Yesterday was Library Lovers Day. Well, you may know it as Valentines Day but I prefer the library…. It’s a great day to stop by your local library, become a member and borrow a book or twenty. Or however many they allow you to borrow in the one go. Yesterday I went to my newly […]
Our New Library
Last night we went to the inaugural opening of our new local library. Over the last year it’s been renovated into a double storey, youth and community space with plenty of light and areas to quietly read, work or gather with others. To celebrate, the library had put on entertainment through the day plus a […]
The Second Sock Syndrome
I’ve got a love-hate relationship with sock knitting. Although the knitting project is small, therefore easy to carry around and pick up wherever you go or whatever you do, once you finish one sock and still on a high that you’ve done so, there’s a crashing realisation you now need to knit another sock for […]
Working on Community
Today I focussed on creating a facilitated session on Building Community at my place of work, Rapid Circle. I work for this international company filled with highly competent and technical boffins who love solving problems and working on Microsoft 365 products. To be honest, a lot of what they talk about flies over my head […]
I’ll Speak to Anyone
Yesterday was a glorious day. It reached 29 degrees and felt like it was the middle of summer. Instead, it was promoted as the last day of great weather before a week of autumnal weather of low 20s, wind and light rain. I picked up the phone and told the parents to get ready as […]
Exploring Your Local Area
It’s Sunday and I am taking it easy today recovering from a late night out last night. At my age, I can’t spring back the next day if I don’t have my full 8 hours of sleep every night and every time we stay out past our bed time, it just takes that little bit […]
Learning Active Campaign
One of the things I have been learning at work is about marketing campaigns. I’m the Community Manager for Adopt & Embrace and as part of the role, I am responsible for looking at ways to have the community be continually aware of what it in there by way of interesting and informative discussions and […]
Visit to Knowledge Market
Today I organised a co-working day at Knowledge Market which is a community space situated in the Docklands in Melbourne. It was another event as part of the social networking group that I created called Third Place. Co-working with #3PlaceMelb at the #knowledgeMarket in #Docklands https://t.co/rBdJqTxqT9. Great space check it out! pic.twitter.com/E4OmiR503U — Helen Blunden […]
You Can Have a Neighbourhood But Do You Have a Community?
This post has nothing to do with learning or performance and all about community. For the last four weeks there has been a homeless man living out of his car outside our next door neighbour’s house. I’m not much of a keen observer at the best of times but I did notice a car that […]
Meeting my Online Community Service Network Face-to-Face for the First Time
For those of you who know me, I have a personal blog and a professional blog and decided a long time ago to keep them both separated. After all, do you really want to learn of my interests and ramblings that aren’t related to learning? Do you really want to know about my community service […]