There’s the whiff of conferences in the air right now. Monday starts the 3rd annual AUC (Apple University Consortium) Create World Conference at Griffith University in Brisbane. I’ll be working with a team of podcasters headed by Alan Carrington from the University of Adelaide. We will be gathering comment not just from presenters and performers,
Continue reading ...I’ve embedded a small 6 and a half minute sound file below. I produced it quite quickly about around a year ago in response to a request from Sue Waters, a Higher Ed colleague in Perth, WA. She wanted some feedback from others who were dipping their toes or leaping into the deep-end of the
Continue reading ...You can make your own by going to http://wordle.net It’s lashings of fun … and colourful too. I like the B&W look.
Continue reading ...It’s the first of the month, so today is the second ‘give a damn day’ where I nudge myself out of my self-absorption into an outward focus on things that need attention … things at least, that I can deal with. I’m a great believer in personal responsibility, and little things building up over time
Continue reading ...I have to thank Merlin Mann for this. If you don’t know his blog 43 Folders, check it out. I stumbled on this little 3 minute treasure quite by accident, thanks to being a Merlin devotee. Over the past few years, he has sent me off on small quests that have enriched my thinking on
Continue reading ...And so off I went today to see Australia Baz Luhrmann’s epic, epic movie about … OK, no spoilers here, but can I just say spearing, crocodiles, the bombing of Darwin, cattle stampedes, Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman, romance … the attraction of opposites, dyed-in-the-wool villains, redemption, the stolen generations, a wonderful young actor Brandon Walters,
Continue reading ...Right now I’m enjoying Malcolm Gladwell‘s new book Outliers: the story of success. Gladwell of Tipping Point and Blink fame is a writer whose theories always excite me. The conclusions he comes to are compelling, not only because his research is meticulous, but also because of the way he crafts the outcomes of his work.
Continue reading ...Perhaps it’s only me, but has anyone else noticed the sudden ‘arrival’ of Twitter as the mainstage social media player in the past week or so? It’s a must-have app it seems. There has been a flurry of activity and chatter which has included the creation of a niche blog called TwiTip. Problogger Darren Rowse,
Continue reading ...The jacaranda trees are starting to go off after a month or more of blooming their lovely hearts out. That means end of year uni exams are over, but it also signals the start of audition season here in Queensland, and indeed, all over the country. As I write, hopefuls are being coached and lining
Continue reading ...I normally do not cross-post from one blog to another. However this one may well be of interest to readers of this blog. In its original context on my other blog Expressive Plus, the post focusses on presentation skills. Here, it highlights one of the side-effects of the proliferation of social media … the growing
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