Tony Karrer

MARCH 30, 2010

tools to improve your performance as a knowledge worker. One of the questions that always comes up is: How do I find more information to help me get started? The answer is that this information is a bit hard to come by. There’s a lot out there, but it’s often hard to find information that helps you get start.

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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. Our work skills cannot sit still. White-collar professionals spend an average of 2.3

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 27, 2008

Stuart Henshall had asked on Twitter about ideas for posts. I sent him a reply and asked for his thoughts on my post New Work. There are also several studies of knowledge worker practices that suggest that a lot of what is effective is quite personal. How can the organization capture the knowledge, learning, etc.?

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Tony Karrer

JULY 9, 2009

Too Much Information) (found via Stephen Downes ). Information Overload and Learning.” Jonah Lehrer suggests the danger of too much information is “it can actually interfere with understanding.” And I think that we need to recognize that it's more than the "Too Much Information" aspect of the issue.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 14, 2009

I’m convinced that we are all struggling to have our Work Skills Keep Up. When I look at my particular skills, methods and tools for 2009 and compare them to 2008, I would say that it’s mostly a question of degree of use and certainly my use of Twitter has grown. If you think about it, Twitter, Blog Comments, etc.

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Diversity Training Scanning PWLE Case Study 109

Tony Karrer

JULY 22, 2009

That there is a ‘best’ way to manage knowledge an information? 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. Studies of Personal Information Management say that what works is often highly personal.

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Knowledge Management Personal Personalization PKM 102

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Work Literacy eLearning 2.0 Fourth Grader Wikipedia Update New Work and New Work Skills Work Skills Keeping Up? Scenarios Preparing Workers for Web 2.0 Scenarios Preparing Workers for Web 2.0 How does this apply to non-knowledge workers? For example, ditch diggers?from

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