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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Snapchat Posts
I have been asked many times to forward people the links to my posts on how to use Snapchat for learning and business so I decided to collate my Posts About Snapchat here. This list will be growing over time as I keep writing more. However, check out our Resources page to purchase items that […]
Welcome to My Snapchat Channel
What is a Snapchat Channel? If you don’t already know, I’m on Snapchat. I started using this platform some time ago in an effort to understand what the fuss was about. I’ve been using it to share and show my work (and snippets of my knitting and the things that I enjoy) however, in the […]
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 […]
Writing an eBook on Snapchat
via GIPHY For the last couple of weeks, I’ve had my head down writing an ebook on Snapchat. The ebook is titled How to Use Snapchat to Show and Share Your Work (the title may change). It’s being written for an audience who may be aware how to use this social medium but may not […]
4 Ways To Integrate Learning into the Workplace
I recently wrote a blog post on How to Deal with People Who Have No Time to Learn New Things at Work and this is a continuation of that post where I share four ways on how to integrate learning into the workplace. There are so many more – but let’s start with four for now. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]