This year we are writing a new book at Adopt & Embrace. Although the topic will be a surprise as more details will be revealed in the coming months, once again, it’s a collaborative effort. In the past, I have contributed to various books that have been published by authors in the Learning and Development […]
Learning Active Campaign
One of the things I have been learning at work is about marketing campaigns. I’m the Community Manager for Adopt & Embrace and as part of the role, I am responsible for looking at ways to have the community be continually aware of what it in there by way of interesting and informative discussions and […]
Learning Power Automate
Recently I’ve been doing a lot of personal learning during lockdown in the following topics: Professional: Power Automate (as a starting point to understand flows and automations BEFORE I learn and build any Power Apps) Active Campaign (campaign marketing software that uses a lot of automations and in some way glad to learn Power Automate […]
How Effective Are Newsletters as Personal Learning Resources?
A couple of days ago, Ramses Oudt @rroudt tweeted an excellent question on Twitter that generated a discussion concerning who writes newsletters focussed on learning how to learn. You can see the thread here which has some recommendations although I might add that many of them aren’t about tips, techniques and strategies for learning how […]
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 […]
Seeing What Others Don’t: The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights – Book Notes
Why did I read this book? Gifted book Saw people talking about it on my Twitter timeline People rave about this book and wanted to see what the fuss was about. Initial Thoughts Entirely all story based from current and historical stories of advances in different fields from politics, history, medicine, police, finance. First story […]
Daily Story Making
I’ve been working out loud since 2016 using daily video stories to show and share the in-moment work and learning I’m doing and in recent times, I’ve just realised how valuable these have been not only to record my daily existence but also for my mental health and well being. You can see them all […]
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, […]
Apprendre le Francais
My recent trip to Strasbourg re-inspired my love of the French language. I learned French in high school and studied it for six years. At the time, I recall people telling me that I was wasting one subject at school when I should have focussed on an additional maths or science subject. However, I loved […]
Create Your Personalised Learning Plan with Adaptive Cards to Microsoft Teams
Last year I used the article by Luise Freese (@luisefreese) on Adaptive Cards for Beginners: How to Monitor a Hashtag on Twitter . The idea is that you can create a card that automatically goes into your selected channel in Microsoft Teams that triggers an action on your part: namely to explore the topic of […]