Comments on: Why not start an institute or center?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 04:30:40 +0000

My dream is to strat my own school but I have no clue where to begin. What do you this is the first step?

By: dannyFoo

dannyFoo — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 01:55:38 +0000

This was already included in my business plan since last year. :) Just need to get the income as well as set a name first for myself. However, I believe that to make this idea more sellable, it can’t be too techy so it would cater to a not-so-tech-savvy CEO and other executives who’d love to learn the trade but not be confused by the jargon we normally use. ;)

Cheers.

By: davestarr

davestarr — Sat, 03 Sep 2005 17:26:52 +0000

A great subset of this idea is the presentation of business case files that support Web development work, SEO, SEM etc. There is tons of expertise in these segments of the industry, but very few who can document their performance in the business sense.

Many success recommendations, books, web sites, success courses, etc., advocate ‘thinking big’ … so why not think big in this way… good tip, Andrew.

By: MickoZ

MickoZ — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 04:45:08 +0000

… and I will call it sitepoint! :D

By: drakke

drakke — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 23:10:27 +0000

I think by providing articles and valuable content on your site you are partly establishing your knowledge on the Internet.

Adaptive Path does this and sells reports online. Some of their members also started The Information Architecture Institute (iainstitute.org).

By: charmedlover

charmedlover — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 19:53:41 +0000

It would be very intersting, and would be a method to directly pass web standards along to novice developers. Right now, most institutions don’t teach standards at all, which is why we have some crappy developers – who have never visited SitePoint! Lol.

By: MarkB

MarkB — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 15:33:55 +0000

Thanks Andrew – that could be a great way to strengthen perceived value within a niche. May need to consider it in future.