Today the 2010 Technology Entertainment Design (TED) Conference will begin in Long Beach, California. While I’m excited to see what this year’s conference will offer, I just wanted to rehash one of my favorite talks from last year.

This is Twitter co-founder Evan Williams on listening to Twitter users:

Five things to take away from this talk:

• Great ideas won’t always start out as the main goal
• The simplest idea can be changed and adapted by the user for their needs if you are flexible enough
• Tradional uses of mediums (and the media) for broadcasting is changing to be more of a conversation
• Real time delivery is a huge 2009 trend and continues to be a 2010 theme as well
• The first part of communication that will matter is being able to listen effectively

Are you listening effectively? If so, then how are you doing it? If you aren’t, then what is stopping you?

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Dave Konig wrote 204 articles on this blog.

Dave has been involved in Social Media since 2005 through the current major services and some defunct ones as well. During this time he has been able to hone the craft by testing out the theories of others, creating his own philosophies, and gathering a better understanding of the mediums involved through networking and most importantly actual practice.

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