Tony Karrer

JANUARY 6, 2009

In New Work and New Work Skills , I discuss the fact that most of us have not participated in formal learning since college on foundational knowledge work skills - especially metacognitive skills. Tilde Effect What epitomizes the situation for me is the Google ~ operator. We are struggling to keep up.

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Work Skills Skills Information Overload Search 102

Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 27, 2008

Stuart Henshall had asked on Twitter about ideas for posts. I sent him a reply and asked for his thoughts on my post New Work. Others can hit Google up and find things you never could. That said, I think there is a tendency to lean on the skills that we are good at and not use other approaches when they are called for.

Work Skills 100

Work Skills Skills Develop Social Bookmarking 100

Jane Hart

AUGUST 1, 2011

July was Google Plus month – and it was interesting to read the variety of articles and blog posts about this shiny new social networking service. But my 5 favourite articles from July (that are not Google+ related) were: Why excellent performance isn’t nearly enough , bnet, 8 July 2011.

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Social Networks Social Network Comparison Google 164

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Hot List - 1/17/2009 - 1/31/2009 Posts Twitter as Personal Learning and Work Tool How to Convert Your PowerPoint Presentation into an Elearning Course Building a Learning Portal YouTube videos inside Slideshare Learning 2.0 As I was at ASTD last week, I missed doing my Hot List for the week. Other items come from other sources.

Wiki 100

Wiki Slideshare ASTD Photoshop 100

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

Other Than Google My first recommendation is not to always default to Google. Yes, I personally use Google 95%+ for searching. It also helps you refine your search before you go into Google. According to Search Engines / UC Berkeley - Less than half the searchable Web is fully searchable in Google.

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Search Yahoo Google Scholar Tutorial 102

Tony Karrer

JULY 20, 2009

130) Work Skills (26) PWLE (16) Flash Quiz (8) Knowledge Work (40) That's a pretty fair representation of topics that I talk about. Year by Topic You can also go the other way to see things like selecting Twitter and you can see that the associated years are: 2009 2020 2008 2020? Seems so long ago. :) How about 2005 ?

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Blended Learning Association Learning Management System Folksonomy eLearning Strategy 100

Challenge to Learn

MARCH 3, 2011

It only will be if it has an effect on the learners working skills, making them more effective and productive. There are all kinds of tools available like Google analytics that can give you a great insight in which content is used, how often it is used and who uses it. 40 employees with a certificate do not guarantee that.

Informal Learning 214

Informal Learning Informal Yammer Learning 214