Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

We have roughly 500 learners and would use the LMS for mainly tracking and registration of ILT courses, communication (possibly through message boards), and posting of class materials. Situation description: I have talked to several vendors and have received quotes at the 6-8k (per year) range for the licensing.

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Low Cost LMS IntraLearn Cost 103

Tony Karrer

MAY 8, 2007

A few of the points that Seth makes: Communication is about getting others to adopt your point of view, to help them understand why you're excited (or sad, or optimistic or whatever else you are.) You can wreck a communication process with lousy logic or unsupported facts, but you can't complete it without emotion.

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Training Companies and LMS More LMS Options for Associations on a Budget And some of the resulting choices based on these resources: Coggno LearnHub Litmos Odijoo Learn.com Personal Edition Articulate Online CourseMill CourseMax Xerceo TrainingAtom Geo On-Demand Upside Learning Upside LMS Ultralearn TOPYX Sclipo CoursePark JoomlaLMS Intellum Ziiva (..)

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Low Cost IntraLearn Hosting Cornerstone OnDemand 122

Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

or If they come into the company in waves, how about providing them a discussion group or better yet a social network tool that has good discussions as a means of communicating with each other and with coaches? How about asking select new hires to keep an inside the firewall blog as they begin their jobs at your company? If not, why not?

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Social Networks Social Network Network Blogging 100

Tony Karrer

JULY 21, 2010

I pointed out the benefit of correction of inaccurate information on a discussion forum is that it is visible and correctable - unlike information that is sent through email or other back channels of communication. I could go on… but I’m sure you get the picture.

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Forum Social Networks Discussion Case Study 115

Tony Karrer

MARCH 15, 2007

Just saw this : Earlier this month, Microsoft announced it was finally adding voice capabilities to its Live Communication Server. And now Cisco is adding hosted collaboration to compete with Microsoft's hosted service known as Live Meeting.

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WebEx Elluminate Microsoft Server 100

Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

I have exceptional talent at training and communicating across disciplines and I’m trying to get back into the job market. Here was his question: I taught MS Office and HTML for 8 years in college, then went back for an MFA in Fine Art to give my right brain a chance.

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 29, 2008

I've read a bit from ( here , here , and here ) about Jet Blue's use of web 2.0 / social media tools to communicate between their staff of learning professionals. This is another great example of eLearning 2.0.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 5, 2008

For example, one of the systems that we built helped retail store managers improve customer satisfaction through planning, goal setting, communication support, eCoaching, etc. Still, of the terms, its probably the one that is most recognized. Still, of the terms, its probably the one that is most recognized.

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Virtual Classroom Courseware Performance Support Search 112

Tony Karrer

MAY 21, 2008

Feedster Corporate Blogging Policy Thomas Nelson Blogging Guidelines Plaxo Public Internet Communication Policy Hill & Knowlton Blogging policies and guidelines Yahoo Employee Blog Guidelines BBC Blog Guidelines Sun's Policy on Public Discourse Groove What Should Your Corporate Policy Be On Blogs?

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Policies Web Corporate eLearning eLearning 2.0 128

Tony Karrer

JUNE 13, 2007

Scholarly communication before the Internet required the intermediation of publishers. Print publishing cycles and normal kinds of peer review are simply too slow to be a reasonable filter on the communication. Instead, we get many-to-many communication that is fundamentally different than what we've had before.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 7, 2007

Very rarely will someone read pages of text, where a visual that communicates the same message provides a quick way for people to review and then respond. When they are well designed, visuals communicate more information, more quickly, with more retention and longer recall. Finally, he gets to what I expected him to discuss.

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 2, 2009

All communications in my blog, presentations and consulting will be authentic. That clause says: I have a responsibility to provide unbiased content in my blog, presentations and consulting. All relationships will be disclosed and transparent. In other words, there is no editorial control by anyone over spoken or written statements.

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Firewalls eLearning Consultant Write Blog Adobe 100

Tony Karrer

AUGUST 15, 2011

The home page itself will show you the latest and best content at any time.

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Rapid Intake Rapid eLearning Examples eLearning 182

Tony Karrer

AUGUST 10, 2010

Layered communications will change online communities - FreshNetworks , April 14, 2009 Time for a prediction: layered communications - a mixing of text, speech and video - will become a key issue for online communities in 2010 and beyond. Conference Survival Guide for the Web Worker. eLearning Technology.

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Conference Web Resources Social Networks 199

Tony Karrer

MAY 17, 2010

federal government — including the Departments of State, Homeland Security, NOAA, NASA, Army, Navy and Air Force — now exploit Second Life technology to connect with stakeholders around the world, communicate complex ideas, train and collaborate.

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Environment Second Life Virtual World Simulations 137

Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 25, 2007

Over stating how much LMS you need and/or missing the opportunity for a Starter LMS. Underestimating people required to operate an LMS. No clear governance after selection.

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RFP eLearningGuild LMS Brandon Hall 100

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 10, 2009

Some details of what they want / need: The portal we need to develop should be able to handle online registration, producing letters of offer, payment gateway, producing letters of acceptance, producing student cards, downloading syllabi, downloading study guides, processing purchasing orders that trigger the distribution of the textbooks by the Publishers’ (..)

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Open Source LMS Open Moodle 100

Tony Karrer

AUGUST 5, 2010

Communicate all of the details in great detail. We’ve used Elluminate as our webinar system. It has issues with firewalls. So, we ask everyone to test until they find a location where they can connect. This means that some people need to attend from home. No matter how much you feel its obvious what to do, there will be confusion.

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Conference Elluminate Effectiveness Online 227

Tony Karrer

MAY 12, 2009

There's certainly no profanity of vulgarity in the email address, yet someone had a mildly negative reaction to it and at the very least seemed to imply that the very structure of the email address would likely preclude that person from communicating with me.

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Photo Write Blog Network Discussion 100

Tony Karrer

JULY 10, 2008

These forms of communication are shallow and make us dumber. There's another good post on a related topic - Ten Common Objections to Social Media and How to Respond - includes: 1. I suffer from information overload already. So much of what's discussed online is meaningless. We have real work to do!

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Information Overload Policies Social Media ROI 100

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 21, 2007

Lots of interesting aspects: using blogger to direct people in the course - each lesson is a blog entry - and participants used blogs to communicate as well. It's a bit similar to what I had done in a learning experience that was a six week online course - see Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools - A Summary.

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Learning 2.0 Pattern iPod Summary 100

Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Nancy White, Full Circle Associates ( [link] ) Nancy brings over 25 years of communications, technology and leadership skills in her work supporting collaboration, learning and communications in the NGO, non profit and business sectors.

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LearnTrends Free Digital Wiki 167

Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

Based on the post He Had a Bad Day , Mark Oehlert , Heidi Fisk and I have had an email conversation that raises an interesting broader questions around the role, voice and communication norms of people who are the leaders / organizers of groups like the eLearningGuild. Should they try to stay behind the scenes and put members out in front?

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Voice eLearningGuild Brandon Hall Roles 100

Tony Karrer

JUNE 22, 2011

In addition to e-learning, Talkwheel helps enterprises improve productivity and communication both internally and externally and allows users to organize their social and professional networks in an effective manner. It can be tried for free at Talkwheel.com.

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Asynchronous Emergent Conversation Social Networks 157

Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

This is key as most users do not jump in and start communicating. It also could be a bit overwhelming for first time users. So, they have done some nice things to help first timers get started. Automatically add you into a few teams. For example, all the people who joined the same week I joined.

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Behavior Training Train Community 243

Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 12, 2009

They wanted to be able to access experts and begin to build better communication. One of the key features of the portal also is the “Expertise Exchange,” where sales people can communicate with experts. Initially they considered just doing the solution as a search solution that would be able to find content across the various systems.

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Portal Expert Sales Teams 109

Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 23, 2007

Tony's examples were brief, but interesting: Wikis Product updates/news Project management Podcasts Communications Sales / Field Force Collective Intelligence Predictive markets Social Networking New Hires Communities of Practice One of the questions we got was: How do you start as a Learning Professional?

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Social Networks Webcast Social Network Network 100

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 10, 2008

The defined interventions focused on communications, associate training opportunities, follow-up opportunities, and other elements that had been successful in other stores. Using metrics that are new to the organization will come with minimally a need for communicating the connection between these numbers and the bottom line.

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Metrics Performance Support Score Survey 100

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

Procter & Gamble is running an internal marketing campaign with the tagline "connect, converse, accelerate" as it rolls out real-time communications, a collaborative content portal, and desktop search. More than 20% make these tools available, but they're not widely used.

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Wiki Social Networks Case Study Gartner 100

Tony Karrer

JANUARY 11, 2007

It will be much more like a combination of Communication, Search Support and Web Analytics (for tracking), and less like the current self-contained entities that are today's LMS. When I looked at what Lee and Mark had to say, I find myself nodding my head in agreement that there has to be a different kind of LMS that will emerge.

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LMS Compliance Training Analytics Emergent 100

Tony Karrer

JANUARY 26, 2009

Teach me less about communication and give me more templates for important, tough communication points. How can you improve performance quickly and at low cost? The answer for many organizations will be less training and more performance support in the form of toolkits.

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Predictions Virtual Classroom Wiki Corporate eLearning 125

Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 18, 2007

Configuration, customization Testing Pilot Communication I'm not sure how interesting it would be to step through each line item of the process. Common communication problems. When I've sat in the audience as someone walks through their process steps - yawn. This will be somewhat similar to my LMS Selection Gotcha list.

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LMS RFP eLearningGuild Brandon Hall 102

Tony Karrer

AUGUST 10, 2009

technologies for internal communication and collaboration within their company. It's affecting fundamental change in how people expect to communicate, both with each other and the companies they do business with. Survey Results: Enterprise 2.0 Adoption : 98% of those surveyed are using Enterprise 2.0 technologies.

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Social Software Adoption Adopt Social Networks 116

Tony Karrer

APRIL 28, 2008

Building community in an online learning environment: communication, cooperation and collaboration 16. 1) " EduTech gEEks.We're a new brEEd Still new on campus, social software tools can support students and staff beyond the classroom, reaching around the world for learning and communication 17. Storyboards & eLearning (Pt.

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Wiki Instructional Design Case Study Corporate eLearning 147

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 12, 2008

No the communication is not through email - but it's very similar. However, what I've found through blogging is that I get to know lots of people including maybe especially other bloggers. Thus, when I see them post, there's not this issue of no trust. It is someone I know. It acts just like that category. When Brent, Mark, Michele, etc.

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Trust 100 Conversations Portal Social Media 102

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 12, 2006

A few I've individually communicated with outside of the blogosphere. Thus, I'm finding myself in a world of: Loosely Connected Individual Relationships This raises all sorts of questions for me: Should I do something more with these relationships or is the loose connection enough? A couple I've asked to be on panels or met at conferences.

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Social Networks eLearningGuild ASTD Write Blog 100