Thread by @ActivateLearn: “I’m first to put up my hand to say that I experienced this during my freelancing days. Upping my price resulted in very little work; offerin […]” This blog post by Helen Blunden was written in Melbourne, Australia and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Subscribe To Activate My Learning […]
Experimenting with Dictation App Otter.AI
Thread by @ActivateLearn: “FAIL: Attempting to save time in front of a computer screen talking my blog posts into a dictation app so that I could copy and paste the te […]” This blog post by Helen Blunden was written in Melbourne, Australia and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Subscribe To Activate […]
How I’m Using Instagram as a Platform for Creativity and Experimentation
ffff Thread by @ActivateLearn: “A recent discussion with @bizaaron & today with a girlfriend who is an amateur film maker got me thinking about value of Instagram. I wa […]”
This Month’s Stories of Personal Learning January 2019
Here are this month’s snap stories of personal learning for January 2019. 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 […]
This Month’s Stories of Personal Learning February 2019
Here are this month’s snap stories of personal learning for February 2019. 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 […]
Drawing as Thinking and Treasure Maps
This morning I sat down to go through my bookmarked tweets so that I could catch up with my reading and spent all of my time on the one tweet which was this one by @GiuliaForsythe… Got my reading list sorted for this weekend. The #LearningOrganization a Literature Review https://t.co/Db9nojNkqB #activatemylearning – currently now […]
Changing My Modus Operandi
This year I’ve changed my modus operandi. It seemed to have just happened of its own accord but I think my deep dive into classics and fiction reading, warm long summer days and my bullshit detector going on overdrive have something to do with it. Since starting the new year, I’ve decided to do things […]
Frank Lloyd Wright and Envy
Yesterday I was watching a Snap story from one of the people I follow on Snapchat and he was in Arizona at Taliesin West, the site of America’s most famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wright had his home and which is now a school of architecture. I’ve always been fascinated with architecture and at one stage […]
Lazy Sunday Afternoon
It’s warm. Sunny outside. Lying in bed for the last 5 or so hours, doing pretty much nothing at all. Daydreaming. Looking out to the tree outside the window. Leaves turning yellow. I sigh. Autumn and then winter is around the corner. In the other room, my husband is playing Simon & Garfunkel. I sing […]
Learning Through Making
On Friday, I headed over to my parents and walked into my father’s art studio to check out what he was up to. He had been watching YouTube videos on how to do book binding and was on a roll with creating these for himself. As an artist, he had a lot of loose leaf […]
What I Learned from Running OneNote Training
Thread by @ActivateLearn: “I’ve been running Training these last couple of days (and will be doing again today) for a client’s organisation and their employee […]” #OneNote Never Miss a Blog – Subscribe to Receive a Monthly Email Email Address First Name Last Name
Explaining the Value of Social Media to Those Who Don’t Understand It
Thread by @ActivateLearn: “Today was interesting. Breakthrough. I listened while she talked about herself & her own work 2 hours. Towards end, she asks “who’s Shaz […]”
What Being Part of a Fake News Channel Has Taught Me
Every week, our team @cammysutra6 @NickJRishwain @ChelseaPeitz @desherb @JoAnnKrall @Baierman @DCPlateKing create fake news show @CNTnewschannel I play Aussie Foreign Correspondent Sharon (Dont Call Me Shazza) Breaknews. This week I report on Venezuelan crisis from my roof. pic.twitter.com/8U7jj1I2YX — Helen Blunden (@ActivateLearn) February 2, 2019 Being part of this creative team of peers taught me […]
Microsoft Service Adoption Course on EdX
This month I started another MOOC on EdX designed by Microsoft’s Principal PM Manager Karuana Gatimu and Content Developer Brandon Neeb called Microsoft Service Adoption Course. The course was published this year and had been shared across social media through many Microsoft consultants who are responsible for programs that involve the adoption of collaborative systems. […]
Show Me the Light
Have you noticed that many people don’t blog anymore? When social media came along, killed off long-form writing and scattered the masses across the platforms, all of a sudden, my blog became a ghost town. It didn’t help that the spam bots worked overtime which meant that I had to constantly moderate, check and block […]
What’s My Scene?
Forgive me father, it’s been a while since my last blog post. I have a confession to make. I have not been feeling my best of late. In fact, I’ve been feeling like shite ever since coming back from holidays. It’s been difficult to switch my mind back into a productive mode and continue doing […]
A New Way to Use Social Media Video as a Coaching Tool
Many of you know how much I love Snapchat as I have written much about it on this blog. Out of all the social networks I have used, it’s the one that has provided me with most personal development (storytelling, video creation and public speaking), as well as connected me to a global audience of […]
Musing About A Cumberbund
Thread by @ActivateLearn: “Can anyone miss a cumberbund? As I sit here full on my dinner & beer, I recall a cumberbund I used to wear every night before dinner. It […]”
When You Realise You Are Wrong – A Twitter Thread
In the last couple of days, I created a twitter thread about a coffee catchup I had and how I was dreading going because mistakenly, I thought this person had a personal issue with my line of work. Here’s how it went. Today was interesting. Breakthrough. I listened while she talked about herself & her own […]
What’s In Store for You in 2019?
Part of me was looking forward to writing my first post for 2019 but another part of me was dreading it. Over the last couple of weeks having some time off doing nothing much except for reading, napping and enjoying time with family, I had set aside some ideas for blog posts mentally. At the […]