TalentLMS

DECEMBER 17, 2019

TalentLMS’s Eri Panselina had the chance to sit down with Joshua and discuss the causes, as well as the potential solutions to a problem affecting workers everywhere: too much time spent doing work about work instead of doing actual work. “In fact, the average worker wastes one hour, four minutes daily due to distractions.”

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 1, 2009

It’s interesting at the end of the year to go back through blog posts to see what my Best of 2009 is. 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? eLearning Technology.

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Long Tail SharePoint LMS Knowledge Worker 155

Disprz

AUGUST 23, 2021

Why learning agility is important for frontline and knowledge workers. Learning agility is the key to success in a post-pandemic world for both knowledge and frontline workers. The knowledge workers too are sailing in the same boat. They are getting poor ratings and the company is receiving negative reviews.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Over the past few years, I spend part of December going back through my blog to recap a bit of what some of the key things I’ve learned over the course of the year. Learning Coach Model Very Powerful In 2010, I had a great experience where Dr. Joel Harband wrote a series of articles for my blog on Text-to-Speech in eLearning.

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PDG

OCTOBER 23, 2023

I offer a few ideas to help overcome common stumbling blocks of implementing technology and discuss how to get better pull-through from your data and systems. Pharma field reps are highly trained, highly skilled knowledge workers. Reinforce the Importance of Nuance and Intuition.

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Tony Karrer

APRIL 26, 2011

If you are reading this, you are a knowledge worker. Consider the content (knowledge, information, learning) you personally need to get your job done. And when you consider the trends for most concept workers (knowledge workers), we clearly are heading towards faster moving content aimed at smaller audiences.

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Knowledge Worker Agile Instructional Design eLearning Strategy 134

Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 22, 2008

These changes are continuously transforming the landscape for knowledge work. The results are in, and most knowledge workers are struggling to adapt to new forms of work and learning. We will look over the shoulder of a modern knowledge worker using e-learning 2.0 How are we doing at keeping up with these changes?

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

I discuss the Tilde Effect. There's a lot of discussion about 21st century skills to be taught in schools, but what about the rest of us? And the focus of that post is really about general metacognitive tools and methods for knowledge workers. Back to the post from yesterday for more discussion on exactly that.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 14, 2009

, 2009 Top Posts and Topics , Top 125 Workplace eLearning Posts of 2009 and just running through my blog posts for the year. Online Sessions / Conferences / Discussions => Now Visible Networking I’ve seen during 2009 a real growth in the ability to spark up interesting discussions as online sessions. eLearning 2.0

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Diversity Training Scanning PWLE Case Study 109

Challenge to Learn

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Each and every one of them is a great name in the field of learning, and I had the change of speaking and discussing with all of them. This meant that the discussions where sometimes very basal. And he had the tweet of the day: “Knowledge workers of the world, collaborate. I thought that was very appropriate.

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Internet Easygenerator Knowledge Worker Music 163

Capytech

APRIL 24, 2023

Skills Workers Will Need in the Age of Generative AI – Part 1: Digital and Technical Skills Generative AI tools like ChatGPT have been in the news a lot in recent months. A lot of the coverage and discussion has been about the errors these tools can sometimes make, as well as fears around jobs being lost to artificial intelligence.

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Skills Digital Write Blog Liability 40

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Using SharePoint before, during and after courses This typically takes the form of sharing best practices, code examples, templates, links; posting announcements; having discussions; showing calendar items; supporting student profiles; supporting student project work; sharing notes, documents; providing course content.

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SharePoint PWLE eLearning 2.0 Diversity Training 133

Learning with e's

APRIL 26, 2013

Even in the middle of my presentation (during a brief break in the workshop) I was still tinkering, adding an extra few slides which I had seen on Jane Hart''s blog that morning that were very relevant to my presentation. She talks about the five key ways knowledge workers like to learn today.

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Tony Karrer

MAY 29, 2007

What sparks this post is the combination of a recent post by Stephen Downes that includes a brief exchange with Jay Cross in the comments and some interesting discussions in the Enterprise 2.0 world that included a post by Bill Ives - Managing Personal Knowledge: Setting a Foundation for Transformation?

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Knowledge Work Personal Learning Environment PLE 108

ID Reflections

AUGUST 28, 2012

I have come back to blogging after a hiatus of almost 5 months. Bonds don’t form over a Skype call but over coffee and lunch when conversations veer to the personal and discussions revolve around interests. If anyone reading this is a knowledge worker and is thinking about working from home, read Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's Flow.

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Stock Skype Knowledge Worker Community 124

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Lots of discussion and debate around interesting questions for eLearning professionals. We would welcome lots of discussion. Twitter, Yammer), wikis, blogs, discussion groups, etc. We strongly believe the #LCBQ offers an opportunity to have something online that's like a sophisticated cocktail party.

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Predictions Diversity Training Compliance Training Authoring Tools 198

Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 22, 2008

This year the conference has an incredible set of speakers and lots of opportunities to discuss the issues. If you want to attend sign up and follow the conference blog: LearnTrends for on-going updates. Dave Wilkins - The Amazon Model and Forum Model - the intersection of LMS and Learning 2.0 It's online. And it's free.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 18, 2010

It puts forward lots of suggestions for how knowledge workers can leverage technology to make themselves more effective. It somewhat codifies what I discuss around Work Literacy – although there’s much more to it. Reach out to form an online discussion around the topic. Lots of managers will choose to look the other way.

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Predictions Diversity Training SharePoint Authoring Tools 200

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 19, 2008

This is happening in many situations: major publishers (CNN, Yahoo, Cnet) competing with niches publishers, competing with blogs; TV production facing a widely distributed audience across 500 cable channels and YouTube. Cost is most often not a factor in a knowledge workers decision about the use of information.

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Tony Karrer

JULY 6, 2006

From Wikipedia's description of Knowledge Economy , quoting Peter Drucker (1966): A manual worker works with his hands and produces "stuff". A knowledge worker works with his head and produces ideas, knowledge, and information. What's the most important skill of a knowledge worker? I would claim.

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Litmos

APRIL 13, 2021

Retraining workers post-pandemic has become part of the national conversation in the United States. We’ve often written about reskilling on this blog, particularly in the wake of COVID-19. The JOBS Act will likely have little effect on white collar knowledge workers, especially those who currently have jobs.

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Tony Karrer

APRIL 21, 2009

Through blog comments and blog posts, an interesting conversation is emerging around – Conversations as Part of Concept Work. 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.

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

This should be a very interesting discussion. Tapping the Social Grid Date: Friday, February 27th Time: 9 - 10 am PACIFIC, Noon - 1 pm EASTERN Register Here Over the past 20 years, knowledge work has been transformed by the explosion of information sources and information flow. in Computer Science.

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Tony Karrer

APRIL 13, 2010

These are topics that are coming up in the participating blogs more during this time than they have in the past and that have good social signals. Google Buzz , Google Wave and PKM PKM stands for Personal Knowledge Management, which is a definite passion of mine (see Work Literacy and Social Media for Knowledge Workers ).

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Innovation Compliance Training Google Wave PKM 111

Clark Quinn

AUGUST 2, 2008

Web Badge for Integration into my Blog Okay, so they've addressed (a while ago) item #5. When you think about what knowledge workers need relative to Keep / Organize / Refind / Remind, I've discussed in The New Skills that we want to be able to keep track of everything we've seen with minimum effort.

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Tony Karrer

AUGUST 2, 2008

Web Badge for Integration into my Blog Okay, so they've addressed (a while ago) item #5. When you think about what knowledge workers need relative to Keep / Organize / Refind / Remind, I've discussed in The New Skills that we want to be able to keep track of everything we've seen with minimum effort.

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Delicious Upgrade Yahoo Social Bookmarking 100

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 9, 2009

The second half of the prediction “self directed learning” got less attention during the year than I anticipated, but it was there and certainly was a big part of the discussion around social and informal learning. There will also be growth in discussions and social networks for collaborative learning. As such, eLearning 2.0

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 8, 2009

I've been really enjoying the discussion around Does Deliberative Practice Lead to Quick Proficiency? 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? This is the most important Knowledge Worker Skill Gap.

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Social Networks Social Network Network Expert 100

Tony Karrer

JULY 22, 2009

Harold and I have discussed this exact issue before and we are both on the same page that Personal is really important word in Personal Knowledge Management. All of my articles on PKM are descriptive, not prescriptive. Take what you need, as there are no “best practices” for complex and personal learning processes.

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The Learning Circuits

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

When I mention blogs or any social networking they "poo-poo" me and say our workers should not use those tools because it will make them inefficient and not do their jobs. to knowledge workers? Option 2 - Step 1 - Post in your blog (please link to this post). to management?

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Social Media Media Social Networks Social 62

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

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 Scenarios Preparing Workers for Web 2.0 After you've started your blog then make sure readers can find you.

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Social Networks ASTD Wiki eLearning 2.0 102

Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 1, 2008

Here's what he said: I just don't get why folks are trying to lump in wikis, blogs, rss, etc. RSS, Blog, Wikis, etc. So, why are they coming up in talks, blog posts, etc. But when you come out and essentially say that there's nothing that interesting about Wikis, Blogs and RSS when it comes to learning or Learning.

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Specialist Wiki RSS eLearning 2.0 100

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 3, 2008

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. for Learning Professionals.

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Authoring Tools Social Networks Long Tail eLearning 2.0 100

Tony Karrer

JULY 16, 2009

Learn Trends – not quite sure this fits Nancy's definition of a community – it looks like one, but my sense is that it's somewhere in between a community and a network Where I spend most of my time is with the blogging network and various other networks. There's quite a lot of discussion/debate whether blogs act as networks or community.

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Learnnovators

AUGUST 19, 2015

Her work with various companies like Tata Interactive Systems, Zensar Technologies, ThoughtWorks and Future Group has given her a width of experience that spans instructional design, workplace learning strategy, knowledge management, social learning and community management, and people development.

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Social Networks Diversity Training Community Social Network 188

Tony Karrer

JANUARY 27, 2010

I expected it to be about how to use twitter as a knowledge worker. When I was discussing Mashups and pointed to the Twitter Captivate Integration and my example of taking notes/asking questions widget, someone suggested: Google Wave looks like it has a lot of potential for that Great point! It’s instant threaded discussion.

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Predictions Mashups Google Wave SharePoint 105

Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 27, 2008

There are also several studies of knowledge worker practices that suggest that a lot of what is effective is quite personal. It's always interesting to hear the perspective of someone with a background in Knowledge Management discussing these things. How can the organization capture the knowledge, learning, etc.?

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