Tony Karrer

AUGUST 25, 2010

The Business Case for Social Learning - Daretoshare , April 13, 2009 Job losses, combined with cutbacks in workforce development investments, mean that many companies are less able to serve customers, make sales or generate innovations than they were just a few months ago. Specifically, the web. Refer to Figure 3.0 Figure 3.0. tags: web_2.0

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Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Interesting post by Dan Pontefract where he provides definitions of some different "2.0" Definition (via Andrew McAfee ): the use of emergent social software platforms within companies, or between companies and their partners or customers HR & Org Implication: Enterprise 2.0 is the use of Web 2.0

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 13, 2011

I was talking with a startup that has an existing audience and now want to provide a monthly subscription for access to training to this audience. Here are some resources that I found that may help: LMS eCommerce Solution Product Review: Litmos LMS LMS For SMBs And Training Companies – A Year On, Is It Still The Same?

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 22, 2011

It can act as an instant messaging service a bit like Yammer, HipChat for companies and other groups, but the layout is designed to make these discussions easier to see, archive, and work asynchronously. Quora is a Q&A site nicely integrated with Facebook that has done a good job providing a means to ask questions and get answers.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 14, 2010

It provided high value for me and hopefully value for people reading it. Aggregation and Social Filtering Provide High Value eLearning Learning has somewhat become my singular source of great eLearning content. See Failure of Creative Commons Licenses and Creative Commons Use in For-Profit Company eLearning? for more on this.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

See: " Supplier Savvy: Will Enterprise Software Companies Take Over E-Learning? " " Enterprise Software Redux ," In terms of "The Fall" his main point was that LMS will lose out to broader spectrum solutions - particularly Talent Management / Human Capital Management. So, how can you get big? You go broader. His bottom line.

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 18, 2009

* What new offerings are they looking to buy to bring into their company? Training CEOs who run companies that sell particular training offerings to corporations * What new offerings are they selling or trying to sell? What should CLOs, training companies and Vendors do to create and sell these offerings?

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

For both, lots of ideas that I never would have been able to provide on my own. Any ideas about where some “sweet spots” are, niches that are growing, companies that are doing especially well now? How do you figure out what companies are hiring trainers? I appreciate any thoughts you can share.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

How about asking select new hires to keep an inside the firewall blog as they begin their jobs at your company? 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?

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Cramster helps students with homework by providing answers to textbook questions and interactive support - think little pieces of eLearning for helping students figure out those problems. More broadly, addressing the issue of information overload for particular audiences is going to provide big time opportunity.

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 2, 2009

Keeping with the theme of creating posts that really shouldn't be posts, but I need to have an appropriate page in my blog, I thought I should take the opportunity to create a page where I can list any and all disclosures about relationships with vendors, people, companies that may appear in my writing or speaking.

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Tony Karrer

AUGUST 25, 2009

This whole topic has got me thinking about all of the implications and I've been regularly posting on it: Update on Future of Business of Learning New Learning Solutions Marginalized Getting Started Charles discusses what Learning Tree (and all training providers are up against).

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Tony Karrer

MAY 5, 2009

His background teaching e-learning classes, knowledge of adult learning theory, and experience training CEOs and front line staff provides him with a unique perspective on organizational learning. His experience with technology companies and high-tech initiatives provides him with insights into the future of technology.

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

The explosion in the world of mobile learning (mLearning) is fueled by the numbers, but also by the need to provide new kinds of learning and support that can be used at the point of need. When everyone has a mobile device with web access, clearly there are opportunities to provide content in new ways.

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 12, 2009

I wanted to share some discussions I've recently had around an interesting project where the company provided the sales team a collaboration, content distribution and expert access portal. Background I can't reveal the company used in this case study at their request. Do you have a case study for me? learning.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 9, 2009

1 - "Self-Directed Learning" Increases Due to economic pressures, companies are going to reduce training budgets to a point where it doesn't make sense to create content on marginal topics. As far as companies who focus on creating strategies around eLearning 2.0 Companies are moving more slowly, but not really failing at it.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 6, 2007

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. But like Q2Learning , they aim to provide visibility into community activities.

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

Some of the points it makes: Gartner predicts that by 2009 half of companies worldwide will be using wikis Examples of use Acronyms and industry terminology, best sales practices, case studies, client information, meeting minutes. He also pointed at - Most Business Tech Pros Wary About Web 2.0

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

For example, ClearForest provides a Firefox extension called Gnosis. It is a bit of a dog, but it can "identify the people, companies, organizations, geographies and products on the page you are viewing." It recognizes Companies, Countries, Industry Terms, Organizations, People, Products and Technologies.

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Tony Karrer

MAY 22, 2006

Thus, there is real attraction in being able to sign up for hosted services that provide these tools without Corporate IT being involved. Generally, I think you will find that hosts provide fairly reasonable control, but you will want to check into their security approach. and international regulations to which that company is subject.

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Here’s a very quick summary of some of the responses regarding the added learning value of a voice-over as opposed to plain screen text: Audio provides an additional channel of information which the brain can process in parallel with the visual information [Kapp]. and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death. Some examples: 1.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 12, 2008

The recent addition of related terms (relationship factors) in eLearning Learning that show what how related terms are to a given result set provides some interesting insights. It's also interesting to me to drill down another level on a couple of the companies to see what pops for them.

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Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

He provided very specific instructions and guidance, and provided plenty of support. She knew that much support would be needed, as the company definitely has an e-mail and phone culture. She set up sample questions with answers to provide context and initial categories for the questions. Obviously, you can’t say no.

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Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Rather, you are very similar to a services company. Most often this includes some kind of vision for what you are looking to provide. What's your role relative to providing business and performance focused initiatives? Or are you going to be brought in to provide training? Informal learning?

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Tony Karrer

APRIL 3, 2007

The reality is that all providers of content are competing in a flat world, with easy access to virtually every other information source and many different, alternative means of content creation. One of the most important questions is: What's the added value provided by content providers over alternative information sources? (One

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Duke Corporate Education and TechEmpower (my company) are sponsoring and assisting in organizing the event. If you have thoughts or ideas on what would make this a great event, please provide ideas. It's an exciting opportunity to discuss current trends and innovations in corporate training environments around the world.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Will the performance support tool provided to financial advisors increase customer loyalty? Will the employee engagement intervention provide only short-term benefit, or will it have a longer-term effect on engagement and retention? Will the retail sales training change behavior in ways that improve customer satisfaction?

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 2, 2007

But, if your content or your audience is particularly passionate, you really need to consider providing the capability. Sure you can get sucked in and waste a bunch of time, but these tools mostly provide value for very little time invested. But I've found myself a bit unsure about some of the responses this article has generated.

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

I've personally been involved in the start-up world in Los Angeles for about 15 years, and have had the opportunity to work on many early-stage companies (e.g., What's interesting in each of these projects/companies is that they are not selling to the classic eLearning buyer (training organizations). eHarmongy) as an acting CTO.

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 15, 2006

Thus, when the author talks about having 500 people in their company, if you use this really crude forum, you may only get 5 people who are active contributors. PROVIDE AN AGGREGATED, PRIORITIZED VIEW OF DISCUSSIONS. INTEGRATE FORUMS WITH THE COMPANY DIRECTORY (no registration required) 4. Especially if the topics vary.

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

A social grid has formed that provides concept workers new work methods. This has caused fairly radical changes in core work tools and methods. But the bigger and more profound change is the radically increased accessibility of experts and expertise around the world. He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony.

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Tony Karrer

JULY 12, 2006

Ozzie had made his views widely known in his October 28, 2005 memo called, "Services Disruption,” where he stated the future would be dominated not by software like that made by Microsoft, but by services offered by companies like Google and salesforce.com who were changing the software game forever by delivering a new paradigm.

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Tony Karrer

JULY 12, 2007

Are communications through these media that are affiliated with the organization or company being monitored for liability risks and being retained in case of litigation? SM2 can help your organization implement and utilize social media by providing a tool for monitoring these media and enforcing your organization's compliance policies.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Sidenote: I feel a little behind having just seen that the company that Ingrid works for Third Force actually acquired MindLeaders back in June 2007 and looks to be a fairly serious player. Normally, I'm pretty familiar with companies in the space, but I was not familiar with them. Good for you Ingrid! I'm pretty new to blogging [.]

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Why assume that the client or someone else is supposed to provide systems for testing for courseware vendors but not say accounting systems?" There are third-party companies which you can hire to test courseware against LMSs." Perhaps you can rent or lease the software? All of them sell their LMSs."

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Tony Karrer

AUGUST 28, 2007

If it's not absolutely essential, then it should be provided in some other way, i.e., reference. for a large company, we originally were asked to do what amounted to an hour long introductory course. So instead of teaching them a bunch of stuff up-front, we provided those few pieces of information inside a hybrid reference solution.

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 21, 2007

He provides a list of things he can do to help informal learning in his organization. Funding for information and research services, conference attendance, guest speakers at company events, etc. Great post by Ray Sims - What To Do On Behalf of Informal Learning? Both expertise location applications and other means.

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