Tony Karrer

JANUARY 14, 2009

You are providing value via the question with the appropriate links. Note: I often try to connect with people who provide answers directly (via Skype or phone) to discuss in more detail. -or- I'm concluding Z, but I'd like to talk to people who have done this. You are showing that you've done your homework.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 18, 2010

One of the common reasons I hear from knowledge workers inside large organizations for not following the suggestions I provide is that the organization itself puts up barriers to working this way. There have been a couple of products in the market that provide this kind of add-on for self-paced eLearning. Of course, I do.

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Predictions Diversity Training SharePoint Authoring Tools 200

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Recently I’ve been working with a startup that provides content and tools to teens and is sold through high schools. In the past, I’ve always been successful finding good interactive writers because I can use techniques as described in LinkedIn for Finding Expertise and the rest of my LinkedIn Guide for Knowledge Workers.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

If he could bring together experts and expertise and facilitate a conversation on X and then help capture that – is that something you’d want. In practice this means a lot of different things and across many different learning communities. In a way, he didn’t feel like he was ever “selling learning communities”. That was my language.

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Community LearnTrends Diversity Training Wiki 123

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

But the bigger and more profound change is the radically increased accessibility of experts and expertise around the world. A social grid has formed that provides concept workers new work methods. This has caused fairly radical changes in core work tools and methods.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 12, 2008

I've been reading various mentions of the new report by Forrester , that provides the following information on the sources that people trust. This is why I talk about the importance of new skills for Leveraging Networks , Network Feedback , F inding Expertise , Using Social Media to Find Answers to Questions , Learning through Conversation.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 3, 2008

Corporate Access (6) LinkedIn for Finding Expertise (6) Social Learning (6) Long Tail Learning - Size and Shape (6) As a side note, I used this as an opportunity to update my Blog Guide. 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

AUGUST 10, 2009

Social Networks With this slightly different lens, I'm wondering what this means for the adoption of social networks as a means of expertise location. You may not really use it as a means of finding expertise yourself. Where tools should IT be providing and organizations be facilitating and support?

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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. Both expertise location applications and other means. Great post by Ray Sims - What To Do On Behalf of Informal Learning? Obsessive attention to enterprise federated search, cross-linking, social tagging, content reuse strategies, etc.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 24, 2008

Paraphrasing justifications for custom eLearning Authoring Tool approaches: A templated approach provides speed and consistency for repetitive tasks, freeing up time and budget for customizing demonstrations and adding in video and other engaging elements. HTML and JavaScript are likely here to stay.

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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. LinkedIn requires even less ongoing work and is a FANTASTIC resource when you are looking for expertise. But I've found myself a bit unsure about some of the responses this article has generated.

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Social Networks Social Network Network Social 100

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. One of the key features of the portal also is the “Expertise Exchange,” where sales people can communicate with experts. Be prepared for that.

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Tony Karrer

AUGUST 26, 2009

Instead, you simply say that you want to provide a means of editing the content more easily, or following up on the training to get dialog to happen, or whatever the obviously smart solution is that you are proposing. My suggestion is that you don't really try to sell Yammer or a Wiki or any other kind of tool.

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Tony Karrer

APRIL 15, 2009

These will provide some of the analytic meat to relate outcomes to network dynamics, but until then, I dont think we need to get too crazy. Ace showed a 500% ROI in under six months just by connecting dealers through discussions boards so they could share expertise.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 26, 2009

Social learning solutions like social homework help provided by Cramster ; CampusBug , Grockit , TutorVista , EduFire , English Cafe , and the list goes on and on. 2008 was an interesting year that saw a myriad of new start-ups offering content through interesting new avenues. 2009 is going to be a big year for this issue.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Social learning solutions like social homework help provided by Cramster ; CampusBug , Grockit , TutorVista , EduFire , English Cafe , and the list goes on and on. Part of this, that wasn’t well captured in my prediction, is that a lot of these solutions aim at providing Free content. 2009 is going to be a big year for this issue.

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Tony Karrer

APRIL 13, 2009

A community can be classified as a group of people, each with different expertise and with access to diverse resources, in which a sharing occurs so that individuals within the group can benefit from each other. Why call it ‘eLearning’ when it is clearly NOT eLearning? The session was hosted by SumTotal Systems.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 24, 2008

I want to thank Dave who has provided thoughts in several posts such as Getting to Exemplary. This makes this things like: Network Feedback , F inding expertise , Using Social Media to Find Answers to Questions , Learning through Conversation very important topics. Which authoring tool, LMS, etc.

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