Here’s a chance for you to share how you work and loud and you may win a free ticket to an upcoming online virtual event. (Yay! Freebies!) What is this event? Well it’s called Immersion (#LDImmersion) and eight speakers will share their ideas on how to inspire social learning and collaboration in your workplace. Hosted by Karen […]
8 Reflections of a First Year Freelancer
In a few more days I reach my first anniversary out of salaried employment and I’ve been thinking and reflecting on all the lessons learned in my life as a freelancer. There have been many ups and downs. The biggest learning for me was the acceptance of saying good bye to a steady fortnightly income as […]
Learning is Frustrating
For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been relatively quiet on the blogging front. It’s been a most frustrating time for me in many ways but don’t get me wrong. I feel quite guilty when I don’t blog – and while I’ll create a vlog instead – it’s really a “cop out” for me. Technically, vlogs […]
How do you remain relevant in a changing world? Day 1 of Work Out Loud
Well the first day of International Work Out Loud Day is nearly over. I started my week day in a way that I always do – by an hour of walking listening to business related podcasts. This morning I listened to Chris Ducker’s The New Business Podcast – Startup and Small Business Marketing NBP105 on […]
Learning and Relearning with New Tools
Last week, I was one of the many people who took advantage of the government’s tax break advantage for small business and decided to upgrade my computer and phone. I had been thinking of doing this for a while as I thought it was time to be seen as a bit more ‘modern’ despite my […]
How to Knit a Compelling Story in an Age of Change
One of the biggest questions I (as well as many others in my personal learning network – PLN) have been asking is, “how come we ‘GET’ social and others don’t?” I’ve been asking this same question over and over in my head and I wish I had a magic wand that I could wave over […]
How to Cycle in Puerto Rico when You’re Not There & It’s 6 Years Ago
Many may not know (well you do now), that I’ve been blogging since 2005 about various things unrelated to learning, work or performance on my Ramblings blog. In fact, Ramblings was more of a movie and book review site, with lots of knitting and travel stories, posts about Demis Roussos, Greek politics, cat gifs and a […]
How to Wrangle WordPress – Learning Out Loud
I’m always a bit anxious when I get onto my WordPress site to do some maintenance. Why? There’s a morbid fear that when I press, “Update Plugin” that I will lose the content of my blog. Years of writing, reflections and photos gone at the single click of a button. However, there’s a paradox to […]
How To Holiday Out Loud
For the last week, those who have been following me know that I have been on holiday in Hawaii. We came over here to attend a friend’s wedding but also use it as an opportunity to rest and relax. With only seven more working days of left in my contract before I embark a freelancing […]
So How Do We Know They’re Getting the Right Answers?
This was a question posed to me today by a colleague about the impact of staff seeking answers on the web or on our Enterprise Social Network such as Yammer. The particular example was “what if they ask a question on say, credit policy and the answers that come back to them are actually wrong […]
Can You Make Your Learning Connect? Week 1 of #CLMOOC
I don’t know and that’s just what I’m about to find out. Thanks to my Google+ and Twitter pal, Gerardine Rudolphy who alerted me to this cMOOC called Making Learning Connected. “Making Learning Connected (#clmooc) is a collaborative, knowledge-building and sharing experience open to anyone who’s interested in making, creativity and learning. Over six weeks we will play […]
Awarded the Rotary International Vocational Service Leadership Award
On Saturday 15 June I attended the Rotary District Governor Changeover night to welcome in the new District Governor of our Rotary District 9810 (which covers the south eastern and surrounds of Greater Melbourne). Recently I resigned (hopefully, temporarily) from Rotary as my workload was too great and I felt that I couldn’t give it […]
A Corporate Mini-MOOC on Digital Literacy Skills…An Idea Growing in My Head
For a while now, I’ve been teasing out an idea in my mind about rolling out a mini-MOOC in our organisation. After reading Ignatia de Waard’s eBook MOOC Yourself , watching the Google Hangout with Jay Cross and Dave Cormier and completing various MOOCs, I thought that it was high time to start applying this in the corporate […]
EduTech 2013 – A Curated Montage
EduTech 2013 was held in the city Australians affectionately call, “Bris-Vegas” because frankly, it’s absolutely nothing like the other exciting city in the US. However, with a major educational technology conference at the Convention Centre, we could have been mistaken. I don’t know what possessed me NOT to carry my laptop to the EduTech Conference. […]