Tony Karrer

JUNE 3, 2009

And the reality is that likely you've seen this with your kids – think improving soccer skills, study skills, etc. I believe that some of the methods described in the Tool Set series are actually part of a core set of work skills where concept workers should develop expert level. Good stuff. Where quick proficiency is the goal?

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Social Media Expertise Expert eLearning Strategy 111

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 16, 2009

I use similar kinds of examples in my presentations (and posts such as Work Skills Keeping Up? ). Workplace Learning Today pointed me to a post Ten Common Phrases That Could Soon Be History.

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PENS Sound Work Skills Blogging 210

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 14, 2009

I’m convinced that we are all struggling to have our Work Skills Keep Up. When I look at my particular skills, methods and tools for 2009 and compare them to 2008, I would say that it’s mostly a question of degree of use and certainly my use of Twitter has grown. And many of my 2009 Top Posts and Topics are related to exactly this.

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Diversity Training Scanning PWLE Case Study 109

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Discussion Forums for Knowledge Sharing at Capital City Bank eLearning Portal Integration Data Driven Notable Topics for 2009 Work Skills and Knowledge Work Work Skills Keeping Up?

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Long Tail SharePoint LMS Knowledge Worker 155

Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Learnosity Learnosity provide a set of tools to help in the assessment, teaching and learning of spoken language skills. The use of the mobile phone allows students practice their spoken skills in and outside of the classroom, facilitating student-led learning. It publishes simulations that are both LMS and SCORM compliant.

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Innovation Blended Learning Virtual Classroom Simulations 100

Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

In Work Skills Keeping Up? , Our work skills cannot sit still. There's a lot of discussion about 21st century skills to be taught in schools, but what about the rest of us? We are already swimming in tools and new tools arrive faster than we can understand them much less try them. I discuss the Tilde Effect.

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Tools Knowledge Worker eLearning Tools Methods 102

Tony Karrer

JANUARY 5, 2009

And once you begin to really fall behind on this stuff, your skills will atrophy to the point where you are hopeless. You need to understand your choices, try new methods and tools and adopting practices that improve your work and learning skills. There's another list of Needed Skills that is a different take and in some ways broader.

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PWLE PLE Tools PKM 122

Tony Karrer

MARCH 30, 2010

That said, I thought it would be worthwhile for me to collect a few of the resources that provide good starting points that can help Knowledge Workers improve their performance using Social Media. eLearning Technology. eLearning Technology.

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Knowledge Worker Social Media Media Knowledge 106

Tony Karrer

JULY 31, 2008

Harold Jarche - Skills 2.0 We need to develop our competencies, skills and comfort levels with these new tools. Christy Tucker - Experiencing E-Learning: Leading by Example If I had to focus on one single skill, it would be lifelong learning. Perhaps this isn't a skill so much as an attitude.

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Skills Social Networks Wiki Long Tail 102

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Some training will still be preferred face to face such as when team building or in-person soft skills are important, but 2009 will be the year when we realize that we should be justifying any in-person training. We even made the Big Question one month: New Presenter and Learner Skills and Methods. Articulate has a great tool set. #9

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Predictions Virtual Classroom Wiki eLearning 2.0 183

Tony Karrer

JANUARY 21, 2009

Report: Community Platforms Market Led by Jive Software and Telligent - ReadWriteWeb Hot Last Week Keywords eLearning Strategy Social Media Work Skills KnowledgeHub ScreenToaster Cooliris Quizmaker OnDemand Meridian Mzinga GeoLearning Saba Notes on the weekly hot last week. Using the same approach as Hot List , I've compiled.

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Cooliris ScreenToaster KnowledgeHub Jive Software 100

Tony Karrer

JULY 10, 2008

We've been building a professional-networking capability that allows everybody to put in the organization directory the skills that they bring to bear. It's very searchable, so if someone is looking for a particular skill, they can go to that site. 25 million hits a day - wow, that's quite a bit.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

A lot of the core skills that a trainer has can be applied in a lot of different places. And, of course, there's the thought in the back of my mind, do you need to re-skill to be more than a trainer? But I've got to imagine this question is bigger than him. How do you decide where to focus your search?

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HTML Social Media Big Question Brain 100

Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Maybe reading blog posts about the topic is okay :) Tool Set 2009 Work Skills Keeping Up Top-Down Strategy Better Memory Information Radar Processing Pages with Links Networks and Learning Communities Collaborate Twitter as Personal Work and Learning Tool Search Browser Short Cuts Work Literacy Workshop eLearning Technology.

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eLearning Strategy Twitter eLearning Tools Search 106

Tony Karrer

JUNE 1, 2008

I'm very happy to announce that Michele Martin and I have just launched Work Literacy - a network of individuals, companies and organizations who are interested in learning, defining, mentoring, teaching and consulting on the frameworks, skills, methods and tools of modern knowledge work. Answer a poll on work skills opportunities.

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Social Bookmarking RSS eLearning 2.0 Poll 100

Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

Basically, I see us: Staying generally knowledgeable on about my industry, my job skills, etc. Performing transactional information work where we get some piece of information and quickly do something with it, e.g., respond to email Acquire knowledge/skills in new domains That would have been accurate for many years, right?

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Change Methods eLearning Tools Learning 100

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Fourth Grader Wikipedia Update New Work and New Work Skills Work Skills Keeping Up? Work Literacy eLearning 2.0 Knowledge Work Framework Tilde Effect Concept Worker Knowledge Work Not Separate from Learning Tool Set 2009 Search Better Memory Network Learning Information Radar Remote Collaboration Common eLearning 2.0

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Social Networks ASTD Wiki eLearning 2.0 102

Tony Karrer

JANUARY 20, 2009

I cannot claim to be an expert, and I feel like this topic demands a lot of soft skills such as communication skills, team skills, handling cultural and work style issues, etc. I'm particularly drawing on both personal experience and on experience with the work skills workshops we are offering.

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Collaboration Wiki Ning Social Networks 100

Tony Karrer

JANUARY 27, 2009

And when I discuss what the new skills are around knowledge work, I quickly arrive a the biggest changes being things like finding expertise , finding answers , using social media to find answers , and learning through conversation. The new skill is. And this is for someone who was posting their question in LinkedIn.

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Social Media Wikipedia Social Networks LinkedIn 100

Tony Karrer

JANUARY 26, 2009

Some training will still be preferred face to face such as when team building or in-person soft skills are important, but 2009 will be the year when we realize that we should be justifying any in-person training. We are now offering a Work Literacy Skills Workshop. 2009 is going to be a big year for this issue.

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Predictions Virtual Classroom Wiki Corporate eLearning 125

Tony Karrer

JUNE 2, 2008

Tony's Keys at the end of his presentation: Create a Learning Brand Learning - most important role is in talent management Take Action on the Skills Gap Become a business partners Great quote in one of the videos - self-development is the greatest challenge. Very few (10 percent) raised their hands.

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ASTD Management Metrics Conference 177

Tony Karrer

APRIL 21, 2009

In Love the Conversation – Ken Allan discusses the complexity of helping concept workers with the skills around this: The question here is where to start. Unfortunately, I'm not sure that we really are doing much to address this important Knowledge Worker Skill Gap.

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Tony Karrer

JULY 22, 2009

In fact, Work Literacy is pretty much this topic. This is a good opportunity to add the same caveat: The real intent is to provide context, alternatives and suggestions of where things might apply.

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Knowledge Management Personal Personalization PKM 102

Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 24, 2007

And my firm conclusion is that there are many new methods, skills, tools, knowledge around how to accomplish our work and learning (see Needed Skills for New Media ). There's an important role for training organizations to help understand and develop these skills in the enterprise.

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Enterprise 2.0 Enterprise Wiki KM 100

Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 21, 2008

My post New Work is about changes in work skills. One of the bigger changes in work skills have to do with getting help.

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Tony Karrer

MARCH 6, 2009

It drives me crazy that the administration does not value proper keyboarding skills. We teach students how to properly hold a golf club, football, tennis racquet and such.however, we do not teach them a skill that they use everyday of their life.

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Teach Classes Report Project 102

Tony Karrer

JUNE 2, 2008

Break down into specific skills and measure against those skills. He spends about 10 minutes to show this through discussion of Fleetwood Mac vs. the Eagles and how the music industry focuses on conceptual innovators today. Compares scouting combines in sports to how you select talent.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 2, 2008

To help clarify this and to begin thinking through implications for Work Literacy Skills , I went back through a couple of different sources. Several people have asked for some clarification on my definition of Concept Work and Concept Workers. Many employees are already given far more autonomy to decide how and where they want to work.

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Knowledge Work Knowledge Cognitive Knowledge Worker 131

Tony Karrer

JANUARY 18, 2010

We need to find lots of opportunities for ourselves and then we need to look at how to move those skills into our organizations. Yet most large organizations find themselves with widely varying knowledge and skills among workplace learning professionals. I actually think this turmoil will be good. Everyone can’t be good at everything.

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Predictions Diversity Training SharePoint Authoring Tools 200

Tony Karrer

APRIL 20, 2010

Question 1 - As the notion of “learning as an event” begins to be replaced with true “just-in-time” learning, (in the form of learning communities and availability to portals of knowledge and information) do you think off-the-shelf eLearning programs in professional skill development will continue to be one component of a learning solution?

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Simulations Trends Games Social 123

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 20, 2008

Flexibility and extensibility Web browser platform Aggregation/Mashups Ease of use Several thoughts jumped out at me: The concept of a Personal Learning Environment (PLE) exists, but actual PLEs only exist as theoretical combinations of skills, methods and tools.

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PWLE PLE Knowledge Work Mashups 107

Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

I'm looking for vendors who supply off-the-shelf training for basic manager skills such as, time management and delegation. I received an inquiry from someone I know, and I'm hoping people who read this blog can make suggestions. Thus far I've looked at Element K, SkillSoft, Vital Learning, Ninth House, and Achieve Global.

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Ninth House ElementK Element K SkillSoft 100

Tony Karrer

MARCH 24, 2010

- Business Casual , December 23, 2008 Conversation + Twitter - Informal Learning , March 26, 2009 Tweetdeck Makes Twitter Make Sense - Litmos , February 5, 2009 Twitter and Conferences, Webinars and Backchannel Twitter Conference Ideas - eLearning Technology , January 30, 2009 Twitter and Webinars - eLearning Technology , May 14, 2009 TWITTER - Backchannel (..)

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Twitter Yammer Social Media Adobe Captivate 278

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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Benefits Business Pattern Social Learning 100

Tony Karrer

JULY 6, 2006

What's the most important skill of a knowledge worker? The most important skills of a knowledge worker are learning skills. I would also suggest that learning skills are dramatically shifting over the past few years and learning professionals are not staying ahead of these shifts. I would claim.

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Personal Learning Personal Personalization eLearning 2.0 100

Tony Karrer

APRIL 14, 2009

Still, I've come to believe the most important Knowledge Worker Skill Gap is the Leveraging Networks Skill. What is hugely important out of this is the reminder of the limits of codified knowledge and that Conversation Learning is essential but that there are limits to what should be shared and how effective that sharing can be.

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Search eLearning Consultant Pattern Consulting 100

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 19, 2008

How do we foster knowledge worker skills? Where do our skills fit? What new skills do we need? Focus on maximizing the "return of attention" for knowledge workers rather than common measures today such as cost per learner hour. How do we support self-service learning and user generated content? What are the new metrics?

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Long Tail Attention Corporate Learning Corporate eLearning 111