Today I saw an excellent post on the site Unselfing.Social and it’s such a great idea… As an experiment, for one continuous month, make the focus of one in every three things you share on social media — wherever you normally share, however regularly or irregularly you do, however many people you reach — something […]
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Microsoft Asked Me To Present on How To Use Storylines (and Stories) for Business
This morning I presented to Microsoft’s Yammer Customer Community on How to Use Storylines (and Stories) for Business. Viva Engage is the new employee engagement platform (well, it’s the newly branded Yammer which is sitting in Microsoft Teams as the Viva Engage app). Currently Storylines (aka ‘blog’) is live in Yammer and the Stories feature […]
I’ve Resigned
It’s official. I’ve resigned. Someone asked me how I feel and in all honesty, I’m glad I did it. It wouldn’t have felt right to continue working when the mojo had long since disappeared. Not fair on me, not fair on others. So I depart. I have no other plans except to get my headspace […]
Social Media Is Not Going to Save You
I stumbled upon this excellent post from the Indieweb wiki page, going down rabbit warrens as I do. It was written back in April 2021 called Social Media Isn’t Going to Save You From Social Media. In particular, scroll (!) your eye down to the section titled, “Convenience for the People; Power for the Corporations” […]
Do You Need To Be Prompted All The Time?
One of the things I’m scratching my head over is, at times, people have been asking me for “prompts” at work. Prompts to help them write posts to share what they’re working on. Prompts to to help them respond to posts they’ve been mentioned in our enterprise social network. Prompts to help them remind them […]
What Would You Be Doing Otherwise?
Last week I went into the office. It’s been encouraged (although not mandatory), to go into the office on one day of the week when the rest of the team goes in. The intention is to meet with each other in person, socialise and a change of scenery (I guess). I don’t mind going into […]
Posting Prompts For Enterprise Social Networks, Yay or Nay?
What daily habit do you do that improves your quality of life? Mmm. 🤔 Good question. For me my daily habit that improves my quality of life is my reading habit. I need to read every day – and not on screens but I mean, physical books. The time I sit or lie down is […]
Dare to Unlead: The Art of Leadership in a Fragmented World
Celine Schillinger wrote this wonderful book recently that I have recommended to everyone I know. It’s a book about a different style of leadership needed in today’s world. When I was reading the book, there were times when I was angry and had to put it down to reflect more. It wasn’t what was written, […]
Hibernating LinkedIn & Moving My CV Here
I have written about hibernating in my recent post LinkedIn Gone to Sleep which is a way I’m managing, well, let’s just say, filtering and directing all enquiries to come through my site here. About a couple of years ago, I used a specific code to Unfollow Everyone on LinkedIn and wrote about it in […]
Curriculum Vitae
Objective I’m a curious explorer and always learning something new. I believe that access to lifelong learning should be a human right to face the new world ahead of us. I help people to better work, connect and learn at work and through work to help them navigate through constant change and complexity in the […]
Weekly Rapts for Week of Sunday 14 August 2022
Welcome to Weekly Rapts Every week I come across some exceptional articles, books, videos 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 about […]
Weekly Rapts
Welcome to Weekly Rapts Every week I come across some exceptional articles, books, videos 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 about […]
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 […]
Top Tools for Learning 2022
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 […]
Going Out on a Limb
I’m going to go out on a limb and say that in my 25+ years of working, I’ve finally reached the conclusion that building a learning culture in organisations where there’s a free flow of knowledge, experiences and opportunities for relationship building and co-creation is impossible. Organisational systems, traditional thinking and most of all, egos […]
Notification Literacy
In the post, “Some Thoughts on ‘Home’ Pages for Individuals Within Communities and Social Networks” by Doug Belshaw, explains he’s “thinking out loud” in his post on a solution that allows him not to feel overwhelmed when returning to community or social network sites and having to face an onslaught of notifications that cause him […]
Writing My CV
One of the things I’ve slowly been doing is updating my resume (or CV) as I hadn’t touched it since 2016. Really, there’s no rhyme or reason for it as I am thinking of my future at the moment and considering when would be the best time to ‘retire’. Part of me thinks I have […]
Yammer & Viva Engage: Same? Same?
Yes. Okay you can stop reading now. Seriously, it didn’t take long for the new announcement by Microsoft for people to start pinging me at work and on the phone (thankfully, I’m off social media or else my notifications would have been out of control). “Helen, you’re a Yammer fan, what do you make of […]
Idealist, Be Gone!
If there was a spray I could douse myself in, it would be “Idealist, Be Gone!” I’m at an age where I’m doing a lot of soul searching and made the conclusion that my idealism has failed me. You can’t get to this age and escape it unfortunately as you deal with big problems in […]
I Wore My Pyjamas All Day
Now I have to clarify this. It was Monday. A work day. I worked all day in my pyjamas. I ran meetings, in my pyjamas. It’s a first. I’ve never done this before. What level of “not caring about personal appearance” have I reached? My usual habit is to get dressed appropriately complete with hair […]