I love this statement, “changing work one human at a time” because I feel that in some part, over the last few years that’s what I’ve been inspiring to achieve. This morning I was trying out the Couch to 5 Km running app while listening to James Altucher interview writer Steven Pressfield about his latest […]
This Week’s Snapstories of Personal Learning in the Week of 31 July 2017
Here are this week’s snap stories of personal learning commencing 31 July. Monday 31 July 2017 My Sydney trip, in truth, exhausted me. It gets really tiring chasing historical figures like Arthur Phillip and William Bligh around the town. Traipsing around the Rocks area (the oldest part of Sydney) and learning stories of first settlement […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning in Week of 24 July 2017
Here are this week’s snap stories of personal learning commencing 24 July. Monday 24 July 2017 Today I share some snaps on my process for dealing with LinkedIn invitations to connect. This was one of the most engaged snap story because people screenshot as well as connected with me to learn more about my process. […]
Learning Is A Series of Little Experiments
Since finishing up my employment contract at an insurance company in mid-June this year, I have been reflecting that everything I learned about my field of Learning and Development has come about from a series of little experiments across multiple fields and different interests outside my field. I’m very much a dabbler and an explorer […]
A New Way To Create Podcasts
I found a new way to create podcasts for those who have been asking me this question over the last couple of years. And it’s too easy. In an employment contract with an organisation some time ago, I remember trawling Yammer one morning while having breakfast at my desk. I came across an internal business […]
Why We Post
Some years ago on Facebook, I made an intriguing observation on why we post. On my feed, I saw a variety of different types of posts. Ignoring the sponsored posts and paid advertisements, I looked at what posts seemed to have more discussion and engagement with my family, friends and peers. I noticed that posts […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 10 July 2017
Here are this week’s snap stories of personal learning (that is, what I’m learning and how it applies to work). I use Snapchat as my Working Out Loud tool that captures my thoughts and reflections during the day in a chronological order. I also use it as a channel to inform, educate and inspire others […]
Curiosity in Learning
I’ve been thinking about curiosity in learning lately. In particular, why it is that I can become obsessed with some subject matter and not others. You may have seen my latest obsession with maritime history focussed on the Royal Navy between the years 1787-1790. That’s pretty specific, isn’t it? It’s like I have some crazy […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 26 June 2017
Here are this week’s snap stories of personal learning. It’s been an incredible week learning about Australian maritime history, Convict Settlement, Podcasting, Personal Productivity and how different cultures use Social Media. Monday 26 June 2017 First day of a new week and it’s all systems go. In today’s snapstory, I look like something the cat dragged […]
The Enigma Around Social Learning
I’m convinced that there’s an enigma around social learning. Recently I presented at the eLearning Instructional Designer’s Meetup and I had a massive realisation. Learning and Development don’t really understand what social learning is and the business doesn’t care much about it. It was confirmed by a quick survey I created and disseminated on Yammer […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 19 June 2017
Here are this week’s snap stories of personal learning. Monday 19 June 2017 On Monday 19 June I decided to snap about CollabTechFest a collaboration conference focussed on enterprise social networks. Of course, I wasn’t there (sometimes attending conferences can be very expensive so I limit my attendance preferring cheaper alternatives – namely connecting with […]
A New Personal Productivity Planner
For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been trialling out a new Personal Productivity planner and I’m scratching my head about it. In all honesty, I’m not entirely convinced that it’s the best way to manage all projects and tasks…but I could be wrong, it’s still early days yet. How Did I Start This New Method? […]
Melbourne Learning Summit
Yesterday I attended the Melbourne Learning Summit. It’s a meetup group for Melbourne based Learning and Development professionals that are hosted by the group members for the group members. The topic of the summit was “Building a Learning Culture”. I found out about this group recently through an ex-colleague in the organisation, IAG I finished […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 12 June 2017
Here are this week’s snap stories of personal learning (and what I’ve been working on) for the week starting Monday 12 June 2017. Monday 12 June 2017 Well, it was the Queen’s Birthday public holiday. Usually, on weekends and holidays, I don’t snap. Just as well because they’d be really boring. They’d be of me […]
What’s Marketing Got to Do With Learning?
Yesterday I had the honour being the invited guest on Social Chefs, a social media marketing show hosted by Christian Karasiewicz (@ckroks) and Nick Rishwain (@NickJRishwain). Now you might be asking what has this got to do with learning and development? I was asking the same thing initially so after checking out some of their […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 5 June 2017
Here are this week’s snap stories of personal learning week of 5th June. Monday 5 June 2017 Today is the start of International Work Out Loud Week. I talk about what is working out loud and why we need it as well as talk about my curation course. Tuesday 6 June 2017 The night before I […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 29 May 2017
Here is a rundown of this week’s snap stories of Personal Learning Week of 29 May 2017. Monday 29 May 2017 On this day, I talk about how I like to play with the various Snapchat filters as well as talk about the Vincent Van Gough exhibition I attended over the weekend. I surmise that […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 22 May 2017
So here is a run down of what I was working on and learning in the week of 22 May. Monday 22 May 2017 I was reading a book that was recently published by an ex-McKinsey consultant called the Mosaic Principle which talked about neogeneralism. In this video, I share a bit about what neogeneralism […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 15 May 2017
Monday 15 May 2017 After Portugal’s win in Eurovision, I start my week with the winning song and then quickly delve into the research that I have been doing on Snapchat. I have been reading some academic papers on how this tool is being used as some background for an upcoming presentation to vocational educators […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of Monday 8 May 2017
I’ve been consistently snapping various educational pieces on Snapchat however, the same cannot be said for what I forget to save at the end of the day. I must get better at remembering to SAVE my videos at the end of the day or else they disappear after 24 hours and just like that, they’re […]