Tony Karrer

MAY 6, 2010

Now any document can become a Web page," Scribd co-founder and CTO Jared Friedman told TechCrunch. "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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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 12, 2009

Traditionally, the sales team searched for information on topics such as government regulations, product support and technology through a confederation of five Web-based collaboration and document management software systems. Solution The heart of the site is the document repository. This makes it a mission-critical part of their work.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 29, 2008

The keys are: (filetype:pdf OR filetype:doc) - only show me actual documents in either of these formats. If you string these together in Google, you will find documents that give you suggestions what go in RFPs as well as actual RFPs that people have on the web. You have to scan down a bit, but it's well worth the effort.

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Tony Karrer

MAY 8, 2007

Create a written document. Otherwise (as he says) you could do this with a written document. 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.) A leave-behind.

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

I currently use Windows Desktop Search and would prefer that I can find notes via the same mechanism that searches my email and documents. Requirements - Desktop Search Integration. No Lock In. I need to believe that I could get my notes out of the system later if I decided I needed to switch tools. Better Copy to Clipboard. iPhone Notes.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 18, 2007

Also, I've been evaluating various clipping, note taking tools such as Zotero, Clipmarks, Google Notebook and my frank opinion is that it forces me to use an interface that is limited as compared to putting it into a large document to play with. Any thoughts on this?

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Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

I'm not dealing with this We're having lunch The working day is over Somebody else has the documents I think I was off sick at the time It's lunch time This got me to thinking that something similar maybe should be adopted by other organizations. The phrases include: What am I supposed to do?

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 5, 2009

The current the mix of tools that are available includes blogs, wikis, document repositories, live meeting software and a calendar. But communities choose a subset, evolve their own conventions and habits, and individual preferences determine what communities actually do.

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 22, 2011

Because of the ability to attach documents, it can act like a collaboration platform. 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.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 11, 2008

I found a Google doc via delicious that I have a feeling wasn't intended to be public, but it has such a wonderful comparison of the various web conferencing tools that I felt compelled to copy it here and as a new Google Doc in case the document goes away.

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Tony Karrer

MAY 17, 2008

The alternative is emailing around a document. After all, that's what advisors are for (other than causing you grief with their agendas). So, if they provide comments via the Wiki doesn't that make a lot of sense. Why is that so different? In fact, wouldn't it be safer to have it as a Wiki where you could see what each person did?

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 7, 2007

When creating an e-learning module, there are dozens, maybe even hundreds of pages of material required to document what is to be created. In some organizations, they have replaced the documentation with storyboards which are certainly a step in the right direction, visually. Tom suggests.

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Tony Karrer

APRIL 17, 2007

EMC owns Documentum (a big document management/content management system) and owns eRoom (a team collaboration tool). Most of what they said was pretty much what you'd expect, however, what really surprised me were two things. First, none of the panelists seemed to focused on finding ways to support informal learning in the organization.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 2, 2008

I would expect the document to continue to grow and change, but thought it would be worth having it available in a text format as well (so I can find it when I need it). You can see the result below. But it was interesting to see the results exported which I've embedded below.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 6, 2006

Consider the typical information work flow of a professional: Retrieve â€" collect information from a variety of sources Extract â€" extract data, facts, examples Arrange â€" arrange documents and facts for use now or later Present â€" compose information into artifacts of value Search is just about the retrieve and the -eaping is pretty much left (..)

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 26, 2007

You don't have everyone work on the same part of the document at the same time. But - I think Donald's missed the point that you can have independent activity that builds on itself to form a type of collaboration. This is true in most project teams. Rather, you divide the work, and bring it together. Donald has missed some things.

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Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

I do know of a couple of large corporations that do a good job of cataloging and organizing the digital assets – images, digital videos, documents. Does your enterprise content management solution provide this for you? They have hundreds of hours of courses. And there developers are geographically dispersed.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 7, 2009

Find - Includes Evaluate, Narrow / Adjust Keep / Organize / Refind / Remind Leverage / Present Network Collaborate I do all of this in a Word document - capturing it as a series of notes. In other words: Scan - Staying up-to-speed on a topic. I make sure to identify how my roles and projects fit with the tools and methods that I use.

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Tony Karrer

APRIL 16, 2007

My personalised learning environment includes many aspects of my knowledge network, including my browser favourites, my RSS feeds, my electronic documents and so on. Clive Shepherd - Personal learning environments Also uses the lower case definition when he tells us. But it's also non-digital and not easily captured in my browser.

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Tony Karrer

JULY 11, 2006

Get rid of intervening documents that just get in the way of getting to the end result. We don't really use either model directly, instead we have a modified version and a process that's highly flexible to meet the needs of the particular project. 37signals tells you that all your clients (internal or external) care about is the end result.

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Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 22, 2006

To add to the mix, there's some very interesting discussion going on out of an experiment by David Pollard where he offered to collaboratively edit a document on why collaboration tools are underused. Will people really use this stuff?

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 22, 2006

Authoring will be as easy as editing a word document and updates are instantaneous. Collaboration will be part of the environment, but we'll still be struggling with getting collaboration to work effectively as part of the system - so we'll still underuse those features. eLearning Trends, eLearning 2.0,

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Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Most workplace learning professionals write about topics such as projects, challenges, answers to questions they see on other blogs, answers to questions they get asked at work or by peers, and links to interesting content or documents. How much time does it take?

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

time on personal FaceBook pages and then still email documents back and forth. I spend a lot of time developing SharePoint options for a department, but colleagues are more likely to spend their 2.0

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Social Networks ASTD Wiki eLearning 2.0 102

Tony Karrer

AUGUST 31, 2010

Google Docs Forms Google Docs has a built-in Form document type that allows the creation of a set of questions. There is no way to choose how score reports are shown to students. Not as easy to use as some of the other tools. To see a side-by-side comparison, please see the table below.

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Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Lending assistants were already familiar with sending questions via e-mail and documenting loans. I was certainly curious about how Becky overcame the obstacle of potential risk/liability in a heavily regulated field like lending. She didn’t see it as that much of an issue. These folks were knowledgeable about issues related to fair lending.

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Forum Discussion Case Study Knowledge 136

Tony Karrer

APRIL 27, 2009

(C) “Webinar” training is an internet-based seminar whose content is created and taught by a trainer and transmitted over the internet or intranet in real time.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 15, 2006

Rapid e-learning pioneer Jennifer DeVries has an apt analogy: "I see rapid e-learning like the desktop publishing industry of 20 years ago, when desktop publishing was relegated to the one person with the big computer who knew the specialized software and laid out all of the documents.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 13, 2009

Notes / Blog - As I skim dive skim, I often will take notes into working documents or blog posts about anything that is interesting. Tag Page - If while skimming the article you visited, it looks like something I might need later (future anticpated information need), then I save/tag it in delicious. But it also helps to surface it again.

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Tony Karrer

MAY 25, 2006

It is normally a series of web pages, but can be PDF or other document types. "Reference" is static content - meaning no interaction other than allowing the user to link from page-to-page and to search. It is asynchronous. It's designed to provide either real-time support for work tasks or near real-time support for look up.

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Courseware Reference Authoring Tools Simulations 109

Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

We can pull up a tag anytime, but what are some strategies for documenting a thought string (i.e. The same thing can be true with social bookmarking, wikis, flickr, etc. Any shared content leads to meeting people interested in similar topics. blog to blog to wiki to person) and coming back to a particular node in that string?

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eLearning 2.0 Wiki Social Networks Social Bookmarking 100

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 10, 2008

These interventions were provided as web pages, documents, templates, etc. In many cases, the interventions were based on information and documents that was being used in some stores but not widely recognized or adopted. that the manager could use and modify for their purposes.

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 15, 2009

The challenges for publishers has been well documented: From Terrible to Terrifying : “The stats show that total newspaper ad sales dropped by an unprecedented 28.28% in the first quarter of 2009, a deep plunge that represents a loss of more than $2.6 Publishing happens to be a pretty close parallel to training.

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Business Virtual Classroom Stock Courseware 139

Tony Karrer

JUNE 15, 2006

In other words, what combination of documents, web pages, emails, IM, SMS, video, audio, podcasts, vodcasts, Faxes, RSS feeds, telephone calls, direct mail, blogs, wikis, recorded presentations, etc., I would welcome feedback on various related topics that I will be writing about over the next few weeks (hopefully its not months).

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 25, 2007

But, what I see as the most common problem in LMS RFP documents are the requirements. Good and Bad LMS RFP Requirements When you search around for LMS RFP examples, you'll find quite a variation and it's worth reviewing a few different RFPs to determine what elements you want in your RFP.

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RFP Association Learning Management System LMS Virtual Classroom 104

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 3, 2008

It's quite an experience to have a work group edit a project status document real-time. It was very interesting to see. I've also been using a lot of Google Spreadsheets as a means of real-time collaborative editing. To-Learn List Catherine Lombardozzi introduced me to the idea of a To-Learn List. It's a list of things that you want to learn.

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Authoring Tools Social Networks Long Tail eLearning 2.0 100

Tony Karrer

MARCH 3, 2008

Method Count Percent Alongside Formal Learning 26 63% Process Information / Training 22 54% Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) / Support Information 18 44% Commonly used resources, URL's to applications, documentation, Contact Information, etc.

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Wiki Web Social Networks Authoring Tools 105