This week’s TEDGlobal2012 event is themed Radical Innovation. The opening presentation, very fittingly, was by Don Tapscott , who spoke about Four principles for the open world. Do take the 18 minutes to see his exceptional presentation. The four principles for openness that Don offers are: Collaboration. Transparency. Sharing. Empowerment. MORE >>

Tim Brown of Ideo is opening his Aspen Ideas Festival talk with a slide presentation called “From Newton to Design” He says he’s early in thinking it through. He points to a problem in how we’ve thought about design, trained designers, and have practiced design. He shows Union Sq. But you can’t anticipate everything. MORE >>

Amy Cuddy must be proud:  Clay Shirky  walks on stage and promptly strikes a power pose. Then he tells us of a 9-year-old Scottish girl who lives about 50 miles from here. Martha Payne started the foodblog  NeverSeconds , for which she took her camera into school to document her lunches, using metrics such as “pieces of hair found in food.” MORE >>

Note from Beth: With all the travel I’ve been doing, I was hoping that I could sync my schedule with attending TechCamp , a program under Secretary Clinton’s Civil Society (CS) 2.0 But, will be sharing guest posts from participants at the various camps. TechCamp: Empowering women through technology - guest post by Ma’ayan Alexander. MORE >>

John Wilbanks  arrives on stage with some bad news, some good news and a task. But first, he says, let’s be honest. We all get sick. We don’t always die, but quite reasonably we do try to find out what’s going on. In the late 1800s, Dr. Carlos Finlay had a hypothesis. Informing participants “makes us different from the Nazis.” MORE >>