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7 April 2019 by Helen Blunden

This Month’s Stories of Personal Learning December 2018

Here are this month’s snap stories of personal learning for December 2018. Every week and every month, I like to review these videos to see what I have been doing every day.  It’s a great way to capture all my work and learning – and also to see progress towards my goals. Every month I […]

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Filed Under: Vlogging, Working Out Loud (Work Narration) Tagged With: 2018, Books, Creswell, December, December 2018, Fox, knitting, LinkedIn, LinkedIn Video, Lynda.com, Music Video, navy, OneNote, Skype for Business, Surface Pro, The Catcher in the Rye, webinar

15 December 2018 by Helen Blunden

When Your 22 Year Old Self Comes Back to You

Back in 1991, as a 22-year-old, I left home for the first time in my life and found myself in the Navy going through JOCT (I think it stood for Junior Officer (Common??) Training – basically, it was hell. It was something like this…. and… I prepped on all the war movies and psyched myself […]

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Filed Under: Blogging Tagged With: 2018, Creswell, December, December 2018, Journal, navy

9 December 2018 by Helen Blunden

This Month’s Stories of Personal Learning for the Month of November 2018

Here are this month’s snap stories of personal learning for November 2018. Every week and every month, I like to review these videos to see what I have been doing every day.  It’s a great way to capture all my work and learning – and also to see progress towards my goals. Every month I […]

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Filed Under: Working Out Loud (Work Narration) Tagged With: 2018, LinkedIn Learning, Lynda, Microsoft Teams, November, November 2018, PLN, Videos, Win10

9 December 2018 by Helen Blunden

Profiles in Knowledge Series by Stan Garfield

Profiles in Knowledge

I was honoured and privileged this week to learn that Stan Garfield (@stangarfield), a prolific writer and expert on the topic of Knowledge Management for many years, did a post on my work for his Profiles in Knowledge series on LinkedIn. You can read the article here. I am a great admirer of Stan because he […]

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Filed Under: Blogging, Working Out Loud (Work Narration) Tagged With: 2018, Curation, December, December 2018, KM, Knowledge, Knowledge Management, Stan Garfield, WOL, Working Out Loud

2 December 2018 by Helen Blunden

When Social Media is Used to Exclude & Isolate

isolation

Recently I was talking to a friend about how she uses social media.  She admitted that she prefers to not engage or contribute in open and public forums with strangers preferring only to connect with people that she knows and even then, it’s only through direct and private messages.  Although she regularly scans her social […]

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Filed Under: Blogging Tagged With: 2018, December, Social Media

18 November 2018 by Helen Blunden

Have You Got Hidden Skills That Your Company Doesn’t Know About?

Many of us have sideline projects and interests that capture our attention and engage our minds and our hearts. What if we could be the same with our day to day work? In this short video, I share a couple of my sideline projects that not only inspire me but have been CRITICAL in picking […]

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Filed Under: Vlogging, Working Out Loud (Work Narration) Tagged With: 2018, Gigs, LinkedIn, LinkedIn Video, November, November 2018, Personal Learning, Sideline Projects, Skills

18 November 2018 by Helen Blunden

I Was Doing Outlook All Wrong!

It’s International Work Out Loud Week where we show the process of what we are working and learning, and today I share how I relearned Outlook. I’m all for social collaboration but lots of companies haven’t explained the value of this to their workers so that it makes sense. Or, they’ve got their ESNs and […]

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Filed Under: Vlogging, Working Out Loud (Work Narration) Tagged With: 2018, LinkedIn, LinkedIn Video, November, November 2018, Outlook, self directed learning, Working Out Loud

18 November 2018 by Helen Blunden

What Is Working Out Loud?

This week was Working Out Loud week again and I shared a few videos of what I have been doing (which you can see on these blog posts). I decided to revisit a video I did over a year ago because I had explained it perfectly while I was in my car.  I thought I’d […]

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Filed Under: Vlogging, Working Out Loud (Work Narration) Tagged With: 2018, LinkedIn, November, November 2018, Video, WOL, WOLWEEK, Working Out Loud, YouTube

18 November 2018 by Helen Blunden

I’m a Lifelong Learner

Today I thought I’d do a vlog after I was inspired by Steve Dotto I’m a Lifelong Learner (his YouTube channel DottoTech is excellent) where he talked about being a continual and lifelong learner. This is it and it’s well worth a watch. Much of what he said resonated with me as a continual learner […]

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Filed Under: Vlogging Tagged With: 2018, LinkedIn, LinkedIn Video, November, November 2018, personal learning network, Steve Dotto

6 November 2018 by Helen Blunden

This Month’s Stories of Personal Learning for the Month of October 2018

Here are this month’s snap stories of personal learning for October 2018. Every week and every month, I like to review these videos to see what I have been doing every day.  It’s a great way to capture all my work and learning – and also to see progress towards my goals. Every month I […]

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Filed Under: Vlogging, Working Out Loud (Work Narration) Tagged With: 2018, Art, Book Reviews, Camtasia, CNT, Delve, Music Video, navy, October, October 2018, ThirdPlace, Win10

2 November 2018 by Helen Blunden

Third Place is Now On Facebook

Back in 2013, I created a community of people interested in learning and development to gather in social environments for conversations and connections called Third Place. It was inspired by a book I had read by Ray Oldenberg called The Great Good Place and a London tweetup that I had attended that got me thinking of […]

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Filed Under: Third Place Tagged With: 2018, November, Third Place

1 November 2018 by Helen Blunden

Knowledge as a Concept

Every Thursday mid-morning, I head over to my parents for a bit of conversation and coffee.  It’s something I look forward to every week because it’s a good opportunity to find out what they’ve been doing to pass their time.  Long retired now, their time is spent pottering about in the garden, reading books, watching […]

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Filed Under: Blogging Tagged With: 2018, Art, November, Paul Strisik

28 October 2018 by Helen Blunden

Back to Basics

It’s hard to imagine that four months have flown by since joining Adopt & Embrace as one of their Adoption Consultants on a part-time basis and it’s been an interesting, entertaining and educational ride for me. When I think back to what I have learned in my time there, it comes down to these two […]

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Filed Under: Blogging, Professional Development Tagged With: 2018, Loop, Microsoft, October, Outlook

20 October 2018 by Helen Blunden

This Month’s Stories of Personal Learning for the Month of September 2018

Here are this month’s snap stories of personal learning for September 2018. Every week and every month, I like to review these videos to see what I have been doing every day.  It’s a great way to capture all my work and learning – and also to see progress towards my goals. Every month I […]

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Filed Under: Working Out Loud (Work Narration) Tagged With: 2018, Camtasia, DigiMe, Digital wills, IABC, Microsoft, October, October 2018, Positioning Statements, September, Skype for Business, Snapchat, Surface Pro, VidCon

19 October 2018 by Helen Blunden

Don’t Kill Off Delve

It’s Friday morning at 11:29 am and I’m still in bed rubbing the sleep in my eyes and brushing off the crumbs of the toast I had this morning. Since 7:30 am, I’ve been doing Lynda.com courses on tips and tricks of Windows 10, On Demand File Synching and other things that take my fancy […]

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Filed Under: Working Out Loud (Work Narration) Tagged With: 2018, Curation, Delve, October, October 2018

17 September 2018 by Helen Blunden

This Month’s Stories of Personal Learning for August 2018

Here are this month’s snap stories of personal learning for August 2018. Every week and every month, I like to review these videos to see what I have been doing every day.  It’s a great way to capture all my work and learning – and also to see progress towards my goals. Every month I […]

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Filed Under: Vlogging, Working Out Loud (Work Narration) Tagged With: 2018, Adopt and Embrace, Clients, CNT News, Co-Working, Creative Projects, Digital Transformation, Ego, IABC, Instagram TV, LinkedIn, Misfits of Learning, Positioning Statements, Senior Leadership, September, September 2018, Skype for Business, Snapchat, Southbank

7 September 2018 by Helen Blunden

Building a Network, Not an Audience

What’s the difference between building a network and building an audience? That’s a good question and I’m glad that a tweet this morning triggered me to write this post. Last weekend I attended VidCon, one of the biggest video conferences in Melbourne and let’s just say, I was underwhelmed. You can see my thoughts in […]

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Filed Under: Blogging, Working Out Loud (Work Narration) Tagged With: 2018, Audience, CNT, CNT News, Creative Projects, LinkedIn, Network, PLN, September, September 2018, Snapchat, VidCon, WOL

18 August 2018 by Helen Blunden

This Month’s Stories of Personal Learning for July 2018

Here are this month’s snap stories of personal learning for July 2018. Every week and every month, I like to review these videos to see what I have been doing every day.  It’s a great way to capture all my work and learning – and also to see progress towards my goals. Every month I […]

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Filed Under: Working Out Loud (Work Narration) Tagged With: 2018, Adopt and Embrace, August, August 2018, Bendigo, IABC, LearningNow TV, LearnTech Day, Snap Stories, Snapchat

18 August 2018 by Helen Blunden

Lessons Learned In a New Role

For the last month, I’ve been working at Adopt and Embrace as an Adoption Consultant helping businesses with their modern workplace digital transformation projects. You can read about this in my recent blog post Adopting and Embracing My New Role. Directly working with business clients who include stakeholders in the Information Technology, Business, Change Management […]

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Filed Under: Blogging, Working Out Loud (Work Narration) Tagged With: 2018, Adopt and Embrace, August, August 2018, Blog Challenge, Microsoft

11 August 2018 by Helen Blunden

Deleting Social Media

Recently I’ve noticed some people from my personal learning network deciding to delete their Twitter, LinkedIn or Facebook accounts or getting off social media entirely. In truth, I’ve had the same questions floating around in my mind with Facebook and LinkedIn because I’m not getting any real value from them.  Meanwhile, others question why I’m […]

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