A few people have posted about Skill-Pill including Andy Lark who rates the concept (but gives a disclaimer that he’s good friends with the founder).
The concept is to deliver small dose vid or pod casts (Pills – hence the name) to users mobile phones. These Pills will cover a diverse range of business skills and ill reinforce traditional learning techniques.
I think it’s a sound concept but will only work for a certain type of person – me I’m just not built for podcasts – I work much better either with a blog post or reading a book or magazine article.
It is however an interesting concept and could, IMHO gain some real traction if they were to partner with traditional learning deliverers in order to create a value added extension service.
Just one question… how on earth do you protect your IP for something like this?
The time is coming when we will have to reconsider what we currently think of as ‘IP’. Or P for that matter.
HI Ben – 2 points –
I think the value above text is the emotional connect – eg trying to use moving image, music and neuro-linguistc triggers to elicit an emotional or attitudinal response.
2 ref IP – fair point – we have the just keep innovating and moving ahead. For us skill-pill is 2 years old and we are working on the next set of features and applications – while we sell in current phase.
cheers
Gerry
Thanks Gerry
Good points – best of luck with the venture