Tony Karrer

MAY 4, 2010

We are already seeing this in terms of lots of startups aimed at particular elements of knowledge work. See Does Deliberative Practice Lead to Quick Proficiency? This is going to first take the form of hundreds of thousands of different little applications that each provide performance support for particular tasks.

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Tony Karrer

AUGUST 10, 2009

There are some great resources on this such as: Ten tips for choosing & using social software Adoption of Web 2.0 adoption Facilitating Adoption of Web 2.0 And my personal experience is that it's pretty rare to run into an organization that is not at least planning on adopting some social software solutions. and eLearning 2.0

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 3, 2008

Top 2008 Posts based on Read Counts: 100 eLearning Articles and White Papers Free - Web 2.0 for Learning Professionals Ten Predictions for eLearning 2008 Test SCORM Courses with an LMS Request for Proposal (RFP) Samples Training Method Trends Corporate Learning Long Tail and Attention Crisis SCORM Test Web 2.0 Both were big successes.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 8, 2009

Harold Jarche, Michele Martin and I are pleased to announce a new workshop offering that relates to the recent posts on Tool Set 2009 and to the issues of Work Literacy. Work Literacy Skills Workshop Was the last formal training you had on knowledge work skills the use of a card catalog and microfiche reader?

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Tony Karrer

MARCH 11, 2009

One of the common themes on my blog is the world we live in with availability of trillions of web pages, millions of people, and thousands of tools, has meant a significant and continuous change in our work literacy. It also has an impact on Learning Design and Learning Organizations … more on this below. Read the Whole Thing ?

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 2, 2008

One of the questions being raised this week in the free, online course Work Literacy: Web 2.0 To me, this is a critical part of The New Skills for knowledge workers. And what I often cite as the biggest change in knowledge work skills over the past 20 years is the change in access to people.

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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.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 5, 2009

But I'm worried, because while I just got through writing about my concern in Using SharePoint that learning organizations seemed to be making the same mistake of Not Preparing Workers for Web 2.0. Setting up a SharePoint for a community or work team is very different from teaching them about Personal Learning. So, here goes.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 3, 2008

for ourselves in order to apply it within our organizations ( eLearning 2.0 - An Immediate, Important Shift). This will increase adoption of Web 2.0 It will also cause us to look more closely at Personal Learning for Learning Professionals - Using Web 2.0 There will be increasing pressure on each of us to understand eLearning 2.0

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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. How to keep track, organize, refind, remind of information?

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 14, 2009

There was a really great case study by HP during one of the Learn Trends sessions that described how they took marketing professionals from across the organization, taught them some basics about Web 2.0 This was hosted by the learning organization, but it looked more like a research, innovation project than a learning event.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 20, 2010

Working smarter is the key to sustainability and perpetual improvement. Knowledge work and learning to work smarter are becoming indistinguishable. The accelerating rate of change in business forces everyone in every organization to make a choice: learn while you work or become obsolete. Workscaping.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 19, 2012

About three hundred years ago, work became an organizational matter. Factories require groups of people working together. Orders from the top of the organization kept everyone on the same page. It can also help us make decisions for our organizations. This requires information, knowledge, trust and credibility.

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Big Dog, Little Dog

DECEMBER 29, 2005

I also had a chat a few days ago with a Wall Street Journal reporter who is researching an article on knowledge worker productivity. I said yes, and mouthed the old Peter Drucker chestnut that "making knowledge work productive is the greatest economic challenge of this century." Welcome to Web 2.0

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eLearning Learning Posts

AUGUST 4, 2009

LinkedIn Guide for Knowledge Workers - eLearning Technology , July 6, 2009 How to use LinkedIn more effectively as part of your knowledge work. Personal in Personal Knowledge Management - eLearning Technology , July 22, 2009. One Organization Seems to Believe So - The E-Learning Curve , July 14, 2009. Hot Topics.

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Social Media Media Social Skills 40

Tony Karrer

MARCH 3, 2009

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. I'd need to know more to understand what would work for the particular situation.

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Social Networks Social Ning LinkedIn 102

Jay Cross

JULY 4, 2009

Understandably, seasoned executives, chief learning officers among them, are having a devil of a time shifting from the industrial age mindset of logic, certainty and bounded constraints to the network gestalt of interaction, self-organization, unpredictability and fewer limits to potential. The scope of the job of the CLO is mushrooming.

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Microlearning – the learning that results from “micro” content published in short form and limited by the software and devices used to view it – offers alternatives to traditional development methods for workers who deal with web-based information as part of their job. No repository (unless you view the whole web as a repository).

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Association eLearning

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

ACOFP sought an all-in-one system that could be integrated with their existing association management system (AMS), iMIS, and the new web conferencing system they would also adopt. Importance was placed on the potential provider’s experience and knowledge working with iMIS and the unique needs of medical specialty societies.

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Tony Karrer

MARCH 29, 2009

Instead, what the common theme was that organizations will likely have reduced the amount of classroom and courseware times. don't organizations already primarily rely on informal learning? And you cannot Separate Knowledge Work from Learning. I would argue that today all classroom or courseware should be questioned.

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Social Networks Blended Learning Compliance Training Write Blog 100

Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Replacing today’s haphazard approaches with systematic, enlightened management accelerates the development of future workers and gets the entire organization working smarter. Convergence of work and learning. Work and learning have merged. Knowledge work has evolved into keeping up and taking advantage of connections.

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Diversity Training Blended Learning Social Networks Performance Support 95

Jay Cross

JUNE 28, 2011

Working smarter is the key to sustainability and continuous improvement. Knowledge work and learning to work smarter are becoming indistinguishable. The accelerating rate of change in business forces everyone in every organization to make a choice: learn while you work or become obsolete. Workscapes.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 17, 2008

Organisms only stop learning when they die. It’s a dog’s breakfast of acquiring skills, information, knowledge, savoir faire, and more. In fact, Frederick Taylor told workers, ‘You’re not paid to think’ Along came knowledge work. Learning is not one activity.

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Jay Cross

DECEMBER 26, 2008

Organizations are more like living organisms than machines. Knowledge workers have replaced factory workers. Learnscapes : where informal learning and knowledge work converge. Podcast from Web 2.0 Keynoted Self-Organised Learning in the Interactive Web , Learning Culture at a Turning Point in Salzburg.

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TechSmith Camtasia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

While nuanced functions inevitably require physical demonstrations, more universal tasks such as filling out time cards or basic, repetitive knowledge work can be proficiently communicated with a well-produced series of on-screen demonstrations and lectures. Problem #6: I work with smart people. How do I learn from them?

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