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What is the Important Work?

Clark Quinn

In essence, to do the important work faster. Call it knowledge work, call it concept work, the point is that execution will only be the cost of entry, innovation will be the necessary differentiator. The fact is, our brains are really good at pattern matching, and bad at rote work. Tags: social strategy.

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Future of the training department

Clark Quinn

The first topic is: the future of the training department in the Collaborative Enterprise. As we’ve automated more work and started developing training for more knowledge work without adapting our methods (and, consequently, making generally dreadful learning experiences), the training role is less and less seen as worthwhile.

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Free Online Conference: LearnTrends 2009

eLearning Weekly

We will bring together people who look at different aspects of learning and knowledge work to understand better what’s going on in those areas and how we should be thinking about this holistically. I’m particularly looking forward to discussions of how: Enterprise 2.0. Knowledge Management. Talent Management.

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eLearning Topics

Tony Karrer

130) Work Skills (26) PWLE (16) Flash Quiz (8) Knowledge Work (40) That's a pretty fair representation of topics that I talk about. Folksonomy (11) Knowledge (233) Off-shore (7) Leadership (44) Creative Commons (16) Back when we still had hope that folksonomy (tagging) would make sense of the flood of content.

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Social Grid Follow-up

Tony Karrer

Leveraging Networks is Key Skill and the most important Knowledge Worker Skill Gap. Tools and Methods for Networks and Communities - Discusses specific tools and methods for using Networks and Communities as part of Knowledge Work. Q : what's a " hash tag "? This is a really challenging issue!

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Not Your Father’s ROI

Jay Cross

At the same time, we are shifting into an era in which knowledge work and learning occur where re-engineered business processes collide with a participative and interactive ecology of information flows. The impacts of collaboration-based knowledge work are accelerating. Tags: ROI decision-making.

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2008 in retrospect

Jay Cross

Learnscapes : where informal learning and knowledge work converge. Enterprise Twitter (blog). Tags: Just Jay. Give workers the resources and challenge them to do what’s required. Rather than give them an extra push, enable them to achieve accountability through transparency not permission. Time is all we have (CLO mag).