Homeschooling and Web 2.0

Last week I mentioned how Jill and I brainstormed some really COOL ideas for web businesses. Even though I am working on getting her and Paul’s website up and running, both of us were so excited by one of the ideas that we knew we just had to start working on it.

What we did was create a Homeschooling wiki called Know Home Schooling.

The new website fits the list of online business goals that I wrote in April. This new site also fits most (not all) of the criteria set up by Markus Frind (the guy who makes 10,000 dollars a day from Adsense).

Jill and I are both really excited by this new homeschooling site. Jill has been wanting to do something like this for years, but we were always looking at it as a site that we would write all the content for. Last week, when we came up with the idea of creating a wiki, it made the website seem much less overwhelming.

Some of the things that I expect will help the website succeed are:

1. It is about a topic that both Jill and I are passionate about.


2. We are very involved in the community that the website targets.
3. Other people will create a lot of the content for the website.
4. It really fills a need in the homeschooling community.

Because our new site is a wiki it fits under the web 2.0 umbrella (community based site). We used MediaWiki a wiki system to create it. I made quite a few modifications to the standard template to make it look the way we wanted it to look. I also changed some of the default settings (like turning off the nofollow tag for links).

Anyway, I will keep you updated on how it does traffic wise and if it makes money for us or not. Go check out our new homeschooling wiki by clicking here. If you are in the homeschooling community and want to help build the most comprehensive resource on homeschooling, then please feel to contribute to it.

Oh, and one last comment on the new site. The name kind of sounds like “no homeschooling”, which we thought was funny. Just in case people hear it that way by word of mouth we went ahead and bought “nohomeschooling.com”, and made it redirect to http://knowhomeschooling.com. This way we won’t lose any word mouth of traffic.