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The power-law distribution (and you)

eFront

names that refer to its different aspects and characteristics: power law, long tail, 80/20 rule, the Pareto principle, etc. think of how you never use the huge majority of Microsoft Word’s features). You may know this phenomenon by one of its many names ? Pure Mathematics or Saz playing).

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MICROSOFT POWERPOINT: Convert Text to Shapes Using the Fragment Tool

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

Maybe, like in this example, you also want to edit one of the characters to have a longtail” to match the diagonal design element elsewhere on the slide.  Maybe you like your font but you wish the characters were a bit shorter and wider.

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Speaking and Workshop Services

Tony Karrer

Dr. Karrer’s experience is diverse including founding CTO of eHarmony, associate professor of Computer Science, and consultant to Credit Suisse, Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun, Symbol Technologies and many others. where he received a M.S. in Computer Science. eLearning 2.0

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Knowledge and Learning In The News - 01/17/2007

Big Dog, Little Dog

What is especially impressive about Apple's feat is that [Apple] did it with an R&D spend that is one-tenth the size of Microsoft's annual spend, and that they did it during a period of otherwise flat industry performance. Dog or Tail. the next Long Tail or a dog ? Related links: The Long Tail and B2B.

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Top 10 eLearning Predictions for 2010

Tony Karrer

Organizations will need you to shift a it towards Corporate Learning Long Tail and Attention Crisis and Long Tail Learning - Size and Shape. If you want to optimize total learner hours, then you make long courses aimed at lots of employees.

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Waterfall model - ADDIE - "is risky and invites failure"

Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

Microsoft is having trouble supporting the long tail. So where are the little guys supporting the long tail in eLearning? The iterative approach to software development, with short turnaround cycles, is proving more powerful in small startups like 37signals and challenging the big software players. Nuvvo perhaps?

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Knowledge and Learning In The News - 02/05/2007

Big Dog, Little Dog

The example of Microsoft in Korea shows how one bad decision a decade ago leads to unpredictable trouble years later, and how a profusion of operating systems, or interacting plants and animals, could be healthier for everyone than lonely dependence on just one. Moving into the long tail - growing changing learning creating.