First of all, let me say that yes, I’ve heard that Instagram has similar Snapchat functions and no, I don’t see that I’ve wasted my time on Snapchat at all. If anything, it’s made me appreciate the subtle differences between platforms and I’m now more aware of how to use the tools for the right […]
Publicize Your Work On Snapchat
By now you would have heard of my experimentations with Snapchat and I thought I’d share some of how I use this tool to publicise my work as a visual ‘work out loud’ diary. If you haven’t read my previous posts on this platform, feel free to check out these posts Reflections of Snapchat Through […]
Am I Ready for Snapchat?
By now, you may have already been reading my personal experiences with this tool and asking yourself, Am I Ready for Snapchat? In this post, I’ll go through my own personal reactions to this platform because it’s been an interesting journey. It started out with this need to figure out why so many younger people […]
People Who Show Their Work on Snapchat
Many of you may know that for the last few months or so, I have been looking for people who show their work on Snapchat. I recently wrote about it in my blog post titled: Reflections of Snapchat Through Facebook Mutterings. You might ask, why did I do this? The answer is that I didn’t […]
My Top 10 Learning Tools for 2016
Play the drum roll sound because it’s that time of year again to share with you My Top 10 Learning Tools for 2016 in Jane Hart’s survey. (Entries close on 3 October 2016 so you still have heaps of time to submit yours!). Every year I submit my learning tools to this survey as it’s […]
Reflections of Snapchat Through Facebook Mutterings
I had enough. What was all this fuss about Snapchat? While the rest of the world was espousing this as “the next Twitter”, I decided to devote some time to revisit my account and figure out what the fuss was about. I’ll share my reflections of Snapchat. For the last couple of months, I have […]
Have We Reached Saturation with Social Networks?
I’m in love with Snapchat. There I’ve said it. For the last couple of years I just “didn’t get it”. It was one social medium that I had no idea how to use, how to find followers and the whole point of disappearing snaps. I discounted it too quickly without realising the huge benefit of […]
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 […]
What Signals Are You Sending Out on Social Media?
Forgive me world, it’s been eight days since my last blog. I don’t know why, but every time I leave gaps between blog posts, I have the attack of the guilts. Although it may look like laziness to the untrained eye, it’s more likely to mean that I’ve been spending more time doing something else […]
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 […]
3 LinkedIn Email Responses for Invitations to Connect That You Can Use
Coming up in November this year will be my 10th year of being on LinkedIn. Despite some people having a love-hate relationship with LinkedIn, my own experience and impression of this tool has been positive as is that it has helped me immensely to build my network, seek out new job opportunities and directly contact […]
How to Cycle in Puerto Rico when You’re Not There & It’s 6 Years Ago
Many may not know (well you do now), that I’ve been blogging since 2005 about various things unrelated to learning, work or performance on my Ramblings blog. In fact, Ramblings was more of a movie and book review site, with lots of knitting and travel stories, posts about Demis Roussos, Greek politics, cat gifs and a […]
How to Build Your Peer Learning Network When You “Don’t Have Time”
I had a coffee with my friend Rebekah yesterday. Rebekah is an e-learning designer for veterinary educators and we met through Twitter. On the few occasions we caught up at a local cafe, our passions for social media for learning and development were evident. Our ideas tumbled out of us as we grappled with possibilities on how […]
Hanging Out in Google…As You Do…
This morning at work, I grabbed my laptop and dashed downstairs to the ground floor. To others, it’s an escape out of the building. For me, it’s where the free WiFi is so that’s where you’ll find me. We have a bank branch downstairs that has free wifi around its direct vicinity. I’m sure they’ve […]
I Love an A-Ha Moment
This week I had the opportunity to present at the Learn@Work Conference at the Australian Technology Park in Sydney. I recall the conference organiser asking me “what will you talk about?” when he called me up to invite me to speak. At the time, I couldn’t think straight because the office was noisy. The first […]
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 […]
Show Your Work: Twitter for Professional Development Live Online Events
Some time ago, I ran a couple of sessions of Twitter for Professional Development to my Learning and Development colleagues in my current workplace. The aim was to share how I use Twitter to grow and connect with a personal learning network and to learn new trends happening in our profession. The sessions were conducted […]
How to Promote Twitter for Professional Development to Your Colleagues and Other Stuff
It’s been a while since I’ve blogged and I’ve missed it. Now that my husband is out in town at the Linkin Park and Stone Sour concert, it was an opportune time to sit at my computer and finally get my thoughts down. I haven’t had time to reflect much on my work recently as […]
Social Media for Professional Development
Recently I completed another workshop from Jane Hart’s Social Learning Centre called ‘Social Media for Professional Development’. As an avid user of social media for some years now, I was interested to do this workshop because there’s always something new you can pick up from the materials or participants experiences. The workshop delved straight into […]
Alert! Not all Gen Y’s are Social Media Experts
Last Wednesday night I was invited to speak to a District Rotaract meeting. Rotaract is a not-for-profit service community affiliated with Rotary for 18-30 year olds. Many years ago, I was a member of the Canberra South Rotaract Club and I remember that time fondly because I made friends in a town away from home, […]