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 […]
An Idea for LearningNow TV
You may not be aware that I’m a roving reporter for an internet TV channel for Learning and Development professionals and I’ve got an idea for LearningNow TV, I began my foray into video a couple of years back and started out quite anxiously. You see, I’m not a fan of public speaking and I […]
Presentation at Craft Victoria
This week I’ll be presenting to Craft Victoria on Social Media: More Than Marketing. According to their website: “Craft is one of Victoria’s largest and oldest arts organisation dedicated to championing aspirational making and ideas driven practice through exhibitions, public and retail programs. Craft represents more contemporary craftspeople than any other organisation in Australia, and […]
Are Member Associations Worth It Anymore?
Lately, I’ve been thinking “are member associations worth it anymore?” This question came about from a small sideline project I’m working on – it’s my own initiative so I’m free to write about it here. It was a kernel of an idea that planted itself in my head one day that had to be explored. It […]
How to Use Snapchat For Your Business
For the last few months, I have been actively exploring the use of Snapchat for the purposes of business. I’ve specifically looked at how you can use this tool to share and show your work and projects for the purposes of creating conversations with people inside and outside your field and networks. I have been […]
Why I Blog
Some people ask me why I blog and I’d like to give them a serious answer they may want to hear about how it helps build and market my business or brand, or how it engages with my followers or clients but in all honesty, that’s far from the truth. It’s never been about business, marketing […]
Learning & Development Need To Get their Groove Back
For a while now, I’ve been thinking that teams in corporate Australia Learning and Development need to get their groove back. And in a big way. So much so, something needs to happen to get a massive dose of inspiration and excitement back into this area because the more I’m working and talking with other […]
Get Involved with Problogger Event
I’m excited! In just four weeks I jump on a plane and head off to warmer climes of the Gold Coast to attend this massive Bloggers Convention. I’ve been an avid reader of Darren Rowse’s Problogger website for a couple of years now and when I heard a podcast about the first national bloggers convention […]
Organisations Who Snapchat
First of all, let me say that yes, I’ve heard that Instagram has similar Snapchat functions and no, I don’t see that I’ve wasted my time on Snapchat at all. If anything, it’s made me appreciate the subtle differences between platforms and I’m now more aware of how to use the tools for the right […]
Interview with Rod Beach from Liberate eLearning
You may or may not be aware that I’m a roving reporter for LearningNow TV. I was kindly asked by Colin Steed (@ColinSteed) and Nigel Paine (@ebase) some time ago to provide short reports to this live internet television channel dedicated to people in the Learning and Development in large and small organisations. At the […]
You Know Nothing
I don’t know about you but I have a confession to make. I have found this year challenging in some ways. In particularly from the point of view of realising the constant amount of change and flux in the world and having to keep up with it all. There are many people (me included), who at […]
Publicize Your Work On Snapchat
By now you would have heard of my experimentations with Snapchat and I thought I’d share some of how I use this tool to publicise my work as a visual ‘work out loud’ diary. If you haven’t read my previous posts on this platform, feel free to check out these posts Reflections of Snapchat Through […]
Seeking Feedback
Okay, everyone you can relax. This is NOT a post about Snapchat. (That’ll be the next post). I just wanted to share with you a short blog post. Yes you read right. Short. (It’s not lost on me that I’ve wasted an additional 39 words to get to this point…I just can’t do short!) Well […]
Am I Ready for Snapchat?
By now, you may have already been reading my personal experiences with this tool and asking yourself, Am I Ready for Snapchat? In this post, I’ll go through my own personal reactions to this platform because it’s been an interesting journey. It started out with this need to figure out why so many younger people […]
People Who Show Their Work on Snapchat
Many of you may know that for the last few months or so, I have been looking for people who show their work on Snapchat. I recently wrote about it in my blog post titled: Reflections of Snapchat Through Facebook Mutterings. You might ask, why did I do this? The answer is that I didn’t […]
Learning and Working Together in an Intergenerational Film Crew
Many of you may already know that this year, I took part in an Intergenerational Film Project that was sponsored and supported by our local government, the City of Kingston as a community service project. I wrote about it in my posts titled the Benefits of Working With Different Generations and How Working Out Loud Inspires […]
Is Instructional Design Dead?
Is Instructional Design Dead was recently published (in an edited format) in the Training Journal on 10th June 2016. So here’s the full post including my personal reflections (which weren’t in the original Training Journal article). Judging by the amount of articles on the internet written by people who have worked, or are working in […]
Interview with Kim Goodwin from Craft Victoria
You may or may not be aware that I’m a roving reporter for LearningNow TV. I was kindly asked by Colin Steed (@ColinSteed) and Nigel Paine (@ebase) some time ago to provide short reports to this live internet television channel dedicated to people in the Learning and Development in large and small organisations. Last month, […]
My Top 10 Learning Tools for 2016
Play the drum roll sound because it’s that time of year again to share with you My Top 10 Learning Tools for 2016 in Jane Hart’s survey. (Entries close on 3 October 2016 so you still have heaps of time to submit yours!). Every year I submit my learning tools to this survey as it’s […]
Creating a Community Managers Program
For the last two weeks, I’ve been head down tapping away on my keyboard creating a Community Managers Program for a client’s Learning and Development team. Although I cannot share the details of how I created this or what elements I used to do so in the blog due to confidentiality, it’s been an opportunity […]