Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

As an example of needing a Jack, the question - How do you avoid the issue … “I’m too busy” … Jack’s answer is basically, if the value is high enough, you are focused on problems they are faced with right now, they will come. His example is a community that meets on Friday afternoons. I’d never plan something then.

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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. You can see an example of a conversation around phones below. There are some new tools emerging that have a different take.

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Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2006

They are also integrating RSS feeds into these technologies so that you can subscribe to an answer stream and some are even integrating it into your Instant Message client. Some allow people to offer those answers to you for a small price (couple of dollars). What's interesting is that this maps nicely to part of how we learn.

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Tony Karrer

AUGUST 10, 2009

The most popular technologies used are instant messaging (74%), wikis and team workspaces (67%), and blogs (51%). An example of that is the adoption of Distributed Content Editing via an agreed to technology such as Wiki, Shared SharePoint Documents, Google Docs, etc. A prime example are blogs.

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