I have been tweeting for a while about my need to slow down my mind because I felt scattered over the last year or so. It was my fault mainly because I struggled to keep up with doing all the things I felt I needed to do. I also had FOMO if I wasn’t on […]
What I’ve Been Reading This Week – Friday 29 March 2019
Some years ago, every week I listed what I was reading, learning, doing. I have no idea why I stopped – I guess life got in the way. This year, I’ve been remiss with my blog writing and I think it’s because I’ve been spending my time either (a) working or (b) doing other stuff […]
Musings on the Difficulty of Freelancing
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
When Your 22 Year Old Self Comes Back to You
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]