Back in 1991, as a 22-year-old, I left home for the first time in my life and found myself in the Navy going through JOCT (I think it stood for Junior Officer (Common??) Training – basically, it was hell. It was something like this…. and… I prepped on all the war movies and psyched myself […]
This Month’s Stories of Personal Learning for the Month of November 2018
Here are this month’s snap stories of personal learning for November 2018. Every week and every month, I like to review these videos to see what I have been doing every day. It’s a great way to capture all my work and learning – and also to see progress towards my goals. Every month I […]
Profiles in Knowledge Series by Stan Garfield
I was honoured and privileged this week to learn that Stan Garfield (@stangarfield), a prolific writer and expert on the topic of Knowledge Management for many years, did a post on my work for his Profiles in Knowledge series on LinkedIn. You can read the article here. I am a great admirer of Stan because he […]
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 […]
Have You Got Hidden Skills That Your Company Doesn’t Know About?
Many of us have sideline projects and interests that capture our attention and engage our minds and our hearts. What if we could be the same with our day to day work? In this short video, I share a couple of my sideline projects that not only inspire me but have been CRITICAL in picking […]
I Was Doing Outlook All Wrong!
It’s International Work Out Loud Week where we show the process of what we are working and learning, and today I share how I relearned Outlook. I’m all for social collaboration but lots of companies haven’t explained the value of this to their workers so that it makes sense. Or, they’ve got their ESNs and […]
What Is Working Out Loud?
This week was Working Out Loud week again and I shared a few videos of what I have been doing (which you can see on these blog posts). I decided to revisit a video I did over a year ago because I had explained it perfectly while I was in my car. I thought I’d […]
I’m a Lifelong Learner
Today I thought I’d do a vlog after I was inspired by Steve Dotto I’m a Lifelong Learner (his YouTube channel DottoTech is excellent) where he talked about being a continual and lifelong learner. This is it and it’s well worth a watch. Much of what he said resonated with me as a continual learner […]
This Month’s Stories of Personal Learning for the Month of October 2018
Here are this month’s snap stories of personal learning for October 2018. Every week and every month, I like to review these videos to see what I have been doing every day. It’s a great way to capture all my work and learning – and also to see progress towards my goals. Every month I […]
Third Place is Now On Facebook
Back in 2013, I created a community of people interested in learning and development to gather in social environments for conversations and connections called Third Place. It was inspired by a book I had read by Ray Oldenberg called The Great Good Place and a London tweetup that I had attended that got me thinking of […]