Insights

Blogs and Wikis

This is a great link to the Ambient Performance website. Click here .  People have been asking about a web presentation on blogs and wikis that I did a while ago but has lived on, on the web.  Well it is here, alive and well together with a whole host of presentations from the two Seriously
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A Few Unsung Heros

It is quite difficult to get established in an unfamiliar place:  all the normal routes for action are blocked or slightly circuitous. It is a good process to go through; to be taken out of your comfort zone and try to work it all out again.  I am doing what thousands of people are doing
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New Leadership

Old Estonian saying: If you have courage, you may lose the ground from under your feet for awhile, but if you don’t have courage, you may lose yourself.
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The Brits and E Learning

I was lucky enough to be invited by Bersin Associates to an international on-line and telephone conference last night.  Lucky in that I was able to participate, not so lucky that it started at 4pm CET, which is midnight here in Melbourne.  So up till 1.30 am talking and clicking and then wide awake for
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Life is Miscellaneous!

Jay drew my attention to David Weinberger’s new book:  Everything is Miscellaneous. It came out at the beginning of May and if you click my link to Amazon you can peek inside and get a contents list (and, of course, buy it if you want to).  I am aware that, sometimes, what I know instinctively,
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Life in Australia (2)

Erina and I arrived at Tullamarine airport for a routine internal flight to Sydney.  At security we dutifully pulled out the lap top and our little clear plastic bag with all liquids ang gels ready for the X-Ray machines.  Much incredulity all round. Laptops yes,  but little plastic bags!   What are those strange people
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GOAL MEME

Donald Taylor via Red Sultana:  what are your four or five goals?  Well I have a page of A4 which asks me questions that help me judge how I am doing in lots of areas of my life.  Sounds sad, but I got the idea from Marshall Goldsmith and if it works for Marshall…  I
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Life in Australia (1)

Part of an occasional series! Oh! What it is to have no past. No demonstrable history.  It is almost like you do not exist.  I am just about going crazy trying to get the smallest things organised. In the mobile phone shop attempting to spend a substantial sum of money: Can you provide 2 utility
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Good Old Google

Good old Google and good old Jay Cross for spotting it. Google has launched a blog search and it is fantastic. Try it.
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BT Vision

I have just finished a stint as part-time, temporary Chief Executive for BTSR, the training and development regulator for licensed broadcasters.  The first report on the state of play in TV and Radio will be out in June or July.  And an interesting time it has been interacting with the hundreds of organisations that build
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