Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

The other posts are: Text-to-Speech Overview and NLP Quality , Digital Signal Processor and Text-to-Speech , Using Text-to-Speech in an eLearning Course , Text-to-Speech eLearning Tools - Integrated Products , Text-to-Speech vs Human Narration for eLearning , and Using Punctuation and Mark-Up Language to Increase Text-to-Speech Quality.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Authoring Tool Companies => you must immediately talk to your product roadmap and how you will be able to deliver HTML 5 content. You must adopt tools that do not rely on Flash as a delivery mechanism or at least delivery solutions to Flash and HTML 5. You must look at how media will be handled going forward.

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 29, 2009

As I mentioned in Blogger Outreach , I'm now getting quite a few emails that are announcements of new services, products, events, etc. One thing that really surprises me is the number of new products that constantly appear that leave me scratching my head. A marginally better new product is not going to do anything in the market.

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Here are some resources that I found that may help: LMS eCommerce Solution Product Review: Litmos LMS LMS For SMBs And Training Companies – A Year On, Is It Still The Same? I'm a little concerned how well LMS solutions will handle the webinar integration and the subscriptions. What would you recommend they research as possible options?

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Tony Karrer

AUGUST 25, 2010

Their large sales team sells a diverse and complex set of products and services to multiple markets. Specifically, the web. In Part 2, I'll list some of the levels within one of the learning types. Do you have a case study for me? Shift in eLearning from Pure Courseware towards Reference Hybrids - eLearning Technology , May 25, 2006 sales.

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 2, 2009

Disclosed Relationships I'm sure this list will grow over time, but the two that I know I should mention are … Adobe – Member of the eLearning Advisory Board – High level discussions with Adobe around product direction. Upside Learning – Advisor discussing product and services direction, positioning and product marketing.

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 19, 2008

Typical Long Tail Carried further, when distribution, storage and production get lower, it becomes viable to sell relatively less popular products. Thus, markets in Long Tail situations shift towards larger volumes of increasingly broader products with smaller volumes at the top. How do we foster knowledge worker skills?

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 2, 2008

Think about the following areas: Marketing Sales Product Design Engineering Yes, some portion of the work is routine, but most of the value provided is handling the non-routine. It's the marketing person who can figure out how to understand customer needs and position the product and reach the customer in changing media channels.

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Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

These awards are designed to recognize the products, projects and companies that represent interesting innovations in use of technology for Corporate / Workplace Learning and Performance. George Siemens , Jay Cross and Tony Karrer are pleased to announce the first ever LearnTrends 2009 Innovation Awards.

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Javed Alam pointed me to a couple of Text-to-Speech eLearning Examples, so I thought I’d capture a few of the examples here.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Here’s the series: Text-to-Speech Overview and NLP Quality , Digital Signal Processor and Text-to-Speech , Using Text-to-Speech in an eLearning Course , Text-to-Speech eLearning Tools - Integrated Products , Text-to-Speech vs Human Narration for eLearning , and Using Punctuation and Mark-Up Language to Increase Text-to-Speech Quality.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Strategy Strategies for learning and performance support: a summary Twitter in learning strategies: Yes or No?

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 23, 2010

The bottom line is that none of the feedback I’ve received has convinced me that choosing Flash as a delivery option for a new product or project would be a good idea today, especially if I want it to play on mobile and live for 5 years. Remember End of an Era – Authorware – another Macromedia/Adobe product. HTML 5 vs. ???

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Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

In the meantime, a couple of ideas for where you can find other similar kinds of descriptions of eLearning interactions: Look at Articulate product - tabbed interaction, process, timeline, pyramid diagram, labeled graphic, interactive FAQ, media tour, circle diagram, guided image, FAQ and more.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 18, 2010

One possibly good side product will be that total learner hours shouldn’t be a primary metric. 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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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

You know how I was saying Product Vendor Blogs - Where are They? Hopefully Justyn is tied into product development there, because it can help get some sense of where they believe things are going. Well I just ran across a good post: Questions You Should Be Asking Of Your Potential LMS Vendors, But Likely Are Not.

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Is the person doing the conversion already familiar with the product or service being taught? How will the finished product be implemented within the organization? If so, will this product be required to interface with that LMS? Will these need to be converted? Is it feasible to do so? What is the approval process?

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Tony Karrer

APRIL 6, 2009

Low Cost LMS Crowdsourcing in the Small Aggregation Types Corporate Training Workplace Productivity Video-Based eLearning Authoring Tools Workplace Learning Professionals Next Job - Management Consultant Twitter Conference Ideas Long Live eLearning Technology. Good Writing What Goes in the LMS? Browse eLearning Content

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 6, 2007

If anything this tool has detracted from productivity, not increased it. This tool has "detracted from productivity." It's interesting that earlier in the book Davenport was careful to say that he really wasn't talking productivity as much as he was talking about performance and results.

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Tony Karrer

MAY 4, 2009

John: For learning organizations we help build productive, skilled, thinking individuals and teams. The closest to a real business benefit is "productive, skilled, thinking individuals" – but that's still a distance from what most business people would think of in terms of real business benefits.

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Tony Karrer

MAY 23, 2006

A company with a very good product (the leader in its category) asked its leading users to participate in a Beta program right around the time they were acquired. The Product Team Jan 6, 2006 Any word on the Beta? Yet, I have not seen anything about the product in over a month. Will the users all find alternative products?

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

• Plateau is a leading provider of talent management software, content and services designed to increase workforce productivity and drive business success. • Learn.com is the worldwide leader in on-demand workforce development and productivity.

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 15, 2009

There are pretty important question here to ask about your learning business: Will there be demand for our training products (classroom, virtual classroom, eLearning)? Okay, I'm leading the witness, but I believe that you will find that most people are less interested in training as a product. Training is a known product.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

SharePoint 2010 looks to be a much better product. I don’t think it’s the best tool out there, but it likely is the best tool being adopted by your IT department and is part of the Enterprise 2.0 plan in your organization. My belief is that it’s going to be a big part of eLearning 2.0 for many workplace learning professionals.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

It is a bit of a dog, but it can "identify the people, companies, organizations, geographies and products on the page you are viewing." It recognizes Companies, Countries, Industry Terms, Organizations, People, Products and Technologies. For example, ClearForest provides a Firefox extension called Gnosis.

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 12, 2009

Their large sales team sells a diverse and complex set of products and services to multiple markets. Traditionally, the sales team searched for information on topics such as government regulations, product support and technology through a confederation of five Web-based collaboration and document management software systems.

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Tony Karrer

JULY 13, 2009

What business models, products, companies should we be watching? Josh, a long time analyst and source for trends in learning product and market data, trends and expert advice, will provide us with perspectives on what’s going on. We will look at questions that include: Is this a temporary downturn or changing landscape?

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 23, 2007

It's a question of what happens as production moves from being owned by the training organization to one where SMEs and learners are more responsible. It's a bit different than my comparison of eLearning 1.0 But similar in nature.

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Tony Karrer

MAY 18, 2006

In home improvement retail, associates ability to tell customers where particular products are and getting them to the product is a big factor in customer satisfaction. I then do the most important thing with my client.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Free software is always nice but I don't mind paying for high quality products. I already have these software programs: Articulate Suite '09 Adobe Master Suite CS3 (Not sure that I really need to upgrade to CS4) Camtasia & Snag It Are there any other must have software programs? It has to work with Articulate of course!

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 7, 2010

When I was working with various high tech, insurance and financial services companies – a key ingredient was how quickly people could effectively roll-out new products, policies, respond to competitive threats, etc. I thought that Time-to-performance was going to be the key metric back in 2002. It was about Time to Performance.

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

I blogged about this before on LCB - The Innovator's Dilemma of Learning , but the recent discussion in Product Vendor Blogs - Where are They? The fact that the discussion around Product Vendor Blogs and Innovation came back that it may be there but is hidden suggests that they aren't going to be the source. disagree?

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 24, 2007

From the production side, a brand new analysis indicates that the business social software market will be nearly $1 billion strong this year and over $3.3 is more a state of mind than a product you can purchase. Increasing evidence abounds that Enterprise 2.0 platforms to 160,000 workers. billion by 2011. has arrived. and social media.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

In his book he tells us basically that blogs have detracted from productivity, not increased it. Now Davenport is at it again with a post (on his blog no less - I guess he doesn't want to be productive himself) - LinkedIn Is Not a Social Network. I'd be curious about the productivity around his approach?

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Tony Karrer

JULY 25, 2006

Most LMS products (out-of-the-box) require you to search, register and then launch the course. If you want the content to be searchable through your Intranet search mechanism, most LMS products get in your way (even though the content may be easily indexed by the search mechanism). A great example is accessing an eLearning course.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 11, 2007

Certainly, we all are seeing and feeling it. Yet, I've been struggling to find good charts, graphs, quotes, etc.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 15, 2008

Should we demand that our product support SCORM? What about Adobe products vs. Articulate vs. Qarbon ? Should we support Flash? Where does PowerPoint fit into the standards? Should we be supporting OpenOffice? Where does SCORM fit into the picture?

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