Neat applications for sharing knowledge and learning are like buses, it turns out.
Icon is a new app from Spigit, who are the leaders in innovation management software. It's a really simple concept (which is good) – the online question and answer format, but for an internal audience.
So, what Yammer is to Twitter, Icon is to Quora.
It's a fab idea and to be quite honest I have no idea why nobody has done it before.
Icon is free to get going with, and could be an incredibly easy way to build up a useful internal knowledge base. For those using Yammer already, there seems to be a way to integrate them, which is a good idea.
Lore is an online course platform. Unlike than big systems like Moodle, it focuses on making it really easy to make single courses, and to just get them out there.
It provides a place for discussions to take place between learners and teachers, accept and grade assignments, share resources, and to have a calendar for real life get togethers and webinars.
What's remarkable is that it is free!
I'm going to be having a play with Lore to see how well it works, and perhaps put together a test online course about digital engagement, if folk would be up for it.
Thanks to Rich Millington for bringing Lore to my attention. Rich and his colleagues are running a free course about online community management using the Lore platform, which will be well worth signing up for!
I rather like these slides from Stephen Collins.