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Zeta111

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May 31, 2009 6:40 PM ET    Quote  Report Abuse
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Hi all!

I`d like to ask you how I could develop my potential business idea. The point is that I want to make a website devoted to human development. I want to make people understand each other better and eliminate problems of a generation gap. I want the following to be on my site:
- articles on human development
- several age groups, so that people could communicate with like-minded people
- something like tutoring or mentoring, so a person could post a problem, for example, and a person from another age group could give advice, etc., but it will be not like a forum, but something more personal, with a limited people who can help
- also, I think about making a program based on Eric Burne`s transactional analysis. For example, a person could formulate a problem and then they will be given several options to choose from that eventually will define if they behave as Adult, Parent or Child and leading then to a possible solution of the problem.
I know all this looks very vague and poorly thought over, but it`s just my initial thoughts and I only want to know if this idea is good and workable enough. I always rely on my intuition and now it itells me it`s 50/50.

And what do you think?

patentandtrademark

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Jun 01, 2009 6:38 PM ET    Quote  Report Abuse
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one thing you could do is develop a trademark and have your lawyer register it

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CraigL

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Jun 02, 2009 1:21 AM ET    Quote  Report Abuse
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It sounds like the broad category you want is an informational site. And that means having a content manager that goes along well with your two basic components. That would be the articles section, and the forum section.

A content manager is basically a software application that provides you with an easy way to create content (written text and images) and place it on your web site. It usually includes a search capability, and perhaps some indexing and archiving.

The forum component would be so you could interact with people who come to the site. For example, if a Gen-Y person wants to talk about or with a Baby Boomer, a good way would be through a forum.

One suggestion is that you never will be able to "make" anyone do anything. And you certainly will never "make" people get along. You might be able to help people understand each other, or help people in other ways related to relationships and generation gaps. To do that, you`ll also need a way to interact with visitors to the site. And that, again, means forums.
Zeta111

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Jun 03, 2009 6:22 PM ET    Quote  Report Abuse
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Thank you very much for your replies. Now I`m considering if this idea is really what I want...
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