Tony Karrer

JULY 2, 2009

Just read an article in the Guardian The long tail of blogging is dying (Found via Donald Clark ). But recently – over the past six months – a new trend: fewer blogs with links, and fewer with any contextual comment. out of the 133m blogs it tracks had been updated in the past 120 days. Blogging definitely takes work.

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Long Tail Blogging Brandon Hall Technorati 102

Tony Karrer

APRIL 21, 2008

Something I (probably too often) talk about is learning via a blog. In other words, I'm learning via blog comments and blog posts by other bloggers - likely much more than anyone reading the blog itself. Blog learning! Blog Learning! It certainly is a great lens to have in viewing the world. Move to Front?

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Blogging Instructional Design Learning Conference 100

Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Based on my post Top 99 Workplace eLearning Blogs several people contacted me with suggestions for additional blogs to include in eLearning Learning. Subscribe to the Best of eLearning Learning for updates from this blog and other eLearning blogs. Thanks for helping Manish. eLearning Technology.

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Blogging LCMS eLearning Web 102

Tony Karrer

AUGUST 19, 2009

The same (actually) applies to reading blogs. As Sue Waters pointed out to me about indexing blogs, "people don't use blogs that way" I completely agree with Ken that content seems to stream by and if you miss the stream, it somewhat gets lost later as there's the continuous flood. Think about it.

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Alternatives Blogging Content Streaming 100

Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

I rely pretty heavily on Google Blog Search to help me find people who are citing blog posts of mine so that I can see that kind of conversation. Unfortunately, it looks like Google Blog Search has decided that they will now include the entire contents of the web page rather than just the contents of the RSS feed.

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Search Google Blogging Problem 100

Tony Karrer

APRIL 1, 2008

I've added BrowseMyStuff to my sidebar and particularly links to keywords found in my blog and those found in various eLearning blogs. Browse eLearning Blogs - [link] Browse eLearning Technology - [link] It's nice that it basically provides automatic categorization. related posts on my blog: [link] Let me know what you think.

Blogging 100

Blogging eLearning 2.0 Content Examples 100

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

I saw a post by Dan Roddy - Do you have a blogging policy? As part of an interview for a new job, he got into a discussion with his potential new employer of their policy was around blogging. What if I'm using blogging as part of my Information Radar ? The part I find interesting is "don't do it on company time".

Blogging 100

Blogging Companies Policies Social Media 100

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 4, 2008

As I reported in Google Blog Search Problems , Google seems to have included the full text of blog pages (including blog rolls) in their blog search. According to Jeremy Hylton of the Google Blog Search team , they now index the full content of the page. Jeremy says: We do expect to fix the problem you're seeing.

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Search Google Blogging Problem 100

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 10, 2007

The winners of the Edublog awards were announced and I'm happy to report that this blog won for Best eLearning / Corporate Education. I want to thank each of you who voted in support of this blog. I definitely want to thank everyone who I've had conversations with over the past two years while writing this blog.

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Best eLearning Blogging Corporate eLearning eLearning 100

Tony Karrer

MAY 29, 2007

In it, Angela tells us about how she "fell behind" in her blogging and then found she had trouble "catching up". It's ok to have time off from your blog, it will hurt readership and hurts conversation a bit, but that happens to pretty much everyone. Take a look at Wendy's blog - In the Middle of the Curve. and What Happened?

Blogging 100

Blogging Case Study Conversation Study 100

Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 26, 2007

I just saw a blog that appears to have been created solely as a means to interact, capture thoughts and ideas during the Brandon Hall Innovations conference. It's a great way for folks not at the conference to have a sense of what's going on there. And, I bet it is a fantastic learning and networking experience for the blogger.

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Conference Brandon Hall Blogging Network 100

Tony Karrer

MAY 10, 2007

I just saw this post: Blogs as community killers? Both are quite interesting in that they point to the fact that Blogs form a network that is loosely coupled and thus lack the cohesive, singular environment that many communities desire (think listservs). Top Ten Reasons To Blog and Top Ten Not to Blog I found it inside my blog reader!

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Community Blogging Discussion Network 100

Tony Karrer

APRIL 3, 2007

I apologize, but I'm doing a little blog maintenance and so there are going to be some posts coming by that are made to organize my blog a bit better.

Blogging 100

Blogging Organization 100

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

I was recently asked for a list of the top ten blogs that relate to corporate eLearning by someone who wanted to get a sense of content quality and value of reading blogs. I think a better list to use is in my Blog Roll in the right column of my blog. There you can find a lot of great blogs. Learning Matters!

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Blogging Corporate eLearning Scanning eLearning Strategy 119

Tony Karrer

MAY 18, 2007

Stephen Downes post Measuring Your Blog's Outcomes and Use of Other Social Media Tools has a couple of good comments and he points to Beth Kanter's Measuring Your Blog's Outcomes and Use of Other Social Media Tools which also has good comments and some nice links to other posts on the subject. It's like measuring 'friendship'.

Blogging 100

Blogging Technorati Social Media Write Blog 100

Tony Karrer

JULY 30, 2008

I received a great question from someone relative to my last post - Required Reading for Training Managers where I continue to suggest the benefits of blogging (see Blogging - I'm Pushing Harder Now and Top Ten Reasons To Blog and Top Ten Not to Blog for recaps of much of this).

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Social Networks Social Network LinkedIn Network 100

Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 18, 2007

is how much time I spend on blog reading and writing and how anyone can work that into their already too busy life. Blog reading and writing as part of scanning has been a replacement of other activities that I used to do - reading magazines and books. Of course, a lot of blog posts you skip very quickly.

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Scanning Blogging Write Blog eLearning 2.0 100

Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 4, 2006

What's been most enlightening for me is the "bad rap" that blogging gets from people who've probably only visited a few blogs and have been inundated with a general media bias against blogging. They subscribe to the blogs (and other sources) that interest them. A Blog often covers a wide range of topics.

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Blogging Discussion Community Brandon Hall 100

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

Great post by Tom Haskins says - among other things: If a blog post does not feed back into the blogosphere, that's not blogging. That's merely informative -- or it's the formal learning we did before blogging took hold. If the value of your blogging is not endlessly recursive, then you can conceive of your value like before.

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Blogging Collaboration Write Blog Emergent 100

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.

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Hosting Blogging Site Environment 100

Tony Karrer

MAY 22, 2008

Just saw this article - Blogging -- It's Good for You. 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. Reminder that Blogging and Social Networking Boosts Your Social Life.

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Social Networks Blogging Social Network Site 100

Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 4, 2006

Updates recent studies show additional reasons: Blogging and Social Networking Boosts Your Social Life. Blogging -- It's Good for You. Top Ten Reasons Why You Should Blog 10. Or as Karyn Romeis & Barry Sampson both said - I've learned more via blogging over the past year than I learned in the preceding several years!

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Blogging Social Networks Write Blog Wiki 127

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 21, 2006

I've had a brief blog conversation with Quintus Joubert - eLearning Blog: Blogs: Engaging the reader. It started when he questioned the blogs cited on Gabe's list of top 19 eLearning blogs as ( eLearning Blog: Top 19 eLearning blogs ). What I look to get from blogs is lots of perspectives.

Blogging 100

Blogging Scanning Write Blog Conversation 100

Tony Karrer

MARCH 4, 2008

My experience has been that ASTD audiences do not blog as much as other audiences such as the eLearning Guild and I commented about that in More eLearning Bloggers. However, I've noticed that there have been quite a few posts discussing experiences at ASTD TechKnowledge 2008. Here are a few: First Thoughts After ASTD TechKnowledge Sessions.

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TechKnowledge Blogging ASTD eLearning Guild 100

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 4, 2006

world: Four phases of collaboration and After blogging - collaboration. One of the wonderful things about blogging has been the ease with which collaboration occurs. That's why folks are talking about Blogs and Community more and more. Tom Haskins has written a couple interesting posts on collaboration in the Web 2.0

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Collaboration Blogging Summary Big Question 100

Tony Karrer

MARCH 27, 2007

The most common models of blog discussions seem to have turned into a few patterns: Organic Blog Discussions - someone posts something interesting, lots of bloggers post on the topic, distributed discussion ensues. Blog Tag Memes - Someone posts a question and "Tags" five people to give their response.

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Discussion Blogging Diversity Training Tagging 100

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

The debate about blogs vs. discussion groups is heating up again between TrDev and Blogs vs. Listservs: Which is Better for Community Conversation? eLearning Discussions - An Attempt at Better Discussions in the Blogosphere Move from Discussion Groups to World of Blogs? Definitely read Emily's comment.)

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Discussion Blogging Community Forum 100

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 19, 2007

Just saw Wendy's post - Blogging as Therapy. I should go back and update: Top Ten Reasons To Blog and Top Ten Not to Blog. Over the past few months, I've become more convinced that all of us should be blogging as a personal learning tool.

Blogging 100

Blogging Personal Learning Personal Personalization 100

Tony Karrer

JUNE 20, 2007

As you know, I've started Pushing Harder for People to Blog - at my recent presentations, I've really pushed people hard. The speaker mentioned that since he had started blogging, a year previous, he had learned more from blogging and reading the blogs of peers than he had in his entire academic career.

Blogging 100

Blogging eLearning Guild eLearning 2.0 Big Question 100

Tony Karrer

JUNE 6, 2007

For people reading my blog for a while, if you had been at my recent ASTD presentation on eLearning 2.0 - you would have heard a much stronger appeal for learning professionals to blog as compared to a gentler push that I was giving last fall. When I asked The Big Question for October: Should All Learning Professionals Be Blogging?

Blogging 100

Blogging eLearning 2.0 Big Question Write Blog 100

Tony Karrer

APRIL 23, 2007

that was good to see: It was Tony Karrer's session [at eLearningGuild], An Introduction to New e-Learning Technologies that inspired me to start this blog. I just saw a post - Welcome to My First Post! That's always good to see and makes you hopeful that there actually is some good coming from presenting.

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Conference eLearningGuild Blogging Forum 188

Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2007

Note: 9/17/2007 - fixed link to correct instructor's blog. I've received several good questions from Kirsten Morton that I'll be answering over the next few blog posts. This semester, one of her courses focuses on trends in eLearning and requires that each student start a blog. Some good comments coming in. Tools Class.

Blogging 100

Blogging Classroom Write Blog Classes 100

Tony Karrer

JUNE 7, 2007

Great little video from folks at Google that shows how to create a blog on Blogger. This is both a good example of a brief eLearning piece, but also helpful if you are considering creating a blog.

Blogging 100

Blogging Create Google Video 100

Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 9, 2006

As I've mentioned before ( eLearning Technology: Managing your RSS Feeds ), I go through a ritual every three months to add and remove blogs. You can see the blogs that are in my highest priority reading list and not quarantined in the list on the right. See also: eLearning Technology: eLearning Blogs - Quick Way to Find Good Ones.

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Blogging KM PKM RSS 100

Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Partisans of blogging argue that there are many potential business applications of the technology (and they discuss these applications in their blogs!). But I believe that blogging falls into the unproven category. I know of no organization in which the benefits of blogging have been measured. well here it is.

Blogging 100

Blogging Write Blog Knowledge Worker Social Software 100

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 19, 2006

I received a great set of questions via email over the weekend roughly coming out of a two articles: Gartner: Blogging to peak in 2007 , By Some Measures, Blogging May Be Peaking. By end of 2007, will those educators who would ever dabble in blogging have dabbled? Will it only be used by educators that have kept up blogging.

Blogging 100

Blogging Gartner MySpace Social Networks 100

Tony Karrer

MARCH 20, 2007

I just saw that several of the Brandon Hall researchers have started blogs: Tom Werner - example post - Why Learning Professionals Shouldn't Just Focus on Learning Tim Sosbe - example post - Pop Quiz: What Do Learning Leaders Care About? How does blogging jive with paid research? Compare their blog rolls.

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Brandon Hall Research Blogging eLearningGuild 100