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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. Posted by V Yonkers.

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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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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: Lessons learned from New Communication Technologies in Organziational Life

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Wikis, on the other hand have controls built into them that allow for different levels of contribution. The impact, however, means that there needs to be more decisions on the managements side as to who will have access to the information and how workers will be trained to use the information. Group communication and the wiki.

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

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Case Study: Papa Johns Pizza Company Slices Travel Costs with GoToMeeting Corporate Citrix Online. The Greening of Training: How Sustainability is Reshaping Organizational Learning SkillSoft. New entries posted to Know Issues, Best Practices and Workarounds wiki. See the latest entries on the Intel wiki >>. The ToyBox.

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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. It has been my contention that workers at different times in their career may have different needs in terms of work literacy.

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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".