Early Learning & Child Care Consulting, ECE Retreats & ECE Workshops
Through several of my Irish twitter connections I was able to chat with Michael Cox about life and work. Michael is the External Services Manager @ LIT – Responsible for Student Recruitment. He describes himself as apotentialist. "I try to help people to be as good as they can be more often." He is based in Ireland and he can be found on Twitter @mixcoke
The fourth 45 Conversations hangout was with Chris Eh Young who was in Wasaga Beach when we recorded this. Chris is an event speaker, marketer, business grower, operational efficiency guy, culture creator.
We have a great discussion about personal branding, authenticity, fear, small business and much more. You can find Chris on Twitter @chris_eh_young
I met Roger Overall through my friend @Omaniblog. Roger agreed to be part of the initial 45 Conversations. It was the first Google + Hangout On Air he had been part of. Roger is based in Cork, Ireland.
My third 45 Conversations chat was with Paul O'Mahony of Change Agents. He is based in Cork, Ireland.
My second conversation was with Molly Cantrell-Kraig who lives in the Davenport, Iowa Area. She is the Founder and ED of Women With Drive Foundation. A nonprofit that provides figurative and literal vehicle to women in transition in order to enable their independence.
A conversation with Javier Leite; a photographer based in Irelend. He was my very first 45 Conversation.
Some early morning thoughts from Jane Boyd as she embarks upon a 45 Conversations challenge. Who knows where it will go?
July 4, 2012 – Update – As of midnight July 4, 2012 I had completed 24 conversations. Not bad really. I have had tons of fun doing this. As a result – I have decided to keep going until I get to the full 45! Really, it is the relationships and the conversations that matter the most. To see the full list of videos completed so far click HERE.
Original Post –
Call me crazy, but I have decided to attempt something that might just be more than a little bit challenging. I am going to try and hold #45Conversations over the next 4 days via Google + Hangouts On Air. Why would I do this? Well truth be told….I am still trying to figure out all of the reasons. That said, here are a few that I know of right now:
Just a few minutes ago, the calendar turned to July 1, 2012 here in Vancouver. That means it is now officially Canada Day here. This date truly represents the start of summer where I live – with the kids now out of school for two months, the weather shifting to mostly sunshine and many family holidays beginning to commence. Just after this event, my friends in the United States will also be celebrating their start of the summer, with Independence Day on July 4, 2012.
Now, I will tell you a little secret…. July 4th also happens to be my birthday. When I was a kid, my parents used to tell me that all those fireworks – in Canada and the United States were just for me. It was the best 4 day stretch ever each summer! As my birthday has been approaching this year, I have been debating just what I might like to do for it. The truth is that I am not much of a birthday person. That said, I felt like I wanted to do something just a little bit unique this year. I wanted it to somehow include a social media aspect to it. As such, I came up with the idea of holding 45 G+ Hangout On Air conversations between July 1 and July 4th. I have no idea if this is even possible, but I thought it might be worth the challenge of trying. I already have a pretty busy schedule set for the next four days – so this will actually be no simple task.
Yesterday, I had an amazing G+ Hangout conversation with Greg McQueen about the value of generosity and how it is something that is very much a part of the culture of online communities, relationship building and social media. This conversation reinforced why generosity matters so much to me and why I like to integrate it into everything that I do within the world of social media. As such, attempting to hold these 45 conversations just seems to be another way to demonstrate the generosity that exists within the online world. It seems like there might just be some good that could come from connecting with 45 people and talking about things that matter – work, life, social media, health, family, community and much more.
So…we will see what happens. I might make it to #45Conversations. I might not. It will be a fun and rewarding challenge. If you would be interested in participating please contact me via twitter @boydjane or leave a comment below. I will be using the hashtag #45conversations on Twitter should you wish to follow along there. I will also be blogging about this here and on G+ over the next four days. I will use List.ly to track who I am planning the conversations with and also who I actually end up successfully connecting to via G+ Hangouts On Air.
Call me crazy or call me ambitious, regardless, I have #45Conversations to try and make happen. Will you help me?
Below is my “Planning List” of people to connect with. Please add suggestions to it of people that you think might like to be part of #45Conversations
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Since Google+ first introduced Hangouts On Air last month I have been exploring a range of uses for them with a number of my colleagues around the world.
Google+ Hangouts have been around for over a year, but it is only recently that all G+ users have been able to actually make a hangout run live “On Air” whenever they want to. This means that anyone, anywhere can hold a meeting, gathering or hangout and make it immediately accessible (and live) to a wider audience via their You Tube channel. This opens up the door for some amazing possibilities.
Shortly after Hangouts On Air were launched I decided that it might be worth it to really start experimenting with them. I was quite inspired to try this after seeing some of the interesting ways that Bernie Goldbach was using the On Air feature at various education and social media events.
After some discussion with my colleagues April Ennis and Marti Konstant we decided that we would host a weekly (or more) Hangout On Air that we decided to call StartupJAM Sessions. The focus of these Hangouts are on business issues, lean startups, marketing, technology, social media, transmedia, online community building and much more.
Here is the list.ly which outlines the sessions that we have held so far:
In addition, I have been taking part in a variety of Hangouts with colleagues from around the world related to Transmedia, SOBCon, Social Media and much more. On the left you can see me chatting with a range of SOBCon friends – Marti Konstant, Diane Brogan, April Ennis, Nick Kellet and Paul O’Mahony. Below I am joining into a workshop on Social Media that was being presented by April Ennis, Tinker Media. We had some fun demonstrating why Google+ Hangouts hold significant potential for small businesses on Prince Edward Island.
Here is a quick update on Audioboo about some of the things that are going on in my world right now: