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Develop Work Skills

Tony Karrer

Then others are already tracking and writing about it and you can just talk or write to them. He asks if our work skills are keeping up. As he suggests I must be as I did get this post off Twitter and visited his blog. I believe the skills gap is big and growing. So we probably are alright.

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ASTD Follow-Up

Tony Karrer

For example, we still teach Cursive Writing instead of Touch Typing to kids. Work Literacy eLearning 2.0 Fourth Grader Wikipedia Update New Work and New Work Skills Work Skills Keeping Up? Review the post - Information Radar - and use the information there to set up your radar and start a new blog.

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100 Conversation Topics

Tony Karrer

Today, I saw a post by someone suggesting ways to come up with ideas for blog post topics and they gave some examples. The examples were not all that relevant to most of the readers of this blog, but it definitely sparked a thought for me. Most of the time I learn something, I write a blog post.

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Gen Y to HR: Don’t tell us how to learn

Mindflash

Certainly they won’t be subject matter experts on your firm’s processes and proprietary tech, and a few might not even have honed basic work skills like communicating professionally in writing. > More about employee training and retention on the Mindflash blog. >

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Tool Set 2009

Tony Karrer

The information in this series has been something I've been presenting, writing, blogging about and more recently doing workshops around. But I'm worried, because while I just got through writing about my concern in Using SharePoint that learning organizations seemed to be making the same mistake of Not Preparing Workers for Web 2.0.

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2008 2009

Tony Karrer

My blog is really the hub of my thinking and activity, so by going back through posts for the 2008, it gives me a pretty good perspective on what's been happening inside my head during 2008. To do my review, I first looked at what I was writing about and what people were reading on my blog in 2008.

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What are the benefits of a skills ontology?

Learning Pool

Combining these two datasets means you can see the skills gaps for individuals, teams, and the whole organization, thus allowing you to focus on closing that gap by providing relevant, personalized learning experiences. As mentioned in our previous blog, ‘ Finding your superpower: What is a skills ontology ?’,

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