Tony Karrer

MARCH 5, 2007

A recent spate of posts on the challenges of running an open source business is interesting ( Tosh , Siemens , Downes , Tosh 2 , ). Dave Tosh laments - Elgg is the most popular white label social networking platform in the world powering over 2000 networks.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2018

analysis, at least 80 percent of companies acknowledge a critical need to redesign their traditional structure to create a network of experts for better, faster business decisions. Reward expert contributions for the team’s resolution of critical business issues. IBM built this idea into its model as early as 2005.

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learnWorlds

JANUARY 12, 2024

times more likely to nail their business goals. The latest study from IBM showed that online learning communities can boost employee productivity by a whopping 20%. B2B Best Practice Example Suppose you’re a B2B consultant offering courses on business strategy. That’s a solid win for teamwork and collaboration!

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Everwise

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

But which businesses have had success at activating their employees on social media at scale–and produced results? The internal network, which has been used by thousands of employees,, curates content for employees to share. The popularity of hashtags like #lovemyjob (used over 8.5

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Learnnovators

MARCH 22, 2015

Through 2015, 80% of social business efforts will not achieve the intended benefits due to inadequate leadership and over emphasis on technology.” – Gartner . Techcrunch Study : Many senior executives like to talk the social media talk. But only 10% walk the social talk!

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Sloan Management Review has a great interview with Andy McAfee on What Sells CEOs on Social Networking. ” They understand the power of weak ties in enterprise social networks. ” Yesterday IBM presented a compelling case for social business excellence at the Enterprise 2.0 Summit in Paris.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Tony talked about his new book with Karl Kapp, Chuck Hamilton spoke on lessons learned through IBM’s invovlement in Virtual Worlds, Koreen Olbrish chaired a panel with a number of great case studies, to name just a few of the great opportunities. Tags: social virtual worlds. Some issues remain.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2014

Social media certainly has reawakened corporate sensibilities about the value and power of CRM. Organizations that want to get closer to their customers are jumping on the bandwagon in droves and rapidly trying to exploit social networks like Twitter. For years, we’ve been talking about running learning like a business.

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Mark Oehlert

JUNE 28, 2007

e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « Passively Multiplayer Online Game (PMOG) | Main | "New study examines how online games can teach business skills" (Red Herring) » June 28, 2007 Thousands of people at IBM are already doing it. Comments This is so cool.

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Kapp Notes

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

I'll answer the questions here since I think they reflect concerns that many educators have related to the social networks and Second Life. mostly for socializing. Kids mostly use these tools for social reasons. So the primary motivation for kids to use social networking tools are for non-academic purposes.

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eFront

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

No matter what kind of business you run, one thing is certain (well, two if you also count taxes, but that’s a different story): your employees do not work in isolation. It’s even evident in how we name our businesses: a company is, among other things, a company of people working together. eFrontPro for IBM Connections.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

How will you take advantage of your in-house social network? Use networks to create services and share collective intelligence. Your company will install an in-house social network. Wise Chief Learning Officers are thinking about how social networks will augment learning & development.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 25, 2018

While having these capabilities in the workplace may seem a ways off, my recent visit to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas highlighted how Amazon, Google, Microsoft, IBM and others are taking smart speakers such as Alexa and Google Assistant from the home and adapting them for work.

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Learnnovators

MARCH 21, 2015

Through 2015, 80% of social business efforts will not achieve the intended benefits due to inadequate leadership and over emphasis on technology.” – Gartner. Techcrunch Study : Many senior executives like to talk the social media talk. But only 10% walk the social talk! .” – Christopher Pappas (in our interview with him).

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Date Title 09/29/2008 Introduction to Social Networks 10/06/2008 Free your Favorites / Bookmarks 10/13/2008 Blogs 10/20/2008 Aggregators 10/27/2008 Wikis 11/03/2008 Implications / Summary We will be posting more details of how to get into this online experience soon. tools and discuss their implications for learning.

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 2, 2009

Dr. Tony Karrer is an expert on innovative uses of technology that improves human performance and drive business results. Tony educates individuals, businesses and organizations on social media, web 2.0 Its good to hear of the solid business and learning applications for these technologies." where he received a M.S.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 7, 2009

The Ultimate Business Time-Saver. Results: About 20% of the small-business owners I spoke to had heard of the product, and approximately 0% could describe what it actually does. The author, a self-described techie, admits to not knowing social networking from a hole in the ground. Tags: Business learning.

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Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

According to the analyst firm Gartner, “By the end of 2011, 80 percent of active Internet users (and Fortune 500 enterprises) will have a “second life”, but not necessarily in Second Life.” The use of virtual worlds as learning platforms is hitting the “traditional” business press.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 8, 2009

He constantly tries out new tools and techniques, and then uses his pragmatic business bent to recommend the right ones for clients and colleagues. She used online tools such as forums, listservs, and a “virtual office” to support learning in the late 1990s, and has added tools such as blogs, wikis and social networks.

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eFront

JANUARY 5, 2016

eFront got integrated with Connections as well, the business social network platform from IBM. We are demonstrating this integration on IBM Connect conference from January 31 to Feb 3. Here is a post from Signal VS Noise blog that summarizes our view of doing business better than I would ever did.

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TalentLMS

JANUARY 5, 2016

eFront got integrated with Connections as well, the business social network platform from IBM. We are demonstrating this integration on IBM Connect conference from January 31 to Feb 3. Here is a post from Signal VS Noise blog that summarizes our view of doing business better than I would ever did.

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Mark Oehlert

OCTOBER 19, 2007

e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « Tell me something.about conferences. Main | "A Vision of Students Today" from the Creators of "The Machine is Us/ing Us" » October 19, 2007 Mark is very late to the virtual worlds big news about SL and IBM. " Yea!

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Tony Karrer

MARCH 3, 2008

Question 1 - What are the most likely ways / places your organization might or does use Blogs, Wikis, Social Bookmarking, Social Networking or Collaboration Tools? DogEar – Social Bookmarking BluePages - employee-controlled profiles of 400,000 employees Daily online newsletter called w3. Choose the top 3-5.

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eFront

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

a manager needs training in the skills of business development and leadership, which are much wider in scope. Dealing with people, motivating and organizing them is half of the job of being a manager (the other half being understanding business goals and market strategies). If your business is strongly seasonal (e.g.

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Jay Cross

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

What Universities Must Learning About Social Networks. Increasingly, businesses are looking to more social approaches to employee learning and development. THE ISSUE IS NOT whether you are going to become a socially networked university but how soon. Businesses are being transformed into social businesses.

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Trivantis

MAY 24, 2012

Creating a Social Business Agenda! ” The IBM Vice President had the audience fully engaged as she shared her expert insights on social business and social media for learning and every attendee received a free copy of Sandy’s book. Social impacts the way we live and work everyday,” said Carter.

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Marcia Conner

MAY 29, 2012

Organizations are beginning to realize that by rewiring their workforce to actively build strong relationships and reach out to colleagues as a normal course of business, they ultimately produce a better product to their customer. Social comes full circle as both an internal practice and an external revenue generator. Social Business.

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Marcia Conner

MAY 21, 2015

By connecting those who share interests, no matter their location or time zone, people will transform workplaces, schools, and civic spaces into environments where being social is as natural as it is powerful. Social is not a set of technologies. It’s a highly connected business transformation with people at its core.”

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Marcia Conner

MAY 21, 2015

By connecting those who share interests, no matter their location or time zone, people will transform workplaces, schools, and civic spaces into environments where being social is as natural as it is powerful. Social is not a set of technologies. It’s a highly connected business transformation with people at its core.”

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Marcia Conner

MAY 21, 2015

By connecting those who share interests, no matter their location or time zone, people will transform workplaces, schools, and civic spaces into environments where being social is as natural as it is powerful. Social is not a set of technologies. It’s a highly connected business transformation with people at its core.”

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Marcia Conner

MAY 21, 2015

By connecting those who share interests, no matter their location or time zone, people will transform workplaces, schools, and civic spaces into environments where being social is as natural as it is powerful. Social is not a set of technologies. It’s a highly connected business transformation with people at its core.”

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Jay Cross

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Furthermore, far too many CLOs take no responsibility for the social media that makes collaboration work. In recent surveys, Dr. Clark Quinn and I found that less than 40 percent of CLOs are involved in corporate decisions about communities of practice, social networks, content repositories, wikis and Internet access.

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Jay Cross

JULY 10, 2008

is more than a sack of tools: it’s becoming the basic paradigm for doing business. Global business is shifting out of the industrial age and into the network era. Network connections are toppling the walls that separated corporations from customers. Our job is to help create the environment like that IBM describes.

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Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

OCTOBER 21, 2006

in business. IBM's aim is to encourage more of today's students to pursue a degree in information technology." IBM's aim is to encourage more of today's students to pursue a degree in information technology." "The Social networking has been a growing trend recently and has created a new set of jobs in the tech industry.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 31, 2007

on all kinds of businesses. However, there's Communities / Social Networking and LMS Merger announcement around Mzinga. but one keynote by IBM will open some eyes Yep. And, not sure if the keynote happened, but certainly some stuff out of IBM is opening eyes. What does all of this mean?

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 28, 2012

rms, and sometimes even provide leads for new business. Andersen Consulting, IBM, and Goldman Sachs pay attention to so called “ offboarding ” as well as onboarding. They have set up social networks for alumni and help them keep up with new developments. Many alumni are future customers. The Extended Enterprise.

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The Learning Circuits

OCTOBER 11, 2005

Chris Caposella a VP in the Microsoft Information Worker Business Unit says that "People are ultra connected. Dan Russell, a researcher at IBM's Almaden Research Center, turns off the instant notification of e-mail and only looks at e-mail 2X a day and has cut the time he spends with e-mail in half. And you know what?

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