For the last week, I’ve been working on my presentation on Curation for Learning for LearnTech Asia and had a panic attack. I hyperventilated slightly that had me reaching for my ventalin. While I was away last week, I had been thinking how I could plan and prepare for this presentation so that it was […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 28 August 2017
Here are this week’s snap stories of personal learning commencing 28 August 2017. Monday 28 August 2017 I started the week out with experimenting with my remote clicker. I was pulling together some of the equipment that I was going to take with me to the conference later this week and wanted to experiment with a […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 4 September 2017
Here are this week’s snap stories of personal learning commencing 4 September 2017. Monday 4 September 2017 Today I talk about my work as a learning consultant and how it’s important to be continually learning. I take on a serious look and deliver this snap story without much fan fare that is my usual manner. I […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 7 August
Here are this week’s snap stories of personal learning commencing 7 August 2017. Monday 7 August 2017 In this personal learning snapstory, I was inspired by the story of Rachmaninov, a Russian composer whose first symphony was a public flop. The result was that he then went into depression for four years because he felt […]
This Week’s Snapstories of Personal Learning in the Week of 31 July 2017
Here are this week’s snap stories of personal learning commencing 31 July. Monday 31 July 2017 My Sydney trip, in truth, exhausted me. It gets really tiring chasing historical figures like Arthur Phillip and William Bligh around the town. Traipsing around the Rocks area (the oldest part of Sydney) and learning stories of first settlement […]
How to Work Out Loud: A Month of Different Activities to Do on Your Enterprise Social Network
The question I get asked by business is how to work out loud so here is a guide I have created that you can follow over the course of one month to set up the habit and practice using your enterprise social network. What is Working Out Loud? Working out loud is the process of […]
Learning Is A Series of Little Experiments
Since finishing up my employment contract at an insurance company in mid-June this year, I have been reflecting that everything I learned about my field of Learning and Development has come about from a series of little experiments across multiple fields and different interests outside my field. I’m very much a dabbler and an explorer […]
A New Way To Create Podcasts
I found a new way to create podcasts for those who have been asking me this question over the last couple of years. And it’s too easy. In an employment contract with an organisation some time ago, I remember trawling Yammer one morning while having breakfast at my desk. I came across an internal business […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 10 July 2017
Here are this week’s snap stories of personal learning (that is, what I’m learning and how it applies to work). I use Snapchat as my Working Out Loud tool that captures my thoughts and reflections during the day in a chronological order. I also use it as a channel to inform, educate and inspire others […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 26 June 2017
Here are this week’s snap stories of personal learning. It’s been an incredible week learning about Australian maritime history, Convict Settlement, Podcasting, Personal Productivity and how different cultures use Social Media. Monday 26 June 2017 First day of a new week and it’s all systems go. In today’s snapstory, I look like something the cat dragged […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 19 June 2017
Here are this week’s snap stories of personal learning. Monday 19 June 2017 On Monday 19 June I decided to snap about CollabTechFest a collaboration conference focussed on enterprise social networks. Of course, I wasn’t there (sometimes attending conferences can be very expensive so I limit my attendance preferring cheaper alternatives – namely connecting with […]
A New Personal Productivity Planner
For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been trialling out a new Personal Productivity planner and I’m scratching my head about it. In all honesty, I’m not entirely convinced that it’s the best way to manage all projects and tasks…but I could be wrong, it’s still early days yet. How Did I Start This New Method? […]
Melbourne Learning Summit
Yesterday I attended the Melbourne Learning Summit. It’s a meetup group for Melbourne based Learning and Development professionals that are hosted by the group members for the group members. The topic of the summit was “Building a Learning Culture”. I found out about this group recently through an ex-colleague in the organisation, IAG I finished […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 12 June 2017
Here are this week’s snap stories of personal learning (and what I’ve been working on) for the week starting Monday 12 June 2017. Monday 12 June 2017 Well, it was the Queen’s Birthday public holiday. Usually, on weekends and holidays, I don’t snap. Just as well because they’d be really boring. They’d be of me […]
What’s Marketing Got to Do With Learning?
Yesterday I had the honour being the invited guest on Social Chefs, a social media marketing show hosted by Christian Karasiewicz (@ckroks) and Nick Rishwain (@NickJRishwain). Now you might be asking what has this got to do with learning and development? I was asking the same thing initially so after checking out some of their […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 5 June 2017
Here are this week’s snap stories of personal learning week of 5th June. Monday 5 June 2017 Today is the start of International Work Out Loud Week. I talk about what is working out loud and why we need it as well as talk about my curation course. Tuesday 6 June 2017 The night before I […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 22 May 2017
So here is a run down of what I was working on and learning in the week of 22 May. Monday 22 May 2017 I was reading a book that was recently published by an ex-McKinsey consultant called the Mosaic Principle which talked about neogeneralism. In this video, I share a bit about what neogeneralism […]
Documenting, Not Creating
This morning I watched Gary Vaynerchuck’s 2016 video called Documenting Not Creating. That video and conversations with Sarah Stahl and seeing what she is doing with her 25 Day Learning Journey on Facebook Live and LinkedIn and some other people across social networks, seemed to meld a few things that were swirling in my head. For […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 10 April 2017
This week was all about the lead up to Easter. Although I’m not religious by any stretch of the imagination, it’s the one holiday that I can’t ever imagine being away from family. I can travel overseas during Christmas but Easter is sacrosanct for family. So this week, while my days were spent working on conducting […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 3 April 2017
So Snapchat is proving to be a handy tool to capture my thoughts and reflections while I’m back at work full-time and don’t have time to blog. However, don’t be under any illusion that I’ve left my blogging and will take on vlogging – far from it. Think of the vlog as a temporary measure to […]