Tony Karrer

APRIL 13, 2010

Google Buzz , Google Wave and PKM PKM stands for Personal Knowledge Management, which is a definite passion of mine (see Work Literacy and Social Media for Knowledge Workers ). Effectiveness Informal Learning Reaction? So, here’s what we are already seeing this year. Interesting to me to see that these pop to the top.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 22, 2009

This relates to the strategies that I defined for how to process information in the posts Better Memory and Information Radar. But, if I don't visit the other pages, then they will not have made it into your virtual Google Memory (as described in Better Memory ). So, what do you do? They become full-text searchable.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 3, 2008

Interestingly, Google has managed to find this particular post as the one that is most relevant to that term. While I had dismissed it, I'm now no longer #1 for the search - top ten lamest people - even though I was yesterday before Google spidered this page. People search in order to find information. Try it yourself.

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Tony Karrer

MARCH 26, 2009

Adult Learning in the Workplace – Research Findings Top Keywords PKM eLearning Tools Informal Learning Swish Adobe Captivate Twitter LinkedIn Tools Harbinger Adobe Google Articulate Microsoft eLearning Technology. Browse eLearning Content

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Tony Karrer

MARCH 21, 2008

This really goes for any information. Likely it doesn't as long as you have ways to get to that information. For example, Google-411 or Google Info. I believe this extends to lots of information. Or do we keep meta-information (information about how to get to that information)?

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Tony Karrer

MARCH 4, 2009

I often present around my Information Radar tools and methods, particularly my use of an RSS Reader. Tools for Conversation Searches Because of Google Blog Search Having Problems and because of Twitter, I've changed how I do these searches over the past 3 months or so. What are Conversation Searches? I've tried Twingly and SamePoint.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 2, 2009

All the information below was obtained from Internet sources and announcements in educational journals. If possible, please do not remove the contact information when you re-distribute the list as that is how I receive updates and corrections. crw Another source of major eLearning conferences is: Tom King's eLearning Google Calendar.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 6, 2009

Tilde Effect What epitomizes the situation for me is the Google ~ operator. A lot of people who are concept workers use Google every day and have no idea that the ~ operator even exists. 85 percent agree that not being able to access the right information at the right time is a huge time-waster. We are struggling to keep up.

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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). Eras - Hardware (IBM), Software (Microsoft), Network/Data (Google). Mentions Google putting testing over the toilet. Core competency of information age - leveraging collective intelligence.

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 27, 2008

Others can hit Google up and find things you never could. If you are really good at searching on Google, then you may not leverage your network even when it's very much called for. The employee goes to Google, dives into Wikipedia and other open source efforts. I also sense that it’s in no way the same for everyone.

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Tony Karrer

AUGUST 27, 2007

I had previously discussed the Aide RSS Filtering Tool - AideRSS looks at a variety of sources of information including comments, technorati, bloglines, icerocket and del.icio.us At the same time, I would expect that Bloglines (the reader I use) and Google Reader will begin to incorporate this kind of capability soon.

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Tony Karrer

JULY 2, 2008

This makes using something like google docs or pbwiki as an experiment somewhat difficult for the poor, lonely learning professional. Harold Jarche in Skills 2.0 : Today, active involvement in informal learning, particularly through web-based communities, is key to remaining professional and creative in a field. Why SHOULD I write one.

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 28, 2007

Then I took a look at the information contained in his post and saw that Nancy White had done one as well. For example - Luis mentions: Well, to start with, about 100 news sites from all sorts of different places, including TechMeme , TailRank , Megite , Findory , Blogniscient , diggdot.us , Topix , Google News , etc.

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Tony Karrer

MAY 29, 2009

In my recent exchange in the post Metalearning with Vic Uzumeri about the use of video, I questioned capturing examples or other knowledge pieces via video, and the accessibility of that information. It should be easily indexed by Google. This would then get published as a web page. It should be easily scanned.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 27, 2010

Home vs. Work I asked the audience if it was easier to get information at home or at work or about the same. This goes along with the prediction that employees will increasingly hack work so that they can get access to information and people they need to reach. Google Wave as a Mashup?

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Tony Karrer

MAY 22, 2006

This post was sparked by a couple of recent articles: Babson Knowledge: How Google Plans to Change the Scope of Googling (And Why Information and Knowledge Workers Should Care). While there is some defense of Corporate IT in that it is harder to get at information that is stored in a wide variety of systems, e.g., ERP, CRM, etc.

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Tony Karrer

JULY 10, 2008

Objection #11: Too Much Info Objection #10: Wasting Time Objection #9: They Aren't Technical Objection #8: Out of Date Information Objection #7: The Information is Wrong! Objection #4: Posting Anything, Including Bonobos Objection #3: Control of Information Objection #2: What Does This Have To Do With Training?

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 2, 2008

His major points were: Search is not an effective method for performers to find information. Integrating information closer to the work flow and work interface can improve performance. Frank Nguyen is presenting at ASTD on EPSS. You can find his presentation on his site. When in performance mode - they want more detail.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 20, 2009

One was having a small (7 person) project team get together on a conference call and have all of us editing the status report real-time via Google Spreadsheets. Asynchronous Content Sharing / Editing In terms of using these products with remote work teams, Google Spreadsheets seems to have hit the most important items for me.

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 16, 2009

World Part 2 - Social Enterprise Blog , June 6, 2009 Should you Care about Google Wave? yes, they went there - WISE Pedagogy , June 1, 2009 Time Spent - The Learning Circuits Blog , June 1, 2009 Top Other Items The following are the top other items based on social signals.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 14, 2006

A few weeks ago, I posted a summary around the November LCB Big Question "Are ISD / ADDIE / HPT relevant in a world of rapid elearning, faster time-to-performance, and informal learning?": event that I moderated, one of the speakers was Matt Glotzbach, Head of Products at Google Enterprise. At a Web 2.0 What do you get?

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

Further, I would highly recommend that you don't evaluate by only looking at these blogs periodically, rather - sign up for an RSS reader, e.g., Bloglines or Google Reader and subscribe to each blog. I've provided links to each blogs feed and also buttons to quickly add it to Bloglines, My Yahoo or Google Reader. Learning Matters!

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 26, 2007

Harold Jarche tells us - The future of learning is DIY (Do It Yourself) and points to: With Google you can find most information that you need. YouTube is a quick and easy way to get "learning objects” to the world. Apple gives the essential tools for knowlege workers, and in a nice package.

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

More broadly, addressing the issue of information overload for particular audiences is going to provide big time opportunity. This kind of approach (using curation and social signals) is big time opportunity for dealing with the increasing flow of information. What are my options? Now it's your turn. eLearning Technology.

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 26, 2007

not to mention in a world of Google as the interface to knowledge - what new skills, techniques and tools do we need? While Henry focuses primarily on students, the question is really important to all of us. In other words, in a world with Wikipedia, blogs, social networking, etc. -

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Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2006

MSN and another service called AnswerBag are valuing the question ( Google Answers is also in the mix along with AllExperts ). A good example is Illumio that basically uses the contents of what is in your email to determine what you may know about and will route questions to you based on that information.

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Tony Karrer

APRIL 16, 2009

Through Google, I find a lot of information. Search's Limit The limit of search and need for conversation is a common topic here and as part of Work Literacy. In Value from Social Media , I looked at a scenario where I'm evaluating a particular solution for my company / organization. What’s really going to happen?

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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 Review the post - Information Radar - and use the information there to set up your radar and start a new blog. eLearning 2.0

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Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Assuming you decide that it's something worth trying, then you should first sign up with an RSS Reader such as Bloglines or Google Reader. No confidential information should ever be put in a blog post. ” You can find a somewhat tongue-in-cheek summary - Top Ten Reasons to Blog and Not to Blog. Then subscribe to blogs.

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Tony Karrer

APRIL 3, 2007

The reality is that all providers of content are competing in a flat world, with easy access to virtually every other information source and many different, alternative means of content creation. One of the most important questions is: What's the added value provided by content providers over alternative information sources?

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Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 18, 2007

Originally, I didn't plan to replace these activities as I considered the information from blogs to be quite different. In other words, I likely would have spent this time anyhow on that task, it's just that I keep this information stored in a new way. I'd add to that post - blog your questions.

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Tony Karrer

JULY 19, 2006

Interesting information: Eight percent of internet users, or about 12 million American adults, keep a blog. A comment on a previous post by John Cleave: I "use" blogs frequently via Google searches, but have never managed to integrate them into my daily practice, because there are only so many hours in a day. 99% Blogs - 2.5%

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 7, 2009

Most teachers hand a sheet with all the information they plan to present (which is good because there are often lots of links and other helpful information). Gerber also has started the students on a journey of creating an ePorfolio using Google Sites. And then they proceed to walk through it. I'm sure most of you can relate.

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Tony Karrer

JULY 28, 2008

when they might care about a capital in their life (when they might want to know about a capital) and how to look up a capital (and possibly how to check the accuracy if they are just using google). I argued that it was more important for my kids to know: a. than it was for them to know b. more than memorization.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 14, 2009

Through Google, I find a lot of information. It also allows you to ask the best kind of question - I've searched on the web and in this community for information on X and I found A, B, C. If they would have done it, they would have come up with the same thing." But in many cases, I will still be left feeling uncomfortable.

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 25, 2007

His dissertation contains some interesting information. Probably the best thing to do is simply to search on Google using a few tricks. Another example from a different source: Please describe how the application displays course information to the users. Duh, it lists them and then it shows the course information.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 8, 2008

How I would/did explain informal learning and social media to my CEO or the head of a business unit. A great source of information that I'm not sure people know about or maybe have forgotten. A search tool other than Google that I use, when and why. Branding and messaging strategies I've used for my learning initiatives.

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