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Come over for a coffee with TEDxKraków! http://tedxkrakow.com/blog/en/2014/12/18/chod%c5%ba-na-kaw%c4%99-z-tedxkrak%c3%b3w/ http://tedxkrakow.com/blog/en/2014/12/18/chod%c5%ba-na-kaw%c4%99-z-tedxkrak%c3%b3w/#comments Thu, 18 Dec 2014 10:04:40 +0000 TEDxKrakow http://tedxkrakow.com/blog/?p=2799 Continue reading →]]> If you participate in our events on a regular basis, you have probably noticed the colourful coffee cups printed with TEDxKraków logo. Did you ever wonder what do we need these cups for and what’s the idea behind them?

TEDxKraków is a group of volunteers and a community brought together by a common vision, passion and a belief that thanks to our knowledge, ideas, energy and joined efforts, we can develop new opportunities, create new quality of life and optimise the realities of the world we live in now and in the future. We love spending time together, whether that’s during an official meeting or on a spontaneous get-together in a coffee shop where we meet new people, exchange ideas and simply have a good time.

As we love good coffee and hanging out in cosy Krakowian coffee shops, we decided to go a step further and give you an excuse to come over for a coffee. This way we came up with an idea of regular meetings organised in different, interesting places, as one of the TEDxKraków goals is to create space in which we can always meet and exchange our ideas, experiences and spread the positive energy.

We decided to give some of our meetings a special character and use them as opportunities to develop our artistic skills. A good example of such a meeting is the Halloween event in Tektura Café where everyone could sculpt a Haloween pumpkin, have a coffee and try a pumpkin pie. Follow us on Facebook not to miss out our next meeting!

What is all of this for? We believe that the best ideas are not born in the vacuum. Our meetings are like an engine that drives our creative energy and inspires all of us to action. It’s also a unique place to network, meet new people and make friends, what’s visible by the fast growth of the TEDxKraków community that gains new members every day. On every meeting, all the TEDxKraków coffee cup owners can benefit from discount offers and snacks (not only related to coffee) prepared especially for them.
You can also just go out for a coffee with your friends to on of our partner coffee shops and buy the TEDxKraków coffee cup for just 5 zł:

The list of partner coffee shops grows all the time! Join our community and come over for a coffee with TEDxKraków ☺ you can also buy the coffee cup at every event we host.

TEDxKraków KeepCup coffe cup

Kubek TEDxKraków comes from limited edition with black belt and TEDxKraków logo. The coffee cups are manufactured by an Australian company KeepCup that has a vision to act against mass production of disposal coffee cups made of artificial materials which litter our planet. Did you know that every minute over million disposal cups are being thrown? Find out more about KeepCups on the producer’s website.

TEDxKraków KeepCup coffee cups are 100% eco-friendly and canbe used several times.

]]> http://tedxkrakow.com/blog/en/2014/12/18/chod%c5%ba-na-kaw%c4%99-z-tedxkrak%c3%b3w/feed/ 0 10 lessons from TEDxSummit by Ewa http://tedxkrakow.com/blog/en/2012/04/24/10-lessons-from-tedxsummit/ http://tedxkrakow.com/blog/en/2012/04/24/10-lessons-from-tedxsummit/#comments Tue, 24 Apr 2012 19:03:01 +0000 TEDxKrakow http://tedxkrakow.com/blog/?p=744 Continue reading →]]> Well, we’re back from the week-long TEDxSummit which brought together over 800 TEDx organisers from around the world to Doha in Qatar. It was an amazing week of discussion, connection and general mayhem, but somehow it all worke. The opportunity to connect the TEDx community was valuable: we all know that we’re doing amazing things in our community but this was the first chance we had to come together as a community in our own right. We saw that many of the things we’re dealing with are common to us all, and we also found many new ideas for how to do things better. Here are my top 10 lessons as a TEDx curator. Have a look at the Polish version of our blog to see what Kasia Triantafelo learnt (in Polish).

So my top 10 lessons were:

1. There is a big tension within the TEDx organiser community between spreading ideas and putting ideas into action and that’s OK – we have a plan! In fact, we have several plans: watch out for Ideas Worth Doing, regional lenses, how-to-TEDx videos and many more.
2. When choosing your speakers and deciding if theirs is an idea worth spreading, ask yourself “is this a wiser model that makes a valid contribution?” and “is this a future we can aspire to?”.
3. For speakers who are artists, designers and architects: don’t try to sound intellectual. Be confident. Share your work and let it do the talking.
4. There is no formula for TED Talks. The best speakers are those who give the talk that they, and only they can give.
5. A TED Talk is 18 minutes OR LESS.
6. As a TEDx organiser, if you remember that you are managing with limited control you will have so much more fun.
7. Forget about the mass media – too much effort for too uncertain a result. Use your social media to create a tribe of friends and provide them with value (no pointless posts about the weather, happy holidays etc).
8. It’s all about storytelling. Learn how to tell a story. And learn how to spot bad science.
9. If you need to say “no” to a sponsor, speaker or anyone else who is insisting that they won’t cooperate unless you do what you want, blame Lara.
10. 24% of TED Talks are viewed with subtitles. The revolution will probably not be televised in your language.

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