Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 14, 2009

When I look at my particular skills, methods and tools for 2009 and compare them to 2008, I would say that it’s mostly a question of degree of use and certainly my use of Twitter has grown. See also: Twitter Conference Ideas and Twitter and Webinars. So, why not look to make this more explicit and effective? eLearning 2.0

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Is there a more effective way to approach this kind of problem? Ning or LinkedIn Groups LinkedIn to find individuals LinkedIn to ask questions - via Answers Twitter (only if you've participated quite a bit) The issue with Twitter and posting questions through a blog is that you only will get responses from your existing audience.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 8, 2010

Harold is a master of that and effectively uses twitter, RSS reader and lots of other sources to bring across and filter information. My strong belief is that there is more and more of a need for effective information filtering. At the same time, we need lots of help filtering the flood of information.

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Tony Karrer

APRIL 13, 2010

Planning A Video Production , January 8, 2010 Instructional Design for Videos , January 22, 2010 25 places to find instructional videos , February 8, 2010 Social Learning , Social Media , Twitter , Facebook Not a surprise to see that there’s lots of discussion of social learning and specific social media tools for social learning.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 27, 2009

And I believe that the Tilde Effect is full force here. Crowd" - it implies large groups, often public, normally open "Sourcing" - it implies that you are seeking resources for a business Similarly, I generally don't like "Collective Intelligence" - that's the net effect, but not the individual action. The new skill is.

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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. And if you are able to use it with twitter, Facebook, etc. Islands have a hard time making it.

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Tony Karrer

APRIL 21, 2009

And I must say that these are pretty good - it would be a shame if you missed them. Top Posts The following are the top posts from featured sources based on social signals. April 14, 2009 Top Keywords 2009 (108) Screencast (5) Audacity (4) Learning Management System (6) eLearning Technology.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 5, 2009

Should twitter be part of your tool set? Tools to Make Reading & Research More Effective. The same tool and method can be highly effective for one person and not effective for others. I'm hoping to address questions such as: How do you create a personal tool set or Personal Learning Environment (PLE) for yourself?

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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. Other Ways to Tap into the Social Grid In the session, I discussed the use of LinkedIn, Twitter and Blogging as my primary tools for tapping into the social grid. Q : what's a " hash tag "?

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Tony Karrer

JULY 6, 2009

I do a lot of presentations where one of the topics is how to use LinkedIn more effectively as part of your knowledge work. And I consider knowing how to effectively use LinkedIn to be a core Work Literacy. In most cases, I will ask for a show of hands: How many of you have a LinkedIn Account? Generally 50-70%. Generally down to 10%.

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Social Networks LinkedIn Knowledge Worker Guide 120

Tony Karrer

MAY 14, 2009

Many of the participants are Twitter users who are becoming used to chatting via twitter. have a chat stream happening and there's one going on via twitter. Twitter Chat Annoying? Actually, before I go any farther, I've got to ask: Doesn't anyone else find the use of Twitter as a true Chat Channel a bit annoying?

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 13, 2009

Delicious tags - you can subscribe to a particular delicious tag such as [link] or [link] or [link] Twitter - can provide you a flood of real-time, 140 character posts from people who you follow. I'll talk more about twitter in a later post, but in the meantime, before you go and sign up for too much twitter, please read Twitter - Nevermind.

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Twitter, Yammer), wikis, blogs, discussion groups, etc. open up exciting opportunities for people to access relevant information where and when they require it. Of course, you can’t look at learning in 2011 without mentioning mobile learning.

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Predictions Diversity Training Compliance Training Authoring Tools 198

Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 27, 2008

Stuart Henshall had asked on Twitter about ideas for posts. There are also several studies of knowledge worker practices that suggest that a lot of what is effective is quite personal. Or should the organization be more effective at facilitating questions that force the organization to learn? So we probably are alright.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 6, 2009

Tilde Effect What epitomizes the situation for me is the Google ~ operator. Tilde Effect - gap between available tools and methods and the average capabilities of concept workers due to the ad hoc nature of work skills acquisition. Tangible Impact The Tilde Effect at an individual level has massive aggregate impact.

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Work Skills Skills Information Overload Search 102

Tony Karrer

APRIL 13, 2009

in Technology, Innovation and Education, where she studied how new media and emerging technologies can be used to effectively educate children. In a discussion with a LinkedIn connection, the topic of a quicker way to complete an effective performance analysis came up. Learning Twitter Chat!

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Knowledge Work Framework Tilde Effect Concept Worker Knowledge Work Not Separate from Learning Tool Set 2009 Search Better Memory Network Learning Information Radar Remote Collaboration Common eLearning 2.0 Here is a larger set of links that go with the keynote. In fact, it almost tells the story of the keynote. Work Literacy eLearning 2.0

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Social Networks ASTD Wiki eLearning 2.0 102

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 8, 2008

Also interesting topics: Cognitive , Effectiveness , LCMS , Social Network , iPhone , Director. Lars Hyland - Lars is Learning Good to see Learning Technologies , Mobile Learning come up for Lars. Gives me an idea of who to talk to.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 14, 2009

Thus, you may have to spend time building some initial links so that you can reach out effectively. The top two slam dunk answers here are: LinkedIn Various learning communities I personally also use my blog and twitter Blog Twitter If you look at my top two, they would both be called social networks.

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Tony Karrer

MARCH 19, 2009

Serving Clients In terms of serving clients, I covered parts of Tool Set , specifically Work Skills Keeping Up , Better Memory , Information Radar , Processing Pages with Links , Networks and Learning Communities , Collaborate , and Twitter as Personal Work and Learning Tool. Ask interesting questions and get them to talk.

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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. How I make my conference experiences more effective. Things I've done as follow-up to improve effectiveness of learning.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 20, 2009

In other words - How do we collaborate together in remote work teams to be as effective or even more effective than a team that works down the hall? My primary interest here are the methods and tools that allow us to work better as part of remote work teams. as well as knowing about tools and methods.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 3, 2008

Twitter I'm still not sure what my Twitter Status will be. But still have doubts, such as those in Twitter Mass Follow - Nevermind. Tools to Make Reading & Research More Effective. I put up a couple of screencasts that show how to use LinkedIn for Finding Expertise and Searching for Expertise - LinkedIn Answers.

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Authoring Tools Social Networks Long Tail eLearning 2.0 100

Tony Karrer

MAY 11, 2009

And certainly the effect of the network of PLEs is similar to the search for individuals that I describe. And I feel that Leveraging Networks is Key Skill and the most important Knowledge Worker Skill Gap. However, as I read further in Stephen's description he said: A network of PLEs is a learning network.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Corollary: transition to virtual means greater demand for help on effective virtual classroom training and for people who are good at creation effective remote experiences. At DevLearn, I saw a demo of twitter being embedded inside Captivate as the basis of a social learning experience. I still feel like it’s a big issue.

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Predictions Virtual Classroom Wiki eLearning 2.0 183

Tony Karrer

APRIL 28, 2008

Newbie's guide to Twitter | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone 22. The Technology Source Archives - Seven Principles of Effective Teaching: A Practical Lens for Evaluating Online Courses 30. CREST+ Model: Writing Effective Online Discussion Questions 90. Now, the personal element is being added 19. & Communities 2.0

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Wiki Instructional Design Case Study Corporate eLearning 147

Tony Karrer

JULY 21, 2010

I’ll also reach out via twitter. Business Casual , October 29, 2008 Making Intranet Discussion Groups Effective - eLearning Technology , June 15, 2006 Requirement to Social Learning Adoption #2 - Compatibility - Engaged Learning , February 24, 2009 The Holy Trinity: Leadership Framework, Learning 2.0 & This is in process.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 18, 2010

It puts forward lots of suggestions for how knowledge workers can leverage technology to make themselves more effective. She learned how to be an effective participant and this helped propel her to become a designer. In December, I mentioned an interesting example of Twitter Captivate Integration.

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Predictions Diversity Training SharePoint Authoring Tools 200

Tony Karrer

APRIL 15, 2009

Do we really believe they will be proxies for effectiveness? The recent MIT Study that showed that more highly networked individuals were more productive (see Workplace Productivity ). So, size and access of networks might be a proxy, but what about all the rest of these suggested measures. Rachel Happe suggested some measurements of ROI.

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Blended Learning Social Learning Social Technology 105

Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Books By going to one of these on Amazon – you can easily find a TON of additional books.

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Virtual Classroom Teach Resources Social Networks 215

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

And there's a very interesting effect and a realization (aha moment) I've had about all of this that I describe near the bottom. And then you can filter some more, this page here is filtering to see all posts on Twitter, then filter again to see posts on Twitter and Communities of Practice , and you can keep filtering.

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Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Making a crappy instructor-led course into an effective e-learning course is a long and difficult process. A lot of what is called e-learning is not really effective in terms of learning experience, the same being true of much classroom based training. How good was the instructor-led course? How comprehensive were the instructor notes?

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Tony Karrer

MAY 13, 2009

In prior posts she identifies the following elements as being needed for informal learning strategy to be effective in the workplace: Motivation for learning. Likely about 10% of my twitter posts are seeking information. It's specific help on how the knowledge worker can effective learn about this new area.

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Coaching Online Long Tail Knowledge Worker 103

Tony Karrer

JANUARY 12, 2009

Better Memory Tools and Methods If you are experience more and more of your information electronically, it stands to reason that we need to be good at effectively using this as a better memory. The reality is that metacognitive techniques are changing rapidly - hence so are work skills. That's extra work, but it makes it refindable.

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Tony Karrer

MARCH 16, 2007

Well today, Kathy Sierra, posts: Face-to-Face Trumps Twitter, Blogs, Podcasts, Video. Kathy then tells us: The most underrated benefit of the face-to-face effect of conferences is INSPIRATION. One of the questions I often ask attendees - especially as we are discussing virtual classroom tools and virtual environments (e.g.,

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