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What is the Important Work?

Clark Quinn

This isn’t news: things are moving faster, we’re having less resources available, our competition is more agile, the amount of relevant information is increasing, customers are more aware, the list goes on. Not surprisingly for regular readers, I think that the nature of work is changing. I want to argue that it does.

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Concept Worker

Tony Karrer

He describes how our society has gone from agricultural to industrial to the information age. But then he describes how we've really moved on past that to a new age where the dominant value for most organizations are created by high-end knowledge workers working on concepts. He calls them creators and empathizers.

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Social Learning doesn’t mean what you think it does: PART TWO

Jane Hart

Well, although we can track formal learning activity, it is really not possible to track informal learning (where most people’s learning takes place). The only system that CAN manage or measure an individual’s learning is their own brain! So we need to approach measuring success in a very different way.

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More Curious Learning

Learning Rebels

I suppose it will take bigger brains that mine to figure out why people just accept what they are told or what they believe as final word, regardless of facts and data. Those types of debates are good for the brain, it feeds the mind. Share with them the information you have discovered. Lately my focus has been on curiosity.

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Overcoming the most common roadblocks to knowledge transfer

Matrix

Companies operating in a variety of industries are aware that having knowledgeable employees is crucial to their success. Having access to information is not enough; knowing where exactly to find it and what to do with it is what really matters. But knowledge is not something you can take with you in your pocket. Conclusion.

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Top 100 eLearning Items

Tony Karrer

Mathemagenic " PhD conclusions in a thousand words: blogging practices of knowledge workers Web 2.0 Tools Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools - A Summary PR 2.0: Applications in Learning Rethinking Learning Styles Understanding E-Learning 2.0

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Tapping the Social Grid - Free Webinar

Tony Karrer

I'm going to be doing a free webinar with Mark Sylvester of IntroNetworks that's about Crowdsourcing in the Small and Social Brain. This has caused fairly radical changes in core work tools and methods. A social grid has formed that provides concept workers new work methods. This should be a very interesting discussion.

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