Tony Karrer

JULY 6, 2009

I do a lot of presentations where one of the topics is how to use LinkedIn more effectively as part of your knowledge work. And I consider knowing how to effectively use LinkedIn to be a core Work Literacy. I wanted to collect together some of the resources I've found that can help you get more out of LinkedIn.

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Social Networks LinkedIn Knowledge Worker Guide 120

CLO Magazine

MAY 3, 2023

Learners are expected to find, develop and show their knowledge and skills individually. Also, in modern times, knowledge must be absorbed faster, and skills must be developed quicker. Leader boards, jigsaw puzzles, discussion forums and group projects all encourage learner access to peer knowledge.

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Matrix

MAY 27, 2021

This can help to inform and improve your talent development and retention efforts, too. This helps to ensure you can identify potential workers who understand and share your values. Work with your HR department to formalize your commitment to values and ethics in your onboarding documents. Invest in development.

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Origin Learning

MARCH 10, 2016

Organizations globally, irrespective of size, are concentrating on how to connect intellectual (knowledge), working (money), and human (talent) capital effectively so that efficiency drives growth and brings in economic gains to the stakeholders. Such being the scenario, every dime counts, right? Source: https://youtu.be/jm15S1QmOTw.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 10, 2013

He realized that the problems the world was facing were growing exponentially, and that our only hope was to learn at a similarly exponential rate, and decided that helping humans accomplish this goal was a suitable life’s work. His solution was so all-encompassing that most people only get their minds around a small bit of it.

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Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

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. Communities and Networks Knowledge Management Corporate Libraries Talent Management come together to form a cohesive picture.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 10, 2008

But then he describes how we've really moved on past that to a new age where the dominant value for most organizations are created by high-end knowledge workers working on concepts. But, I actually think we should be focused on the emphasis on the type of knowledge work and the type of workers. In other words.

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Knowledge Worker Engineering Knowledge Work Customer Service 111

Acorn Labs

DECEMBER 15, 2022

But how does a skills inventory really help your business? It helps you with internal mobility by matching your employees' skills with internal positions that they're the most qualified for. This also helps to reduce costs and decrease time to proficiency as you won't be hiring and onboarding from external talent pools.

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Acorn Labs

DECEMBER 15, 2022

But how does a skills inventory really help your business? It helps you with internal mobility by matching your employees' skills with internal positions that they're the most qualified for. This also helps to reduce costs and decrease time to proficiency as you won't be hiring and onboarding from external talent pools.

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Skills Benefits Strategy Mobile 52

Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Should the following Dilbert worry me about Work Literacy? Much of the idea of Work Literacy is to help people who need to keep up with how technology impacts knowledge work.

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eLearning Strategy Twitter eLearning Tools Search 106

Vitalyst

MARCH 8, 2018

In a 1999 California Management Review article, Peter Drucker—who is widely regarded as the “father of modern management”—stated that the most important contribution management will need to make in the 21st century will be increasing the productivity of knowledge workers. Knowledge Worker Productivity: The Biggest Challenge,” by Peter F.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 13, 2010

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. conduct useful research.

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Learning with e's

JULY 12, 2017

The lecture in a tiered amphitheatre to large groups of students remains the norm, and undergraduates are expected to learn mainly by listening and reading, before sitting examinations or writing lengthy essays to test their knowledge. The guardians of this knowledge are the academics. Unported License.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 1, 2008

I'm very happy to announce that Michele Martin and I have just launched Work Literacy - a network of individuals, companies and organizations who are interested in learning, defining, mentoring, teaching and consulting on the frameworks, skills, methods and tools of modern knowledge work. In fact, we all have blind spots.

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 1, 2008

I'm very happy to announce that Michele Martin and I have just launched Work Literacy - a network of individuals, companies and organizations who are interested in learning, defining, mentoring, teaching and consulting on the frameworks, skills, methods and tools of modern knowledge work. In fact, we all have blind spots.

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Social Bookmarking RSS eLearning 2.0 Poll 100

Learnnovators

OCTOBER 8, 2015

This is then fleshed out with a combination of conversations with a SME and/or a suite of documents and presentations that constitute subject matter knowledge. those who employ the recipients of the training) involved helps focus the process on real outcomes. Finally, work with tools that support the above, not hinder it.

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Design eLearning Strategy eLearning Cognitive 133

Tony Karrer

MAY 4, 2010

You will get help when you: Try to find the right project, start the project, perform the project, complete the project Hire someone Sell a house Improve customer satisfaction ( data driven ). We are already seeing this in terms of lots of startups aimed at particular elements of knowledge work.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

As part of my presentations on Work Literacy and eLearning 2.0 - I discuss how learning and knowledge work are changed by things such as computers, mobile computing, the web, social media, social networks, access to people/experts through the web, and the flood of new tools. on learning and knowledge work.

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ID Reflections

JANUARY 3, 2011

In short, this helps us to deal with complex situations. Focused feedback : Coaches/trainers are at hand to provide corrective feedback and help the learners model their behaviors. Now the question remains, how will this help knowledge workers deal with complex and chaotic challenges that are unprecedented?

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Tony Karrer

MARCH 24, 2009

I'm hoping you can help a reader with thoughts and likely help others of us … A medium size nonprofit and lobbying organization is working on a designing and creating a social / work network for experts, students, volunteers who are willing to help through campaigning, lobby, sharing knowledge, working on solutions (writing documents).

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Social Networks Social Network Network Social 102

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 14, 2010

It was definitely helpful to spend time going through Twitter for Learning – 55 Great Articles. Twitter is Much Better than I Thought for Learning I used to say during presentations that I wasn’t quite sure about twitter as a learning tool. During 2010, I’ve been ramping up my use of twitter as a learning tool. Top eLearning Sites?

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Text-to-Speech Compliance Training Diversity Training SharePoint 200

ScholarLMS

OCTOBER 10, 2020

They also learn to share their knowledge and apply it suitably when working as a group. Learners tend to grow together, imbibing and building on each others’ knowledge, once they are comfortable with the idea of collaborative learning. Share experiences and knowledge. Work in groups. Course Delivery.

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Virtual Learning Environment Learning Environment Collaboration Environment 52

Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 20, 2008

In presentations, I often will cite this as an example of the kinds of changes in work skills that have occurred and are constantly occurring. A big part of education is learning how to do research and really that's where you learn the foundations of knowledge work. Finding content was the biggest challenge.

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Jane Hart

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

But with the new Encourage & Engage approach it is going to be now about the quality of the service they provide; it’s going to be about how well they help individuals achieve their performance objectives. Tom Gram’s diagram (reproduced to the left) shows that “ most work requires a combination of knowledge work and routine work.

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Social Learning Social Metrics Blended Learning 199

Tony Karrer

JANUARY 27, 2009

And when I discuss what the new skills are around knowledge work, I quickly arrive a the biggest changes being things like finding expertise , finding answers , using social media to find answers , and learning through conversation. The common threads here are: People Networks To me, the biggest work literacy gap is in this area.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

I have yet to discover (through further research) which (if any) of the responses will be most helpful to me. This is definitely a knowledge work task where talking to someone will help. I posted a query about this to several of the groups that I've joined on LinkedIn and have received about a dozen responses so far.

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Social Networks LinkedIn Expertise Ning 100

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Using SharePoint as Project System for Training Organization Quite a few people talked about how they were using SharePoint as a collaborative tool to work on projects. They had profiles, directories, blogs to help foster sharing between spread out teams. is about is helping the individual to self-serve. were similar.

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SharePoint PWLE eLearning 2.0 Diversity Training 133

Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

I'm struggling a bit with the question of whether what we need to do around Work and Learning has changed or is it only that the Context and the Methods have changed. Let me try to explain the question and then I'm hoping I'll get a bit of help on answers.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 6, 2009

In New Work and New Work Skills , I discuss the fact that most of us have not participated in formal learning since college on foundational knowledge work skills - especially metacognitive skills. Drucker We are truly in a time of incredible innovation of work skills. And how important is this?

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Work Skills Skills Information Overload Search 102

ID Reflections

DECEMBER 30, 2010

My interpretation of the Agile philosophy I am trying to acquire better ways of learning and building personal knowledge networks and helping others do it. How does it help now?” Generalization helps in a number of ways ( I am referring to generalization around one’s core skills ).

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

We find that knowledge work has replaced manual labor as the predominant form of work. Most important for instruction in information age paradigm: Think in terms of a task space (project-based learning, problem-based learning, inquiry-based…) – students work together on a task until they encounter a knowledge gap.

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Tony Karrer

MARCH 23, 2009

Dodged that bullet. :) Patterns and Knowledge Work I understand the concern that when you share best practices, you may come out with very different results. And this suggests that there is big value in providing knowledge workers with ways to assess a situation, to find the cues which link to possible approaches and actions.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

The point, however, is from the point of the view of the learner, all the resources needed are ‘to hand’ through every stage of knowledge work. Weed : you may have to help people learn how to participate. You may well find some inappropriate behavior, and help those learn what’s acceptable.

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Wiki IM IMS Network 182

Learning with e's

JUNE 20, 2013

Such approaches to pedagogy were rooted in the behaviourist model of psychology that privileged expert knowledge and formalised its transmission to novices. However, society moved on, the world of work changed, and the industrialised processes were replaced by knowledge working. Most of this activity is self organised.

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Social Media Pedagogy Lecture Theory 87

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

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. This has caused fairly radical changes in core work tools and methods. About Tony Karrer Dr.

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ID Reflections

MAY 30, 2013

He is the group leader of one of the Self-Help Group s (SHGs) working at Mother Earth. Spotting Talent and Leadership: One of Umesh''s responsibilities as a team leader is to induct new people into the group, help them learn the skills and get them started. And embodied what Harold Jarche says: Work is learning.

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Leadership Skills Job Predictions 139

Tony Karrer

APRIL 7, 2009

Mathemagenic " PhD conclusions in a thousand words: blogging practices of knowledge workers Web 2.0 Tools Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools - A Summary PR 2.0: Tools Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools - A Summary PR 2.0: Applications in Learning Rethinking Learning Styles Understanding E-Learning 2.0

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Social Networks Blended Learning Authoring Tools PLE 139