Tony Karrer

JULY 6, 2009

I do a lot of presentations where one of the topics is how to use LinkedIn more effectively as part of your knowledge work. LinkedIn e-Learning Groups) – These are some of the learning focused groups on LinkedIn. Learning Communities List – Also learning communities including some LinkedIn groups. Generally 50-70%.

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 13, 2008

Must read post by Michele Martin - Changing Knowledge Worker Attitudes. That's it - knowledge workers must take ownership. That's it - knowledge workers must take ownership. And it's the responsibility of learning professionals to lead that charge. I had chills as I read it. Join this discussion on Work Literacy.

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 15, 2007

There's been a long running discussion around what Knowledge Management is going to look like going forward and whether big systems that manage knowledge are going to be there. Do we really think that there will be a new wave of Enterprise Knowledge Management or other big systems? Am I missing something here?

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 9, 2009

eLearning Learning Hot List - May 29, 2009 to June 5, 2009 Top Posts The following are the top posts from featured sources based on social signals. Adobe eLearning Suite: is it worth it? eLearning Technology , June 3, 2009 Should you Care about Google Wave? Browse eLearning Content

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 26, 2009

The conference has a diverse attendee list and I was very much looking forward to my keynote presentation: Changes in Knowledge Work and Implications for Workplace Learning. Subscribe to the Best of eLearning Learning for updates from this blog and other eLearning blogs. eLearning Technology.

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 30, 2006

A post by Jack Vinson pointed me to What's so great about tacit knowledge? and What's So Great About Tacit Knowledge? Much of the focus of Knowledge Management has been finding ways to support capture of tacit knowledge. Much of the focus of Knowledge Management has been finding ways to support capture of tacit knowledge.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 20, 2006

Great post by Denham Grey - Perennial KM issues that are very similar to the core problems that we deal with in eLearning: How to speed learning, increase awareness and share experiences. With an ever deceasing half-life of knowledge , just keeping up has become a major corporate imperative. practices ?

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Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Looking at Capital City Bank from the outside, I wouldn’t have expected to find a great example of social learning inside. The idea was to use this as a tool to learn and get questions answered. It took a while, but Becky and the other students really came to understand that kind of learning. They are a solid, conservative bank.

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Tony Karrer

APRIL 2, 2007

Great post by Dave Pollard - Knowledge Management: Finding Quick Wins and Long Term Value the second Dilbert comic strip in the post is worth the visit to the page. Tools for Personal Learning Improving Personal Learning - A Continuing Challenge for Learning. Of course, so is the Quick Wins list.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Over the past few years, I spend part of December going back through my blog to recap a bit of what some of the key things I’ve learned over the course of the year. I’ve been doing this the past few years, for example: Learned about Learning in 2009. And every year I use this as a Big Question – see: Learning 2010.

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 17, 2006

I just saw this article: [link] It certainly makes you think about the longer term implications of learning and technology are in a world where we have access to all information stored by everyone. I said at the time that what we needed was something that would record everything we did or thought.

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Beyond that, probably the best thing to do is to use eLearning Learning to go through it’s open source eLearning and open source eLearning Tools. Of course, I’d recommend skimming through eLearning Learning to find the latest and greatest. Upside Learning Blog , April 29, 2010 The Corporate Moodle: A Tipping Point?

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 14, 2009

It’s always fun at the end of the year to go back and take a look at what you’ve been working on, what you’ve learned during the year. During the year, I’ve had fantastic conversations through LearnTrends around SharePoint , Examples and Tour of Different Kinds of eLearning , Social Learning , and the Business of Learning.

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Tony Karrer

JULY 26, 2010

A colleague just asked me if I knew anyone who was using Augmented Reality for learning. I’m not and I gave him the standard advice about looking through LinkedIn Guide for Knowledge Workers , LinkedIn for Finding Expertise , and Searching for Expertise - LinkedIn Answers. My next suggestion was to use eLearning Learning to search.

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 16, 2008

The workshop description is: A Revolution in Workplace Learning Tools such as blogs, wikis, social networks, social bookmarking, and RSS readers are revolutionizing formal and informal workplace learning. You will: Learn specific methods you can use to accelerate your own knowledge work and learning Define strategies for eLearning 2.0

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Tony Karrer

JULY 2, 2008

The Learning Revolution: Where have all the leaders gone? So, of course, I say, great post. :) There are some interesting thoughts in the post, but also Most learning professionals can only do so much. . :) There are some interesting thoughts in the post, but also Most learning professionals can only do so much.

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Tony Karrer

MAY 4, 2009

This month's Big Question - Social Grid Value and a comment by Ken Allan on my Learning Goals post really got me to thinking. Ken said: I don't really think there's any new way of learning, but we may need to experiment with its delivery. Is there really no new way of learning? What is learning?

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Tony Karrer

APRIL 22, 2009

Out of the conversation in Learn Trends around making informal learning concrete, Cammy Bean asked: Cammy Bean: So is there a market for Social Media Instructional Designing Consultants? Jane Hart suggested that we use the term Social Learning Designer to describe the role. I would very much like to hear your answers.

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Tony Karrer

MAY 4, 2009

Looking at the responses in Social Learning Designer to my services positioning template: For (buyers) we help in their desire to _ (benefits) by __ (services) unlike others we _ (differentiation). Unlike others, we do this by creating distributed spaces, places and tools for sharing, finding and creating knowledge.

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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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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 26, 2009

I've always been a big believer in the value and power of informal learning. Over the past few years, I've written quite a few posts about informal learning. is one part of systematizing support for informal learning. The person I most associate with informal learning is Jay Cross. In many ways, eLearning 2.0

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Jack is responsible for the development, care and tools for learning communities and knowledge sharing initiatives. In practice this means a lot of different things and across many different learning communities. Instead, it focused on Jack’s no nonsense ability to make communities an effect part of learning.

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Tony Karrer

MAY 26, 2009

eLearning Learning Hot List - May 15, 2009 to May 22, 2009 Top Posts The following are the top posts from featured sources based on social signals. A List Apart: Articles: In Defense of Eye Candy , May 16, 2009 Facilitating Online | Centre for Educational Technology , May 19, 2009 Are Your E-Learning Courses Pushed or Pulled? ,

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 8, 2009

eLearning Learning Hot List May 1, 2009 to May 31, 2009 Here is the best stuff from May 2009 via the eLearning Learning site. Clive on Learning , May 29, 2009 Implementing New Learning Technology? Hope you enjoy. Top Posts The following are the top posts from featured sources based on social signals.

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Tony Karrer

AUGUST 31, 2009

Someone was just asking me about the big trends in learning and the implications of those trends on corporate learning and development. So, here's a bit of a compilation of some of the things I've been talking about in my blog which points to some of the major trends in learning. This will be a slow evolution.

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Tony Karrer

MARCH 5, 2008

Jane Hart has done a great job collecting individual answers to what learning tools and technologies that people use. At the same time, I agree with his call for sharing on these things and "learning over the shoulder" of others. It's easy to list a set of tools. But, that doesn't get you very far. More important are the methods.

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Tony Karrer

AUGUST 30, 2007

Horizontal technologies for learning. These technologies are supposedly designed for learning but that is not true. The concept of Learning Management System (LMS) was wrongly named. No student would use the current so-called learning environments during their worktime or freetime. Interesting post. Quite true.

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 19, 2008

Adler's recent article - Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0 The article is definitely worth a read, and it got me to finally write about what I see as a crisis in corporate learning. Impact How does this impact the world of learning organizations and corporate learning functions (training organizations)?

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 29, 2008

I've read a bit from ( here , here , and here ) about Jet Blue's use of web 2.0 / social media tools to communicate between their staff of learning professionals. This is another great example of eLearning 2.0. The Awareness platform includes tools such as blogs, wikis and social bookmarking / tagging.

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 22, 2008

George Siemens , Jay Cross and Tony Karrer have organized the second annual free online conference: Corporate Learning: Trends and Innovation 2008 November 17 - 21, 2008 | Online | Free Last year's conference had two thousand people from all over the world take part in the week-long conference. It's online. And it's free.

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Tony Karrer

APRIL 17, 2007

Personal Learning and Personal Learning Environments As part of the recent discussion on personal learning and personal learning environments, I went back to find my posts on these topics and on personal knowledge management and related. Do Learning Professionals Make the Worst Learners?

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Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

I'm struggling a bit with the question of whether what we need to do around Work and Learning has changed or is it only that the Context and the Methods have changed. However, when I look at what I do day-to-day and what other people do day-to-day as part of their work and learning, I don't see it as really being different.

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 24, 2006

A learning management system is probably the apex of top-down training. It places toll booths inbetween the learner and the knowledge he or she needs to perform their duties. Informal learning proponents are saying "Tear down that wall." Make learning accessible. As I've saidm when you look at Do You WANT an LMS?

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 21, 2008

As we are wrapping up the week for Learn Trends , one of the questions we faced was what to do with the Ning community that sprung up to support the conference. I'm pretty sure we are going to leave it up, but I'm also pretty sure that it will sit fairly dormant until the next learning event. ASTD National - ASTD's LinkedIn group.

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Tony Karrer

AUGUST 25, 2009

Great post from Charles Jennings – Down But Not Quite Out: what can we learn from the plights of Learning Tree International and Readers Digest? Learning Tree reported a decline of 31.2% This is similar to what I've been discussing in the Business of Learning and we are both citing Learning Tree's woes.

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Tony Karrer

APRIL 29, 2009

In talking with Jay Cross about the recent Learn Trends session and through experience in the #lrnchat , I've come to realize that there are easier personal disconnects for me with informal, social learning experiences and my personal learning goals. This aligns with the concept of having a To Learn List.

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Hot List - 2/1/2009 - 2/14/2009 Posts Mathemagenic " PhD conclusions in a thousand words: blogging practices of knowledge workers A Guide to Social Learning What Goes in the LMS?

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