I have written about hibernating in my recent post LinkedIn Gone to Sleep which is a way I’m managing, well, let’s just say, filtering and directing all enquiries to come through my site here. About a couple of years ago, I used a specific code to Unfollow Everyone on LinkedIn and wrote about it in […]
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LinkedIn Gone to Sleep
Yesterday I was chatting with a friend through texts (I’m doing a lot of that now) and it was mentioned about ‘hibernating LinkedIn’. I hadn’t investigated this feature so this morning, I did that too. It’s not exactly permanently deleting but it just hides your profile until such a time that you need to use […]
Update on LinkedIn: Stay or Go?
It’s been 2 weeks since I deleted Twitter. Do I miss it? Not at all! Facebook is now permanently deleted too. That is, I didn’t post anything in it for over a year now but I just decided to bite the bullet and permanently delete the accounts once and for all and become social media […]
Cleaning Up My LinkedIn Feed
Right. Tired that LinkedIn automatically makes me follow everyone and what they “like”. I like to be in control of what I see in my feed. Found this piece of code and now going to do a mass unfollowing. pic.twitter.com/BUpwG6RTOz — Helen Blunden #AlwaysBeLearning ????? (@ActivateLearn) May 11, 2020 Recently I decided to clean up […]
LinkedIn Stories is Coming!
By now you would have heard that LinkedIn will be adding Stories to its functionality. For those uninitiated to the Stories feature which is ephemeral content that allows users to capture content through the day in a chronological way and share to their followers, you may be thinking, what’s the big deal? Over the years, […]
3 LinkedIn Email Responses for Invitations to Connect That You Can Use
Coming up in November this year will be my 10th year of being on LinkedIn. Despite some people having a love-hate relationship with LinkedIn, my own experience and impression of this tool has been positive as is that it has helped me immensely to build my network, seek out new job opportunities and directly contact […]
Using LinkedIn to Merge Your Internal and External Networks
At the end of June, my contract at the current organisation ends. After working there on two different contracts for the last couple of years, I have built up a great network of people with different skills across technology, banking, retail and support. However, I didn’t realise this until late but it dawned on me […]
From the Diaries: What is Your Most Overrated Virtue?
I’ve been writing in journals since I was 15 and have my entire life and reflections written in thousands of pages over the years. It’s been exactly a year since I left working and decided to go through some of the pages I had scribbled to review how much I have progressed in that time. […]
Everything That Is Wrong With Companies Use of AI
Yeah, right. I wouldn’t be LOLing. A friend sent me this tweet yesterday and I had to roll my eyes when I read it. (People send me screenshots of ego-driven LinkedIn posts, weird Instagram photos and various other social media posts so in a way, I’m constantly reassured that getting off social media was one […]
Digitally Erasing Oneself
Some time ago I deleted my social media accounts and only kept this blog and my YouTube channel. Since then, I won’t lie, I have been thinking about starting them up again because I miss knowing what’s going on with my ex-network. What stops me restarting them is soon after, I am overcome with boredom […]
Another Unsuccessful Job Application
Argh. I’ve been trying to get a casual or contract role in a library since late last year but to no avail. The roles I’m going for are helping customers with finding books; returning books to shelves and general admin roles. Today I received yet another rejection. Luckily, some time ago I had spoken with […]
More Casual Library Assistant Job Rejections…Lost Count 🤣
I’ve been applying for casual jobs for several libraries in the area. In fact, I have alerts set up to receive notifications when these are in the job sites. Casual jobs in the library mean serving customers, seeking out books for them, checking out books, returning books to shelves. I’d love a job like this […]
I Don’t Need to Tweet This
Thanks to David Hopkins for this excellent headline as I copied it from his recent blog post. (I hope he doesn’t mind). I’ve been reading his blog posts for some years and his recent one resonated. Many of his posts seem to me, to follow the same questions that I had been going through for […]
The Twitter Scramble
I permanently deleted Twitter on 21 June 2022. Now, to my amusement, I read the blogs of people in my networks or articles about what’s happening on Twitter, I see the mad scramble as they go through the same questions I had gone through those months ago. There’s a mad scramble to save or archive […]
Thinking of Quitting Twitter? Be Prepared for Self-Reflection
It’s been interesting to go through the last five months without social media. I permanently deleted Twitter in June this year and I can say that I don’t miss it at all but there were a few things I did before and after to ensure that I didn’t feel entirely disconnected and isolated from people. […]
Confession: I Never Want To Work Again
This week while chatting with a good friend, I confessed that I can never see myself working ever again in a corporate business with companies or leader who put profit over people. The mere idea of working for such a business doing exactly the same thing that I’ve been doing for the last 25 years […]
Musk Owns Twitter Now 💩
If there’s a time to get off Twitter, it would be now. Ever since leaving this platform (and LinkedIn, Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram too), when I keep thinking of all the time I spent on it, (for what real purpose?). I cringe. I feel that I’m so much better off without them. I should have left […]
Community Manager Burnout
It’s a thing. I’m sure of it. After being in the field of Learning and Development and spending most of my work life in the social learning space helping people build communities of practice, using enterprise social networks (like Yammer) to help them build authentic and trusted relationships and networks in their organisation, helping people […]
Curriculum Vitae
Objective I’m a curious explorer and always learning something new. I believe that access to lifelong learning should be a human right to face the new world ahead of us. I help people to better work, connect and learn at work and through work to help them navigate through constant change and complexity in the […]
How to Use Stories in Viva Engage for Business
Recently Microsoft announced the rebranding of Yammer (Microsoft’s Enterprise Social Network) to Viva Engage and I wrote my thoughts about this in my blog post Yammer & Viva Engage: Same? Same? The Stand Out New Features are Storyline and Stories Although early days yet, two of the stand out features in this platform are Storyline […]