ID Reflections

DECEMBER 25, 2010

I have been deviating from the key themes of this blog, i.e., learning, performance, training and collaboration, for some time now. However, the deviations have been topics that moved me deeply, and I did not want to write about them in a separate blog. I am talking about knowledge work here.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Should the following Dilbert worry me about Work Literacy? Much of the idea of Work Literacy is to help people who need to keep up with how technology impacts knowledge work. Subscribe to the Best of eLearning Learning for updates from this blog and other eLearning blogs.

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Tony Karrer

MARCH 5, 2008

Tools to Make Reading & Research More Effective Personal Learning Knowledge Work Environment Personal and Group Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools to Make Reading & Research More Effective Personal Learning Knowledge Work Environment Personal and Group Learning Using Web 2.0 links: [link]

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Tony Karrer

APRIL 3, 2007

Why Wikis Are Conquering the Enterprise Wikis - Public vs. Controlled - Why There's No eLearning Wiki Will Blogs, Wikis, RSS, Mashups be Used in Corporate eLearning? Search - Implications on Knowledge Work Corporate eLearning Development: Learning2.0, Learning Trends Point To and Shape Corporate eLearning

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 1, 2008

I'm very happy to announce that Michele Martin and I have just launched Work Literacy - a network of individuals, companies and organizations who are interested in learning, defining, mentoring, teaching and consulting on the frameworks, skills, methods and tools of modern knowledge work. In fact, we all have blind spots.

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 1, 2008

I'm very happy to announce that Michele Martin and I have just launched Work Literacy - a network of individuals, companies and organizations who are interested in learning, defining, mentoring, teaching and consulting on the frameworks, skills, methods and tools of modern knowledge work. In fact, we all have blind spots.

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Tony Karrer

MAY 4, 2010

In a post on my CTO Blog , I talked about Match Performance Support ,the performance support that goes along with many matching solutions such as in eHarmony. We are already seeing this in terms of lots of startups aimed at particular elements of knowledge work. See Does Deliberative Practice Lead to Quick Proficiency?

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Tony Karrer

MARCH 30, 2010

That said, I thought it would be worthwhile for me to collect a few of the resources that provide good starting points that can help Knowledge Workers improve their performance using Social Media. Subscribe to the Best of eLearning Learning for updates from this blog and other eLearning blogs. eLearning Technology.

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Tony Karrer

AUGUST 31, 2009

I initially said - "Look at my blog," but when I looked, I realized it might be a bit harder than I thought to pull out the central themes. So, here's a bit of a compilation of some of the things I've been talking about in my blog which points to some of the major trends in learning. This will be a slow evolution.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 11, 2010

s impact on knowledge work and workplace learning. He is author of the award-winning eLearning Technology blog, creator of eLearning Learning , and founder of Work Literacy. Subscribe to the Best of eLearning Learning for updates from this blog and other eLearning blogs. where he received a M.S.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

Given the nomination , I'm not sure how much new traffic will come to check out this blog, but I know that it's always hard to come to a blog and get a sense of what the person talks about. This is the reason I created the First Time Visitor's Guide. However, it's been a while since I last updated this page. and eLearning 2.0

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Work Literacy eLearning 2.0 Fourth Grader Wikipedia Update New Work and New Work Skills Work Skills Keeping Up? Knowledge Work Framework Tilde Effect Concept Worker Knowledge Work Not Separate from Learning Tool Set 2009 Search Better Memory Network Learning Information Radar Remote Collaboration Common eLearning 2.0

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Tony Karrer

MARCH 25, 2009

Complexity of Productivity for Knowledge Work Productivity is defined as: the ratio of the quantity and quality of units produced to the labor per unit of time For some knowledge workers, we can reasonably define things this way. See Tom Davenport and Blogging - He is Wrong! I never initiate a connection.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

The point, however, is from the point of the view of the learner, all the resources needed are ‘to hand’ through every stage of knowledge work. They may need discussion forums, blogs, wikis, and IM. Jay Cross talks about the learnscape , while I term it the performance ecosystem.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

These are my live blogged notes from the session). We find that knowledge work has replaced manual labor as the predominant form of work. Many secondary functions such as communications, email, blogs, wikis, web 2.0 This week on Instructional Design Live on EdTechTalk. People learn at different rates.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 8, 2009

Harold Jarche, Michele Martin and I are pleased to announce a new workshop offering that relates to the recent posts on Tool Set 2009 and to the issues of Work Literacy. Work Literacy Skills Workshop Was the last formal training you had on knowledge work skills the use of a card catalog and microfiche reader?

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 22, 2008

Session Hopping a Practical Guide General Session - New Work Literacies and E-Learning 2.0 These changes are continuously transforming the landscape for knowledge work. The results are in, and most knowledge workers are struggling to adapt to new forms of work and learning. Learning 2.0 Learning 2.0

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 20, 2008

It’s made it harder to blog, as I’ve had a hard time doing deep reflection when there’re continual interruptions (worse these next few days, I’ve got the kids while my wife is away visiting her mother; don’t expect there to be a lot of posts this week).

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Tony Karrer

JULY 6, 2009

I do a lot of presentations where one of the topics is how to use LinkedIn more effectively as part of your knowledge work. Other Resources Linked Intelligence The Official LinkedIn Blog The Executive’s Guide to LinkedIn Networlding Alltop LinkedIn eLearning Technology. Generally 50-70%. How many of you actively use LinkedIn?

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 12, 2009

Entreprise Collaborative , a cross-cultural endeavor bridging English and French to provide a jumping off point on organizational collective intelligence (and co-led by my Internet Time Alliance colleague Harold Jarche ), is launching a blog carnival. The first topic is: the future of the training department in the Collaborative Enterprise.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Date Title 09/29/2008 Introduction to Social Networks 10/06/2008 Free your Favorites / Bookmarks 10/13/2008 Blogs 10/20/2008 Aggregators 10/27/2008 Wikis 11/03/2008 Implications / Summary We will be posting more details of how to get into this online experience soon. Michele blogs at The Bamboo Project. The program topics and schedule.

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ID Reflections

MAY 30, 2013

I know it''s a strange title for a post in this blog. And with this post, I am coming back to blogging after a longish hiatus. I had planned a month''s "blogging leave" which has stretched to almost four for various reasons--some of these being the absolutely new and challenging world of work I am currently in.

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Tony Karrer

AUGUST 10, 2009

The most popular technologies used are instant messaging (74%), wikis and team workspaces (67%), and blogs (51%). A prime example are blogs. Blogging is somewhat a personal/network version of discussion groups. In fact, part of the comparison is that discussion groups and blogging both bring value with limited adoption.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 5, 2009

The information in this series has been something I've been presenting, writing, blogging about and more recently doing workshops around. Blogging Inside or Outside the Corporate Firewall ). What are the most important methods to adopt in addition to the tools? Should twitter be part of your tool set?

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Tony Karrer

APRIL 20, 2010

This is further complicated by the fact that there’s expectation that learning is going to be more and more part of day-to-day knowledge work. You need to think about how your learning business lines up with the reality of work and tools in the near future. eLearning Technology.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 14, 2009

2009 Top Posts and Topics , Top 125 Workplace eLearning Posts of 2009 and just running through my blog posts for the year. If you think about it, Twitter, Blog Comments, etc. And it can turn into great things like: Discussion Forums for Knowledge Sharing at Capital City Bank. are all forms of visible networking. eLearning 2.0

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Tony Karrer

MARCH 3, 2009

Leveraging Networks is Key Skill and the most important Knowledge Worker Skill Gap. Tools and Methods for Networks and Communities - Discusses specific tools and methods for using Networks and Communities as part of Knowledge Work. tysg EmmaWho : @ tonykarrer facebook groups cammybean : @ tonykarrer Blogging.

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Tony Karrer

AUGUST 30, 2007

Blogs and wikis are already being implemented by learners themselves. However, knowledge workers and learners are adopting other work and learning techniques and tools because they support knowledge work and learning AND because they are incredibly easy to use, thus, the adoption hurdle is low (see Adoption of Web 2.0

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Tony Karrer

JULY 20, 2009

This works across any subset of the content including sources, keywords and arbitrary searches. For example, when I view my blog's content through the eLearning Learning lens , it shows me that relative to other sources of content in the system, I tend to talk about: eLearning 2.0 (130)

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 3, 2008

My blog is really the hub of my thinking and activity, so by going back through posts for the 2008, it gives me a pretty good perspective on what's been happening inside my head during 2008. To do my review, I first looked at what I was writing about and what people were reading on my blog in 2008.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 7, 2009

It's left to the reader to interpret where they fit into their day-to-day concept work. Trying to fit any tool into the myriad of different work lives is really hard. For example, where does blogging fit - well it depends on who you are talking to. I understand why most authors start with the tool. What's a top-down strategy?

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ID Reflections

AUGUST 28, 2012

I have come back to blogging after a hiatus of almost 5 months. Mostly, business as usual at work and crisis situations at home took my time and attention. This taught me a few things about work, technology and myself. Work —complex knowledge work requires solitude as well as collaboration.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Using SharePoint as Project System for Training Organization Quite a few people talked about how they were using SharePoint as a collaborative tool to work on projects. They had profiles, directories, blogs to help foster sharing between spread out teams. They would share course materials, project plans, documents.

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

Tapping the Social Grid Date: Friday, February 27th Time: 9 - 10 am PACIFIC, Noon - 1 pm EASTERN Register Here Over the past 20 years, knowledge work has been transformed by the explosion of information sources and information flow. This has caused fairly radical changes in core work tools and methods. in Computer Science.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 13, 2009

Social Learning Question of the Day E-Book Now You Can Design E-Learning Courses Like a Pro Twitter, Networks, and “following” people Learning Circuits Blog Big Question: What are your Challenges, Plans and Predictions for 2009 Hopes and Predictions for 2009 Hot List Items How to Embed Almost Anything in your Website Copyright-friendly image source (..)

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ID Reflections

DECEMBER 30, 2010

While this has been a momentous career shift for me, I may not have written a blog post on it except for the learning. With the unknown and the complex becoming the norm in knowledge work, adaptability is the key to dealing with challenges, to be comfortable with ambiguity, and to move to a state where we are constantly learning.

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 26, 2007

In other words, in a world with Wikipedia, blogs, social networking, etc. - not to mention in a world of Google as the interface to knowledge - what new skills, techniques and tools do we need? So, I am very glad that George pointed me back here, because this gets into exactly what I was hoping for from him.

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