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Knowledge Work Types

Tony Karrer

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. Within that he then defined the following types of knowledge workers: Transaction Worker - Routine, individual, ex. call center.

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Learning Professionals Leaders

Tony Karrer

world is becoming more about your network than your current knowledge. Gina Minks: Adventures in Corporate Education What Competencies do Knowledge Workers Need? How can you apply them to your existing systematic learning system if you don't know what the heck wiki even means? Being a learning professional in a Web 2.0

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Corporate Learning Long Tail and Attention Crisis

Tony Karrer

Background If you are not familiar with the concept of the Long Tail, head over to take a look at the Long Tail article on Wikipedia. The average knowledge worker has access to an increasingly large set of information resources and corporate learning is an ever smaller part of this set. How do we foster knowledge worker skills?

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Learning Professionals Leaders

Clark Quinn

world is becoming more about your network than your current knowledge. Gina Minks: Adventures in Corporate Education What Competencies do Knowledge Workers Need? How can you apply them to your existing systematic learning system if you don't know what the heck wiki even means? Being a learning professional in a Web 2.0

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Bob Little – Crystal Balling with Learnnovators

Learnnovators

Examples include helping the US-based LMS provider, Pathlore, to be acquired by SumTotal Systems and helping the UK-based learning content producer, Skillchange Systems, to be acquired by Vega (which, itself, was later acquired by an Italian company). a year – making it some US$48bn about now.

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Develop Work Skills

Tony Karrer

There are also several studies of knowledge worker practices that suggest that a lot of what is effective is quite personal. The employee goes to Google, dives into Wikipedia and other open source efforts. Then others are already tracking and writing about it and you can just talk or write to them.

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eLearning Learning - Best of May

Tony Karrer

- Clive on Learning , May 29, 2009 Implementing New Learning Technology? Browse eLearning Content