Being asked to watch movies for class seemed to me to be something fun and excited; though when I first saw these two movies, one by Godin and the second by Shirky, I have to say I did not see my interest spike at as I watched. Then I took the chance to watch them again and I found something totally different they were funny and I saw that I could relate to these movies. They were both connected in ways but each had its own distinct differences that stuck out.

These two speakers approached similar topics in completely different ways it seems to me. Godin came up with a witty and funny way of presenting his topic. He used funny pictures along with witty comments to keep the attention of the audience allowing them to really get a feel for what he was saying. I spoke of some very specific leaders and tribes then had more general details for as to why he was talking about them. There were many examples he uses some of which were the leader of Toms Shoes or Zappos, he spoke of how these two people to a simple idea of shoes and found two completely different ideas. Zappos is a way for shoe lovers to get together and look or find something they love. Whereas Toms Shoes is a way to give to others, when someone buys a pair of shows that exact pair of shoes will be given to someone that does not have any shoes at all. Godin helps the audience to see that there are so many different tribes out there and so many different leaders. He challenges the audience to become leaders themselves and create their own tribes. His speech in this way seems to be more of a motivational speech, whereas Shirky had a more of an informative speech. He informed the audience of how much the technology of our world today has changed over time. He gave examples with three more so general stories and went into depth on the reasoning for telling each of them. He spoke of the election and how people decided to video the vote getting the idea from the Nigerian election that happened just a few months earlier. He used this story to show that it does not matter where the technology is coming from anymore it now puts everyone on a similar playing field. Although different, each of these speeches had its own way of conveying a similar message.

I saw that these two movies both spoke of communication but not only that they spoke of movements technology and communication have made. Shirky spoke of how communication has transformed throughout history to be something not only for the individual but also for the group. This is connected to Godin and his speech because Godin's speech speaks of the leader, which is the individual, but he also speaks of the tribe that is the group. He tells us how these leaders have been able to create these tribes due to the invention of the mass communication of the Internet. I this way the two speeches are very similar. Each speaker in general gives the audience the same message in the end that the Internet brings people together. Whether it be groups or tribes leaders or armatures just telling a story everyone that uses the internet some how gets interconnected letting use all know, as Shirk put it, “ We are all in this together.”