Jeffery Kluger's 2011 talk from the TEDxAsheville at the Diana Wortham Theater was released Feb. 26th on TED.com.
"We're hearing that it received more that 17,000 views in a single hour, and that audience will only climb as the social media engines grab hold of the link," said Anne Manner-McLarty of TEDxAsheville.
Jeffery Kluger's 2011 talk from the TEDxAsheville at the Diana Wortham Theater was released Feb. 26th on TED.com.
"We're hearing that it received more that 17,000 views in a single hour, and that audience will only climb as the social media engines grab hold of the link," said Anne Manner-McLarty of TEDxAsheville.
Consider this January 2012 TED.com data to put this release in perspective:
How many TEDx talks are there: 12,900
How many TEDx talks became TEDtalks featured online by TED.com: 122
Expressed in a percentage: .9 percent (less than one percent), or one in every 106 TEDx talks
Asheville has had about 45 individual presentations given (including musical performance) over three years and four events and has had two talks picked up by TED.com: Birke Baehr's What's wrong with our food system? (from the 2010 TEDxNextGenerationAsheville) and Jeff Kluger's The hidden power of siblings (from TEDxAsheville 2011).
TEDxAsheville was held Nov. 13, 2011 and was sponsored by the Chamber's Advocates for Business: Integritive, ClearChannel, Avista, First Restoration Services, TSA Choice, PlumDog, Strategic Workplace Solutions, FASTSIGNS, OneWhoServes, PLI, Constangy, Brooks and Smith, LLP, Zaxbys and MMS.
TEDx Asheville salons continue every Thursday at 5:00 pm at the French Broad Chocolate Lounge. You can register to receive email notifications about the salons via the Web site: http://tedxasheville.com/