| April 20, 2007
Fellow
Internet Professionals:
My fellow SIPpers, it is not a small feat that we have survived 10 years when many associations in the Internet sector were not able to sustain themselves. We are proud of our achievements in spite of no governments or private funding, the notable being the establishment of Accredited Internet Professional (AIP) program in nine different streams. Standards and Certification was the mandate of SIP and we are expanding the program with accreditation of training centres.
During
holidays of Christmas of 1996, I saw the Internet was
taking off (websites were transformed from Gopher to Mosaic
to Netscape browsers) and as such businesses started putting
their websites and felt shortage of "Web-people". But there
was no professional standards and certification in those
days, which led to the creation of the Society of Internet
Professionals, whose mandate was to create such certification.
Around the same time, a pioneer user group of North America called Toronto Internet User Group was coming to the end of its useful life as a tutorial/user group.
After
a few months of planning, an inaugural meeting was held
very successful at the Sigma Systems Group, Toronto in
March 1997, CheckPoint did a presentation about the Firewall,
which was attended by more than 60 people. SIP is open
to individuals (Professional or Associate Members) and
corporate members (Association, Businesses and Institutions).
Since
then I am pleases to tell you that SIP has taken a lot
of initiatives and accomplished few milestones:
- A resource intensive website, which ranks on the top page of Google and many other search engines.
- A members, speakers and corporate sponsors online directories
- Dozens of full-day workshops provided by industry experts.
- Established SIP-U, online offering of 350 courses on
IT and non-IT topics (now discontinued)
-
Designed our first CIP - Certified Internet Professional:
Web Master Programme (a certification designation of
SIP) now called AIP.
- The Accredited Internet Professional (AIP) has now steams of specialization
-
Chapters in many Canada and USA (now closed)
- About one-hundred
Networking events and forums
-
Attendance at many Trade shows both in Canada and USA
-
Benefit Package for members
SIP
is governed by board and Committee s: Board of Directors,
Advisory Broad, Standards and Certification Board, Web Technology
Committee.
If you believe in this organization as I do then please
join us as member (corporate or Associate) and become part
of any of the above broads and committees.
If
you do not have a chapter in your city then please investigate
in opening one by becoming a Chapter Director of your
city.
Max
Haroon
President
Society of Internet Professionals
Read SIP Resport for 2007 and Plans for 2008, prsented at our Annual Meeting on Dec 19, 2007 
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