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Business of Learning

Tony Karrer

While increasing amount of concept work and the pace of change puts a premium on learning, the business of learning faces an incredibly difficult time. In the past few weeks, I've had some really eye-opening conversations about the state of Learning as a Business. But that doesn't mean you have a viable business.

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The Business Web

Tony Karrer

This is something I've pointed to before: Promise of Web 2.0 and eLearning 2.0 - Comparison to Macros, IDEs, and Visual Basic. Simultaneously, companies like Google and Yahoo have announced their intention to compete against Microsoft Exchange by offering a version of their consumer email services repurposed for business.

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2009 Predictions How Did I Do?

Tony Karrer

But the reality was more than that as I explored in posts like Business of Learning and Models for Learning Questions. Grows - But Creating "eLearning 2.0 Strategy" Fails One of the better, cheap support mechanisms for self-directed learning are web 2.0 As such, eLearning 2.0 will show continued growth.

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Customer Competencies, Co-Creation, and Brand Communities

Skilful Minds

The recent buzz around the concept of social business points to the growing importance of social networks and communities to the evolution of business practice. empathy empathy with customers engagement Innovation. empathy empathy with customers engagement Innovation.

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Getting Started

Tony Karrer

During a recent presentation and workshop to eLearning leaders from across a large organization, it dawned on me that we were making Getting Started with eLearning 2.0 I'm already way too busy trying to get my stuff done. Trap 2 - Language While I use the terms "eLearning 2.0", will apply.

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Training Standards

Tony Karrer

See some thoughts at: eLearning or e-Learning vs. learning , but I somewhat agree with Jay Cross (who coined the term eLearning) that it's not worth a whole lot of time trying to define it too closely. But then along came the web and WBT (web-based training), again huge innovation, lots of tools. Should we support Flash?

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Learned about Learning in 2009

Tony Karrer

During the year, I’ve had fantastic conversations through LearnTrends around SharePoint , Examples and Tour of Different Kinds of eLearning , Social Learning , and the Business of Learning. eLearning 2.0 eLearning 2.0 The goal was to actually define some meaningful results for the business.