Tony Karrer

APRIL 22, 2009

Out of the conversation in Learn Trends around making informal learning concrete, Cammy Bean asked: Cammy Bean: So is there a market for Social Media Instructional Designing Consultants? Jane Hart suggested that we use the term Social Learning Designer to describe the role. I would very much like to hear your answers.

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Tony Karrer

MARCH 30, 2010

Last week I had a presentation around using Social Media and Web 2.0 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. tools to improve your performance as a knowledge worker.

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Tony Karrer

APRIL 20, 2010

I received some interesting questions (and you know I love questions) from someone doing eLearning industry market research around trends in simulations, games, social learning. In my recent post, I claim Social Learning Tools Should Not be Separate from Enterprise 2.0. They said they would be fine with me posting my thoughts.

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Tony Karrer

MAY 5, 2009

Top Posts The following are the top posts from featured sources based on social signals. Enterprise: List of 40 Social Media Staff Guidelines , April 23, 2009 NYTimes OpEd | End the University as We Know It , April 27, 2009 The future of e-learning is social learning , April 25, 2009 OpenGov: One big challenge?

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Tony Karrer

MAY 26, 2009

eLearning Learning Hot List - May 15, 2009 to May 22, 2009 Top Posts The following are the top posts from featured sources based on social signals. ThirdForce Blog , May 15, 2009 US Army Using Interactive Videos - MinuteBio , May 15, 2009 Top Other Items The following are the top other items based on social signals.

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

AND do you have opinions about social media governance? Access to and Governance of Social Media Tools in Corporate America. How detailed should social media guidelines be? When introducing social media into the workplace, how do we address HR concerns about reduced employee productivity? This is a big issue.

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 2, 2007

I've run across a couple of interesting posts recently that seem to have spawned from a Business Week article - Scaling the Social Web. Hasn't eBay had social networking features for a long time? all have a social networking aspect to them? how is this new? Granted they are being enhanced, but still.

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Tony Karrer

MARCH 3, 2009

Last week I did a webinar with Mark Sylvester of Intronetworks - Tapping the Social Grid. The crux of the talk was: Why being able to tap into the social grid is important for concept workers. A few of the tools and methods I use to tap into the social grid. There's a recording available here.

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Tony Karrer

MARCH 26, 2009

This is always a good reminder to make sure that while we are moving towards smaller pieces of content, self-directed learning, informal learning support, social learning solutions, etc. – It also made me realize that I've not thought a whole lot about social learning and fun. Is Social Learning Fun? But maybe that's me?

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

I was just reading a post - Top 5 tips to gain buy in for learning with social media. And the key in selling social learning / learning communities was the simple explanation of what they are in a value proposition. What does this mean? I detailed it in Selling Learning Communities – Not Everyone Will or Wants a Group Hug.

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Tony Karrer

MARCH 3, 2008

Just saw this report - Blogging Boosts Your Social Life - a rather limited study, but interesting reporting: Bloggers reported a greater sense of belonging to a group of like-minded people and feeling more confident they could rely on others for help. Time to go back and update - Top Ten Reasons To Blog and Top Ten Not to Blog

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Tony Karrer

MARCH 24, 2009

I'm hoping you can help a reader with thoughts and likely help others of us … A medium size nonprofit and lobbying organization is working on a designing and creating a social / work network for experts, students, volunteers who are willing to help through campaigning, lobby, sharing knowledge, working on solutions (writing documents).

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Social Networks Social Network Network Social 102

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

I'm going to be doing a free webinar with Mark Sylvester of IntroNetworks that's about Crowdsourcing in the Small and Social Brain. Hat tip to Virginia Yonkers for calling it the Social Grid. A social grid has formed that provides concept workers new work methods. This should be a very interesting discussion.

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

Their comments around Social Operating Systems is interesting: The issue, and what social operating systems will resolve, is that today's tools do not recognize the "social graph"-the network of relationships a person has, independent of any given networking system or address book; the people one actually knows, is related to, or works with.

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Social Networks Social Network Network Social 100

Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 13, 2010

You can find a long list of tools broken into authoring tools, games/simulations, quiz/test tools, social media, delivery platforms, tracking and whether they support mobile. eLearning Technology , July 28, 2006 Scuttle – an open source social bookmarking tool Corporate Social Bookmarking Tools - eLearning Technology , May 21, 2008 Web 2.0

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Yesterday, I was lamenting on the lack of resources available to people seeking jobs who don't know how to use social media. I had blogged about one technique in the past - Networking to a Job. But we realistically need a whole lot on this topic. I just saw that Michele Martin has set up the Career Commons.

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Tony Karrer

MAY 21, 2008

I was just asked on twitter about use social bookmarking tools that work behind the firewall. Here are the social bookmarking tools that I commonly cite in presentations: BEA Pathways Cogenz Connectbeam del.irio.us - perl based, very similar to del.icio.us I thought I had blogged about this before, but I'm not finding the post.

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Tony Karrer

APRIL 15, 2009

Ive recently been more interested in measures around social learning. And, I just saw a post Measuring Networked (or Social) Learning that discusses how we could go about measuring social learning. What is particularly challenging about social learning measurement is understanding what these intermediate factors are going to be?

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 9, 2008

But one of the promises of social media is that we can arrive at innovation more quickly and test it more quickly. This is interesting. Much of Gladwell's discussion of experimental innovation discussed innovation occurring over very long periods of time (10 years). In many ways, this is exactly how we are approaching Work Literacy.

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 8, 2009

One of the interesting points raised via the discussion: If you can get an expert level answer by asking for help through social networks how does that compare to being an expert? I believe there's really something here in terms of Leveraging Networks is Key Skill that allows us to get expert level answers via social networks.

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 16, 2009

eLearning Learning Hot List June 1, 2009 to June 12, 2009 Top Posts The following are the top posts from featured sources based on social signals. World Part 2 - Social Enterprise Blog , June 6, 2009 Should you Care about Google Wave? Can We Enhance People's Cognitive Outcomes?

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 3, 2007

Social Bookmarking Social Networking Wikis RSS As background for an upcoming presentation, I wanted to create a page that provides background resources that explain various eLearning 2.0 I immediately thought of the Common Craft videos. I've embedded them below. Are there other good introductory resources? How about for blogs?

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 23, 2009

eLearning Learning Hot List June 12, 2009 to June 19, 2009 Top Posts The following are the top posts from featured sources based on social signals. Business Casual , June 14, 2009 Brain rule #12 - Clive on Learning , June 12, 2009 Top Other Items The following are the top other items based on social signals. Browse eLearning Content

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Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

I'm co-founder and CTO of a new start-up, Fantasy World , that creates fun, online games that allow groups of people to have fun, win prizes, play-along with celebrities, and most of all to socialize outside the normal context of the group. Interesting ways to socialize that is outside the original venue and how we are used to socializing.

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 17, 2009

This is somewhat last minute notice, but Learn Trends will be having a free online discussion tomorrow on the topic of: Social and Network Learning Social learning and social networks continue to grow in prominence in corporations, organizations, and universities. Moderators: What is Social and Network Learning?

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Social Networks Network Discussion Social 100

Tony Karrer

JUNE 2, 2009

Weekly Hot eLearning Hot List 5/22/09 - 5/29/09 Top Posts The following are the top posts from featured sources based on social signals. Blogger in Middle-earth , May 26, 2009 Top Other Items The following are the top other items based on social signals. Browse eLearning Content

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Tony Karrer

AUGUST 6, 2009

I'm looking to find lots of examples of where informal or social learning has been used successfully in the workplace and where it was led by the L&D organization. This can either be already written up, or it can be the name of a person and organization where it was done. Can you provide me pointers? eLearning Technology.

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 24, 2009

We decided that it would make sense to bring those great resources into eLearning Learning and then use the automatic categorization, filtering and social signals capabilities of Browse My Stuff to have it surface some of the better content.

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Tony Karrer

APRIL 23, 2008

I saw a post by David Warlick - Reaching Out With Your Conference where he suggests that conference organizers should: Consider a social network for your conference. Although I remain skeptical about social networks, social networking is essential, and a few conferences have made brilliant use of them.

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Tony Karrer

APRIL 15, 2009

Mike Gotta tells us - A common thread between social networking and KM that strategists should acknowledge is the principle that volunteered participation and resulting contributions are a daily decision employees make – and one that they essentially control."

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Tony Karrer

MARCH 30, 2007

I just read David Warlicks' post - I Just Don't Get it Yet â€" Social Networks where he discusses his recent experience with several Ning generated social networks including: I've joined Library 2.0 , School 2.0 , and Classroom 2.0. I've tried out several social network tools and have had a similar reaction. Now let me repeat.

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Tony Karrer

JULY 30, 2008

The question was: What is your assessment of the relative benefits of pure blogging vs LinkedIn Answers and other social networking platform-based discussion venues? Social Network based discussions (for example a Ning network) act like communities. I consider LinkedIn Answers to be quite a different animal.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 18, 2007

DiSo (dee • zoh) is an umbrella project for a group of open source implementations of these distributed social networking concepts. or as Chris puts it : "to build a social network with its skin inside out". It appears to be heading in a good direction where you can have a distributed understanding of the social graph.

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Tony Karrer

APRIL 28, 2008

Through my recent post: Social Conference Tools - Expect Poor Results I've received a bit of feedback on being such a pessimist (Dave Ferguson) and a great comment from Sue Waters that made me realize I needed to reframe the problem. But, most of the tools provided are aimed at trying to get everyone in the conference to use the tools.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 6, 2007

Mzinga is a merger of KnowledgePlanet (an LMS provider and also the maker of the eLearning simulation tool - Firefly) and Shared Insights - a community / business social networking software company. This merger points to another direction - combination of LMS capability + community / social networking. I wonder if mzinga does?

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 6, 2007

There are other resources, but the use of a social network to find people who can help each other learn the language is a great idea. They provide the ability to connect with other learners who are trying to learn a language. People find each other using the site and then connect via chat, IM, voice/Skype, etc.

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Tony Karrer

APRIL 1, 2008

Social Learning Objects One of the most powerful capabilities is how easy it is to grab existing content and modify it for your purposes. In other words, my expectation is to have many easy to use, niche authoring tools that let's me create targeted interventions that I can compose together into an overall learning experience.

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