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Connecting 2 the World: Some thoughts on Work Literacy

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Just like family background can have a positive or negative affect on literacy, the support, training, and even understanding of workers at the organizational level can have an effect on work literacy. This might mean eventually benchmarking on an organizational level in order to identify training needs. Conference on Nanotechnology.

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Connecting 2 the World: New skills for the workplace

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Organizations need to move away from the specialist and instead focus on the trainable (who can become a specialist with minimal training). blogs, wikis, etc.). I think that transitional programs into the workforce needs to 1)determine the level of these skills and 2) provide training to develop these and other skills as they evolve.

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Connecting 2 the World: Lessons learned from New Communication Technologies in Organziational Life

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However, I was able to aggregate many of the pieces I had coming into the course as my students worked on the class project: an online conference on nanotechnology. Wikis, on the other hand have controls built into them that allow for different levels of contribution. These used to be limited to the managers for access.

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Six degrees of separation in instant messaging | Emerging Technology Trends | ZDNet.com

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The results of this study will be presented at WWW2008 , the 17th International World Wide Web Conference which will be held on April 20 to 25, 2008 in Beijing, China. And don’t think that Horvitz is just resting and waiting for this conference. New entries posted to Know Issues, Best Practices and Workarounds wiki.

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I Started a Blog But No One Cared | Social Media Strategery

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Why isn’t anyone editing the wiki pages?) These aren’t trivial questions – people take the time to create a blog post or add content to a wiki because of the promise of emergent collaboration. Post your blog entry, wiki content, forum thread, etc. at least once a week. Cross-promote. Give people an action.

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Connecting 2 the World: A new framework: Part II

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Using the diagram I created, I thought how these categories might be used to assess training and technology needs and how different groups might use different tool sets. Group communication and the wiki. Conference on Nanotechnology. What I would like to learn professionally. ► March. (2). ► February. (5).

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Connecting 2 the World: Is constructing knowledge based on analysis a work literacy skill?

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One problem I see with all of the data and communication tools available to students is the lack of training on how to problem solve and conduct an analysis. There still is a focus in most business schools and training programs on the quantitative data (hard facts) while qualitative research methods are considered "soft". My Blog List.