Next week is LearnTech Asia – a learning and development conference that will be hosted in Singapore. It’s also my FIRST OVERSEAS LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE and I have a speaking gig! (Except for the time I went to the Rotary International Conferences in Birmingham and Los Angeles but they don’t count). I was close […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 2 October 2017
Here are this week’s snap stories of personal learning commencing 2 October 2017. Monday 2 October 2017 Today I share a bit about myself and how I help people build and create personal learning strategies. I talk about how all learning is personal and methinks I will need to recustomise this video and share it […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 9 October 2017
Here are this week’s snap stories of personal learning commencing 9 October 2017. Monday 9 October 2017 Today I wrote a blog post from a draft since 2013 called What Do I Suck At. At the time of writing this blog post, I didn’t feel ready to share the outcomes of this little experiment I […]
What Do I Suck At?
I am going through all my DRAFT posts that are sitting on my WordPress site that have long gone unpublished and I came across this one that was written in 2013. At the time, it made such an impact but I was too fearful to publish it but now that I read it again, I’ve […]
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 […]
Work Book Clubs As Social Learning Experiences
I’m putting it out there. I don’t understand people who say that they never read books – or even worse, “never have time to read a book”. They may as well say that they don’t value their own growth and personal development. The easiest way to learn something new and incorporate it into our lives […]
Chatbots in Learning
Recently I had my first experience of chatbots in learning. Note: If you can’t be bothered reading all this, scroll down to the bottom of the post and watch my video instead. I had been curious about these little critters (not exactly a critter but how could you deny that this little robot on the […]
Snapchat Posts
I have been asked many times to forward people the links to my posts on how to use Snapchat for learning and business so I decided to collate my Posts About Snapchat here. This list will be growing over time as I keep writing more. However, check out our Resources page to purchase items that […]
Welcome to My Snapchat Channel
What is a Snapchat Channel? If you don’t already know, I’m on Snapchat. I started using this platform some time ago in an effort to understand what the fuss was about. I’ve been using it to share and show my work (and snippets of my knitting and the things that I enjoy) however, in the […]
Have you heard of Frozen Snapping?
Have you heard of Frozen Snapping? No it’s not what you do when you take out some sausages from the freezer and need to bang them on the kitchen counter to separate them or find the nearest tongs to snap them apart. (Or am I the only one who does that?!) It’s a new craze […]
Writing an eBook on Snapchat
via GIPHY For the last couple of weeks, I’ve had my head down writing an ebook on Snapchat. The ebook is titled How to Use Snapchat to Show and Share Your Work (the title may change). It’s being written for an audience who may be aware how to use this social medium but may not […]
4 Ways To Integrate Learning into the Workplace
I recently wrote a blog post on How to Deal with People Who Have No Time to Learn New Things at Work and this is a continuation of that post where I share four ways on how to integrate learning into the workplace. There are so many more – but let’s start with four for now. […]
A Short Stint Into Film Making of Third Place
A couple of months ago, I saw an opportunity to assist a friend to build her photography and video production business and in return, learn more about the new medium of video that I am exploring. I always wanted to do a short film about my social networking meetup group called Third Place but I […]
What Have I Been Up To?
It’s been a while since my last blog post and admittedly, I do feel guilty that I am not spending a component of my time blogging so that I can make sense of what I have been working on and learning about. On the other hand however, I have been using two other methods to […]
The AITD Excellence Awards
I’m excited to find out that Coca Cola Amatil’s Systems Certification Program is a finalist in the upcoming Australian Institute of Training and Development (AITD) Excellence Awards. The program was aligned to their business strategy and aimed to improve their business continuity and performance through use of their key operational systems. I was honoured to work on […]
What Signals Are You Sending Out on Social Media?
Forgive me world, it’s been eight days since my last blog. I don’t know why, but every time I leave gaps between blog posts, I have the attack of the guilts. Although it may look like laziness to the untrained eye, it’s more likely to mean that I’ve been spending more time doing something else […]
There’s A Hole In My Bucket…Or You’ve Reached Your Email Limit
Last week my husband excitedly told me to stop what I was doing and to listen to a clip he had found on YouTube with Harry Belafonte and Odetta singing the song, “There’s a Hole in My Bucket”. If you haven’t heard it, it’s well worth a listen and a chuckle… As music […]
Have You Blabbed?
Last night I hosted a Blab session for the first time (and stupidly, I forgot to take a screenshot of it). I was introduced to this new tool about a month ago when I saw a tweet in my Twitter stream advertising that a Blab session was on. I can’t remember the topic but it piqued my […]
4 Ways To Learn Your Client’s Business: The Value of Networks
For the last month or so, I have been working with a couple of corporate clients providing consulting around social learning and communities of practice. In effect, the clients issues revolve around the opportunity to have their national teams collaborate openly with the ultimate aim to achieve their business objectives. Rather than go into the […]
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 […]