Engage your learners using social tools such as discussion forums, online chats, blogs, opinion polls and web conferencing. The social networking feature allows learners to connect with each other and experts around specific interest areas or topics for online discussions.

Create Communities of Practice

Instancy Social Learning Tools help you create online communities of practice for the users to join, based on their job role, group/team, interest areas or skills, etc. Each community of practice can have its own sub-portal with web pages, a content library, discussions, polls and more. Having their own community helps the portal users build connection with other members and experts and learn from one another.

Each community can be “public,” that is, open for everyone, or “private,” and open to the registered members only.

Enable Your Audience to Generate and Share Knowledge

Knowledge flow doesn’t need to be limited to top-down, slow and narrow pathways. Instancy social learning tools help your audience and knowledge workers create and share their knowledge content.

• Allow users to share content (documents, web pages, events) and links to external resources
  
• Users can share content with all members or with a specific member.
  
• A full-text search feature is included, making it easy for the users to find the valuable resources they need, across all the shared resources.
  

Share Your Expertise and Insights Through Blogs

A Blog allows users to publish short comments and ideas instantly on the web for other people to read. Blogs are often updated daily, using software that allows people with little or no technical background to publish content on the web.. Blogs are a fast and effective communication tool for groups to share their knowledge and insights.

With Instancy, you can integrate blogging as an informal learning tool within a social learning experience.

Featured Members and Experts

Reward your star performers and contributors by identifying them as “featured members” and - “experts” to encourage greater participation in knowledge sharing, learning and applying new learning at work.

The members and experts are shown in the “featured” list, based on their active participation on the portal, according to variables such as activity and amount of content shared.

Polls

Gather audience opinions and feedback with polls. Polls allow you to get feedback and easily find answers to your business and market research questions. Create polls with single or multiple choice questions and gather the responses and analyze. As an option, allow users to view the poll results.