This week I continue to use Snapchat as my video editor to vlog some of my snap stories on personal learning. This week it’s been about automation, consulting books and writing eBooks! I have been using this time to work on my own Personal Learning Plan which involves a lot more book reading, exploring the […]
This Week’s Snap Stories on Personal Learning
This week I continue to use Snapchat as my video editor to vlog some of my snap stories on personal learning. As well as continuing with the disheartening job search, I have been using this week to read more books (I’m now reading Drucker’s The Learning Organization) as well as write an ebook on Snapchat. […]
This Week’s Snapstories About Personal Learning
I started to use Snapchat again after a long break over January as I was doing a lot of soul-searching about my independent consulting career and instead focussed on “slow reading” to get my mind on other things. (My definition of this is blocking out 5-6 hours in the day to read without any distractions). […]
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
As 2016 draws to a close, I’d like to wish the readers of this blog and my wider network, a wonderful Christmas and a safe, healthy and prosperous new year. Enjoy the holidays and see you back safe and sound in 2017.
Things I Learned from Pivot Summit 2016
I attended the Pivot Summit in Geelong yesterday. It was the second time I had been to this new and emerging tech and entrepreneurship conference in the regional town and this year, decided to use Snapchat to record my learning. Here’s what I learned… Then I decided to include my key learnings within Storify so […]
Share Your Progress When You Work Out Loud
Today is the fourth day of International Work Out Loud Week and it’s all about sharing your progress. Yesterday I shared on Snapchat, the benefit and value that working has loud has helped me in my own personal learning journey around public speaking and speaking in front of a camera – and you can see my […]
Make a Contribution While You Work Out Loud
Today is the third day of International Work Out Loud Week and it’s all about making a contribution. So for today’s challenge, my contribution will be to share my own story on Snapchat on how Working Out Loud has helped me in my own business so that it could open the conversation for others in their […]
Make New Connections While You Work Out Loud
Today is the second day of International Work Out Loud Week. Yesterday I shared my purpose for this week and that was to: Understand the value and benefit of working out loud to people outside organisations who are in their own business, freelancing or looking for employment. After all, we hear and read so much […]
What’s Your Purpose To Work Out Loud
Today is the first day of International Work Out Loud Week. (Of course, we know that you can actually work out loud any day of the week however, this initiative is something that we can all be part of internationally at the same time). What is Working Out Loud? Bryce Williams back in 2010, defined […]
Resources for Work Out Loud Week
Over a year ago, I created a couple of resources for Work Out Loud Week that I’d like to share here again for International Work Out Loud Week on 7-13 November 2016. If you’re scratching your head with a lack of ideas of what you can share, show and demonstrate, these resources will help you. […]
Reflections of My Snapchat Channel
For the last couple of weeks, I have changed my approach to how I am using Snapchat and I wrote about it in the post Welcome to My Snapchat Channel. I have been observing how individuals and companies are using this social medium to educate and inform their viewers and these have been quite interesting. My […]
Snapchat Makes Me Happy
By now you’re probably sick and tired of reading my posts about Snapchat as I work out loud through using this tool which is becoming my personal learning channel, education broadcast and creativity expression. Truth be told, it is unlike any other social medium I’ve come across because using it makes me HAPPY. I think […]
The Ultimate Social Learning Experience
This year I had one of my life goals achieved which was the ultimate social learning experience for me. It was to be part of a film crew to create a short film to see the process and the work that goes behind making a film. (Hey, next stop…Cannes!) It was a team project where […]
Welcome to My Snapchat Channel
What is a Snapchat Channel? If you don’t already know, I’m on Snapchat. I started using this platform some time ago in an effort to understand what the fuss was about. I’ve been using it to share and show my work (and snippets of my knitting and the things that I enjoy) however, in the […]
Writing an eBook on Snapchat
via GIPHY For the last couple of weeks, I’ve had my head down writing an ebook on Snapchat. The ebook is titled How to Use Snapchat to Show and Share Your Work (the title may change). It’s being written for an audience who may be aware how to use this social medium but may not […]
How to Deal with People Who Have No Time to Learn New Things At Work
Say what? No time to learn? That’s like saying you don’t want to be up to speed with what’s happening in your industry, profession or even your customer market – the same one you’re servicing but I get it. Work is busy. People are busy. You’re busy. When your priority is to get through emails, […]
How You Learn in the Real World
When Arun Pradhan asked us how we learn in the real world, the first thing I did was look at what I was holding in my hand. My phone. I was reading his article on my smartphone so I bookmarked it as a mental note to respond to the four questions he asked us to […]
A Few Things Corporate Bloggers Should Know
Last week I attended Australia’s largest and longest running blogging event called Problogger and I learned some valuable lessons. After hearing many presentations and speaking to the business bloggers there, I thought I’d share a few things corporate bloggers should know if they want to take their blogging OUTSIDE of their company in the future. […]
An Idea for LearningNow TV
You may not be aware that I’m a roving reporter for an internet TV channel for Learning and Development professionals and I’ve got an idea for LearningNow TV, I began my foray into video a couple of years back and started out quite anxiously. You see, I’m not a fan of public speaking and I […]
Presentation at Craft Victoria
This week I’ll be presenting to Craft Victoria on Social Media: More Than Marketing. According to their website: “Craft is one of Victoria’s largest and oldest arts organisation dedicated to championing aspirational making and ideas driven practice through exhibitions, public and retail programs. Craft represents more contemporary craftspeople than any other organisation in Australia, and […]