Here are this week’s snap stories of personal learning commencing 13 November 2017 – It’s WORK OUT LOUD WEEK! Monday 13 November 2017 Today I talk about moderating the Fishbowl Event on Learning Technologies and how I’m preparing for it. I talk about multitasking on Facebook, talk about undertaking an assessment on purpose and values […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 30 October 2017
Here are this week’s snap stories of personal learning commencing 30 October 2017. Monday 30 October 2017 Today I share a full introduction on what I do and undertaking a coaching session with a client on how to use a mobile phone to create videos. Tuesday 31 October 2017 I complain about our slow internet […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 16 October 2017
Here are this week’s snap stories of personal learning commencing 16 October 2017. Monday 16 October 2017 Today I ponder whether I should buy a lighting kit for my videos. I was so inspired by Justine Leconte’s fashion videos and how simple and easy they are that I thought I could start doing those – until […]
Co-Working at the City of Glen Eira
I had the wonderful opportunity of being selected by the City of Glen Eira, my local council, to trial out a pop-up co-working space that they hosted at their premises in Caulfield. A small group of 8 local consultants and business owners were invited to be part of this Connection Economy Pilot. The council is […]
Making the Messy Unmessy – Experimenting with Mind Maps
I had the pleasure of meeting a long time member of my personal learning network, Sahana Chattopadhyay at LearnTech Asia in Singapore last week. I was always a fan of her wonderful blogs because she had the knack for pulling together different concepts by various people who wrote about digital transformation, future of work and […]
Personal Reflections from LearnTech Asia
I’ve just returned from LearnTech Asia, the inaugural learning technology conference and expo in Singapore and decided to write some personal reflections. Let me tell you that my mind was a muddle so this is my attempt at getting things in some order. Before the Conference Initially, when I was asked by Conference Chair, Donald Taylor […]
End of Year Stocktake
It’s coming to the end of the year and every year I do an end of year stock take. I revisit the personal goals I set out to achieve for myself from the beginning of the year and look at what was achieved, what succeeded and what failed. It’s a good practice to understand that […]
Share Your Progress When You Work Out Loud
Today is the fourth day of International Work Out Loud Week and it’s all about sharing your progress. Yesterday I shared on Snapchat, the benefit and value that working has loud has helped me in my own personal learning journey around public speaking and speaking in front of a camera – and you can see my […]
Make a Contribution While You Work Out Loud
Today is the third day of International Work Out Loud Week and it’s all about making a contribution. So for today’s challenge, my contribution will be to share my own story on Snapchat on how Working Out Loud has helped me in my own business so that it could open the conversation for others in their […]
Make New Connections While You Work Out Loud
Today is the second day of International Work Out Loud Week. Yesterday I shared my purpose for this week and that was to: Understand the value and benefit of working out loud to people outside organisations who are in their own business, freelancing or looking for employment. After all, we hear and read so much […]
What’s Your Purpose To Work Out Loud
Today is the first day of International Work Out Loud Week. (Of course, we know that you can actually work out loud any day of the week however, this initiative is something that we can all be part of internationally at the same time). What is Working Out Loud? Bryce Williams back in 2010, defined […]
Resources for Work Out Loud Week
Over a year ago, I created a couple of resources for Work Out Loud Week that I’d like to share here again for International Work Out Loud Week on 7-13 November 2016. If you’re scratching your head with a lack of ideas of what you can share, show and demonstrate, these resources will help you. […]
Reflections of My Snapchat Channel
For the last couple of weeks, I have changed my approach to how I am using Snapchat and I wrote about it in the post Welcome to My Snapchat Channel. I have been observing how individuals and companies are using this social medium to educate and inform their viewers and these have been quite interesting. My […]
Snapchat Makes Me Happy
By now you’re probably sick and tired of reading my posts about Snapchat as I work out loud through using this tool which is becoming my personal learning channel, education broadcast and creativity expression. Truth be told, it is unlike any other social medium I’ve come across because using it makes me HAPPY. I think […]
The Ultimate Social Learning Experience
This year I had one of my life goals achieved which was the ultimate social learning experience for me. It was to be part of a film crew to create a short film to see the process and the work that goes behind making a film. (Hey, next stop…Cannes!) It was a team project where […]
Reflections on the Change in the Age of Disruption Conference
Well finally I’ve had some time to put some thoughts on my reflections of the Change in the Age of Disruption Conference that I attended in Sydney at the Jones Bay Wharf Conference Centre last week. Since then, I’ve had a chance to reflect on my participation as a presenter at this conference but also how […]
What Will I Be Working On This Week?
Well, it’s finally arrived. International Work Out Loud week is here. For those who don’t know what the fuss is about, it’s one week of the year where we all encourage people to narrate and show what they’re working on. Whether it’s showing their work openly on public networks or in their own enclosed enterprise […]
Is Learning the New Thrill Seeker Sport?
Follow my blog with Bloglovin It’s 5:18 am on a Sunday morning and I can’t sleep. This is a usual state of affairs before every conference I attend. Next week I will be presenting at the Change Management Institute’s Change in the Age of Disruption Conference in Sydney and I’m equally excited as I am nervous […]
The Future of Business is Digital…Even in My Own Suburb?
In the last week of October, I visited the lovely coastal town of Geelong to attend the Pivot Summit. The summit was a one day conference focussed on inspiring the start up community in Geelong with new ideas around social business. After I saw that Brian Solis (@BrianSolis) was one of the speakers I immediately […]
Work, Connect and Learn Program: The Strategy Phase
I am currently working with a client, Coca Cola Amatil (CCA) to design a social learning guided experience (or a cMOOC by any other name) for their engineers and maintenance staff to be rolled out as a program in February 2015. You can read more about the introduction to this program in my previous blog […]