Well it’s that time of the year again when Jane Hart (@C4LPT) creates the annual survey collating the top 10 tools that people use for learning. Every year, I submit my results and I have to say that over the years, there have been some that remain the same – the stalwarts, if you will. […]
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Weekly Rapts
Welcome to Weekly Rapts Every week I come across some exceptional articles, books, videos, tweets and other stuff that captures my attention and inspires me to action which could be to write about a blog post; have a conversation about it with someone; create something from it; escape down a rabbit warren to learn more […]
Learning in the Modern Workplace
In my recent blog post titled Drawing as Thinking…and a Treasure Map about #MadMapMarch, I wrote how I delved into some journal articles that explained the benefits of using different ways to express ourselves as a challenge to the way we think. In this case, it was comic books. That is, drawing our thoughts in a comic book format […]
Some Thoughts on the Microsoft Workplace Innovation Summit and Learning and Development
Okay, I’m not going to lie but some of the best examples of teamwork I’ve been in my life the days was when I worked in Defence. Somehow working under duress, pressure and stressful situations in environments away from home, family and friends meant you had to put personal issues and hangups aside for the […]
I Was Doing Outlook All Wrong!
It’s International Work Out Loud Week where we show the process of what we are working and learning, and today I share how I relearned Outlook. I’m all for social collaboration but lots of companies haven’t explained the value of this to their workers so that it makes sense. Or, they’ve got their ESNs and […]
Meeting Your Network In Person
Building your online networks of people you can learn from can happen online and they can happen in real life – in fact, the medium is not really important – it’s what comes out of that network, connection or relationship that has far more value. Today I talk about meeting the people we have learned […]
Back to Basics
It’s hard to imagine that four months have flown by since joining Adopt & Embrace as one of their Adoption Consultants on a part-time basis and it’s been an interesting, entertaining and educational ride for me. When I think back to what I have learned in my time there, it comes down to these two […]
Lessons Learned In a New Role
For the last month, I’ve been working at Adopt and Embrace as an Adoption Consultant helping businesses with their modern workplace digital transformation projects. You can read about this in my recent blog post Adopting and Embracing My New Role. Directly working with business clients who include stakeholders in the Information Technology, Business, Change Management […]
Adopting & Embracing My New Role
For the last few weeks, I have been working on a part-time basis as an Adoption Consultant for a small company founded by Paul Woods (@paulwoods) called Adopt and Embrace. The opportunity to work here came about through a member of my network, Benjamin Elias (@collabital). Although we hadn’t worked together directly at our previous […]
An Experiment with Social Media
I’m doing an experiment with social media. Over the last few months, I’ve been getting overwhelmed again thinking about the new year and how to get more leads for work. I’m not going to lie, when you work for yourself, it’s SO tough. I’ve had days when I couldn’t get out of bed because it […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 13 November 2017
Here are this week’s snap stories of personal learning commencing 13 November 2017 – It’s WORK OUT LOUD WEEK! Monday 13 November 2017 Today I talk about moderating the Fishbowl Event on Learning Technologies and how I’m preparing for it. I talk about multitasking on Facebook, talk about undertaking an assessment on purpose and values […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 25 September 2017
Here are this week’s snap stories of personal learning commencing 25 September 2017. Monday 25 September 2017 Today I talked about Link Rot which was a new concept I had discovered in my research for my curation presentation. I go through my process for how I plan my presentation and redo my mind map opting […]
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 […]
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 […]
Why We Post
Some years ago on Facebook, I made an intriguing observation on why we post. On my feed, I saw a variety of different types of posts. Ignoring the sponsored posts and paid advertisements, I looked at what posts seemed to have more discussion and engagement with my family, friends and peers. I noticed that posts […]
The Enigma Around Social Learning
I’m convinced that there’s an enigma around social learning. Recently I presented at the eLearning Instructional Designer’s Meetup and I had a massive realisation. Learning and Development don’t really understand what social learning is and the business doesn’t care much about it. It was confirmed by a quick survey I created and disseminated on Yammer […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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. […]