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Facilitating Knowledge Work #wolweek

Clark Quinn

This is very much based on Harold Jarche’s Seek-Sense-Share model for Personal Knowledge Mastery (PKM). We shouldn’t assume good research skills, and assist individuals in doing understanding what qualifies as good searches for input and evaluating the hits, as well as establishing and filtering existing information streams.

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Knowledge Work Types

Tony Karrer

To help clarify this and to begin thinking through implications for Work Literacy Skills , I went back through a couple of different sources. Thomas Davenport classifies Knowledge Work Types in Thinking for a Living: How to Get Better Performances And Results from Knowledge Workers using a variety of classifications.

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5 Common Mistakes Of Online Course Creators And How To Overcome Them

eLearning Industry

We live in the age of knowledge work and information-based economy. Skills and knowledge are just as marketable today as any physical goods – probably more so. The good thing about it is that there are hardly any people out there who don’t have some knowledge that would be valuable for others.

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PWLE Not PLE - Knowledge Work Not Separate from Learning

Tony Karrer

Flexibility and extensibility Web browser platform Aggregation/Mashups Ease of use Several thoughts jumped out at me: The concept of a Personal Learning Environment (PLE) exists, but actual PLEs only exist as theoretical combinations of skills, methods and tools. But that's the exception.

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The Benefits of Using an Employee Skills Database for Organisational Strategy

Acorn Labs

That requires data on your employees' skills to understand the skill sets currently available to your organisation. This is where creating a comprehensive skills inventory comes into play. But how does a skills inventory really help your business? What is an employee skills database?

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The Benefits of Using an Employee Skills Database for Organisational Strategy

Acorn Labs

That requires data on your employees' skills to understand the skill sets currently available to your organisation. This is where creating a comprehensive skills inventory comes into play. But how does a skills inventory really help your business? What is an employee skills database? Internal mobility. Recruitment.

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Social Media for Knowledge Workers

Tony Karrer

tools to improve your performance as a knowledge worker. That said, I thought it would be worthwhile for me to collect a few of the resources that provide good starting points that can help Knowledge Workers improve their performance using Social Media. Last week I had a presentation around using Social Media and Web 2.0