Props to Dylan (10) for creating short videos thst are getting 2000 views within a day of their posting on Twitter. See more of Dylan's work at https://youtube.com/ymtfm Cover art is a set of Mont Blanc pens we found.

I was wrong about the owner of Slideshare--it's Scrib. I hope to get a Ricoh Theta X or some kind of portable 3D scanner. If you're like me, you like see highlights people share on the Kindle books they're reading. BIG WIN: We are converting more than 3.3% of people visiting our booking engine. In fact, nearly 6% of people landing on http://ictedu.ie/booking attend the annual ICT in Education Conference. Cover art is snapped next to one of our bookshelves at home. Comments: ping me @topgold

Recorded during a May Bank Holiday under the gazebo of the Ashgrove Cabin. Cover art of my view looking at a door that needs black paint.I'm trying to complement my day with a simple audio blog item. I've made these occasional audio blogs since 2010 and four years ago I tried to import a string of them into Spreaker. They remind me of unfinished tasks. I can hear my own voice telling me what I'm trying to do. Today, I'm still spinning my wheels by not holding myself to ticking off items on my to-do list.I need a To-Do List Imperative--something that encourages me to stay on task. I'm starting to wonder if I need a better electronic system, something more than Google Keep.My blog tells me the to-do list I used the longest was Wunderlist, a service acquired by Microsoft. So I've downloaded it and hope to see its integration to Outlook on my laptop. It doesn't integrate smoothly on my Samsung Note 9 but I'm used to that.I'm putting my hands up with an admission that I need better focus. One of my creative media students tells me it's all down to executive planning. I need better executive planning, starting with a priority system that should be carved into a nightly routine.Saying these things out loud helps me think about what should be on my tick-off list today. Perhaps I should return at the end of the Bank Holiday Weekend and report my success.Before I leave, I want Google to recognise my black Gothic Door and give it standing. The black Gothic Door with its Norseman tells part of the story about where I am seated while typing these thoughts. If you follow some of the links to the black Gothic Door, you might arrive inside the cabin where I'm seated. Canadian Robert Neil has done that already by using Google Earth.If you find the space, you're welcome to visit. I'll beam you in via Zoom if you request.

It's time to narrow my focus so I can deliver a high quality content stream for the annual ICT in Education Conference. That means drilling down into activity streams of teachers and then harvesting interesting ideas through Notion that can be shared during the conference and on https://ictedu.ie/ict-in-education-blogI'm thinking about a routine that we're trying to choreograph for the ICT in education conference. It's an annual event. And we're late getting the proceedings underway this year, for May 14 2022, in Thurles, County Tipperary, Ireland. And although that's top of my mind, what's actually as important is a series of conversations that I've had with Greg Dickson, in Alberta, Canada. Where I sit in County Tipperary, Ireland, I'm always trying to figure out a way to get stuff done--you know, better focus, accomplishment--activities that actually have collaborative value. That's my focus. That's my measure of merit. And I just want to say that, with all the little technologies that I have, and all the information that's distracting and yet helpful, I have zeroed in on a knowledge management information management method that involves Notion, plus Roam Research, and blogging in a photo stream. If everything works out the way it should, on Saturday, the 14th of May, I'll explain the process to teachers and university lecturers who attend the ICT in Education Conference. The big win today is being able to use the little Chrome extensions for the processes I just mentioned. Thanks for listening to my short little Topgold Audio Clip. I'll be back tomorrow with another. Bye for now.

Quick clip for https://twitter.com/gregbd to affirm how easy Bear syncs with iOS. Acknowledging Roam Research can be cryptic. Bernie uses Notion to teach Masters students Personal Knowledge Management.

Offering some thoughts arising after a Twitter thread with @gregbd. There's a public page on Notion with background info at https://bit.ly/notionpkmI'm scraping through COVID. And I have some PKM ideas I'd like to share. The motivation comes from Greg Dixon in Alberta, Canada. As you can tell, Greg, if you're listening, my voice is not back to normal. As I recover, I am prodded to think about how artificial intelligence and machine learning and maybe neuro linguistic programming can help evolve the workplace, or help improve my workflow. And I'm thinking about this stuff, because I believe it's a long line of thought that you were asking about Greg, about, like, what's the big leap forward that, that me that Bernie Goldbach might see, in this space where artificial intelligence, machine learning, and the workplace coexist. I'm a big fan of trying to keep the stuff that I discover, especially eureka moments, in places where I can find them. And what I know it's sometimes difficult to annotate them, or to categorize them. But they're valuable throwaway moments. They would be thrown away if they couldn't be discovered or resurface later. So about a year and a half ago, I started using Roam Research, because you can just throw stuff into its system. And it has a flat text searching capability that finds everything. If you add hierarchial commands to the information--headings or hypertext links or hashtags--it's easier to surface the material and give some structure to it. But it's an unstructured database of thoughts. And over about the 18-20 month period, I've been using it. I've been able to rediscover stuff that I didn't know I thought about and didn't know I wrote about and didn't know I talked about, but there there there, there it is, the stuff is there. Now, this is all relevant, because in the workplace, you'd like to come to the table, or be in a meeting and present thoughts that are relevant, timely, and maybe earth shaking, you know, very important, would provide a leap of capability to your team. And if the preliminary research you've done, in our case, it'd be like desktop research on a company or deep research on student trends or evolutions of different textbooks. At meetings that we have at the university level, it's good to know we can bring this information to the table. And maybe you could get the information you need to hand within just a few minutes of a meeting happening because of the way your personal knowledge management system is set up. My Roam Research does that. And in fact, in the description of this audio clip, I'll leave a link to another more visually appealing database. It's run by Notion. And it surfaced a blog post I wrote a while back about this whole idea that I'm talking about right now. And because I wrote it in such a way that it showed up in an RSS feed, the RSS feed inside of a service called Feedly had an AI that was looking at the word PKM letters PKM, or the words personal knowledge management. It flagged that and then it pushed it into both Roam and into notion all by itself. Since I have subscriptions--paying for Roam and paying for Notion and paying for Feedly-- I have those things running in the background. It helps surface things I need in the foreground. It be in the APIs of those systems. It be in the web hooks of the services. And then what I want to do is make all those things part of a daily process where I can leverage them. And that's what I see the big leaps between now and 2025 being where companies are going to figure this out. I'm enslaved by Microsoft Teams. So I'm watching Azure services, the cognitive sciences part of Microsoft's Office 365, do a lot of this stuff in the background for me. I like to have it do more. So when I get a calendar alert for a meeting, I would like to know that maybe dynamically based on the words in the agenda attached to the calendar meeting, that there'll be these block links, links to blocks of text, or database links, that when the notification came to my desktop, to my Outlook, or to my Microsoft Surface Book, that Roam or Notion would pick up key terms, and all of a sudden suggest 1,2,3,4 or 5 relevant things are to look at, before the meeting starts. That behind the scenes, the AI would do this for me. I wish that the the AI could do a sentiment analysis of the people who are listed to be part of the meeting. So maybe harvesting something from their social feed or from news items that they shared or from strings of email text. I know that the thing I'm doing right now, which is I'm making a podcast that's going to go to Spreaker, that if I was making this podcast, inside my desktop, I could turn on otter.ai at the same time, and I'd have a transcript dynamically in front of me, before I even posted the audio clip. This podcast will generate an audio clip based on how I have a surface set up behind Spreaker. And maybe there'll be a small headline right on that it'll pop out through an app that's running on the back of Spreaker as well. Something about the AI will determine what's the most relevant part of the thing I'm talking about, and then pop it that I could share on social. I've written everything I've written the main points of what I'm talking about today, already. And they've been harvested already by PKM systems of Roam and Notion. I'm planning to put a link to this audio clip inside my Notion and Roam databases. And I've already put a link to the Notion database up on a Twitter thread, where Greg Dixon and I are talking. If you're listening to this in a podcatcher, and things are working the way I think they do, you should be able to scroll down and see a link going into the notion database. I asked for it to be public, so click it. And you'd see the Notion database with some people at the top of it, which would include Patrick and John Collison. Patrick's major investor doing a $10 million investment in Roam Research so he sees the value of this. Okay, I'm explaining what we're doing with what I'm talking about here to a group of postgraduate students starting in October 2022. They're interested in digital transformation. Personal knowledge management is part of that. I am surfacing a little teaser about this to a bunch of teachers on the 14th of May at the ICT and Education Conference in Thurles, County Tipperary Ireland. If you want to catch up with me, you might know where to find me. I'm topical Bernie, on all good social networks. Thanks for listening. Bye for now.Connect with Bernie https://twitter.com/topgold

I made a big error by selecting Microsoft Sound Mapper over Realtek Microphone Array on my Surface Book. The result sounds terrible on a classroom recording for @ictedu and now I wonder if I should recut the episode.

Prepping for a recording session with creative broadcast students in Limerick, I wanted to see if the Microsoft Surface Book recorded in stereo.

I see what people are thinking when I look at what they are searching before they land on https://insideview.ie. I also enjoy my new Sony Extra Bass Bluetooth earbuds. I hope several of the thoughts I have here can cross-pollinate the Edtech from Ireland podcast. Wondering if old voices like Phil Sorrell still use https://last.fm

Trying to remaster the fine art of ducking audio sound effects. It's easier when using my Samsung Note than it is when using Spreaker Studio on my Microsoft Surface Book. That's one of our Axolotls posing as cover art on this clip.