Tony Karrer

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How Wikipedia Works and Wikis in the Enterprise - HBS

Tony Karrer

Great article - How Wikipedia Works (or Doesn't) that looks at Andrew McAfee's experiences around the " Enterprise 2.0 " article and Wikipedia 's Articles for Deletion process. It's an interesting discussion of the net impact of Wikipedia's process - which can be frustrating, especially to casual users.

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Informal Learning Technology

Tony Karrer

There's a fantastic post by Stephen Downes - New Technology Supporting Informal Learning. So as you read this, keep in mind that Stephen was primarily talking about technology that can support a Formal Learning Event that heavily leverages Informal / Social Learning as it's primary mechanism. It's definitely worth a read.

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Informal Learning - Let's Get Real

Tony Karrer

I've written about exactly this issue several times: Elves, Measuring Results and Informal Learning Informal Learning is Too Important to Leave to Chance Guidance Needed - Are we Misguided in Informal Learning and Collaborative Learning Techniques and have read lots about this. It's way too touchy-feely and abstract for me.

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Peer Review vs. Search Engine Places - Quality of Information in a Web 2.0 Sources

Tony Karrer

But what really caught my eye was the statement: For information-seekers using their favorite search engine, quality is simple to define. on Wikipedia. there are examples of old-school type review such as in the case of Wikipedia. Well as the authors point out, that's almost no longer the point - it simply is what it is.

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Wikis - Public vs. Controlled - Why There's No eLearning Wiki

Tony Karrer

18, 2006 - see [link] - which aims to address exactly the issues I'm discussing below in Wikipedia. I received an email asking me if I knew of any Wikis that provided information on eLearning concepts. You can certainly go to Wikipedia and find information about learning concepts including eLearning and eLearning 2.0.

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New Literacies

Tony Karrer

What do these companies have in common: Google eBay Yahoo Amazon MapQuest Craigslist Wikipedia YouTube Built on top of Linux (open source). Core competency of information age - leveraging collective intelligence. Cites Wikipedia the missing manual. Literally just bookmarked How Wikipedia Works this morning.

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ASTD Follow-Up

Tony Karrer

Learning from Our Kids In my keynote, I mentioned a Fourth Grade Wikipedia Update. 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. Work Literacy eLearning 2.0 eLearning 2.0