Years ago I used to visit my aunt and uncle on the other side of town. Every time I got out of the car outside their home, my arms laden with baked goodies to have for our afternoon tea together, I would sneak a look next door and check the progress of their neighbour’s DIY […]
Why You Should Share Your Work
Many of you may be aware that I’m a fan of the work of Robert Scoble (@Scobleizer). It was only recently at the Pivot Summit in Geelong that I had been made aware of his work and I signed up to follow his Facebook page. Robert Scoble used to work at Rackspace as their futurist. Much […]
When Your Employees Just Don’t Care
When I was working in the learning and development department of corporate organisations, there were many times I felt anxious, stressed and pressured. As someone who has experienced four redundancies, countless restructures, sat through many job interviews and even had a stint on the unemployment queue receiving a government handout (“the dole”), the idea of […]
Auditors are Not Boring
Myth busted – Auditors are not boring! I thought I’d put it out there so that we can start this blog post on a positive note and dispel that stereotype once and for all. This week I had an opportunity to present two sessions at SOPAC 2016. The first session was How to Build Your […]
Change Without Fear
Can you change without fear? It seems like I’ve been doing a lot of fighting…and I’m tired. Last week I attended the Bayside Business Breakfast. The Bayside Council runs various business networking events for small business owners. These vary from after work ‘meet and mingle’ events, business book club, workshops, seminars and a popular breakfasts […]
Everyone Do the Hustle
Are you doing the hustle? “Helen, you’ve got to start hustling!” “I’m hustling, are you?” “You’re not in the game if you’re not hustling!” “I’m hustling every day!” If only I had a dollar every time I heard this. Truth be told, it’s doing my head in a bit and I had to take a […]
The Realm in Ringwood
On Friday 12th February 2016, I organised a trip out to the City of Maroondah’s new $24m state-of-the-art, The Realm in Ringwood which is a Business, Cultural, Language and Innovation Centre. Opened in October last year and located directly opposite the new Ringwood train station, the Realm incorporates green spaces, cafes, retail shops as well as […]
Where’s Your Third Place?
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Have an iPhone, Will Vlog
By now many of you may have noticed my insane liking to vlogging. Ever since stumbling upon Casey Niestat’s Wildly Functional Studio video on YouTube, I have fallen for the idea of sharing the STORY behind our work and learning through video. It’s “working out loud” to some extent – namely, you’re sharing the process […]
Social Learning Creates Confusion
SOCIAL LEARNING CREATES CONFUSION! It should be a headline shouldn’t it? If it were, I could picture the scene at a breakfast table as the reader, takes a sip of coffee from their cup, looks up from their smart device, tablet or newspaper and asks their partner… “Darling, what’s social learning?” What’s the bet that the […]
Let Go of the Negativity
Recently I wrote a post about my word for the year being “Focus”. Ever since the Christmas break, I’ve been thinking a lot about this word and what activities I need to do to get back on track with my own personal learning journey and revisit my PKM (personal knowledge mastery process). Last year was […]
What’s Your Word for the Year?
Just One Word. For the last two weeks we had a house guest. Every year, our friend who is a tennis fan, comes to stay with us and attend the Australian Open. While he was here, he organised a dinner for a group of eight one Saturday night at a restaurant on the banks of […]
My Work Out Loud Day Experiment
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Co-Working at the Docklands Library
Last Friday, I organised a co-working day at the Docklands Library in Melbourne and called it ThirdPlace. I started this meet up group a couple of years ago for people interested in adult education, coaching and all things related to “learning” to gather for informal social networking events. The people belong across all different industries and professions. […]
It’s a Kinda Magic Augmented Reality
Last year, I attended an expo called Future Assembly and while there, I had an opportunity to participate in an augment reality experiment. A Melbourne based company called Plattar (@PlattarGlobal) set up their camera equipment and invited people to film a short video that they can augment onto your business card. Obviously, I was keen to give […]
What is Your Life Purpose?
This week a friend had posted this TedX video called How to Know Your Life Purpose on Facebook where Adam Leipzig, an entertainment executive (and author of Film Making in Action) presents five questions to the audience that answers this question. It’s well worth viewing. Well I started to think and reflect on these five questions […]
CollabCamp with Jayde and Bec
This week I had the pleasure of meeting up with my good friend Jayde Lovell whom I hadn’t seen for a few years. Jayde is a Science Communicator and host of YouTube’s The Young Turk Network’s SciQ Channel and also works at the New York Academy of Sciences. (I encourage you all to subscribe the […]
Make 2016 The Year to Be That Cool Adult
Make this year that you happen to be that cool adult in a child’s life. What do I mean? Well keep reading and find out! Happy new year everyone! I hope you had a wonderful holiday and looking forward to everything that 2016 has to offer. I spent my holiday break with my young nephews […]