Chris Betcher

As we celebrate Christmas and 2010 draws to a close, here's a little video to make you smile. Special Christmas wishes to everyone who has been part of my world for the last 12 months.  It's been a wonderful year, full of learning, fun, travel, meeting interesting people, connecting with my network, and sharing ideas with each other.  I've had the good fortune to do some travelling this year and met many wonderful folk in person that I've only ever known online, as well as meeting a whole of great new people, and that's been a real highlight for me.  You know who you are, and I feel so much richer for it.  Thanks!   I feel like 2010 has been an amazing year of connecting with others, and it's been incredibly rewarding on many levels.  To everyone who has left comments on the blog, connected via Twitter or Facebook or Skype or email or the many other ways we have of being connected (including face to face of course!), thank you... those connections mean a gr...

I know this rather personal post is out of character for this blog, but I felt I wanted to post it anyway...  I hope you don't mind. My grandmother died this week. The funeral was today, and it was a tough day to get through.  I was brave on the outside because my mum needed me to be, but on the inside, I cried a lot. I really loved my Nanna Brown. She was an extraordinary woman who, at nearly 98, lived through most of the past century.  I had never really stopped to think about it, but when I looked at the list of world events she'd lived through it was astonishing.  I know we talk a lot about change, and the pace of change, and how important it is to deal with the changing world we live in, but in my nan's lifetime she lived through both World Wars, as well as an assortment of other wars and a Great Depression. She was just over 1 year old when the first transatlantic flight was made, 15 years old when Penicillin was discovered, 24 when construc...