A couple of days ago, Ramses Oudt @rroudt tweeted an excellent question on Twitter that generated a discussion concerning who writes newsletters focussed on learning how to learn. You can see the thread here which has some recommendations although I might add that many of them aren’t about tips, techniques and strategies for learning how […]
My Top 10 Tools for Learning
Well it’s that time of the year again when Jane Hart (@C4LPT) creates the annual survey collating the top 10 tools that people use for learning. Every year, I submit my results and I have to say that over the years, there have been some that remain the same – the stalwarts, if you will. […]
Lessons in Social Media Life
Recently, someone asked on Twitter whether there was any real value in keeping their LinkedIn profile and it started a conversation. You can read the threaded conversation here. A few people weighed into the conversation and who provided their own recommendations of what to do based on their own experiences of the social media platform. […]
Submitting for Community Reporter at Microsoft Ignite
It’s been a while since my last post and in all honesty, I’m not going to lie about it. I simply haven’t made any time to sit down and pull together some thoughts about my work or learning to blog about it. I’ve been too wrapped up in my own personal life and focused on […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Adopting & Embracing My New Role
For the last few weeks, I have been working on a part-time basis as an Adoption Consultant for a small company founded by Paul Woods (@paulwoods) called Adopt and Embrace. The opportunity to work here came about through a member of my network, Benjamin Elias (@collabital). Although we hadn’t worked together directly at our previous […]
Ticking Off The Dreams List
I’m someone who likes to curate various blog posts and insert links, posts, graphics etc into them in WordPress but I may not hit the Publish button. So there’s a steady collection (and building) of DRAFT blog posts. This morning while doing my monthly clean up of the back end of WordPress, updating plugins, checking […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 21 August 2017
Here are this week’s snap stories of personal learning commencing 21 August 2017. Monday 21 August 2017 Today I met with Ai Zhang who is a Public Relations professor and who I admire for her passion and enthusiasm in sharing her love of pedagogy using social media. We used Facebook Messenger to meet online as I […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 14 August 2017
Here are this week’s snap stories of personal learning commencing 14 August 2017. Wednesday 16 August 2017 It was a relatively quiet week this week where I just took time to rest and relax. I do have my days where I cannot face the computer or write out blogs, create vlogs or do much at […]
Using Social Media As Work & Learning Portfolios
I’m a great fan of social media and love to explore their functions and applications. In particular, using social media as work and learning portfolios. Apart from sharing aspects of your day to your friends and family, social media can be also used to: Build a network Show and share our work Engage in online […]
The Mechanics Institutes
I’m no stranger to libraries. In fact, one of my delights is to check out different libraries in my local area and become a member. While some people accrue credit cards, I seem to have an increasing collection of plastic library cards that I like to fan out like a deck of cards to unsuspecting […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 7 August
Here are this week’s snap stories of personal learning commencing 7 August 2017. Monday 7 August 2017 In this personal learning snapstory, I was inspired by the story of Rachmaninov, a Russian composer whose first symphony was a public flop. The result was that he then went into depression for four years because he felt […]
Changing the Learning and Development DNA
Changing the Learning and Development DNA was a great theme for this year’s Learning and Development Unconference. I have been attending this event in Melbourne for the last few years. Hosted and coordinated by LearningCafe, a “community of forward thinking learning professionals interested in frank discussions about current issues and trends in learning, performance and knowledge […]
Changing Work One Human At A Time
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 […]
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 […]