1. „E-Portfolios: just another social software application or the next step of bringing business processes (in educational and business setting) online“
Professional Training Facts, Stuttgart
November 13th, 2007
Paul Meinl, Managing Partner, factline Webservices GmbH

2. factline Webservices GmbH
Founded April 1999
Located: Vienna, Austria
Team: 8 people
Providing: webbased learning solutions (Web 2.0)
Product: factline Community Server
Services: Consulting and Trainings for learning with Social Software

3. What´s to come Educational instrument („portfolio“) +
combined with social software concepts
=>
provides new possibilities for skill management in organisations

4. E-Portfolios Perspective change: focus on individual
Origin: educational sector
Fully controlled by individual
Supports reflection and personal knowledge management

5. Learning Environment

6. Nucleus of organisational networks
Employees

7. Benefits Higher transparency of skills and competencies
Dynamic environment
Facilitation of knowledge sharing
Conceptual Prerequisite:
Direct benefit for single employees
increase of internal perception
instrument for personal knowledge management
continuous usage (lifelong...)
allows creation of sustainable content pool

8. Challenges Crucial point: acceptance by employees (direct benefit!)
Transparent company policy (trust!)
external hosting?
Transfer: employees need to be able to take e-portfolio with them
copyright and IPR!
General: Long-term data storage

9. Please contact me:
Paul Meinl
Tel.: +43 (0)