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Knowledge Work Types

Tony Karrer

To help clarify this and to begin thinking through implications for Work Literacy Skills , I went back through a couple of different sources. Thomas Davenport classifies Knowledge Work Types in Thinking for a Living: How to Get Better Performances And Results from Knowledge Workers using a variety of classifications.

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Seven Things I Learned This Year

Tony Karrer

Open Content Potential But There are Challenges This year I spent quite a bit of time looking at where and how open content could get leveraged in different ways. Flash may Die and HTML 5 is Going to be Big 2010 opened my eyes are Flash and HTML 5. I was really glad to see it grow to become one of the Top eLearning Sites.

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Top 100 eLearning Items

Tony Karrer

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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Why You Should Embrace The Gig Economy For Strategic Advantage

EI Design

Most companies still adhere to a traditional labor structure of employing full-time workers, hoping to find the best talent within driving distance of an office. It makes sense to insist that employees all work next to each other on a factory assembly line. This new paradigm is optimized for knowledge work, like L&D.

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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. Twitter is an open conversation. Maybe because people want to look good.

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Workplace Productivity

Tony Karrer

One of the favorite quotes I used to use during presentations was Drucker - The most important contribution of management in the 21st century will be to increase knowledge-worker productivity. This is a big reason that I started Work Literacy. This is probably THE challenge of the 21st century.

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Evaluating Performance of Concept Workers

Tony Karrer

To me this has heightened my sensitivity to the need for concept workers to reach out to people for knowledge work tasks in order to ensure they will receive a good evaluation. I'm coming to believe this is the most important Knowledge Worker Skill Gap. It reinforces the fact that Leveraging Networks is Key Skill.

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