Ever find yourself collecting information a certain way before catching yourself out for being “old fashioned”? So began my day today, back-and-forthing between paper and screen. Melbourne Festival program in hand, coffee in the other, laptop poised to seek any…
Want to write a novel with me?
I know it starts in November, but I’m already thinking about participating in NaNoWriMo again this year. Planning outlines and writing plot notes is allowed, however writing doesn’t begin until November the 1st and then you have a month to…
Finding Time to Blog
It’s now been two years and two hundred posts since Andy first helped me to get started blogging here on Wonderwebby! Upon reflection, that’s a bit of time spent drafting, editing and reading comments. So why do I spend time…
Online personality transplant lately?
Lately I’ve been thinking about this ever emerging skill space that sits somewhere between the domains of learning, knowledge and marketing. It has something to do with people. It’s about exchange through conversation. This space has something to do with…
Training Tracks
The other night I crashed on the couch with the family to watch a movie together. Well – I TRIED to sit down. The kids kept jumping up and didn’t seem interested in ‘hangin’ out’ that way. I was tired,…
Slides from HR Futures
Openness. Trust. Collaboration. Stealth. Some great themes came out of yesterday’s Inspecht HR Futures conference! I uploaded my slides on Slideshare [slideshare id=1071555&doc=hrfuturesconferencejasmintragasibm-090226020358-phpapp02] and @trib did too [slideshare id=1070970&doc=hrfutures-090225212126-phpapp01] When you think HR programs, do you think Twitter and Wikis?…
Inspecht HR Futures Conference 2009
Michael Specht kindly asked me to speak alongside some very clever cookies next February, at a well priced one day event in Melbourne. Keynote speaker and friend Stephen Collins writes: …this one day event will look closely at the opportunities…
Notes from Physical and Virtual Learning spaces
Yesterday I attended the IBM/Melbourne Uni Virtual and Physical Learning Spaces public forum, which was also broadcast live in Secondlife. During Professor William (Bill) J. Mitchell’s keynote speech, he discussed the Stata student street project – a purpose built public…
Work at learning: virtual wanderlust
Michele Martin asks “how do you keep up the motivation to keep learning? Sometimes it seems so much easier to sink into just getting things done – learning can seem like one more complication. How do you keep challenging yourself…