Imagine my surprise this week when I heard that I was awarded the inaugural Jay Cross Memorial Award from the Internet Time Alliance. You know when someone tells you something so unbelievable that it takes a few seconds to register before the penny drops? Well that was me this week. I was soon overwhelmed (in a positive […]
Reflections of Snapchat Through Facebook Mutterings
I had enough. What was all this fuss about Snapchat? While the rest of the world was espousing this as “the next Twitter”, I decided to devote some time to revisit my account and figure out what the fuss was about. I’ll share my reflections of Snapchat. For the last couple of months, I have […]
Have We Reached Saturation with Social Networks?
I’m in love with Snapchat. There I’ve said it. For the last couple of years I just “didn’t get it”. It was one social medium that I had no idea how to use, how to find followers and the whole point of disappearing snaps. I discounted it too quickly without realising the huge benefit of […]
Learning is Personal
Recently I worked on a small project with a corporate to provide feedback on their design specification of a social learning program that was going to be delivered through their Enterprise Social Networking (ESN) platform. There were many moving parts to this project simply because it was the first time the Learning and Development team […]
Share How You Work Out Loud and Win Free Tickets
Here’s a chance for you to share how you work and loud and you may win a free ticket to an upcoming online virtual event. (Yay! Freebies!) What is this event? Well it’s called Immersion (#LDImmersion) and eight speakers will share their ideas on how to inspire social learning and collaboration in your workplace. Hosted by Karen […]
10 Archived Blog Posts On Social Learning
Last weekend, I went through over 300 blog posts of my ramblings and experiments in social learning, networking, online communities, open and enterprise social networks and some knitting thrown in for good measure. When I attended the Co-working Day with the Business Addicts last week, they mentioned that it was a good idea to check […]
How Do We Work Together?
One of the questions I get asked often by people looking to employ my services is, “How do we work together?” So I thought I’d share my answer here. One of the difficult things I’ve gone through in the last two years as an independent consultant is exactly defining the one thing that I most […]
Professional Development is Personal
It’s no secret, I love to learn. It’s what keeps me curious, engaged and excited about what I do. Over the years, the internet and in particular, social media, online communities and social networks have provided me with a wealth of resources, information and constant ideas that inspire and mesmerise me…and also confuse me! Still, […]
Co-Working with Business Addicts
Before you ask me, “Helen are you a Business Addict?” let me quickly add, “no, no I’m not.” [Shock, horror!] Instead, you can call me an “Experience Hunter”. Hope I haven’t burst some image you had of me about some hard core Gordon Gecko business person, walking the streets, closing deals and hustling for the […]
20 Mistakes Learning Teams Make About Social Learning
What are the 20 mistakes Learning and Development teams make about social learning? Over the last couple of years as an independent consultant helping organisations empower their people to learn continually so that they can work smarter, I decided to list the main misconceptions and beliefs that I have come across by some Learning and Development […]
Exploring the World Of Learning Technologies
Some time ago, Trent Rosen (@TrentRosen) invited me to be a member of a panel on Exploring the World of Learning Technologies at his Melbourne event held on Wednesday 3rd May. Trent runs these events in Sydney and Melbourne for people in the Learning and Development profession to learn and meet with other learning practitioners. Delivered […]
Benefits of Working With Different Generations
What are the benefits of working with different generations? Well, I found out the answer last Tuesday night and I suspect, more of the answer will be revealed over the next six weeks. Many of those who read this blog know that I was recently selected to be a member of a local council’s Intergenerational […]
If I Were 22
This post is part of a LinkedIn series in which we share lessons for this month’s theme If I Were 22. Here is what I shared on a recent LinkedIn post… If you had a time machine and you travelled back to the age of 22, what would you do differently in your life? What […]
Visit to SensiLab
Last Thursday night, I had a visit to SensiLab. Opened in May 2015, SensiLab is a research hub that enables researchers and industry to collaborate on new technologies that have business applications. The idea of SensiLab was to bring together ‘anti-disciplinary’ teams to perform research that cannot be performed by a single discipline alone. For example, […]
Two Conferences in Three Days & One TPS Report
Last week I attended two conferences (well, one expo and one conference) in three days. On Tuesday 19 April, I went along to the Connect Expo at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre to check out the latest in business, technology and innovation. There were over 200 stalls and they expected over 5000 visitors to […]
How Working Out Loud Inspires New Passions
A few weeks back I saw this Facebook advert in the newsfeed and immediately my curiosity was piqued. It made me think of how working out loud inspires new passions. Our local council was looking to sponsor budding film makers aged 14 to 90 to create short films related to intergenerational stories and themes taken […]
My Top 10 Learning Tools for 2016
It’s it that time of the year again – My Top 10 Learning Tools for 2016! It’s time to submit my top 10 learning tools for Jane Hart’s (@C4LPT) annual Top Learning Tools survey. You can vote too for your learning tools of 2016. This year has been interesting because in some ways, I’ve reduced […]
Finding Your Own Way in A Digital Blizzard
Finding Your Way In a Digital Blizzard As many of my friends know, I’m a great fan of the series Vikings. Although much of the show is produced so that it has mass audience appeal, it does have some historical inaccuracies. Nevertheless it makes for wonderful viewing where I imagine the harsh life of these Norsemen. In the first series the […]
4 Myths of Social Learning
In the last couple of years, I have spoken to many corporate Learning and Development practitioners about how they may support and enable opportunities for their workforce to learn collaboratively with each other in and during the flow of their every day work. That is, “social learning”. During these conversations, I noticed that there were […]
The Value of Networking for Learning and Development
What’s The Value of Networking for Learning and Development? This post was recently published in the Training Journal on 9 March 2016 There is much discussion online about the future of Learning and Development and how teams can support their workforce to build capability during a time of constant change and volatility. Yet, how much […]