This month I started another MOOC on EdX designed by Microsoft’s Principal PM Manager Karuana Gatimu and Content Developer Brandon Neeb called Microsoft Service Adoption Course. The course was published this year and had been shared across social media through many Microsoft consultants who are responsible for programs that involve the adoption of collaborative systems. […]
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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 […]
Building a Network, Not an Audience
What’s the difference between building a network and building an audience? That’s a good question and I’m glad that a tweet this morning triggered me to write this post. Last weekend I attended VidCon, one of the biggest video conferences in Melbourne and let’s just say, I was underwhelmed. You can see my thoughts in […]
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 […]
Art Imitating Life or the Other Way Around?
For the last six or so months, I’ve been getting out of my comfort zone – in a BIG way by undertaking creative projects. Last week, I had the pleasure of attending the Cultivating Creativity in the Workplace workshop facilitated by someone who I’ve admired for a long time, Amy Burvall. (@amyburvall). Amy is an […]
Do You Find What I Write of Value to You and Your Work?
People tell me that they get a lot of value from reading my blog posts, watching my daily videos where I work and learn out loud as well as the tips in my monthly newsletter. The ideas, hints and strategies presented have helped people to create their own personalised learning strategies or given them the […]
What I Learned This Year
This morning I listened to the Good Practice podcast “What I Learned This Year” and it got me thinking about what I learned and decided to share my reflections here. Lesson 1: Knowing More About What I’m Willing to Stand For and Put Up With Working on your own is hard work and not for […]
You Are Not a Thought Leader
I got a bit ranty this week on Twitter. I had just reached a point where my top was blown. My limit reached. My patience stretched. I’m a huge fan of Fiona Tribe or aka @White_Owly who publishes tweets about people, brand and culture that go directly to the heart of what is wrong with organisations […]
Making the Messy Unmessy – Experimenting with Mind Maps
I had the pleasure of meeting a long time member of my personal learning network, Sahana Chattopadhyay at LearnTech Asia in Singapore last week. I was always a fan of her wonderful blogs because she had the knack for pulling together different concepts by various people who wrote about digital transformation, future of work and […]
Personal Reflections from LearnTech Asia
I’ve just returned from LearnTech Asia, the inaugural learning technology conference and expo in Singapore and decided to write some personal reflections. Let me tell you that my mind was a muddle so this is my attempt at getting things in some order. Before the Conference Initially, when I was asked by Conference Chair, Donald Taylor […]
What Do I Suck At?
I am going through all my DRAFT posts that are sitting on my WordPress site that have long gone unpublished and I came across this one that was written in 2013. At the time, it made such an impact but I was too fearful to publish it but now that I read it again, I’ve […]
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 […]
A New Personal Productivity Planner
For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been trialling out a new Personal Productivity planner and I’m scratching my head about it. In all honesty, I’m not entirely convinced that it’s the best way to manage all projects and tasks…but I could be wrong, it’s still early days yet. How Did I Start This New Method? […]
Excited About a New Role
After four months of searching for a job, I’m happy to say that I’m excited about a new role as a Learning Architect with a major insurance company in Australia, IAG. The role is for three months and I’ll be part of the Capability and Learning team who will roll out a new social collaboration […]
Lessons From An Independent Consultant
All gifs in this post via GIPHY It’s hard to imagine that three years have already gone by since I left the corporate world to become an independent consultant. It has been one of the most transformative personal learning journeys for me in my life that’s seen me ride the peaks and troughs of consulting work. There […]
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 […]
Reflections of My Snapchat Channel
For the last couple of weeks, I have changed my approach to how I am using Snapchat and I wrote about it in the post Welcome to My Snapchat Channel. I have been observing how individuals and companies are using this social medium to educate and inform their viewers and these have been quite interesting. My […]
Snapchat Makes Me Happy
By now you’re probably sick and tired of reading my posts about Snapchat as I work out loud through using this tool which is becoming my personal learning channel, education broadcast and creativity expression. Truth be told, it is unlike any other social medium I’ve come across because using it makes me HAPPY. I think […]
Resources to Build Your Blog Into a Business
Last week I attended the Problogger Event on the Gold Coast. For those who may not be aware, Problogger is the largest and longest running blogging event in Australia. You can read what I learned on Problogger on this blog post I wrote soon after the event. If you’re someone who is currently employed and […]
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 […]