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Social Media for Knowledge Workers

Tony Karrer

Last week I had a presentation around using Social Media and Web 2.0 tools to improve your performance as a knowledge worker. That said, I thought it would be worthwhile for me to collect a few of the resources that provide good starting points that can help Knowledge Workers improve their performance using Social Media.

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Skills Capability Building – Knowledge Workforce VS Frontline Workforce

Disprz

Engineers, system analysts, researchers, web designers, architects, IT professionals, etc. fall in the category of knowledge workers. While employees directly facing the customers like delivery executives, restaurant waiters, retail sales reps, etc are considered frontline workers. hours before the pandemic to 2.6

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Personal Learning Knowledge Work Environment

Tony Karrer

I've been reading a lot over the past few months around Personal Learning Environments and a lot of related material. world that included a post by Bill Ives - Managing Personal Knowledge: Setting a Foundation for Transformation? Learning-Knowledge-Work - they really are the same and I need to do them all at once.

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Improving Personal Learning - A Continuing Challenge for Learning Professionals

Tony Karrer

From Wikipedia's description of Knowledge Economy , quoting Peter Drucker (1966): A manual worker works with his hands and produces "stuff". A knowledge worker works with his head and produces ideas, knowledge, and information. What's the most important skill of a knowledge worker? I would claim.

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“Hey, You’re on Mute:” 7 Best Practices for Video Conferencing

Litmos

It’s been a full year since Zoom became a tool most knowledge workers use daily. Even before the pandemic — and despite the rise in online training — many companies preferred in-person training sessions. You wouldn’t attend training in your pajamas in person, so don’t head to a ILT looking like you’ve just rolled out of bed!

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Take Charge of Your Remote Workday with 6 New Microsoft 365 Features

Vitalyst

As knowledge workers, you have been at the heart of this unprecedented remote work experiment. Natural language queries are now generally available to Microsoft 365 subscribers in Excel for Windows, Mac, and Excel for the web. You are learning first-hand what it means to be resilient, resourceful, disciplined, and diligent.

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2009 Top Posts and Topics

Tony Karrer

Discussion Forums for Knowledge Sharing at Capital City Bank eLearning Portal Integration Data Driven Notable Topics for 2009 Work Skills and Knowledge Work Work Skills Keeping Up?

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