Tony Karrer

JUNE 16, 2008

Clients include: Credit Suisse, Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun, Symbol Technologies and many others. He attended USC as a Tau Beta Fellow, awarded to the top 30 engineers in the United States, and was valedictorian for his class.

Social Networks 188

Social Networks Wiki eLearning 2.0 Social Bookmarking 188

Tony Karrer

JANUARY 11, 2010

Dr. Karrer’s experience is diverse including initial 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 Technology.

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Predictions Diversity Training eLearning Consultant Association Learning Management System 109

Tony Karrer

JUNE 8, 2010

We’ll compare the quality of three TTS voices: Mike - a voice provided by Microsoft in Windows XP (old style). Click on the link below to hear them: I'm Mike, an old style robotic voice provided by Microsoft in Windows XP. Paul a voice by NeoSpeech - the voice used in Adobe Captivate. Heather a voice by Acapela Group.

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Text-to-Speech Quality Virtual Classroom Voice 149

Tony Karrer

JANUARY 24, 2011

In fact, because content management is now so ubiquitous in almost all social networking systems (including Microsoft SharePoint), many companies are finding ways to leverage these tools to help aid content development.

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LCMS SharePoint Management System 147

Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 19, 2006

I also updated the graphic that shows eLearning Tool Satisfaction at the bottom of the page - see also - Course Authoring and Rapid eLearning Tool Satisfaction blog post.

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Rapid eLearning eLearning Tools Atlantic Link SCATE 137

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 19, 2007

And, there are some links to his presentations that are quite good in this post: his presentation on TED Talks, a recent one - J immy Wales Gives Talk on Free Culture, Transparency, and Search - from earlier this month, on Cnet (excuse the compulsory Microsoft ad at the beginning) and Vision: Wikipedia and the Future of Free Culture from Fora TV.

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Open Wikipedia Content Microsoft 100

Tony Karrer

JANUARY 29, 2008

Today the question was for Microsoft Project. Based on my post LMS RFP , I've been asked several times if I knew where you could find samples of Request for Proposals (RFPs) for custom eLearning development, performance support tools, learning content management systems (LCMS), elearning authoring tools , etc.

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RFP Examples Sample Scanning 100

Tony Karrer

MARCH 26, 2007

His examples include: Mainstream media -> YouTube Mainstream press -> Blogs Microsoft Office -> Office 2.0 George Siemens recent post - Formal and informal.control vs foster discusses the move from mainstream, controlled information to consumer generated information. But take a look at my post around eLearning 1.0 and eLearning 2.0

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PKM Change PLE Instructional Design 103

Tony Karrer

AUGUST 25, 2009

A ning site, podcasts, video learning resources, RSS feeds from the large technology providers such as Cisco, Sun and Microsoft, and a number of other facilities including a range short formal modules deep-linked from the corporate LMS that could be pulled on-demand. A lot to be learned from these kinds of examples.

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Solution Wiki Ning Sun 107

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

His work in social media, e-Learning and Performance Support has won awards and has led him into engagements at many Fortune 500 companies including Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Canada, Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Fidelity Investments, Symbol Technologies and SHL Systemhouse.

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Social Free Sun IBM 100

Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

where we had speakers from IBM, Google, Microsoft, Sony and others talking about what it really means (especially for corporations). Last week I moderated an event on Web 2.0 One of the most interesting things was the Enterprise Mashup demonstration by Rod Smith at IBM.

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Mashups Mash-up eLearning 2.0 IBM 100

Tony Karrer

MARCH 2, 2009

Other possible participants are from Valvoline/Ashland and Microsoft Learning. The role of SharePoint in New Supervisor Orientation including: Training programs, Templates and guides and Testimonials. Browse eLearning Content at www.elearninglearning.com

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SharePoint Ning Specialist Site 100

Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

link from: - Desktop email clients like Microsoft Outlook or Apple mail - AIR applications like Twirhl - Mobile apps like Twitterific or Blackberry Mail - Chat apps like AIM - SMS/MMS messages It also includes people who typed a bit.ly I tried to get a bit more detail by using bit.ly

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Twitter Quality Site Reference 113

Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Eras - Hardware (IBM), Software (Microsoft), Network/Data (Google). At DevLearn - tend to equate Web 2.0 with Wiki, Blog, Social Bookmarking, Social Networking, etc. instead it's really systems that harness network effects. The lock in is data. Data is the Intel inside of next generation. He's explaining PageRank.

Social Networks 100

Social Networks Wiki Wikipedia Social Bookmarking 100

Tony Karrer

JUNE 2, 2009

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.

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Services Social Networks Case Study eLearning Guild 100

Tony Karrer

JULY 23, 2008

This is followed by Microsoft with 29.3%, Adobe with 24.7%, and Citrix Online with 11.7%. Specifically, 94.7% are convinced that a SLS is essential to their organization. WebEx enjoys the largest market share with 42.6% of Guild members that use a SLS indicating that they use WebEx Training Center.

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Adoption Adopt Software Elluminate 101

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Possibly its smarter use of Outlook that's the intent from a Microsoft vision of supporting the knowledge worker. In SharePoint, there are MySite which is more like a portal page showing RSS feeds, list of SharePoint sites, shared documents.

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SharePoint PWLE eLearning 2.0 Diversity Training 133

Tony Karrer

JANUARY 8, 2009

His work has won awards, and has led him into engagements at many Fortune 500 companies including Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, IBM, and Hewlett-Packard, among others. He works as an interim CTO for many start-ups, and was the founding CTO at eHarmony. His blog eLearning Technology won the best e-Learning Blog award the past two years.

Social Networks 100

Social Networks Wiki Skills ASTD 100

Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 31, 2006

We had great speakers from IBM, Google, Sony, Microsoft, Move.com (Homestore) and others. Last week I moderated a Technology Council event on Web 2.0 in Los Angeles.

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CD-ROM Corporate Learning Corporate eLearning Wiki 100

Tony Karrer

APRIL 25, 2007

But it's also great when you have Microsoft, Google and IBM on a panel (I've moderated that before) and point out where they are saying the same things in possibly different ways. You sometimes have to help them get there. Highlight contrasts and similarities. Contrasts (or better yet disagreements) are the most fun.

IBM 100

IBM Microsoft Conversation Expert 100

Tony Karrer

MARCH 3, 2008

eLearning Trends Enterprise 2.0 eLearning Trends Enterprise 2.0

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Wiki Web Social Networks Authoring Tools 105

Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 20, 2010

The most important of these is the programming standard Microsoft Speech Application Programming Interface (SAPI) for Windows. Mark-Up Language As we mentioned in the first post, many “small” innovations are needed to make text to speech useful and practical.

Text-to-Speech 195

Text-to-Speech Quality Authoring Tools Voice 195

Tony Karrer

MAY 25, 2006

It can be created using Wiki software, a content management system, web editing software or even Microsoft Word stored as HTML. It is normally a series of web pages, but can be PDF or other document types. It's designed to provide either real-time support for work tasks or near real-time support for look up.

Courseware 109

Courseware Reference Authoring Tools Simulations 109

Tony Karrer

JANUARY 2, 2007

Wow - dump your Microsoft stock now! Included were: Wesley Fryer article that says that in 5-years, school district says - "not a single desktop in this 52,000-student school system in metropolitan Dallas will carry the image of a proprietary school software program." I'm curious what people in eLearning felt were the top posts of 2006?

Microsoft 100

Microsoft Stock Images Software 100

Tony Karrer

MAY 22, 2006

In an eWeek article: Security May Dog Software as a Service they provide a mixed answer: the biggest challenge for companies such as Microsoft that see their future in on-demand software may be getting customers to understand and be comfortable with the model. If you look out at what's happening, you find mixed reviews.

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Firewalls Security Services Software 100

Tony Karrer

JANUARY 18, 2010

SharePoint 2010 looks to be a much better product (think Windows 3.1 – third major version by Microsoft) Social learning (or specific implementations) are going to grow in importance Seems to make it pretty clear to me.

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Predictions Diversity Training SharePoint Authoring Tools 200

Tony Karrer

APRIL 15, 2009

His work in social media, e-Learning and Performance Support has won awards and has led him into engagements at many Fortune 500 companies including Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Canada, Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Fidelity Investments, Symbol Technologies and SHL Systemhouse.

Blended Learning 105

Blended Learning Social Learning Social Technology 105

Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 25, 2010

It was the first ever public session for Placeware - a virtual meeting software company that was much later acquired by Microsoft and became Microsoft Live Meeting. It made me immediately think back to my first experience with an online session. The topic was roughly (surprise) New Technology for eLearning.

Virtual Classroom 215

Virtual Classroom Teach Resources Social Networks 215

Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 13, 2009

For example, SumTotal Systems recently announced SumTotal Stream that provides integration with particular tools: Microsoft Outlook: SumTotal's integration allows access to Talent Development tasks within the widely adopted Microsoft Outlook email client. Other vendors are looking at taking things a different way.

Portal 100

Portal Integrate Social Networks SumTotal 100

Tony Karrer

JANUARY 12, 2009

Microsoft Desktop Search - Desktop search has probably had the greatest productivity improvement for me over the past few years. Google Desktop Search is also great, but I personally have had better results with Microsoft's integration with Outlook and I'm a heavy Outlook user. I'll get back to this below.

Social Bookmarking 102

Social Bookmarking Search Tagging Google 102

Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Speech-Over Professional Tuval Software's Speech-Over Professional 4 works with Microsoft PowerPoint as an add-in. In summary, it is possible to use Captivate to achieve a combination of multiple screen animations, TTS sounds, and subtitles on a slide, with a process of manual synchronization using time-line editing.

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Text-to-Speech eLearning Tools Integrate Authoring Tools 191

Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

His work in social media, e-Learning and Performance Support has won awards and has led him into engagements at many Fortune 500 companies including Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Canada, Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Fidelity Investments, Symbol Technologies and SHL Systemhouse.

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Blended Learning Cost Technology Corporate eLearning 123

Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

link] August 30-September 2, 2011 Microsoft TechEd Australia, Queensland, Australia, [link] August 30-September 3, 2011 European Association for Research in Learning and Instruction (EARLI): Education for a Global Networked Society, 14 th biennial, Exeter, United Kingdom. Louis, Missouri, USA.

eLearning Conferences 217

eLearning Conferences Conference Blended Learning Cyber Security Training 217

Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

link] February 10-14, 2013 Microsoft Tech-Ed Africa , Durban, South Africa. March 3-4, 2012 Ed Tech Teacher (ETT) Winter Conference: Leading Change in Changing Times, hosted by Microsoft New England Research and Development (NERD) Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Louis, Missouri, USA. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

eLearning Conferences 238

eLearning Conferences Conference Blended Learning Diversity Training 238

Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

link] March 3-4, 2012 Ed Tech Teacher (ETT) Winter Conference: Leading Change in Changing Times, hosted by Microsoft New England Research and Development (NERD) Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. link] June 25-29, 2012 Microsoft Tech Ed Europe , Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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eLearning Conferences Conference Blended Learning Diversity Training 261