I was really taken by an article in TJ last week from Michelle Parry-Slater. I use LinkedIn a lot more now since Twitter has lost its effectiveness as a marketing channel and it is really interesting to see how people perceive it as a marketing tool. I agree entirely with Michelle that it is about… Read More Open to Learning
I was at the always brilliant #LnDCoWork yesterday to catch up with smart people doing interesting things in L&D. I bumped into someone there who I haven’t seen since 2016, and who I first met when we started working together in 2000. We’re going to get together online soon since there might be opportunities where… Read More Long term planning
I was recently contacted about joining a business networking group. I looked through their website and they’re ‘re-launching’ so thought I’d see how successful they’d been before. A quick check and it was clear they’ve been mothballed for a couple of years so it looked promising they were planning to get going again. More interesting… Read More Understanding data
About once a week I get requests like this: Hey Andrew. Do you know anyone who knows how to… Anon Never forget the benefits to you and others of building a network so you can be asked questions like this.
I read this article last week about how someone had developed a way to tap into Zoom’s “Breakout Rooms” API to create speed networking online. My immediate reaction was that this was cheesy, exploitative, wrong, and unworkable. One small problem – I hadn’t even read the article at this point. Why did I react like… Read More Get with it grand-dad
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