It’s that time of the year again to submit for Jane Hart’s Top Tools for Learning. I’ve been doing this every year since 2012 she created this annual program which has now become a record of how the tools for my personal learning have changed over the years. This year has been a complete flip […]
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I Googled Myself and This is What I Found
So I googled myself recently and found that someone had reblogged one of my posts onto his site and I had COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN I HAD WRITTEN THIS POST. It’s a gem of a personal post written in 2019 when I was going through the same angst about the lack of value that social media was […]
I Wasn’t On the Org Chart
Last week we had our monthly Team Sync. That’s an opportunity for our CEO of our Australian team to share news and updates of our company. I look forward to this meeting because it’s a snapshot of what’s happening in the company and also learning about what other teams are up to as most of […]
Curated Tidbits for the Week
There’s been some real gems this week in Stephen Downe’s shares or found through constant cross linking within articles he shared. Check out Stephen’s Vision statement – now THAT’s a vision. It’s what I want too! Can we have that please? I beg of you. My head hurts the way the internet is going. It’s […]
Need to Run Training But Be Elsewhere At Same Time?
I’ve been running some Yammer 101 training sessions for our company at different times of the day and night to cater for our overseas colleagues. These are ‘open’ sessions for anyone to join so it’s always a surprise to see who joins me to have a bit of a chat and also get to know […]
Community Roles Coming At Me
It’s 3:11 am. I was tossing and turning thinking of the most weird things. Namely, Bligh and the Rum Rebellion of 1808 in the penal colony of New South Wales. I had been thinking that if I time travelled back to this time, and met the man himself (who let’s face it, copped two mutinies […]
Working on Community
Today I focussed on creating a facilitated session on Building Community at my place of work, Rapid Circle. I work for this international company filled with highly competent and technical boffins who love solving problems and working on Microsoft 365 products. To be honest, a lot of what they talk about flies over my head […]
Brisbane’s Maritime History
After a breakfast of poached eggs and avocado on toast in one of the mall’s cafes, I dropped into the Queensland Tourist Information centre. I had heard that there was a Heritage History Walking Tour however, apparently I had to book it in advance as they didn’t accept drop ins. Part of me was thinking […]
International Women’s Day
Today I learned yet another company putting profit above social good. I thought I’d share something about the day on Yammer this morning at our company given that we hadn’t prepared anything formally (maybe this is something to take note of for next year if I’m still around and organise an event although it shouldn’t […]
Not Sharing
I wanted to start an experiment this year and so far, so good but it’s been difficult for me at times. ? Many people know me as someone who shows and shares her work and learning. I’m pretty open about things that I’m learning about, share resources, interact in online conversations, connect people to other […]
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, […]
From Training to Learning to Knowledge to What?
(This is a collection of rambled thoughts – I’m still formulating what the question is in my mind so please humour me and go with the flow. I will find my way soon). I’ve been working on some interesting projects at Adopt & Embrace, a Microsoft Partner and where I work three days a week […]
How to Use RSS Feeds
When I told some people about how I want to reduce my social media use and instead return to using my blog, they asked, “how will we find your blog if you’re not always on social media?” Well, I hate to say it but if you’re relying on social networks for you to find different […]
On Virtual Facilitation
Back in 2013, I was working for the National Australia Bank and part of the Digital Learning Team responsible for the rollout of skills programs in virtual facilitation, virtual meetings and Learning How to Learn Online for the entire bank. Our team designed and developed the suite of these courses (I remember those Facilitator Guides […]
Learning Active Campaign
One of the things I have been learning at work is about marketing campaigns. I’m the Community Manager for Adopt & Embrace and as part of the role, I am responsible for looking at ways to have the community be continually aware of what it in there by way of interesting and informative discussions and […]
Flip The Way You Think About Work
One of the things that has been surprising to me during this period of isolation with COVID19 and working with companies who are moving their operations and teamwork to an online format into MS Teams and other collaboration software is this MYTH that you can easily move what was delivered face-to-face BC (Before Corona) automatically […]
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 […]
Don’t Wait Around for Learning to Happen to You
It strikes me as weird to have to say this but if you’re not actively learning something new in your work day, no matter how small, then how on earth are you surviving the mind numbing work day? This could mean: A tip a co-worker shared about streamlining a process that helps minimise some time […]
The Expertise Economy – Book Club
Started the Expertise Economy by @kellylpalmer today with big thanks to @srjf for pointing me out to it. It’s my Christmas reading. So far, so good! pic.twitter.com/oRG8yRNDSy — Helen Blunden #AlwaysBeLearning????? (@ActivateLearn) December 24, 2019 The following are my responses to Simon Fogg’s (@srjf) book club questions for The Expertise Economy by David Blake and […]
Modern Workplace at Microsoft Ignite & Thoughts about Social Learning
There was a lot happening at Microsoft Ignite when I was there early in November in Orlando and to date, remains one of the best technology conferences I’ve ever been to – for sheer size and scale but mainly, for the mind blowing applications of modern workplace programs and the realisation that the way of […]