I’m just getting to the end of an intense period of learning about different aspects of this activity I’m so immersed in. I enrolled for a Coursera course called Introduction to Music Production. I’d been reading about MOOCs and this opportunity popped up. What’s a MOOC? It’s a Massive Open Online Course. Many universities are … Read moreLearning about music …
The other day I attended a day’s session led by David Gurteen on his ‘Gurteen Knowledge Cafes’ concept. David is an international speaker in the Knowledge Management area, and I first met him with Jay Cross and Charles Jennings on a meeting about social learning. So what’s a Knowledge Café? First of all the ‘café’ … Read moreGurteen Knowledge Cafes
Actually some of these tips are old hat to some managers I’ve seen. I remember when I worked for a building society in England, I sent my manager an email criticising some of the convoluted language in a memo that had gone out a couple of days after we’d been exhorted to use plain English. … Read moreManagement secrets of Darth Vader
Actually some of these tips are old hat to some managers I’ve seen. I remember when I worked for a building society in England, I sent my manager an email criticising some of the convoluted language in a memo that had gone out a couple of days after we’d been exhorted to use plain English. … Read moreManagement secrets of Darth Vader
Tony Karrer suggested some of my deliberations in the previous entry may be relevant to the Learning Circuits Big Question this month. The question, and the article 101 reasons to be freelance, also prompted me to appreciate my current position. I have the relative security (all security is relative, hence the discussion that prompted the … Read moreWhere to work
Clive Shepherd has invited me to take on this meme of eight random facts. Post these rules before you give your facts. List 8 random facts about yourself. At the end of your post, choose (tag) 8 people and list their names, linking to them. Leave a comment on their blog, letting them know they’ve … Read more8 Random Facts
At the end of my working day yesterday, I received a call from someone in another department of the company, an Australian or NZ woman with whom I’d not spoken, and whose name I didn’t know. She had just introduced herself when a phone rang at her end and she said ‘Sorry, I’ve got an … Read more15/5/07