Earlier this month, an article on the ABC called out for knitters to knit jumpers for penguins affected by oil spills. Five days later, the Guardian posts another article, “Lay Down Your Needles, Knitters Are Covered For The Time Being” and stops the world in our penguin knitting frenzy. How did the world go so […]
Make Sure Yammer Doesn’t Turn Into a Ghost Town
Last week I wrote about a post about how I coached a colleague to use Yammer and explain its benefits on how it could increase her productivity and engagement in the workplace. This week the theme continued to be all about Yammer. I had many people asking me to learn more about it in particularly, […]
How Do You Explain Yammer?
Last week I was put through my paces at work. A colleague who I had worked with a couple of years ago to create Role Based Proficiency Pathways for the retail arm of her business came back from maternity leave and she sat next to me at work. We caught up with the “goss” and […]
How to Build Your Peer Learning Network When You “Don’t Have Time”
I had a coffee with my friend Rebekah yesterday. Rebekah is an e-learning designer for veterinary educators and we met through Twitter. On the few occasions we caught up at a local cafe, our passions for social media for learning and development were evident. Our ideas tumbled out of us as we grappled with possibilities on how […]
Social Learning. Whatever THAT Means!?
Some time ago at a learning conference I was eating my lunch, happy with the knowledge that I had secured a comfortable lounge seat so that I didn’t have to stand to eat. One of the participants came over to me and we started a conversation. She heard my presentation on how to use Twitter […]
How To Pitch The Value of Personal Learning Networks to a CEO – Wise or Folly?
After four weeks of participating in the Exploring Personal Learning Networks cMOOC, it has come to this. Our pitch to the CEO on the value of personal learning networks. In fact, through the various readings, discussion and activities of the previous three weeks, we have been building up to this point to undertake the following […]
How to Promote Twitter for Professional Development to Your Colleagues and Other Stuff
It’s been a while since I’ve blogged and I’ve missed it. Now that my husband is out in town at the Linkin Park and Stone Sour concert, it was an opportune time to sit at my computer and finally get my thoughts down. I haven’t had time to reflect much on my work recently as […]