Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

If you look at the other entries such as Jane Hart's recent top tools and Stephen Downes on The Future of Learning, that's quite good company. Several of my favorite bloggers have been added into the mix. I'm also listing what they show as their top tools in the widget for some of them - which I find interesting.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 8, 2008

relates closely to the concepts Learning 2.0 , eLearning Tools , Corporate eLearning , Personal Learning , and Enterprise 2.0 ; the Tools Odeo , CollectiveX , Bea Pages , Apache Roller , and Dogear ; and the Companies NexLearn , Awareness Networks , Element K , and Mzinga. As an example, I can see that eLearning 2.0

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Social Networks Apache Roller Bea Pages Informal 100

Tony Karrer

MARCH 3, 2009

Twitter as Personal Work and Learning Tool My LinkedIn Open Connection Approach - Treating LinkedIn like a massive, virtual cocktail party. There's a lot there, so if you were going to choose two, probably Crowdsourcing in the Small and Tools and Methods for Networks and Communities would be the two. Yes, you can create a group.

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Social Networks Social Ning LinkedIn 102

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

What resources would u recommend for a baby boomer 2 become proficient in blogging, social networking, wikis, etc? Are there any companies have done a good job in implementing the tools you described? time on personal FaceBook pages and then still email documents back and forth. or Social Networking 3.0.

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Social Networks ASTD Wiki eLearning 2.0 102

Tony Karrer

JANUARY 14, 2009

Limits of Search In Value from Social Media , I looked at a scenario where I'm evaluating a particular solution for my company / organization. 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. Through Google, I find a lot of information.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 4, 2007

Getting Value from LinkedIn , Thomas Davenport and Blogging - He is Wrong! But the good news is that it appears that more and more people are getting it ( More eLearning Bloggers , Facebook Fridays and I'm definitely Pushing Harder Now and we need to adopt the attitude - eLearning 2.0 - Just Go Do It. And I'm sure it could be better.

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Social Networks Wiki eLearning 2.0 Wikipedia 100

Tony Karrer

JULY 10, 2008

Fortune Magazine interview with GE's CIO: Does social networking have a role within General Electric? We've gone out of our way to call it professional networking rather than social networking. That gets about 25 million hits a day, so it really is becoming sort of a heartbeat of the company.

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Tony Karrer

AUGUST 10, 2009

technologies for internal communication and collaboration within their company. And my personal experience is that it's pretty rare to run into an organization that is not at least planning on adopting some social software solutions. But the same report tells us: Social software is not a trend that can be ignored. technologies.

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Tony Karrer

MAY 6, 2010

As a Part-Time CTO , I am continually making choices about what platforms to use, what do we build for, how do we integrate with social networks, etc. We are scrapping three years of Flash development and betting the company on HTML5 because we believe HTML5 is a dramatically better reading experience than Flash.

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Flash Flash to HTML5 Conversion Social Networks Flash Player 157

Tony Karrer

AUGUST 30, 2006

My background includes things like being the CTO of eHarmony (online marriage matching based on personality profiles and controlled communication) from its launch through their $110M venture round to working on interesting eLearning and tools for companies like Lexus, HP, IBM, etc. Topics eLearning 2.0 Starting Point: What is eLearning 2.0?

Social Networks 102

Social Networks Instructional Design Authoring Tools Guide 102

Tony Karrer

JANUARY 24, 2011

I received an inquiry from a reader at a large company that is continuously working on large projects with lots of course content running around. And they currently manage all of this using what I’ve seen at a lot of companies: network drives, naming conventions, some SharePoint. They have an LMS but not an LCMS.

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LCMS SharePoint Management System 147

Tony Karrer

JANUARY 7, 2010

When I was working with various high tech, insurance and financial services companies – a key ingredient was how quickly people could effectively roll-out new products, policies, respond to competitive threats, etc. Or at least have the appearance of expertise (see Expert Level Answers via Social Networks as one way to appear to be expert).

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Tony Karrer

AUGUST 10, 2010

Moderation types - Made by Many , February 4, 2009 Whenever companies want to publish user generated content (UGC) they need to look into moderation , which usually consists of the following three types: Pre- moderation : Some sites operate on the principle that every piece of UGC should be moderated before it’s displayed on the website.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 8, 2009

Previously, Harold worked as a Chief Learning Officer of an e-Learning company, Project Manager at a university, and Training Development Officer with the Canadian Forces. Michele Martin is an independent consultant who specializes in using social media tools to support learning, and career and professional development.

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Social Networks Wiki Skills ASTD 100

Tony Karrer

AUGUST 26, 2009

Yammer (internal twittering) is almost impossible to explain to someone who has no experience with any social networking (and probably not with anything more than email lists). 6) Can you comment on the advantages/disadvantages of company-created social sites (private networking sites) vs public sites such as Twitter and Facebook.

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Device Diversity is the “New Normal” Mobile Apps Become Essential to Enterprise mLearning Pad/Tablet Use Explodes Authoring Tools Will Evolve Private Social Networks Win Over Public Market Consolidations Will Occur Here Come the Experts! I've argued that many training organizations and eLearning companies look and act like publishers.

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Predictions Diversity Training Compliance Training Authoring Tools 198

Tony Karrer

MARCH 3, 2008

Question 1 - What are the most likely ways / places your organization might or does use Blogs, Wikis, Social Bookmarking, Social Networking or Collaboration Tools? DogEar – Social Bookmarking BluePages - employee-controlled profiles of 400,000 employees Daily online newsletter called w3. Choose the top 3-5.

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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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Wiki Social Networks Case Study Gartner 100

Tony Karrer

MARCH 5, 2007

Dave Tosh laments - Elgg is the most popular white label social networking platform in the world powering over 2000 networks. However, Elgg could power 100,000 networks and it would make no difference - there is no revenue stream as we give everything away under a GPL license.

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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. There will also be growth in discussions and social networks for collaborative learning. As such, eLearning 2.0 will show continued growth.

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Predictions Virtual Classroom Wiki eLearning 2.0 183

Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

What do these companies have in common: Google eBay Yahoo Amazon MapQuest Craigslist Wikipedia YouTube Built on top of Linux (open source). Social media in action. with Wiki, Blog, Social Bookmarking, Social Networking, etc. instead it's really systems that harness network effects. Not packaged apps.

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Social Networks Wiki Wikipedia Social Bookmarking 100

Tony Karrer

JULY 26, 2010

I’m not and I gave him the standard advice about looking through LinkedIn Guide for Knowledge Workers , LinkedIn for Finding Expertise , and Searching for Expertise - LinkedIn Answers. He did that, but didn’t find particular people. At least they’ll likely have a bit more clue as to who to talk to.

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Augmented Reality Case Study Social Networks LinkedIn 164

Tony Karrer

JULY 20, 2009

Take a look at the companies: Saba (28) GeoLearning (17) SumTotal (22) Meridian (9) Cornerstone (19) You notice the counts are out of order (not descending). That's because they are ordered according to how closely the system thinks the companies are associated with the selected term within the content set.

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Blended Learning Folksonomy Association Learning Management System eLearning Strategy 100

Tony Karrer

AUGUST 3, 2009

", "social learning", etc. and it's fine to use that amongst ourselves, don't use it in mixed company. The point is that the terms blog, wiki, social network, etc. Trap 2 - Language While I use the terms "eLearning 2.0", Consider the same message with: We are going to use eLearning 2.0. -

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Social Networks eLearning 2.0 Wiki Learning 2.0 100

Tony Karrer

JUNE 29, 2009

For example, if you build something that integrates with Facebook, Twitter, etc. If you can integrate with Facebook, Twitter, or similar products and you have some kind of viral aspect, then that could make you more interesting. Some thoughts and questions I would have for this company - Customers? Pain Point?

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 21, 2008

I looked at a couple examples this recently in LinkedIn for Finding Expertise and Searching for Expertise - LinkedIn Answers This topic came up again in a discussion - Blogging to ask for Help - Colin asked: If you need input from like-minded people around the world, where's the best place to ask?

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 26, 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. There will also be growth in discussions and social networks for collaborative learning. So, let's try it again this year. #1

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 18, 2010

When the personal tools in your mobile phone are more empowering than what your company provides or approves for your projects, how can you be saved from devastating market forces? They say its about: 5 Trends Converging (3G + Social Networking + Video + VoIP + Impressive Mobile Devices) The growth of mobile devices has been amazing.

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Predictions Diversity Training SharePoint Authoring Tools 200

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 8, 2008

Here's how I use Facebook for personal learning How I use Twitter for personal learning How I use Blogging for personal learning Where I believe social media can be adopted by learners in my organization. After LinkedIn, Delicious, Twitter and Facebook, the next three are. Five podcasts for learning professionals.

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100 Conversations Conversation Write Blog Social Media 121

Tony Karrer

APRIL 13, 2009

Are you on Facebook? In a discussion with a LinkedIn connection, the topic of a quicker way to complete an effective performance analysis came up. His company frowns on spending time up front completing an analysis and wants him to dive into course development to "Save Time. No, I didn't get that email, can you resend?

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Diversity Training Authoring Tools Portal Screencast 100

Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 25, 2010

It was the first ever public session for Placeware - a virtual meeting software company that was much later acquired by Microsoft and became Microsoft Live Meeting. I received an inquiry about resources that would help instructors who are about to move into teaching online courses.

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Virtual Classroom Teach Resources Social Networks 215

Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 24, 2007

The membership is pretty large so on the LMS survey, you get roughly 1300 respondents, but with some overlap over companies that are combined to form a single response. In the case of Cornerstone, there were 9 companies who are corporations with 1,000 learners, 1,000 employees represented in the rating. So, it takes some work.

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Social Networks eLearningGuild Cornerstone OnDemand Research 100

Tony Karrer

JANUARY 2, 2009

link] company/events/ bbworldcommerce09 February 9-11, 2009 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Conference on Web Search and Web Data Mining , Barcelona, Spain. link] company/events/ April 8-10, 2009 Edutech 2009: Education Technology and Services Show, Muscat, Oman. 18 th , Orlando, Florida, USA.

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Conference eLearning Conferences Blended Learning Diversity Training 121

Tony Karrer

MAY 7, 2009

I also suggested that for business networking: Don't use anything other that photorealistic photos. Have a reasonably complete LinkedIn profile. I'm running into you on a business networking site. All I have is often your Photo, Name and sometimes a Company and Title. Remember you. Believe you are serious.

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Tony Karrer

APRIL 15, 2009

Because, honestly, we don’t care if they learn if they don’t use it for the benefit of the company. Other’s measurements might be: # How large one’s network is # Number of meetings taking place (or, more intuitively, are NOT taking place) # Number of travel arrangements made (or, again, NOT made). So the benefit is what we measure.

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Blended Learning Social Learning Social Technology 105

Tony Karrer

JUNE 17, 2009

Possible Client Entrepreneur / CEO Chief Marketing Officer / VP Marketing / Product Management Business Development / Sales PR Person at Company PR Person at PR Firm Of course I'm going to spend time with someone who I believe is legitimately a potential client. I'm also more willing to spend time talking to key players in a company.

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Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

If the results *are* worth more than $89K to the company, then it becomes much easier to set a budget for the project. Maybe there's another angle to this: Set aside the classroom versus eLearning conversation for a moment and ask whether the results Tony's reader is aiming for are worth an $89,000 investment.

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