Earlier today, I gave a talk at the annual conference which my team holds each September. It’s a two-day conference called “Let’s Talk Research“, and this year the theme was “Edge Walking”. This talk is my contribution to the conference: In the film, “The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner” from 1962 based on a … Read more
It’s an exercise I attempted a while back. Probably six months ago. I sat with a blank piece of paper and set out to write a list of 100 things that I am good at. It was hard, really difficult. Modesty kept kicking in. A voice inside me kept saying, well yes you’re quite good … Read more
So… a couple of weeks has passed since I returned from the Social Age Safari in Bristol. The last three posts have some details about the three day event and if you want to see more you can look at the website and the twitter feed at #socialagesafari. I thought I would wait a little … Read more
Day Two of the Social Age Safari took place yesterday. 40 people in the room and over 100 people online. Using iPhones and iPads, the wider community had the opportunity to listen in to sessions and also to have their say through video links and Twitter. The connectivity, curation and hosting has been incredibly well … Read more
“Can’t help pinching myself and wondering how I got so lucky to be here edge walking at the #socialagesafari” That was one of the tweets I posted last night during the opening of the Social Age Safari. Yesterday’s train journey to the Social Age Safari event here in Bristol was an extended time on the … Read more
Tomorrow I am going to the Paintworks in Bristol for the Social Age Safari which is being run by Sea Salt Learning. It’s a 3 day event with people coming from around the globe. There will be loads of opportunities to build networks and to learn more about learning in the social age. Julian Stodd … Read more
This is a longer piece where I share the chance to #WorkOutLoud about my attempts to improve my productivity and apply the learning from extensive study of productivity books, websites and blogs. Last week was a turning point for me. Having been overwhelmed for several months with the sheer volume of things that I was … Read more
I said to him, “It’s all about the techniques that were common in Renaissance time, when people like Leonardo da Vinci weren’t artists or scientists. They showed a great appetite for all learning and understood the way these things all connected together, or could connect as a process of discovery.” It was one of those great … Read more
I wake up and I look at my iPad. Drifting from Facebook to email, looking at the daily newspaper, Twitter and LinkedIn. It’s as though everyone wants a piece of me. Except they don’t: no-one is waiting for me to give them this attention, and when I have looked and replied to something there is … Read more
There are eight people in the team that I lead. Last summer it was feeling like we were flying around and hardly ever having time to reflect, time to work together and to plan our future. We were so busy in delivery mode that we had little time to see the bigger picture. Tentatively I … Read more