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 […]
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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 […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 27 March 2017
Here are the snap stories of the week of 27 March. For some reason Monday seems to have disappeared which is unfortunate because I had a rant about the two fundamental skills of any modern worker that have been the most useful to me. These skills were: Building a Personal Learning Network; and, Personal Knowledge […]
This Week’s Snap Stories on Personal Learning Week of 6 March 2017
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). […]
A Case for Chasing the Shiny and New
When was the last time you heard that you shouldn’t be chasing the shiny and the new or risk your time, money and sanity with new fads? Recently I read Steve Wheeler’s post on Binge Learning where he recounted the story of his obsession with academic studies. The “compelling nature of the content I was […]
Happy New Year
Hello everyone and hello 2017! Happy New Year! I hope that you all had a wonderful holiday break and enjoyed the special times with loved ones as well as took a well earned break now looking forward to a new year! I love this time of the year as it’s an opportunity to start afresh […]
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 […]
End of Year Stocktake
It’s coming to the end of the year and every year I do an end of year stock take. I revisit the personal goals I set out to achieve for myself from the beginning of the year and look at what was achieved, what succeeded and what failed. It’s a good practice to understand that […]
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 […]
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 […]
Have you heard of Frozen Snapping?
Have you heard of Frozen Snapping? No it’s not what you do when you take out some sausages from the freezer and need to bang them on the kitchen counter to separate them or find the nearest tongs to snap them apart. (Or am I the only one who does that?!) It’s a new craze […]
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. […]
What Did I Learn at Problogger?
So what did I learn at Problogger? No, it wasn’t to try and capture a photo of me with Problogger, Darren Rowse. Okay, maybe it was (see below for my learning goals). So what is Problogger I hear you ask? It’s Australia’s biggest and longest running blogging conference and this year, I decided to […]