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Personal in Personal Knowledge Management

Tony Karrer

However, there are some people who take that to mean that they can be successful continuing to use the same approaches without being aware of, considering or trying alternatives. And Harold and Stephen are great at trying to provide ways to think about and think through these alternatives. That's a real mistake. Your mileage will vary.

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Getting Help

Tony Karrer

My post New Work is about changes in work skills. One of the bigger changes in work skills have to do with getting help. And some alternative places were suggested for getting help. Is there a more effective way to approach this kind of problem? Some suggestions: Discussion groups (TrDev, ???)

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Hot List - Second Half of January

Tony Karrer

Hot List - 1/17/2009 - 1/31/2009 Posts Twitter as Personal Learning and Work Tool How to Convert Your PowerPoint Presentation into an Elearning Course Building a Learning Portal YouTube videos inside Slideshare Learning 2.0

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Does Deliberative Practice Lead to Quick Proficiency?

Tony Karrer

It's interesting to see how these relate to and enhance the core elements of Deliberative Practice: Deliberate practice identifies specific, defined elements of performance that need to be improved and works them intently independent of actual performance. Does Deliberative Practice Lead to Quick Proficiency? Good stuff.

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Lifelong Learning in the Freelance Economy

WBT Systems

Freelancers stay competitive by learning new skills. 49 percent of freelancers said their work has already been affected by AI and robotics, while only 18 percent of traditional workers said the same. 65 percent of freelancers said they’re learning new skills as jobs evolve, versus only 45 percent of regular workers.

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Tool Set 2009

Tony Karrer

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 are no excuses. We are all too busy.

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Search

Tony Karrer

While I'm on the topic of alternative search engines, I definitely need to remind everyone about Google Scholar and Google Book Search. One of my favorite searches is to do a book search and include only those books where I can see preview or full view (via advanced search).

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