We create and manage on-line knowledge platforms. It's about knowledge that is useful, rather than masses of information that isn't relevant. As a user, it's about being just '1 click away'. As a provider of knowledge, it's about understanding the context of consumption.

Above all, we focus on quality.

Each platform focuses on a specific group of subjects, such as management and business strategy or pre-university private education, to serve a targeted audience with a blend of published and non-published information. They enable peer-to-peer interaction and are kept current by continually accruing new knowledge.

These are some of the key features:

issued by authors who have previously published (peer-reviewed) work. Users can search for other sources of knowledge if they wish, and the resulting information is clearly identified as being from other sources.

Crowd-sourcing

Our knowledge platforms are designed to make crowd-sourcing of ideas as easy as possible. They link into social media, such as Twitter and Facebook, to automatically widen the pool of potential contributors. The platforms indicate the publishing status of contributors (where known) and enable users to moderate who can contribute.

Ideas authoring

What use is finding knowledge if you can't work it through into articulated ideas and concepts? Each user has a space to author documents and to store information that might be useful at a later date. When users copy information into their documents, we automatically generate references, such as Harvard book references, to ensure that they know where the information has come from. We also generate smart links that users can go back to their sources or find other associated knowledge.

Peer interaction

You can invite people to review and comment on your work, and the full history of contributions is available so that good ideas aren't lost even if they were not used at the time.

Ideas testing (pre-publication review)

Published authors are able to post work-in-progress for review by others. They can control who sees their work and who can comment on it, and the type of feedback offered by others.

Usage analytics

At the heart of hamel's knowledge platforms is a continual analysis of how people are using knowledge and which sources they value - and that's another story...

Fast searching of relevant information

Searches are contextual, and the results are categorised to enable people to understand the quality of the information presented. The purpose is to provide appropriate knowledge that is reliable, rather than present pages and pages of non-validated information that takes time to sort through.

Quality of information is important: most of the information on our platforms has been published in peer-reviewed journals or main-stream books, has been released by credible sources, or is