Join me for a conversation with special guest Sam Rosen as we talk about co-working spaces, how to make the future of work more equitable and the environmental impact of hybrid and home working. 

Sam Rosen is the Founder and CEO of Deskpass and has many years of experience working in the industry. With a background in design and a passion for making work work better, Sam shares his insights in this episode thinking about the office as an ecosystem. 

This interview is going to feature in ⁠my upcoming book⁠. Get in touch with me if you'd like to join us for an episode and contribute to the book.

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In this episode I chat about finding ways out of procrastination... making progress with my new book and consider the power of positive feedback .

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In this episode I chat about making my new office space 1% more comfortable, share tips on how to adjust to the changing seasons and share updates about making a book nook :) .

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Join me for a wonderfully rich conversation with special guest Audrey Watters as we talk about the culture of trying to measure everything from workout metrics to workplace productivity, and what it means to resist living life conforming to algorithmic templates. 

Along the way, we chat about dog walking, making pancakes for second breakfast, avoiding a world run by Clippy and Audrey's new writing project about AI in education. 

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It's World Mental Health Day and this year’s theme is “It is Time to Prioritise Mental Health in the Workplace” -World Mental Health Day is an annual awareness day observed every 10th October.

This is a cause I have long championed, and I am glad to see this year’s emphasis on mental health in the workplace supported by a whole range of resources. I’ve linked to some examples below and each of these point to further resources for help and advice:

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Join me and the dogs for a walk as we look back at a year of re-inventing Mondays. This is a two part episode to celebrate my first year of running my own business and I share how things have been going, what's been joyful and what's been tough.

This episode was recorded on a dog walk and the audio quality is mixed.

Join me and the dogs for a walk as we look back at a year of re-inventing Mondays. This is a two part episode to celebrate my first year of running my own business and I share how things have been going, what's been joyful and what's been tough.

This episode was recorded on a dog walk and the audio quality is mixed.

Join me for a conversation with special guest Jim Groom as we talk about being a robot in a co-working space, teaching Slack to make jokes and building a blog studio in Trento, Italy! 

If you, like me, are already a life-long fan of Jim's work, you are in for a special treat, and if you are just discovering the wonderful world of the bava, this is a perfect introduction. 

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Jim Groom, formerly Executive Director of the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies at the University of Mary Washington, has been working towards the idea of Domain of One‘s Own as far back as 2008 and has been dreaming of this opportunity for years. In the Spring of 2011 he opened up a digital storytelling course called “ds106” for anyone to take openly online and hundreds of people participated and continue to give back to that community. In Spring of 2013 he joined a group of hackers and thinkers at MIT to think about how an online framework could allow people to seamlessly syndicate the work they do across the web in a space of their own both on an academic and personal level. In Fall of 2015 he went full time with Reclaim Hosting and has not looked back since. #4life⁠

This interview is going to feature in ⁠⁠my upcoming book⁠⁠. Get in touch with me if you'd like to join us for an episode and contribute to the book.

This month I am excited to join my former home institution for a lunchtime CPD session! I was really glad to be invited back and looking forward to working with the community of learning technology professionals for this free event.

During International Week of Happiness at Work, this webinar offers a session specifically designed for Learning Technologists looking to increase wellbeing at work. We’ll explore how increased use of digital technologies for communication and collaboration, alongside learning, teaching and assessment, impacts on our physical and mental wellbeing.

If issues such as tired eyes from long hours spent in front of screens, to digital overwhelm and lack of movement during days of meetings sound familiar to you, then this session will offer practical approaches to adopt healthier working habits for hybrid teams.

Using practical tools and interactive activities the session will support you in reflecting on your current practice and identifying what actions to take next in your wellbeing journey for the new academic year.

This workshop is a follow up to my first book, Leading Virtual Teams, which was published by ALT in 2022. Work is now underway in a second Open Access book, with a focus on long term hybrid working, how it impacts our senses and the relationship between human beings and technology, in the context of the radical shifts in the balance of power in the workplace (as in the classroom) with the advent of AI and surveillance technologies. This new book won’t be a solo project, but a wider collaboration with case studies and interviews with leaders and experts. If you are interested in contributing, get in touch. 

In this episode I share some analogue activities I find helpful at the start of a busy academic year... plus there's stationary chat, updates about upcoming events and ideas for walking meetings.

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