51 – Medium

A further rise up the list in 2019 – this time up 22 places

Medium is a place to read, write, and interact with the stories that matter most to you.

Website: medium.com
Cost: Free.
Availability: Online

Top 100 Tools for Personal & Professional Learning 2019: 33
Top 100 Tools for Workplace Learning 2019: –
Top 100 Tools for Higher Education 2019: –

Past Overall Rankings
2018:  73.  2017: 147    2016: 147    2015: –    2014: –     2013: –
2012: –      2011: –         2010: –        2009: –     2008: –     2007: –

Comments from some of those who selected Medium as one of their Top 10 Tools in 2019

  • “I enjoy Medium because of the access it gives me to different authors and ideas. I also appreciate the clean interface design as it makes reading so easy! While not specifically about L&D, I find a lot of ideas that I bring back to my work.” Head of Risk Skills, Australia
  • “To read fresh information from practitioners” Designer and Design Thinking Teacher, France
  • “Whatever the topic I’m researching, I always find interesting and useful articles here.” L&D Practitioner, Spain

Previous comments

  • “I love the design of Medium. I think it’s a masterclass in how presentation can make or break your content engagement. And I like the posts it suggests for me.” Taryl Law, 2018
  • “Very comprehensive site for finding articles, blog posts, contents are well arranged with labels, many key people write over there.”  Miguel Canas, Spain

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