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 […]
Adopting & Embracing My New Role
For the last few weeks, I have been working on a part-time basis as an Adoption Consultant for a small company founded by Paul Woods (@paulwoods) called Adopt and Embrace. The opportunity to work here came about through a member of my network, Benjamin Elias (@collabital). Although we hadn’t worked together directly at our previous […]
Teaching Computers to Parents
Some years back, my parents were strictly against computers (as a matter of fact, so was I back in the long distant past where computers meant you were coding in Fortran). I recall my father stressing that he never wanted one of those blasted machines in his house nor would it take over his signwriting […]
A Blog Post About GDPR
By now you’re probably well and truly over this whole GDPR debacle. For those of you living under a rock these last few months, you may have noticed your email inbox swamped with messages regarding confirming your privacy and security details. The European government has placed some stringent requirements as to how information is collected, […]
Is Reblogging Cheating?
Have you ever heard of the term “reblogging?” I think “reblogging” used to be a “thing”, although it’s something that has been at the back of my mind but never fully explored. The reason it popped back into my head is that I get a few requests every year to reuse some of my blog […]
If I Can Turn Back Time
“If I can turn back time, I’ll do it all again…” sang Cher. Yesterday while taking a break from a knitting frenzy, I checked my Feedly account to scan through some of the titles from blogs I follow. One blog by Digital Sociologist Mark Carrigan (@mark_carrigan) is one which I make time to read because not […]
What is a Career?
A few of years ago after leaving the corporate sector to pursue a new phase in my life as an independent consultant, I invested in a year-long program with a business coach. Over that year, I blogged about what I was learning and applying to switch my mindset from “employee” to “self-employed consultant. At the […]
Create Your Own Personal Learning Plan
How do you create your own personal learning plan? Some time ago, I was looking at ways to be more productive in my work and learning; and one way I did this was to list down all the various tasks I needed to complete during the week. Many of my tasks were simple To Do […]
The Weird World of Alice is Not So Weird After All
This morning after completing a filmed interview for LearningNowTV, (a role I undertake for fun and which gets me out of the house meeting all sorts of interesting people), I decided to go to the Alice in Wonderland Exhibition at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, ACMI. I’ve never been a fan of the […]
Art Imitating Life or the Other Way Around?
For the last six or so months, I’ve been getting out of my comfort zone – in a BIG way by undertaking creative projects. Last week, I had the pleasure of attending the Cultivating Creativity in the Workplace workshop facilitated by someone who I’ve admired for a long time, Amy Burvall. (@amyburvall). Amy is an […]
Laying Low
Sometimes like everyone, I have my up days and I have my down days. For the last couple of weeks, I have been feeling decidedly flat and unmotivated. I’m someone who is affected by the weather and the cooling temperature is making me dread the upcoming winter. A cynical part of me calls it “the […]
Do You Find What I Write of Value to You and Your Work?
People tell me that they get a lot of value from reading my blog posts, watching my daily videos where I work and learn out loud as well as the tips in my monthly newsletter. The ideas, hints and strategies presented have helped people to create their own personalised learning strategies or given them the […]
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
Hello everyone Just a short note to say thank you for your support this year. I appreciate you taking the time to read my posts, respond to the social media updates and view my vlogs. I wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Please stay safe over the holidays […]
My Learning and Development Plan for 2018
After reading Simon Fogg’s blog post on all his learning and development plans for 2018, I started to think what my plans could be. I’m usually someone who plans everything – sometimes it’s not expressly written on paper or recorded online but it’s a mental note where I keep tabs on what it is I […]
What I Learned This Year
This morning I listened to the Good Practice podcast “What I Learned This Year” and it got me thinking about what I learned and decided to share my reflections here. Lesson 1: Knowing More About What I’m Willing to Stand For and Put Up With Working on your own is hard work and not for […]
You Are Not a Thought Leader
I got a bit ranty this week on Twitter. I had just reached a point where my top was blown. My limit reached. My patience stretched. I’m a huge fan of Fiona Tribe or aka @White_Owly who publishes tweets about people, brand and culture that go directly to the heart of what is wrong with organisations […]
An Experiment with Social Media
I’m doing an experiment with social media. Over the last few months, I’ve been getting overwhelmed again thinking about the new year and how to get more leads for work. I’m not going to lie, when you work for yourself, it’s SO tough. I’ve had days when I couldn’t get out of bed because it […]
Making the Messy Unmessy – Experimenting with Mind Maps
I had the pleasure of meeting a long time member of my personal learning network, Sahana Chattopadhyay at LearnTech Asia in Singapore last week. I was always a fan of her wonderful blogs because she had the knack for pulling together different concepts by various people who wrote about digital transformation, future of work and […]
Personal Reflections from LearnTech Asia
I’ve just returned from LearnTech Asia, the inaugural learning technology conference and expo in Singapore and decided to write some personal reflections. Let me tell you that my mind was a muddle so this is my attempt at getting things in some order. Before the Conference Initially, when I was asked by Conference Chair, Donald Taylor […]