ImPersona.com: Idea Markets and Online Portals for Learners and Expert Organizations
Abstract: ImPersona.com is a global online social networking enabled environment with three components: a personal development portal for each individual, institution portals and various e-commerce enabled Idea Markets that facilitate different modes of interaction between individuals and institutions: Create and Publish IM enables creation, publication and sale of documents, Insta-pinions enables crowd sourced problem solving with a pay-per-solution model, Consults enables real time live consultation etc. Everything on ImPersona is free except when information is sold through the markets. Educational institutions and students can now create real world information products and services for sale and create and host entirely new businesses, adding a new dimension of real world action to teaching and research as their primary responsibilities.