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LinkedIn - Prospecting No - Conversation Yes

Tony Karrer

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. Let's compare that to LinkedIn.

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Too Much Information or a Skills Gap

Tony Karrer

Too Much Information) (found via Stephen Downes ). Information Overload and Learning.” Jonah Lehrer suggests the danger of too much information is “it can actually interfere with understanding.” And I think that we need to recognize that it's more than the "Too Much Information" aspect of the issue.

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Social Media for Knowledge Workers

Tony Karrer

One of the questions that always comes up is: How do I find more information to help me get started? The answer is that this information is a bit hard to come by. There’s a lot out there, but it’s often hard to find information that helps you get start. This was a major reason that I started down the path with Work Literacy.

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Personal in Personal Knowledge Management

Tony Karrer

That there is a ‘best’ way to manage knowledge an information? Studies of Personal Information Management say that what works is often highly personal. In fact, Work Literacy is pretty much this topic. Isn’t that what we’ve learned there isn’t ? However, a lot can be gained from sharing approaches and practices.

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Conversation Learning

Clark Quinn

One of the questions being raised this week in the free, online course Work Literacy: Web 2.0 To me, this is a critical part of The New Skills for knowledge workers. And what I often cite as the biggest change in knowledge work skills over the past 20 years is the change in access to people. Great example of a query.

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ASTD Follow-Up

Tony Karrer

Work Literacy eLearning 2.0 Fourth Grader Wikipedia Update New Work and New Work Skills Work Skills Keeping Up? Review the post - Information Radar - and use the information there to set up your radar and start a new blog. Scenarios Preparing Workers for Web 2.0 eLearning 2.0

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Learned about Learning in 2009

Tony Karrer

In June 2008, Work Literacy Launched. I’m convinced that we are all struggling to have our Work Skills Keep Up. It came during a presentation when I said: It's a much better use of my time to use LinkedIn to spark a conversation than it is to go to networking events. 2009 has continued that effort. eLearning 2.0