If you had to write the description of your perfect job, what would it look like? This year I haven’t made any goals or resolutions. I have deliberately decided to keep things open to see how what I have been openly sharing over the past few years around new skills, networks, relationships, connections, and knowledge of workplace […]
Are Member Associations Worth It Anymore?
Lately, I’ve been thinking “are member associations worth it anymore?” This question came about from a small sideline project I’m working on – it’s my own initiative so I’m free to write about it here. It was a kernel of an idea that planted itself in my head one day that had to be explored. It […]
When Your Employees Just Don’t Care
When I was working in the learning and development department of corporate organisations, there were many times I felt anxious, stressed and pressured. As someone who has experienced four redundancies, countless restructures, sat through many job interviews and even had a stint on the unemployment queue receiving a government handout (“the dole”), the idea of […]
Networked Workers Learn From the World Around Them
For the last few days I have been revisiting the notes in my Evernote notebooks and deleting things that are now outdated or irrelevant to me. Usually when I can find some time, I go through this process a few times a year. I find it cathartic to release myself of information that no longer serves […]
It’s Not About Using Social Media, It’s About Building Your Community
This morning I went to the last Melbourne Business Awards breakfast for the year. The event recognises and rewards excellence in industry and manufacturing in my local area of the City of Kingston in the south eastern suburbs of Melbourne. I joined this association in an effort to connect more with my local community. I […]
Is Service Above Self A New Behaviour for a Networked World?
For the last few months, I’ve been busy creating a couple of new programs to share with you in 2016. You may have noticed I’ve been a bit more quieter on social media of late. You haven’t? Well, never mind. If anything, I feel as if I’ve been doing less tweeting of late and it’s […]
Reflections on the Change in the Age of Disruption Conference
Well finally I’ve had some time to put some thoughts on my reflections of the Change in the Age of Disruption Conference that I attended in Sydney at the Jones Bay Wharf Conference Centre last week. Since then, I’ve had a chance to reflect on my participation as a presenter at this conference but also how […]
The Future of Business is Digital…Even in My Own Suburb?
In the last week of October, I visited the lovely coastal town of Geelong to attend the Pivot Summit. The summit was a one day conference focussed on inspiring the start up community in Geelong with new ideas around social business. After I saw that Brian Solis (@BrianSolis) was one of the speakers I immediately […]
I See Desk People
Who can forget that 1999 supernatural thriller starring Bruce Willis called Sixth Sense? For a while there, the movie started a trend of people going around and saying to each other in spooky voices…”I see dead people”. We recall this particular line because of the twist at the end of the movie that left audiences stunned. […]
How to Knit a Compelling Story in an Age of Change
One of the biggest questions I (as well as many others in my personal learning network – PLN) have been asking is, “how come we ‘GET’ social and others don’t?” I’ve been asking this same question over and over in my head and I wish I had a magic wand that I could wave over […]
Do As I Say, Not As I Do Doesn’t Cut It With Social
Lately, everything I seem to be reading on Twitter and blogs seem to be about social or peer-to-peer learning. Okay, I may be exaggerating – not everything – but consider that only one year ago in Australia, the term was relatively new and not widely mentioned at learning and development gatherings and conferences. All of […]
How Working, Connecting and Learning Is Like Driving a Car
Last week I had an opportunity to work with Michelle Ockers who had travelled down from Sydney for work. We caught up at the co-working space at the NAB Village to go through some final editing to four of the modules of the Work, Connect and Learn Program. The Work, Connect and Learn Program is a social learning guided […]
How to Use Social Tools To Create Learning Experiences
Last week I delivered a webinar for a public service organisation who requested a presentation to their Learning and Development teams on how to use social tools to create learning experiences. I think it went well. (At least, I hope it did! The organiser did say that the attendees were madly scribbling notes and I did get […]
My Brain is Full: Knowledge Week in Melbourne 2014
Last week I participated in four different events as part of Melbourne Knowledge Week. It was the fifth year that this event brought together entrepreneurs, designers, artists, tech geeks and experts in the fields of arts, science, medicine, business and the community. This year I decided to focus on my main goal and that was to […]
99 Days of Facebook Freedom
For over a month now, I have been Facebook free – but forgive me, I have sinned. There have been times I had to use it. Let me explain. I’ve had a Facebook account since the beginning. I was one of the people who saw it as a means of connecting with friends and family […]
How Do You Start Out in Twitter? Find the Why First
Yesterday I conducted a webinar on “Getting Started in Twitter” for the VET Development Centre. The centre provides and supports the professional and educational development of vocational trainers, managers and staff through access to events, seminars, conferences and webinars. You can see some of the offerings in their Events Calendar. I was first introduced to the VET Development Centre […]
How To Connect With Our Audience (or Customers): A Lesson from the Arts
Last night, we saw the new musical production of Les Miserables at Her Majesty’s Theatre in Melbourne. We bought a souvenir program and wandered up the stairs to seek out a comfortable lounge to relax before the show started. I flicked through the program and read the short biographies of the cast and was surprised to […]
What Does the Future of Work Look Like? It Will Look Weird.
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From Employee to Contractor to Free Agent to Who Knows What…
I’ve been quiet on the internet this weekend for a deliberate reason. I needed to get back some time to myself. I needed to switch off the noise and sit back and reflect on my life and my next steps. Let me add, I did get a lot of work done in the garden and […]
Becoming a Digital Leader
Yesterday I attended a Becoming a Digital Leader workshop at the Old Treasury Building. It was a pilot program developed by Leadership Victoria with Cynthia Mahoney from Cynthia Mahoney Associates and its objectives were: To explain the potential impact of digital media in driving change and achieving objectives in the workplace and the community Explore […]