Imagine my surprise this week when I heard that I was awarded the inaugural Jay Cross Memorial Award from the Internet Time Alliance. You know when someone tells you something so unbelievable that it takes a few seconds to register before the penny drops? Well that was me this week. I was soon overwhelmed (in a positive […]
Learning is Personal
Recently I worked on a small project with a corporate to provide feedback on their design specification of a social learning program that was going to be delivered through their Enterprise Social Networking (ESN) platform. There were many moving parts to this project simply because it was the first time the Learning and Development team […]
10 Archived Blog Posts On Social Learning
Last weekend, I went through over 300 blog posts of my ramblings and experiments in social learning, networking, online communities, open and enterprise social networks and some knitting thrown in for good measure. When I attended the Co-working Day with the Business Addicts last week, they mentioned that it was a good idea to check […]
Co-Working with Business Addicts
Before you ask me, “Helen are you a Business Addict?” let me quickly add, “no, no I’m not.” [Shock, horror!] Instead, you can call me an “Experience Hunter”. Hope I haven’t burst some image you had of me about some hard core Gordon Gecko business person, walking the streets, closing deals and hustling for the […]
20 Mistakes Learning Teams Make About Social Learning
What are the 20 mistakes Learning and Development teams make about social learning? Over the last couple of years as an independent consultant helping organisations empower their people to learn continually so that they can work smarter, I decided to list the main misconceptions and beliefs that I have come across by some Learning and Development […]
4 Myths of Social Learning
In the last couple of years, I have spoken to many corporate Learning and Development practitioners about how they may support and enable opportunities for their workforce to learn collaboratively with each other in and during the flow of their every day work. That is, “social learning”. During these conversations, I noticed that there were […]
How to Work Out Loud at Your Next Conference
Last year I submitted an article for the Training & Development magazine published by the Australian Institute of Training and Development called How to Work Out Loud at Your Next Conference. What is working out loud? Put simply it’s a practice of sharing your reflections, learning in networks. By openly contributing your ideas and your thinking […]
Where’s Your Third Place?
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Social Learning Creates Confusion
SOCIAL LEARNING CREATES CONFUSION! It should be a headline shouldn’t it? If it were, I could picture the scene at a breakfast table as the reader, takes a sip of coffee from their cup, looks up from their smart device, tablet or newspaper and asks their partner… “Darling, what’s social learning?” What’s the bet that the […]
Let Go of the Negativity
Recently I wrote a post about my word for the year being “Focus”. Ever since the Christmas break, I’ve been thinking a lot about this word and what activities I need to do to get back on track with my own personal learning journey and revisit my PKM (personal knowledge mastery process). Last year was […]
My Work Out Loud Day Experiment
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Co-Working at the Docklands Library
Last Friday, I organised a co-working day at the Docklands Library in Melbourne and called it ThirdPlace. I started this meet up group a couple of years ago for people interested in adult education, coaching and all things related to “learning” to gather for informal social networking events. The people belong across all different industries and professions. […]
Reflections of the 2015 AITD National Excellence Awards
Last weekend I flew up to Sydney on the kind invitation of Michelle Ockers from Coca Cola Amatil to attend the 2015 Australian Institute of Training and Development National Excellence Awards. I worked together with Michelle on the Work, Connect and Learn Program which was part of the Supply Chain Systems Certification Program which was […]
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 Learning the New Thrill Seeker Sport?
Follow my blog with Bloglovin It’s 5:18 am on a Sunday morning and I can’t sleep. This is a usual state of affairs before every conference I attend. Next week I will be presenting at the Change Management Institute’s Change in the Age of Disruption Conference in Sydney and I’m equally excited as I am nervous […]
What Have I Been Up To?
It’s been a while since my last blog post and admittedly, I do feel guilty that I am not spending a component of my time blogging so that I can make sense of what I have been working on and learning about. On the other hand however, I have been using two other methods to […]
The AITD Excellence Awards
I’m excited to find out that Coca Cola Amatil’s Systems Certification Program is a finalist in the upcoming Australian Institute of Training and Development (AITD) Excellence Awards. The program was aligned to their business strategy and aimed to improve their business continuity and performance through use of their key operational systems. I was honoured to work on […]
Have You Blabbed?
Last night I hosted a Blab session for the first time (and stupidly, I forgot to take a screenshot of it). I was introduced to this new tool about a month ago when I saw a tweet in my Twitter stream advertising that a Blab session was on. I can’t remember the topic but it piqued my […]
Work, Connect and Learn: A Guided Social Learning Program
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Ingress: Do We Need an Alternate Reality?
For a while now, I’ve been playing Ingress. Now let’s get one thing straight. I’m not really into gaming. Sure, they pique my curiosity initially but I tend to lose interest if they don’t capture my fascination or where I’m not learning anything new. I also get bored easily. However, I was curious about Ingress […]