By now you know that I like to share some stuff about Snapchat on this platform as I found it to be a perfect platform to share my thoughts and reflections about my work and learning. I love that it uploads videos, audio, text and photos as well as allows editing and annotations to snaps […]
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Reflections of My Snapchat Channel
For the last couple of weeks, I have changed my approach to how I am using Snapchat and I wrote about it in the post Welcome to My Snapchat Channel. I have been observing how individuals and companies are using this social medium to educate and inform their viewers and these have been quite interesting. My […]
Snapchat Makes Me Happy
By now you’re probably sick and tired of reading my posts about Snapchat as I work out loud through using this tool which is becoming my personal learning channel, education broadcast and creativity expression. Truth be told, it is unlike any other social medium I’ve come across because using it makes me HAPPY. I think […]
Snapchat Posts
I have been asked many times to forward people the links to my posts on how to use Snapchat for learning and business so I decided to collate my Posts About Snapchat here. This list will be growing over time as I keep writing more. However, check out our Resources page to purchase items that […]
Welcome to My Snapchat Channel
What is a Snapchat Channel? If you don’t already know, I’m on Snapchat. I started using this platform some time ago in an effort to understand what the fuss was about. I’ve been using it to share and show my work (and snippets of my knitting and the things that I enjoy) however, in the […]
Writing an eBook on Snapchat
via GIPHY For the last couple of weeks, I’ve had my head down writing an ebook on Snapchat. The ebook is titled How to Use Snapchat to Show and Share Your Work (the title may change). It’s being written for an audience who may be aware how to use this social medium but may not […]
How to Use Snapchat For Your Business
For the last few months, I have been actively exploring the use of Snapchat for the purposes of business. I’ve specifically looked at how you can use this tool to share and show your work and projects for the purposes of creating conversations with people inside and outside your field and networks. I have been […]
Organisations Who Snapchat
First of all, let me say that yes, I’ve heard that Instagram has similar Snapchat functions and no, I don’t see that I’ve wasted my time on Snapchat at all. If anything, it’s made me appreciate the subtle differences between platforms and I’m now more aware of how to use the tools for the right […]
Publicize Your Work On Snapchat
By now you would have heard of my experimentations with Snapchat and I thought I’d share some of how I use this tool to publicise my work as a visual ‘work out loud’ diary. If you haven’t read my previous posts on this platform, feel free to check out these posts Reflections of Snapchat Through […]
Am I Ready for Snapchat?
By now, you may have already been reading my personal experiences with this tool and asking yourself, Am I Ready for Snapchat? In this post, I’ll go through my own personal reactions to this platform because it’s been an interesting journey. It started out with this need to figure out why so many younger people […]
People Who Show Their Work on Snapchat
Many of you may know that for the last few months or so, I have been looking for people who show their work on Snapchat. I recently wrote about it in my blog post titled: Reflections of Snapchat Through Facebook Mutterings. You might ask, why did I do this? The answer is that I didn’t […]
Reflections of Snapchat Through Facebook Mutterings
I had enough. What was all this fuss about Snapchat? While the rest of the world was espousing this as “the next Twitter”, I decided to devote some time to revisit my account and figure out what the fuss was about. I’ll share my reflections of Snapchat. For the last couple of months, I have […]
Threads
I wake up this morning to the news that Zuckerberg has about 30 million followers on his new app called Threads. Remarkably similar to Twitter, it wasn’t surprising he’d copy this app. After all, he did it with Snapchat to create Facebook Stories. If you have an Instagram account, all your followers move over instantly. […]
Florence And The Machine
We went to see Florence and the Machine last night at the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne as part of her 8th World Tour.
Don’t Get Sucked Into YouTube Shorts
Let’s face it, the world now wants their content delivered in short bursts in a TikTok format…and I’m not so sure how I feel about that. Who would have thought that many years ago, as I dabbled with Snapchat to use as a working out loud medium and shared its value of providing content in […]
Schools Suing Social Media Companies
I’d hope to hear more schools and other institutions be able to do the same. This school district in Seattle is suing TikTok, YouTube and Snapchat for ‘exploiting the vulnerable brains of youth’ creating a mental health crisis for their practices that allow for addiction to their platforms. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/08/seattle-public-schools-sue-social-media-platforms-youth-mental-health-crisis I used to like social media […]
What’s Your Own Amsterdam?
When I think of Amsterdam, I think of the great (and mostly wonderful) memories for me. The Netherlands will always be a country near and dear to my heart because of the friendships made during my time on a Vocational Exchange but also in recent times, meeting a friend there in person at a time […]
When You Cannot Read One Page of a Book, Time to Revisit Your Relationship with Social Media
Yesterday I overheard my husband watching Snapchat stories. What I overheard were the voices of people I used to watch and interact with online through the platform. “Wow, are they STILL on that?” I asked him. When you’ve been off social media for a while now (since June 2022), it’s difficult to reconcile in your […]
The Twitter Scramble
I permanently deleted Twitter on 21 June 2022. Now, to my amusement, I read the blogs of people in my networks or articles about what’s happening on Twitter, I see the mad scramble as they go through the same questions I had gone through those months ago. There’s a mad scramble to save or archive […]
Thinking of Quitting Twitter? Be Prepared for Self-Reflection
It’s been interesting to go through the last five months without social media. I permanently deleted Twitter in June this year and I can say that I don’t miss it at all but there were a few things I did before and after to ensure that I didn’t feel entirely disconnected and isolated from people. […]