TEDtoChina

We run TEDtoChina as a TED inspired and focused translation and education community with both online and offline presence and outreach. Like a web bridge it attempts to bring more inspiring educational contents to the Internet community in China. TEDtoChina also builds the Chinese TED community through various online social networking tools. It runs groups on various popular social networking websites. The TEDtoChina Chinese site covers TED talks, TED Conferences, TED Prize, TEDx, TED Fellows, and the TED Open Translation Project. By March 2, 2009, TEDtoChina Chinese site has published over 540 posts and obtained 121,040 visits and 337,290 pageviews from 549 cities in China and 106 countries around the world. In addition, it has inspired Chinese TED fans to form a local community to discuss TED-related topics and local social innovations. As a daily publish website, the TEDtoChina Chinese site has grown into an online hub of the TED phenomena in Greater China area by supporting and reporting local TEDx events, servicing TED Chinese translators, and spreading TED Prize updated reports. For example, our cofounder Tony Yet is the curator for TEDxGuangzhou and TEDxSYSU. We helped to successfully launch TEDxXiamen and reported TEDxTaipei, TEDxShanghai, and TEDxBeijing. We update the program status of the TED Open Translation and manage a Google group for TED Chinese translators. Our team is also active in organizing and supporting TED-inspired offline small group events. For example, we held such events in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Xiamen in October 2009. Currently, we are in the process of building up this English version of TEDtoChina for the purpose of communicating TEDx China events to the global TED community.