About

This blog is a public place for me to think out loud and document my learning journey. I started it in January 2013 while participating in the E-learning and Digital Cultures MOOC (#edcmooc). Blogging has helped me reflect on what I am learning as well as have a dialogue with members of my personal learning network. My hope is that it becomes a repository of resources that I can refer back to in the future.

Why Gather with Purpose?

January 2021: I have not been actively blogging here for some time, but am leaving this up as an archive. You can find my LinkedIn articles that I’ve written in the past several years here.

Disclaimer: All of the thoughts, opinions and ideas in this blog are my own and do not represent the organizations where I work.

About Keeley

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I completed the MS in Learning and Organizational Change program at Northwestern University in December 2011 and have held various knowledge management, digital workplace and online community positions in the higher education, technology, and non-profit sectors since then.

As a student my focus was on knowledge management / social learning. I am particularly interested in ways that individuals and organizations can use social learning/collaboration platforms to facilitate knowledge sharing and create communities of inquiry. In the summer of 2012, my colleague Jeff Merrell and I implemented an MSLOC online learning community called The Hive using Jive Software‘s enterprise social network cloud product. Learn more about our online social learning community.

I enjoy connecting with other social learning, knowledge management, enterprise social network, and online community enthusiasts so you can find me in The Community Roundtable community as well as the Chicago Online Community Professionals community of practice.

Prior to starting graduate school, I worked in sales and customer service for software companies serving higher education customers (higher education administrative software and academic and research library software).  I consider myself a technology translator who sits between the techies and the end-user and between the early adopters and the tech averse.