Forgive me world, it’s been eight days since my last blog. I don’t know why, but every time I leave gaps between blog posts, I have the attack of the guilts. Although it may look like laziness to the untrained eye, it’s more likely to mean that I’ve been spending more time doing something else […]
How to Cycle in Puerto Rico when You’re Not There & It’s 6 Years Ago
Many may not know (well you do now), that I’ve been blogging since 2005 about various things unrelated to learning, work or performance on my Ramblings blog. In fact, Ramblings was more of a movie and book review site, with lots of knitting and travel stories, posts about Demis Roussos, Greek politics, cat gifs and a […]
Alert! Not all Gen Y’s are Social Media Experts
Last Wednesday night I was invited to speak to a District Rotaract meeting. Rotaract is a not-for-profit service community affiliated with Rotary for 18-30 year olds. Many years ago, I was a member of the Canberra South Rotaract Club and I remember that time fondly because I made friends in a town away from home, […]
Social Media Day Saturday 30 June 2012
Last weekend on Saturday 30 June, in about 481 cities around the world Social Media Day was celebrated. I partook in this “little” event and attended my first ever, Unconference. I really didn’t know what to expect as I parked the car in a tiny side street behind Richmond station and walked a short walk […]
A Community Service Club Uses Social Media to Connect with Others and Do Good in the World
I’m not going to beat around the bush, I’m a Rotarian and proud of it. Rotary is a community service club that is made up of business professionals from all vocations who put their knowledge and skills towars national and international projects related to water, health, hunger, literacy, education and polio eradication. Like many other […]
Book Review: The New Social Learning by Marcia Conner and Tony Bingham
Training often gives people solutions to problems already solved. Collaboration addresses challenges no one has overcome before. Last week, I overheard a colleague say that she saw a post on Yammer regarding a customer service situation that occured in the company. She communicated this to the Change and Communications team sitting near her and queried […]