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 […]
Knowledge as a Concept
Every Thursday mid-morning, I head over to my parents for a bit of conversation and coffee. It’s something I look forward to every week because it’s a good opportunity to find out what they’ve been doing to pass their time. Long retired now, their time is spent pottering about in the garden, reading books, watching […]
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 […]
This Month’s Stories of Personal Learning for the Month of September 2018
Here are this month’s snap stories of personal learning for September 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 […]
Don’t Kill Off Delve
It’s Friday morning at 11:29 am and I’m still in bed rubbing the sleep in my eyes and brushing off the crumbs of the toast I had this morning. Since 7:30 am, I’ve been doing Lynda.com courses on tips and tricks of Windows 10, On Demand File Synching and other things that take my fancy […]
This Month’s Stories of Personal Learning for August 2018
Here are this month’s snap stories of personal learning for August 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 […]
Building a Network, Not an Audience
What’s the difference between building a network and building an audience? That’s a good question and I’m glad that a tweet this morning triggered me to write this post. Last weekend I attended VidCon, one of the biggest video conferences in Melbourne and let’s just say, I was underwhelmed. You can see my thoughts in […]
This Month’s Stories of Personal Learning for July 2018
Here are this month’s snap stories of personal learning for July 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 […]
Lessons Learned In a New Role
For the last month, I’ve been working at Adopt and Embrace as an Adoption Consultant helping businesses with their modern workplace digital transformation projects. You can read about this in my recent blog post Adopting and Embracing My New Role. Directly working with business clients who include stakeholders in the Information Technology, Business, Change Management […]
Deleting Social Media
Recently I’ve noticed some people from my personal learning network deciding to delete their Twitter, LinkedIn or Facebook accounts or getting off social media entirely. In truth, I’ve had the same questions floating around in my mind with Facebook and LinkedIn because I’m not getting any real value from them. Meanwhile, others question why I’m […]