Yesterday I was watching a Snap story from one of the people I follow on Snapchat and he was in Arizona at Taliesin West, the site of America’s most famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wright had his home and which is now a school of architecture. I’ve always been fascinated with architecture and at one stage […]
Lazy Sunday Afternoon
It’s warm. Sunny outside. Lying in bed for the last 5 or so hours, doing pretty much nothing at all. Daydreaming. Looking out to the tree outside the window. Leaves turning yellow. I sigh. Autumn and then winter is around the corner. In the other room, my husband is playing Simon & Garfunkel. I sing […]
What I Learned from Running OneNote Training
Thread by @ActivateLearn: “I’ve been running Training these last couple of days (and will be doing again today) for a client’s organisation and their employee […]” #OneNote Never Miss a Blog – Subscribe to Receive a Monthly Email Email Address First Name Last Name
Explaining the Value of Social Media to Those Who Don’t Understand It
Thread by @ActivateLearn: “Today was interesting. Breakthrough. I listened while she talked about herself & her own work 2 hours. Towards end, she asks “who’s Shaz […]”
What Being Part of a Fake News Channel Has Taught Me
Every week, our team @cammysutra6 @NickJRishwain @ChelseaPeitz @desherb @JoAnnKrall @Baierman @DCPlateKing create fake news show @CNTnewschannel I play Aussie Foreign Correspondent Sharon (Dont Call Me Shazza) Breaknews. This week I report on Venezuelan crisis from my roof. pic.twitter.com/8U7jj1I2YX — Helen Blunden (@ActivateLearn) February 2, 2019 Being part of this creative team of peers taught me […]
Show Me the Light
Have you noticed that many people don’t blog anymore? When social media came along, killed off long-form writing and scattered the masses across the platforms, all of a sudden, my blog became a ghost town. It didn’t help that the spam bots worked overtime which meant that I had to constantly moderate, check and block […]
Musing About A Cumberbund
Thread by @ActivateLearn: “Can anyone miss a cumberbund? As I sit here full on my dinner & beer, I recall a cumberbund I used to wear every night before dinner. It […]”
What’s In Store for You in 2019?
Part of me was looking forward to writing my first post for 2019 but another part of me was dreading it. Over the last couple of weeks having some time off doing nothing much except for reading, napping and enjoying time with family, I had set aside some ideas for blog posts mentally. At the […]
When Social Media is Used to Exclude & Isolate
Recently I was talking to a friend about how she uses social media. She admitted that she prefers to not engage or contribute in open and public forums with strangers preferring only to connect with people that she knows and even then, it’s only through direct and private messages. Although she regularly scans her social […]
Back to Basics
It’s hard to imagine that four months have flown by since joining Adopt & Embrace as one of their Adoption Consultants on a part-time basis and it’s been an interesting, entertaining and educational ride for me. When I think back to what I have learned in my time there, it comes down to these two […]