Tag: skillsharing

COLLABORATIVE PIONEER: INSIDE INTERVIEW WITH MICHEL VISSER, FOUNDER AT KONNEKTID

Michel Visser is the founder of Konnektid,the first demand-based platform of the Netherlands where people can share skills and knowledge with each other. The brand new website is the start of the next phase for Konnektid. With a large network ofWith a large network of knowledge sharers, and ‘proof of concept’ in the Netherlands, they are…  Read more

COLLABORATIVE PIONEER: AN INSIDE INTERVIEW WITH RAJ SINGH OF SOOQINI

Raj Singh is the CEO of Sooqini. Raj is a technology entrepreneur and investor, with over 25 years of experience in innovation and IT, as applied to technology-enabled companies and their ecosystems. We caught up with him to hear more about Sooqini 1. Can you describe what Sooqini does and how it began? Very simply…  Read more

Tokyo-Based Conyac Offers Fast And Cost-Effective Social Translation Services

Conyac offers peer-reviewed crowd-sourced translation, facilitating Web site localization for Japanese startups looking to expand into other countries. Companies that have used Conyac’s services include Nulab, a real-time collaboration platform, and SD Japan, which posts news articles originally written in other languages. Conyac translates their Web sites, apps and social games into English and other languages…  Read more

TomoClases is a Latin American P2P education platform that allows you to learn what you want and teach what you know

Busuu allows you to learn languages online as part of a global community

Maestro Market is a talent marketplace where you can find and connect with influential and exceptionally skilled people­

MinuteBox is a social marketplace for real-time advice that helps users to buy and sell expert advice via multi-media chat on multiple social platforms

The Amazings is a new social venture that supports retirees to package their passions or skills into activities to share with the rest of the world

Mike Karnjanaprakorn, cofounder of Skillshare

The easiest way to explain Skillshare is…a community marketplace to learn anything from anyone. The idea came from…a combination of three experiences: 1) putting together The Feast Conference which showed me the power of connecting people around learning experiences; 2) watching Sir Ken Robinson’s “Bring on the Learning Revolution” TED Talk; and 3) playing in…  Read more