You can create and host premium content (articles, surveys, quizzes), host your files (wikis, videos, audio, PowerPoint etc.), and have live interaction (Zendle is integrated with Skype and Jabber.) The content that you create can be either offered for an internal group of users (where you add the users) or can be put up for purchase on the Zendle marketplace.

The twist is that all learners have authoring rights (our premise is that everybody has some sliver of knowledge that could be useful for others.)

Please do take a look and let me know if this is what you had in mind.

Regards,

Vikram Narayan
Zendle

Your thought “conflicted about membership issues” makes me wonder.

(At the risk of trying to teach the master) Is the rapidly developing idea of OpenID the way to go? It is not intended to solve all of the problems that you would face but could play a very helpful part IMO.

I have had a brief look at a few sites after Googling on OpenID. It looks as if OpenID could really take of any day now. Time I think for me to get an Open ID.

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