It’s a thing. I’m sure of it. After being in the field of Learning and Development and spending most of my work life in the social learning space helping people build communities of practice, using enterprise social networks (like Yammer) to help them build authentic and trusted relationships and networks in their organisation, helping people […]
Old Fashioned Letters
Imagine my surprise when I received a hand written letter in the mail a couple of days ago. Such a wonderful surprise that delighted me. It was from my girlfriend who has lived interstate for many years and whom we met many years ago when I was in the Navy and she, Army. Receiving a […]
Garden Greens
I’m sitting here boiling some organic greens (“Chorta”) from my parents garden. My heritage is Greek, specifically from Crete and the food that I grew up on here in Australia has been from that part of Greece. So lots of greens (organic, no pesticides), olive oil, fruits, pulses and meats. Today my mum gave me […]
Microsoft Viva Engage: It’s Beginning to Look A Lot Like Facebook
I had to squint my eyes and shake my head to scrutinise the user interface of Microsoft’s rebranded Yammer which they’re calling Viva Engage (through the Microsoft Teams app). Whoa! 😲 Look how similar it is to Facebook or Meta or whatever you want to call it. 😂 I really do hope (!) that this […]
CD Night Tuesday: Billy Bragg
It’s a quiet lazy Tuesday night. Cat is dozing on the sofa. Television is turned off. Lights turned low. CD is chosen. Press Open in the CD player. Insert CD. Watch it go into the player. Listen to the whir while it finds the first track. Music 🎶 flows out of the sound bar. We […]
Should I Get Off YouTube?
To be fair, I don’t do my best thinking at 2am. This morning, tossing and turning and trying to get back to sleep, my mind started to wander. Sometimes I get up at this time and read a book before sleep overcomes me again. Other times I lay there thinking. I noticed my thinking at […]
Books For The Week Ahead
This morning, it was supermarket shopping time. We headed into a nearby suburb (for something different), had a lovely breakfast and coffee at a cafe before doing the grocery shopping. Afterwards a walk to the library where I picked up these books. Mainly Dutch authors as recommendations from my colleagues who are based in Amsterdam. […]
River Cruising in Melbourne
Today is a public holiday in Melbourne, a once off holiday as the National Day of Mourning for the Queen’s passing. We have been having awful weather lately with lots of rain so when the sun came out today, it felt like all of Melbourne was out with us too. Tomorrow is another public holiday […]
Unselfing
Today I saw an excellent post on the site Unselfing.Social and it’s such a great idea… As an experiment, for one continuous month, make the focus of one in every three things you share on social media — wherever you normally share, however regularly or irregularly you do, however many people you reach — something […]
What Shall I Do?
My last day of work is 11 October. What shall I do afterwards? No idea. Part of me is comfortable with not knowing, not planning, not scheduling, not caring. I’m looking forward to just giving space – I don’t have to fill it with anything except for that which truly makes me happy. But do […]
Microsoft Asked Me To Present on How To Use Storylines (and Stories) for Business
This morning I presented to Microsoft’s Yammer Customer Community on How to Use Storylines (and Stories) for Business. Viva Engage is the new employee engagement platform (well, it’s the newly branded Yammer which is sitting in Microsoft Teams as the Viva Engage app). Currently Storylines (aka ‘blog’) is live in Yammer and the Stories feature […]
I’ve Resigned
It’s official. I’ve resigned. Someone asked me how I feel and in all honesty, I’m glad I did it. It wouldn’t have felt right to continue working when the mojo had long since disappeared. Not fair on me, not fair on others. So I depart. I have no other plans except to get my headspace […]
Shall I Quote Virginia Woolf in a Work Presentation?
Yesterday I was thinking about a scene in a recent book I read by Virginia Woolf. The novel is To The Light House written in 1927 and considered to be one of her best novels at the height of her exceptional writing. It’s about a family and their guests at a holiday house on the […]
Longer Reading Bouts
I’m quite happy with my reading of late. One of my pleasures is that I’m an early riser and will spend at least a couple of uninterrupted hours every morning reading. During my reading sessions, I don’t have my phone near me. In the evenings too, I’d rather read a book than watch a movie […]
Coincidences
This last month, I’ve been observing some oddities in my life. Things that happen without explanation and alert me to something to take note. I think I’ve been more attune to my surroundings. I feel something is “not quite right” (and hasn’t been when it comes to my work) and in that situation, I tend […]
The Perimenopause Kapow
If there ever was a gif that exemplifies how many women feel during their perimenopausal years, this would be it. 👇 I’ve already blown some things up in my life to get prepared for complete transformation – saying goodbye to old thinking, old habits, toxic people and situations – but I’m not done, yet.
Social Media Is Not Going to Save You
I stumbled upon this excellent post from the Indieweb wiki page, going down rabbit warrens as I do. It was written back in April 2021 called Social Media Isn’t Going to Save You From Social Media. In particular, scroll (!) your eye down to the section titled, “Convenience for the People; Power for the Corporations” […]
Bringing a bit of Crete Home
This afternoon I went outside where the tradesmen yesterday dug out some dirt in preparation for concreting being poured on Saturday. The dirt in our area is fairly sandy and nutrient. With the rain, there’s a lot of leaves and worms in it so rather than buy it for my pots, I decided to scoop […]
Do You Need To Be Prompted All The Time?
One of the things I’m scratching my head over is, at times, people have been asking me for “prompts” at work. Prompts to help them write posts to share what they’re working on. Prompts to to help them respond to posts they’ve been mentioned in our enterprise social network. Prompts to help them remind them […]
The Top 100 Tools for Learning 2022
Jane Hart has published her annual survey for the Top 100 Learning Tools for 2022 and it’s interesting. Here’s the detailed analysis. I like looking through these lists because it gives a good snapshot of what people are using out there and what’s trending or falling by the wayside. What struck me is that Twitter […]