I'm interested in how people communicate and connect when they aren't face to face or even communicating in real time, perhaps through an asynchronous forum or community such as Slack or Yammer. Lori Niles-Hoffman, who is a Data Driven Learning Strategist, has experienced "the seismic shift from classroom to digital" in her career and... Continue Reading →
Effectively moving on up – personal reflection on McKinsey research
How do you effectively move up the corporate ladder and make changes with impact? It's a huge challenge that was researched and reported on in this report: Ascending to the C-suite. The report focuses on managers moving into senior roles and it opens with "nearly half of top executives say they weren’t effective at earning support... Continue Reading →
Put a Twitter hashtag on your webpage
The Big Sponge Hangout is happening this week, with live Google Hangouts, pre-recorded videos and lots of L&D and technology conversation. I've been recorded for a video and I'll tweet/blog about that separately 😀 I was working on the first day and couldn't attend the live hangout, so wanted to watch the recording and see... Continue Reading →
Live Event Tweeting
Blog originally published in Training Journal February 2014 For some L&D individuals Twitter is a waste of time. For others it’s a great way to develop a professional profile and keep in touch with a personal learning network. In the last few years I’ve gone from one end of this journey to enjoying the other. One of... Continue Reading →
Top Tweets for Learning Technologies 2014
I recently attended the Learning Technologies conference and was thrilled to be Live Tweeting. If you aren't sure what that is, I've written a handy reflection on it for Training Journal: click here for the Live Tweeting feature. Something that made me very, very pleased, was being in the top 50 conference tweets put together... Continue Reading →