If there’s a time to get off Twitter, it would be now. Ever since leaving this platform (and LinkedIn, Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram too), when I keep thinking of all the time I spent on it, (for what real purpose?). I cringe. I feel that I’m so much better off without them. I should have left […]
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My New YouTube Channel Causes Me To Radically Rethink Everything About What I Put Out There
I’ve customised my YouTube channel to remove ‘activate learning’ and to just be Life Lessons Through Books. Some time ago, I asked the question Should I Get Off YouTube? The reason is that after getting off social media, I’m reflecting on every single aspect of my working life and my output that I have shared […]
Coincidences
This last month, I’ve been observing some oddities in my life. Things that happen without explanation and alert me to something to take note. I think I’ve been more attune to my surroundings. I feel something is “not quite right” (and hasn’t been when it comes to my work) and in that situation, I tend […]
How to Use Stories in Viva Engage for Business
Recently Microsoft announced the rebranding of Yammer (Microsoft’s Enterprise Social Network) to Viva Engage and I wrote my thoughts about this in my blog post Yammer & Viva Engage: Same? Same? The Stand Out New Features are Storyline and Stories Although early days yet, two of the stand out features in this platform are Storyline […]
Block Block Block Delete
Well it’s started. About 18 months ago, I quit Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat. When I say quit, I meant that I simply just left it. Deleted the apps in my phone and didn’t revisit them. In the last few months, through duress, I was part of a French speaking group on Facebook so went back […]
Testing out WordPress App Story Posts
Mucking about with the mobile WordPress app in my hammock this afternoon, I saw the “Story Post” option which looks like you can create basic stories and upload these as pages onto your blog. I’ve been using the stories feature for many years (with Snapchat – and blogged about this many times in this blog) […]
On Being a Man
I’ve no idea what it’s like being a man but I gave it a go a few years ago thanks to a Snapchat filter. I had to put this photo somewhere because at times I feel my tweets seem to disappear along with all the experimentations with various tools. I think over the years, all […]
Little Video Snippets
I’ve always loved recording videos and some years back, taking daily videos on what I was learning and experimenting on (using Snapchat) was the way I preferred to communicate. I have written how I used this platform (truth be told, you can actually use ANY platform but I preferred Snapchat as it captured the “time” […]
Creative Challenge – Day 17
I am doing Meredith Lewis daily creative prompts for December and today’s challenge is to: List at least five different supportive people who can support you in your creative endeavours, whatever they may be. And if you can’t, list some ways in which you might find them. Wow, this is a tough one. I’ve long […]
We Need the Social at Work
Last night, my colleagues at Rapid Circle and I took part in a fun online Trivia Night. It’s now been four weeks since our Adopt & Embrace team were acquired by this new company and given that many of us were in lockdown in Melbourne, we were unable to meet each other in person. However, […]
I Am Not a Cat
Last year, I experimented with Snapchat Camera on Microsoft Teams and it was a lot of fun. My boss Paul Woods has downloaded it on his desktop camera and naturally, I wanted in. You download the app onto your desktop and then you can add a variety of Snapchat filters and lenses to your camera […]
Mass Deletions & Deactivations
It’s time for a massive rethink on how I use social media which is providing me with precious little value anymore. In this post I share how I will focus more on creation and sensemaking.
Learning Out Loud Is Like a Photo Album
I have had my YouTube channel for some years now. I like to call it my “Learning Biography”. It started as a way to upload all my daily videos from Snapchat where I shared my experiments, thoughts, reflections of the things I was learning about and working on. A kind of video album as well […]
A Little Bit of Creativity Every Day
I’ve been enjoying the daily process of creating a video to share what it is I’m working and learning. Although I don’t create these every day, I’ve changed the way I capture these (I used to capture them on Instagram Stories and before that, Snapchat). Now, I simply use the video camera on my phone […]
Creating My Daily Stories Old School
This morning I decided to do my “work out loud” story using my phone camera and video editing software on my phone rather than using Instagram Stories (or in the past, I used Snapchat stories). The reason is that as I have an old phone (iPhone 6), Instagram is now becoming glitchy on it and […]
Importance of Feedback When Using Video
Many of you already know that for some years since 2016, I have been showing and sharing my work and learning out loud using Snapchat as the video editor of choice. Since early 2019, I stopped using Snapchat because it came too glitchy on my phone. When I first started using it over 4 years […]
Daily Story Making
I’ve been working out loud since 2016 using daily video stories to show and share the in-moment work and learning I’m doing and in recent times, I’ve just realised how valuable these have been not only to record my daily existence but also for my mental health and well being. You can see them all […]
Don’t Be Forgotten AC (After Corona)
I decided to record my own thoughts and actions on video as part of a vlog series on my YouTube channel called the COVID19 collection. As you know, I’ve been using Snapchat and Instagram Stories feature to capture my daily life since 2014 and have over 600 videos of my life to date. They’re great […]
LinkedIn Stories is Coming!
By now you would have heard that LinkedIn will be adding Stories to its functionality. For those uninitiated to the Stories feature which is ephemeral content that allows users to capture content through the day in a chronological way and share to their followers, you may be thinking, what’s the big deal? Over the years, […]
Dedicate Time For Self-Driven Personal Learning At Work
One of the days that I look forward to at the company I work at Adopt and Embrace is that we have dedicated “Learning Days” every quarter set aside where the entire day is spent on self-driven learning. During Learning Days, we are free to spend the entire day learning what we want as long […]