I am taking a liking to vlogging but let’s just say that it’s dangerous. Why? Blogging and vlogging require different thought processes. While one is quite reflective, mulling over what I’m going to write and how to express my thoughts into coherent sentences to make sense of the thing that I’m grappling with, vlogging is an […]
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Do As I Say, Not As I Do Doesn’t Cut It With Social
Lately, everything I seem to be reading on Twitter and blogs seem to be about social or peer-to-peer learning. Okay, I may be exaggerating – not everything – but consider that only one year ago in Australia, the term was relatively new and not widely mentioned at learning and development gatherings and conferences. All of […]
Do You Work Out Loud?
Ever since stumbling upon Casey Niestat’s vlogs, something has just ‘switched on’ in my mind and I’ve been inspired. In particular, the video of his Wildly Functional Studio made me think about my own work, workplace and working out loud. Watch his video first and then come back to this blog… Well, what did you think? Did […]
We Need the FBI In Our Lives
Sometimes I’m embarrassed to admit it but I do find all things finance and accounting quite boring. There’s a part of me that as someone who came from a learning and development background, this was one area I really never connected with my business clients when I should have. I knew it then and I know […]
The Work, Connect and Learn Program is Over…But The Journey Has Just Begun
It’s been over a few weeks since my last blog post and believe me, I’ve been thinking about it writing every day but simply couldn’t commit the time as my first priority was to deliver the guided social learning program, Work Connect and Learn Program with Coca Cola Amatil. You may have read my other posts […]
The Importance of Having a Plan as a Freelancer
I’ve been freelancing now for eight months and it’s been an interesting journey. By no means did I think the move from full-time salaried employment to one where you didn’t know where the next job was coming from was going to be easy. I anticipated that I was going to experience the full range of emotions. Elation […]
January – A Month of Books & Back Pain
What I have Been Working On? My main achievement was completing the development of 4 modules of the Work, Connect and Learn Program for Coca Cola Amatil. This took me over 8 weeks to complete with various edits and version controls as well as exploring and learning more about SharePoint 2013 and Lync. This project […]
End of the Year Review
Every year I write some professional and personal goals to achieve by the end of the year. It was no different for 2014. Professionally, it was a big year for me so I’m happy how things have transpired. Professional Goals And Here Are the Results for 2014! Activate Activate Learning Solutions Check. Quit Full Time Work. […]
Work, Connect and Learn Program: The Strategy Phase
I am currently working with a client, Coca Cola Amatil (CCA) to design a social learning guided experience (or a cMOOC by any other name) for their engineers and maintenance staff to be rolled out as a program in February 2015. You can read more about the introduction to this program in my previous blog […]
A Way To Work, Connect and Learn in Your Job
Many who have been following my blog, know my love of MOOCs – the connectivist kind. Having completed many of them in the past few years, they have been instrumental in my broadening my own personal learning networks (PLN) but also giving me the confidence to use, explore, play and apply different social tools in my work. (If […]
My Brain is Full: Knowledge Week in Melbourne 2014
Last week I participated in four different events as part of Melbourne Knowledge Week. It was the fifth year that this event brought together entrepreneurs, designers, artists, tech geeks and experts in the fields of arts, science, medicine, business and the community. This year I decided to focus on my main goal and that was to […]
4 Ways To Learn Your Client’s Business: The Value of Networks
For the last month or so, I have been working with a couple of corporate clients providing consulting around social learning and communities of practice. In effect, the clients issues revolve around the opportunity to have their national teams collaborate openly with the ultimate aim to achieve their business objectives. Rather than go into the […]
Part 2 of Social Onboarding…A Case Study
On 4 September I wrote the first part of a project I was the lead developer (okay, the only developer) for a Social Onboarding Program for Retail Store Managers for my previous organisation. The first part of the blog series covered the background, the problem, the needs analysis, stakeholder engagement and recommendations that were part […]
The More Things Change The More They Stay The Same
I am currently working on a project about communities of practice that is making me think back to my years in learning and development and recalling the different ideas I submitted to my management and leadership in the form of strategy papers. Many of these never transpired to anything due to budget, resources or simply not […]
IT Systems are GO!…Hang on…Nope….No, There’s a Firewall
Yesterday I was having a chat with a good friend who was complaining about their IT and he asked, “seriously, I wonder how any work gets done”. In all honesty, we’ve all had these whinges and complaints about our IT systems. Even I have been known to clench my fists to the heavens when a […]
5 More Lessons for a Freelancer
I wrote 5 Lessons for the New Freelancer last month and since then, I have added another 5 new lessons that I have been slowly learning into my foray as a freelancer. 1. Your Time is Precious, Value It That’s not to say that when I had a full-time permanent job that my time wasn’t precious but […]
How Do You Start Out in Twitter? Find the Why First
Yesterday I conducted a webinar on “Getting Started in Twitter” for the VET Development Centre. The centre provides and supports the professional and educational development of vocational trainers, managers and staff through access to events, seminars, conferences and webinars. You can see some of the offerings in their Events Calendar. I was first introduced to the VET Development Centre […]
Haven’t Met Your Online Buddies? Hang Out With Them!
Last Wednesday night, I organised a Google Hangout for Third Place. For those who aren’t aware, I created Third Place, a meetup group for anyone interested in learning, performance and development across all fields. What started out as meetups in Melbourne only are now in Sydney, Newcastle, Brisbane and Adelaide and all run by a […]
How to Cycle in Puerto Rico when You’re Not There & It’s 6 Years Ago
Many may not know (well you do now), that I’ve been blogging since 2005 about various things unrelated to learning, work or performance on my Ramblings blog. In fact, Ramblings was more of a movie and book review site, with lots of knitting and travel stories, posts about Demis Roussos, Greek politics, cat gifs and a […]
Do you Learn or Experience Culture?
“The only thing worse than learning from experience is not learning from experience.” – Unknown I’ve been in Waikiki for the last two weeks taking some time out for some rest and relaxation. Hawaii is our travel destination of choice for those times when we need to chill out and just enjoy lazy days of […]