Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

Tapping the Social Grid Date: Friday, February 27th Time: 9 - 10 am PACIFIC, Noon - 1 pm EASTERN Register Here Over the past 20 years, knowledge work has been transformed by the explosion of information sources and information flow. This has caused fairly radical changes in core work tools and methods.

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Tony Karrer

MARCH 23, 2009

Dodged that bullet. :) Patterns and Knowledge Work I understand the concern that when you share best practices, you may come out with very different results. In particular, highly skilled workers demonstrate the ability to reflect-inaction (Schön, 1987), to conduct mental simulations as a way of imagining possible outcomes.

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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. 85 percent agree that not being able to access the right information at the right time is a huge time-waster.

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Work Skills Skills Information Overload Search 102

Tony Karrer

MARCH 16, 2009

The Big Question this month is Workplace Learning in 10 Years : If you peer inside an organization in 10 years time and you look at how workplace learning is being supported by that organization, what will you see? What will the mix of Push vs. Pull Learning; Formal vs. Informal supported by the organization?

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 2, 2008

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.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 20, 2010

On the way home from the Swiss eLearning Conference, my mind was racing after three days of talking with interesting people and spreading the informal learning gospel. Working smarter is the key to sustainability and perpetual improvement. Knowledge work and learning to work smarter are becoming indistinguishable.

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eLearning Learning Posts

AUGUST 4, 2009

LinkedIn Guide for Knowledge Workers - eLearning Technology , July 6, 2009 How to use LinkedIn more effectively as part of your knowledge work. New skills for learning professionals - Informal Learning , July 1, 2009 Jay Cross response to this month’s big question “In a Learning 2.0 Some Considerations.

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Social Media Media Social Skills 40

Tony Karrer

MARCH 3, 2009

Leveraging Networks is Key Skill and the most important Knowledge Worker Skill Gap. Tools and Methods for Networks and Communities - Discusses specific tools and methods for using Networks and Communities as part of Knowledge Work. I'd need to know more to understand what would work for the particular situation.

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Social Networks Social Ning LinkedIn 102

Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Microlearning – the learning that results from “micro” content published in short form and limited by the software and devices used to view it – offers alternatives to traditional development methods for workers who deal with web-based information as part of their job. Who doesn’t this work for? not knowledge workers.

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LearnTrends microlearning Learning Objects PLE 262

AXIOM Learning Solutions

MARCH 23, 2023

In the past several years, knowledge workers have embraced technical skills and the realities of blended and remote work. In particular, we can just start out with the focus of the workshop that you that you organized called the energies the new time. And I’m not at my desk? What does that look like?

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Jay Cross

MARCH 14, 2010

Every business decision is made with less than perfect information, and every decision entails taking a risk. Every business decision is made with less than perfect information, and every decision entails taking a risk. Saying “We don’t have enough information” is not an acceptable excuse. Knowledge Workers.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 17, 2008

Unprecedented changes in the role of the worker, the nature of business, the pace of innovation, the importance of intangibles, the explosion of information, and the shift from a manufacturing to a service economy have rendered traditional corporate learning obsolete. Organisms only stop learning when they die.

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Jay Cross

JUNE 28, 2011

Point your smart phone at a QR code, and you’ll be led to a location on the net with more information. Working smarter is the key to sustainability and continuous improvement. Knowledge work and learning to work smarter are becoming indistinguishable. The infrastructure for working smarter is called a workscape.

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Compliance Training Social Media Knowledge Worker Instructional Design 64

Jay Cross

DECEMBER 26, 2008

I announced the Informal Learning 2.0 Organizations are more like living organisms than machines. Knowledge workers have replaced factory workers. Shareholders owned the factories, but workers own their minds. Give workers the resources and challenge them to do what’s required. Loved Australia.

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