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21st Century Workplace Challenges

ID Reflections

These networks were not well connected and contained mostly weak ties. The networks that best exhibited the small-world property were those that had the greatest success. Before that, we need to examine what are some of the characteristics of today’s workplace, especially those that depend on knowledge workers for success.

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Learned about Learning in 2009

Tony Karrer

Online Sessions / Conferences / Discussions => Now Visible Networking I’ve seen during 2009 a real growth in the ability to spark up interesting discussions as online sessions. It came during a presentation when I said: It's a much better use of my time to use LinkedIn to spark a conversation than it is to go to networking events.

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Top 10 eLearning Predictions 2011 #LCBQ

Tony Karrer

Selective outsourcing continues to grow while comprehensive outsourcing will become less popular. Grows - But Creating "eLearning 2.0 Strategy" Fails Corollary: if you have SharePoint installed, you will be using SharePoint a lot more this year. Flash will still have an impact (at least in the area of mobile learning).

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Learning and KM: Separated at birth?

Jay Cross

Practical ways of influencing educational needs, as well as enterprise strategies, are highlighted as the solutions for knowledge worker evolution are considered. People already share knowledge within the enterprise. What might a PKM program in your organization look like, and how can it leverage social networking tools?

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Ten years on

Clive on Learning

Many more specialist tasks (including what used to be the basics, i.e. running courses) are now outsourced. There's been a greater recognition of the fact that knowledge workers don't actually need to know everything, they just need to know someone (or some thing) that does. That was cathartic.

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Decisions, decisions. Business decisions.

Jay Cross

Training directors see learners; everyone else sees workers or employees.). Knowledge Workers. The knowledge worker’s objective is to learn what it takes to do the best she can. A great industrial worker might be half again as productive as his middle-of-the road peer. These people need the room to excel.

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Podcast – Making Indian Product Global

Disprz

I mean, if you see somebody’s screen time on the phone or their systems, it is easily one or two hours a day on social media networks. Then the second use case is a knowledge worker, people like you and me who work on a laptop. Devanshu: Exactly right, I mean, and everybody has that kind of time. Subbu: Right.