Technology is impacting our lives whether we like it or not so we may as well learn to live with it, or even embrace it! That’s the view of Gina Blackie of Nurture Public Relations who works with tech firms to help them explain to the public what they do and why. Except what they do can be complex and hard to understand.

Journalist Jill Sainsbury met up with Gina in Whitchurch in Hampshire for a much needed, tech-free walk along the River Test.

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"What did you actually learn?" is the podcast that gets out and about to find out how people learn new stuff and help others to do the same.

We’ve turned off Teams to visit fascinating people in person in the places where they hang out to find out how they absorb and pass on new info.

The podcast is produced by Switched-on Multimedia, film and content producers for training and education.

To find out how Switched-on Multimedia can boost your training and education video and digital content visit www.switched-on.tv

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CREDITS:

Presenter: Jill Sainsbury

Voiceover: Ian Miles

Jasmine Sainsbury started a YouTube channel aged 16 to help her revise for her GCSE history exam. Seven years later, it’s amassed nearly 40,000 subscribers and is being used by history teachers far and wide to help their students get through their exams.

What started as a hobby led to a first class history degree at the University of Sheffield and now a masters in ‘public history’ at a university in Germany.

It turns out by creating the YouTube channel, A Long Long Time Ago with cute cartoon animations, she’s been doing ‘public history’ for years!

Jasmine took a stroll with Jill through Royal Victoria Country Park near Southampton which is chock-full of public history.

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"What did you actually learn?" is the podcast that gets out and about to find out how people learn new stuff and help others to do the same.

We’ve turned off Teams to visit fascinating people in person in the places where they hang out to find out how they absorb and pass on new info.

The podcast is produced by Switched-on Multimedia, film and content producers for training and education.

To find out how Switched-on Multimedia can boost your training and education video and digital content visit www.switched-on.tv

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CREDITS:

Presenter: Jill Sainsbury

Voiceover: Ian Miles

Lisa Henshaw of Parker Robinson Communications loves a good story and she’s particularly good at drawing them out of people who don’t necessarily realise they have anything interesting to say.

Stories have the power to get a point across in a way that sticks which is why storytelling is so valuable in education, training and business, as long as it’s clear what’s fact and what’s fiction.

As Lisa loves a good read, Jill met Lisa at Goldfinch Books in Alton to exchange a few…stories.

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"What did you actually learn?" is the podcast that gets out and about to find out how people learn new stuff and help others to do the same.

We’ve turned off Teams to visit fascinating people in person in the places where they hang out to find out how they absorb and pass on new info.

The podcast is produced by Switched-on Multimedia, film and content producers for training and education.

To find out how Switched-on Multimedia can boost your training and education video and digital content visit www.switched-on.tv

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CREDITS:

Presenter: Jill Sainsbury

Voiceover: Ian Miles

Technology is impacting our lives whether we like it or not so we may as well learn to live with it, or even embrace it! That’s the view of Gina Blackie of Nurture Public Relations who works with tech firms to help them explain to the public what they do and why. Except what they do can be complex and hard to understand.

Journalist Jill Sainsbury met up with Gina in Whitchurch in Hampshire for a much needed, tech-free walk along the River Test.

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"What did you actually learn?" is the podcast that gets out and about to find out how people learn new stuff and help others to do the same.

We’ve turned off Teams to visit fascinating people in person in the places where they hang out to find out how they absorb and pass on new info.

The podcast is produced by Switched-on Multimedia, film and content producers for training and education.

To find out how Switched-on Multimedia can boost your training and education video and digital content visit www.switched-on.tv

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CREDITS:

Presenter: Jill Sainsbury

Voiceover: Ian Miles

This episode sees Jill catch up with long time friend and associate Paquita Lamacraft in her new neighbourhood in South West France.

Having lived all over the world, Paquita’s latest venture to start a new life in France is ‘un morceau de gâteau’ compared to the challenges she’s faced bringing people to work happily together in a range of vastly differing workplaces and overcoming all sorts of challenges in the process. Using her skills as a ‘catalyst’ she’s brought about change which sticks and works.

Talking of ‘cats’ they went for a stroll in the village of La Romieu on one of the Camino routes spotting a selection of stone ‘cat’ sculptures’ en route.

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"What did you actually learn?" is the podcast that gets out and about to find out how people learn new stuff and help others to do the same.

We’ve turned off Teams to visit fascinating people in person in the places where they hang out to find out how they absorb and pass on new info.

The podcast is produced by Switched-on Multimedia, film and content producers for training and education.

To find out how Switched-on Multimedia can boost your training and education video and digital content visit www.switched-on.tv

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CREDITS:

Presenter: Jill Sainsbury

Voiceover: Ian Miles

PR and marketing are often lumped together as one entity but talk to any PR professional and they’ll tell you otherwise. Public relations is like any other form of relationship - it needs nurturing. Jill talks to Julie Jackson founder of Essential PR and Marketing about how she goes about building those relationships and how she releases the ‘brand voice’ of her clients - so that what they say is actually what they do.

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"What did you actually learn?" is the podcast that gets out and about to find out how people learn new stuff and help others to do the same.

We’ve turned off Teams to visit fascinating people in person in the places where they hang out to find out how they absorb and pass on new info.

The podcast is produced by Switched-on Multimedia, film and content producers for training and education.

To find out how Switched-on Multimedia can boost your training and education video and digital content visit www.switched-on.tv

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CREDITS:

Presenter: Jill Sainsbury

Voiceover: Ian Miles

eLearning can be as complicated as an immersive VR experience or a simple PDF and everything in between. While much is made of the tech, perhaps rather less is made of the learning. The team at the Learning Network, a meeting place for those working within the Learning and Design (L&D) industry run an annual awards scheme to showcase the very best of both. Jill went along to their showcase event at Birmingham Thinktank to see what good eLearning looks like.

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"What did you actually learn?" is the podcast that gets out and about to find out how people learn new stuff and help others to do the same.

We’ve turned off Teams to visit fascinating people in person in the places where they hang out to find out how they absorb and pass on new info.

The podcast is produced by Switched-on Multimedia, film and content producers for training and education.

To find out how Switched-on Multimedia can boost your training and education video and digital content visit www.switched-on.tv

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CREDITS:

Presenter: Jill Sainsbury

Voiceover: Ian Miles

Can business be a force for good? While ‘doing good’ sounds good, making that a profitable reality is rather more difficult which is where operations consultant Andrew Ormerod comes in. He supports mission-driven businesses whether that’s a social enterprise or a limited company in their mission to make the changes they need to ‘do good’ because ‘good’ doesn’t just benefit society and the planet, it’s profitable too.

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"What did you actually learn?" is the podcast that gets out and about to find out how people learn new stuff and help others to do the same.

We’ve turned off Teams to visit fascinating people in person in the places where they hang out to find out how they absorb and pass on new info.

The podcast is produced by Switched-on Multimedia, film and content producers for training and education.

To find out how Switched-on Multimedia can boost your training and education video and digital content visit www.switched-on.tv

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CREDITS:

Presenter: Jill Sainsbury

Voiceover: Ian Miles

How do you make IT training interesting for those who aren’t interested? How do you enable the unconfident computer user, to be confident or persuade the overconfident that there is still stuff to learn? How do you ensure everyone ends up in the same place from different starting points? Debbie Sawyer is an IT trainer with 30 years experience and knows all the tricks to get the best out of those she trains.

Jill met Debbie for a screen-break stroll on a beach to discover that it’s the human connection which makes all the difference.

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"What did you actually learn?" is the podcast that gets out and about to find out how people learn new stuff and help others to do the same.

We’ve turned off Teams to visit fascinating people in person in the places where they hang out to find out how they absorb and pass on new info.

The podcast is produced by Switched-on Multimedia, film and content producers for training and education.

To find out how Switched-on Multimedia can boost your training and education video and digital content visit www.switched-on.tv

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CREDITS:

Presenter: Jill Sainsbury

Voiceover: Ian Miles

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It’s official, learning is fun, or at least it should be because that way the info goes in. Kevin Morgan is the CEO of Course Kings, compliance training specialists to the dental sector and other industries. Jill met up with him in central London to talk about how he ensures everyone in the room enjoys learning.