TED-style events.
BY THE NUMBERS…
We created a virtual experience enabling anyone, anywhere to join us for the conversation and help spread ideas far beyond Tokyo – with great success!
We had:
3,706+ people watching our two live feeds, experiencing all the action on stage for every session
1200+ mentions of #TEDxTokyo in twitter, with 500+ tweeters following along with our live bloggers in English and Japanese. With all the buzz, #TEDxTokyo became the #3 Twitter trend globally.
312+ photographs captured and uploaded throughout the day, including shots taken backstage, onstage, offstage, at the TEDxTokyo seaside BBQ and during the dinner reception and conversation breaks
34 interviews with speakers, organizers and attendees uploaded right after each speaker session, with 800+ viewers stopping in to listen. They helped boost the TEDxTokyo channel to the #22 most-subscribed channel this month.
#2 (Twitter account), #5 (YouTube account), and #6 (Flickr account) the spots when searching ‘TEDxTokyo’ on Google
1 Animoto video mashing together photos shot onstage throughout the day, distilling TEDxTokyo’s mojo for attendees and the audience beyond Miraikan
Want more? Visit our full recap of TEDxTokyo 2009!
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- Delighted to be participating in #TEDxChange. Great venue near Shinjuku, no entry fee - will be memorable! http://tedx.to/TEDxTokyoChange (view this tweet)
- RT @gatesfoundation: #FF Our #TEDxChange partners in #Asia: @TEDxBeijing @TEDxGuangzhou, @TEDxPune @TEDxTokyo @TEDxSingapore @TEDxMyeongdong (view this tweet)
- TEDxChange 30+City Simulcast 9/20: TEDxTokyoChange 11PM-1:30AM (JST) Seats Limited http://tedx.to/TEDxTokyoChange (view this tweet)
- Watch TEDxTokyo yz live now and be inspired by our young innovators http://www.ustream.tv/channel/tedxtokyo-yz (view this tweet)
