You should provide WROX Certification

[zach007]

Dear Admin/Owners,

Since your book is great, you should provide Wrox Certification for readers as an online examination, etc...such as Microsoft does...This will be more excellent if you provide certification...such as VB Certified, mySQL certified, etc by WROX...!!!!

Thanks..

[jminatel]

I love the idea but from a practical standpoint, I don't think we could make it fly. For one, we really don't have much expertise with certification. It's one thing to create certification books (which we don't even currently do) it's another to create good certifications that are accurate measures of skill. And probably more importantly, I think the Microsoft certifications (for example, or Sun certs on Java, etc) carry so much more value in their fields than the Wrox name ever could, that most people would continue to gravitate toward the MSFT and vendor certs exclusively and those are the ones that potential employers would still look for on a prospect's resume.

Jim Minatel
Senior Acquisitions Editor
Wiley Technology Publishing
WROX Press
Blog: http://wroxblog.typepad.com/
Jim's Book of the week: No book this week - Donate to the Red Cross!

[zach007]

Hi,

I believe you can do it...of course not like such a Microsoft and so on..(This is about the appreciation for customer) and this is the idea, on the back of your books there is a hierarchy of what kind of books to follow until you reach the top of hierarchy...For instance: First book should read is Beggining Infopath 2003, then Professional InfoPath 2003, then XSLT, and so on...each book should have an online test for registered users to gain a certification for that book...This certification will be issued if only users has pass the test....at least you give something to readers after completion of the book...once all book within the hierarchy completed, you should issue additional certification such as "Certificate of Info Professional" or what ever issued by WROX...this could increase your reputation, sales and quality of service...you should provide take (money from customers) and give (something valuable for customer after puchased WROX book)....

This is a great idea...My mottom is: "No one could not do it...Everybody can do it...it is about the time and effort.."

I wish you will hear my inputs..

Thanks,

Rully