Tony Karrer

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Learning Community, Peers and Outside Experts

Tony Karrer

In some ways this relates closely to the post on Selling Learning Communities. By way of background, Nancy White and John Smith are gurus around all things Communities and Networks. I’ve worked with Nancy to create the Communities and Networks Connection which helps me continuously learn.

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Learning Communities List

Tony Karrer

As we are wrapping up the week for Learn Trends , one of the questions we faced was what to do with the Ning community that sprung up to support the conference. The discussion today suggested that it would be nice if there were a way to transfer the connections being made during the conference out to other networks or learning communities.

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Networks and Communities

Tony Karrer

Network Readiness Before you can reach into a network or community to seek conversation, you generally need to have spent time on Building some level of connection (network building). You have to look systematically at your networks and communities to be in position to be able to use them as part of your work and learning.

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Mobile Learning Content Community Launched

Tony Karrer

I'm happy to announce that Judy Brown today officially launched the Mobile Learning Content Community. It's great to have her pull together content and bloggers into this community. This uses the same technology behind eLearning Learning. Judy is THE person I have gone to for years for anything having to do with mobile learning.

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Selling Learning Communities – Not Everyone Will or Wants a Group Hug

Tony Karrer

Jack Merklein from Xerox Global Services did a really great presentation at LearnTrends 2009 entitled - Common tools for Diverse Communities at Xerox Global Services. Jack is responsible for the development, care and tools for learning communities and knowledge sharing initiatives. A few follow-up thoughts. That was my language.

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Blogs and Community

Tony Karrer

I just saw this post: Blogs as community killers? Both are quite interesting in that they point to the fact that Blogs form a network that is loosely coupled and thus lack the cohesive, singular environment that many communities desire (think listservs). and the white paper B logs in the CoP ecosystem.

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Communities / Social Networking and LMS Merger

Tony Karrer

Mzinga is a merger of KnowledgePlanet (an LMS provider and also the maker of the eLearning simulation tool - Firefly) and Shared Insights - a community / business social networking software company. This merger points to another direction - combination of LMS capability + community / social networking. I wonder if mzinga does?