Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Basically, he shows his "referring sites" from Google Analytics for the past two weeks: His conclusion: Folks who visit from Twitter don't visit as many pages and spend less time of the site. Here's their description of "referring sites": Direct Traffic includes people clicking a bit.ly It should be pretty qualified.

Twitter 113

Twitter Quality Site Reference 113

Tony Karrer

MAY 4, 2010

I was hoping that Ning was going to come out with a inexpensive plan that would support the different Ning sites that I have a hand in. Harold Jarche is trying to figure it out for the Work Literacy site. They do have Ning Mini at $3/mo, but it only allows 150 members.

Ning 114

Ning Alternatives LearnTrends Forum 114

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 14, 2010

I was really glad to see it grow to become one of the Top eLearning Sites. And the system itself is growing with sites like Social Media Informer. Top eLearning Sites? And it’s going to become much better in the new year as it moves over to the next generation platform.

Text-to-Speech 200

Text-to-Speech Compliance Training Diversity Training SharePoint 200

Tony Karrer

JUNE 17, 2010

As you probably know, eLearning Learning has been steadily growing and is now one of the top eLearning sites on the web. Garin Hess and the team from Rapid Intake has stepped in to help me keep the site going both from an effort and financial standpoint. Garin - thanks for stepping up to help! eLearning Technology.

Rapid Intake 100

Rapid Intake Google Buzz eLearning iPad 100

Tony Karrer

MARCH 4, 2009

These searches look for any mention of your name, company, URLs across blogs and other sites. In Twitter Search, I look for my name, site names, and tags. The most accurate searching is when someone links to a site. During those presentations, I'll mention what are sometimes called "vanity searches." eLearning Technology.

Search 100

Search Conversation RSS Twitter 100

Tony Karrer

MARCH 31, 2008

I saw a post by Christy Tucker that pointed me to a feature in Diigo - their site community. The nice part is that you can see it for every site - even if the site owner hasn't done anything. So, I was able to look at the eLearning Technology's Site Community. Christy sited on of my old posts An Aha Moment - del.icio.us

Diigo 100

Diigo Social Bookmarking Content Site 100

Tony Karrer

MARCH 2, 2009

If you are interested in attending, go to the Learn Trends Ning Site and sign-up. We will make announcements through that site. Instructors teach in pairs, so this site helps them find partners around the globe. Register Here. Make sure you register for the event.

SharePoint 100

SharePoint Ning Specialist Site 100

Tony Karrer

JUNE 30, 2009

The first post is up now: Learning Theory - Enterprise 2.0 - Social Software - eLearning Learning Weekly Hot List With the recent updates to the site, you can subscribe to the Best Of RSS feed to receive these hotlists or you can visit the site and sign up to receive them via email. As always, I would welcome input, ideas, etc.

Social Networks 100

Social Networks eLearning Strategy Google Wave Social Network Analysis 100

Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 12, 2009

They asked what web sites the sales teams liked. MSNBC, CNN and ESPN were good Web sites and simple to use. If they didn’t, they could easily find what they needed by searching the site.” Solution The heart of the site is the document repository. The site is segmented into eight communities based on different departments.

Portal 109

Portal Expert Sales Teams 109

Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Also can earn trophies, which I've been calling badges on other other sites. Like the other sites, its easy to see what badges are possible and to find out what it will take to earn additional badges. Of course, you get to cheat on most things by going back to previous days and entering values to keep your streaks alive.

Behavior 243

Behavior Training Train Community 243

Tony Karrer

JUNE 24, 2009

As he describes it: In putting this list together, I worked with Tony Karrer and his eLearning Learning site extensively to match links that are popular based on social signals, specifically in the Games and Simulation categories. Thanks Abhijit! eLearning Technology. Browse eLearning Content

Resources 101

Resources Simulations Social eLearning 101

Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Example #2 - CompUSA Dealer Training - Legal Issues - Legal services presentation on a company web site Example #3 - Calculating Usain Bolt's Power - Math derivation. Example #1 - Introduction to Venice - Qwiki uses Text-to-Speech in really interesting ways.

Text-to-Speech 193

Text-to-Speech Examples Voice PowerPoint 193

Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 2, 2007

The point is that its probably natural for lots of sites to have social networking type features and functions for visitors. This is something we are commonly doing on sites today. It's more that sites are recognizing the value proposition. Quite simply, social networking sites require a high level of commitment.

Social Networks 100

Social Networks Social Network Network Social 100

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

At the other end of the spectrum is when you want a more comprehensive search and want to make sure that you've not missed important sites/pages. Evaluation Internet Sites Tutorial Evaluating Quality on the Internet Evaluation of Information Resources Search Basics Some basic, introductory material. Obviously, we do this a lot.

Search 102

Search Yahoo Google Scholar Tutorial 102

Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 2, 2007

In fact we've currently got more like 103,000 blogs, separated over four sites (63K on edublogs.org and 39K spread across the student sites). And that's just that one site's blogs. I guess this is probably enough to say that blogging has taken off as a tool for learning in educational environments.

Hosting 100

Hosting Blogging Site Environment 100

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Using SharePoint for Software Support Site / Help Desk Another common use of SharePoint was as a reference site, especially software support site. In SharePoint, there are MySite which is more like a portal page showing RSS feeds, list of SharePoint sites, shared documents. were similar. A lot of what eLearning 2.0

SharePoint 133

SharePoint PWLE eLearning 2.0 Diversity Training 133

Tony Karrer

MAY 27, 2008

Instead of dawdling on websites many users want simply to reach a site quickly, complete a task and leave. Web users were also getting very frustrated with all the extras, such as widgets and applications, being added to sites to make them more friendly. Hardly selfish really. We don't want fluff.

Search 100

Search Design Site Web 100

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

If you are interested in attending, go to the Learn Trends Ning Site and sign-up. We will make announcements through that site. We will be starting with the topic: SharePoint in Corporate Learning Live Sessions: Tuesday March 10, 8 - 10 AM Pacific Thursday March 12 from 8 - 9 AM Pacific Community discussion will occur in between.

SharePoint 102

SharePoint Micro-Learning Conference Corporate Learning 102

Tony Karrer

AUGUST 26, 2009

6) Can you comment on the advantages/disadvantages of company-created social sites (private networking sites) vs public sites such as Twitter and Facebook. Most of the time, there's pretty clear separation between private and public sites in terms of your goals and use cases. Not sure I even know how to answer this.

Wiki 100

Wiki Social Networks Blended Learning Yammer 100

Tony Karrer

JANUARY 26, 2009

For the past couple of days, I’ve been consuming knowledge from a site that better fits how I learn. Called Informal Learning Flow , the site pulls together the feeds of the people I read and topics that I care about. Go to the site and click on a concept, say, informal learning.

Informal Learning 100

Informal Learning Informal IBM eLearning 2.0 100

Tony Karrer

JUNE 11, 2008

He cites a recent study by University College London that looked at behavior of visitors to two research sites. Carr states: They found that people using the sites exhibited "a form of skimming activity," hopping from one source to another and rarely returning to any source they'd already visited.

Strategy 100

Strategy Brain Site Write Blog 100

Tony Karrer

MAY 8, 2008

The person had taken the time to report a possible bug on my site. If the manager is not around or there's no contact mechanism on the site, then I don't report it. I quickly checked and didn't see a problem and sent an email back. The response I received was: Your blog looks fine now. Sorry for wasting your time. What a misconception.

Report 100

Report Site Issue Evalution 100

Tony Karrer

JANUARY 5, 2009

Ken lives in New Zealand, but having worked on lots of international sites, I have a hard time believing that it's something to do with that. My blogging cohort Ken Allan - reported to me that he was having trouble access the eLearning Learning content community.

eLearning 100

eLearning Site Community Learning 100

Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 27, 2007

A client wanted to create online quizzes that would live inside of a larger site. But, I could quickly link to the sites to find out more and finally recommended that they should look at: Articulate Quizmaker allows you to easily create Flash-based quizzes, surveys, and assessments. This tool is listed at the bottom.

Flash Quiz 184

Flash Quiz Flash Quiz Respondus 184

Tony Karrer

APRIL 28, 2009

If you are interested in these, please click the links above to go to the Learn Trends site and sign up. June Learn Trends - Networked and Social Learning June 18 & 19 - Times TBD George Siemens will be organizing a two day session on Networked and Social Learning. eLearning Technology. Browse eLearning Content

Trends 100

Trends Online Learning Free Online 100

Tony Karrer

MARCH 10, 2009

Use site: on Google [link] 1b. FYI – there's a search box under the eLearning Learning logo that goes directly to search results on the eLearning Learning site which is much better than blogger's search. There are a couple of ways they could do this: 1a. Keep a List of What You've Found 4. Read through What You Find 5.

Rapid eLearning 100

Rapid eLearning Search Templates eLearning Tools 100

Tony Karrer

MAY 22, 2008

I've added that link to one of the most bookmarked pages on this site: Top Ten Reasons To Blog and Top Ten Not to Blog Thanks to Donald Clark for pointing to this. Just saw this article - Blogging -- It's Good for You. Reminder that Blogging and Social Networking Boosts Your Social Life. Are we sure we don't want Mandatory Blogging?

Social Networks 100

Social Networks Blogging Social Network Site 100

Tony Karrer

JANUARY 13, 2009

The site is beginning to take into account social signals. In other words, we are using what is happening: with the content out in the network on the eLearning Learning searches that land on us and that occur on the site, and various other kinds of behaviors.

Mzinga 100

Mzinga GeoLearning FLV Jing 100

Tony Karrer

JANUARY 27, 2010

After all, your boss will get a web usage report at the month-end and he will easily figure out which sites have you been visiting secretly during office hours. People end up staying home to be able to attend virtual events. That should be a bit of a “wow”. I ran into a post about Using Twitter at Work.

Predictions 105

Predictions Mashups Google Wave SharePoint 105

Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 31, 2007

With Facebook you are somewhat forced to make a hard choice about rewiring your application to live seamlessly within the Facebook environment or pushing Facebook users across to your site which is a bit ugly. Further, you face the prospect of having Facebook rework aspects that you are leveraging.

Platform 100

Platform Social Networks Social Bookmarking Facebook 100

Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 16, 2007

The basic guidelines I have is not to put anything in my blog, on a social network, even when I register on a site (even when that site is supposed to keep the information private) that I wouldn't want to be public. Of course, the situation with Kathy Sierra was an eye opener.

Social Networks 100

Social Networks Social Network Network Blogging 100

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 10, 2007

I'm even more worried when I went to Bob's web site. Bob's web site violates a lot of what I would consider to be good design. Interestingly, Christine, Tom and Dave Gray from Xplane all point to Bob Horn's book as a great example. I'm a bit worried if that's the example.

Course 100

Course Site Web Examples 100

Tony Karrer

JULY 10, 2008

It's very searchable, so if someone is looking for a particular skill, they can go to that site. We've been building a professional-networking capability that allows everybody to put in the organization directory the skills that they bring to bear. 25 million hits a day - wow, that's quite a bit. Not sure what's included there, but wow!

Social Networks 100

Social Networks Social Network Network Site 100

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

I've personally not subscribed to these individual blogs, but I've just subscribe to the feed from this site in order to have Judy continue to feed me good stuff. Thanks Judy! By the way, if you ever have a chance to attend one of Judy's sessions where she shows examples of mobile learning - you should definitely go.

Mobile Learning 100

Mobile Learning Community Mobile Content 100

Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

tools as part of information sharing: AARF has built interfaces to the bookmarking site del.icio.us , the photo sharing site Flickr , and Digg , a site where members vote on the importance of news stories. Andrew McAfee has posted about Avenue A Razorfish's (AARF) Intranet that uses Web 2.0

Social Bookmarking 100

Social Bookmarking Web Yahoo Collaboration 100

Tony Karrer

MAY 5, 2009

Sign up on the Learn Trends site and Attend the Event. She coordinates the mlearnopedia.com site. These examples are coming straight from our eLearning community. In the next few days, I'll have more specifics on what examples will be part of the event that day.

eLearning Consultant 102

eLearning Consultant eLearning Strategy Free LearnTrends 102

Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

This includes working on the software the runs sites like Nasa Images. Vic provides the following list of reasons that companies use his digital asset management software for eLearning projects: The companies that employ our target audience strongly discourage employees from putting company assets on ‘public’ sites.

SharePoint 102

SharePoint LCMS Digital Management 102