Everything we publish,
on eight channels.
DirectoryAcademy is the broadcast side of the DirectoryToolkit — the interviews, write-ups, findings and live sessions we put out about running a directory business. Eight channels, each a different way in. Come and take what is useful.
ON AIR The guest chairPODCAST · A DIRECTORY OWNER
Eight channels. Pick how you like to take it in.
Some people would rather listen on a drive, some want the written version they can search later, some only want the one email a week. Same work, eight ways in — follow whichever suits you and ignore the rest.
Insights
What we are seeing across the directories we work on — findings written up and kept somewhere you can search back through.
CH 01
Videos
Walkthroughs and teardowns. The things that are quicker to show you than to describe, watchable whenever it suits.
CH 02
Social Media
Short posts and finds, published where you already scroll, so the useful things reach you without you going looking.
CH 03
Newsletter
One email on a schedule, carrying what changed across the toolkit and what is worth reading before it goes stale.
CH 04
Blogs
The long answers, written out properly — the ones that do not fit in a post and are worth coming back to.
CH 05
Podcast
Conversations with directory owners about what actually worked, in a format you can take with you.
CH 06
Webinar
Live sessions you can join or watch back later, with questions answered while they are still being asked.
CH 07
Bookshelf
Books worth your time, with the reviews and the discussion around them — and room on the shelf for yours.
CH 08Most of it is open. The rest comes with a membership.
The channels run whether or not you pay us anything, and plenty of what we publish stays that way. A DirectoryMembership is what opens the parts that take real work to make — and it is the only way onto the guest side of the desk.
Free to follow
The newsletter, the posts, the public episodes and write-ups. No account, no membership — just take what is useful.
The full archive
Everything we have published, searchable, including the sessions and findings we keep behind the membership.
Live and in the room
Join the webinars as they happen and ask your own question, rather than watching the recording later.
A seat at the desk
Members can be featured on the channels themselves. That is the section below, and it is not open to anyone else.
Members get on the channels. Nobody else does.
We would rather put a working directory owner in front of the audience than talk at it ourselves. So the guest chair is reserved — if you hold a DirectoryMembership, you can be the interview, the case study, or the person whose build we pull apart on a session.
You do not need a big directory or a finished story. The useful episodes are usually somebody halfway through something, saying plainly what is working and what is not.
We build directory software all day. The channels are where we say what we learned doing it — including the parts that did not work.
No paywall on the honest bits.
The full lineup.
Every channel has its own home. Follow the ones you want and leave the rest.
Before you tune in.
Do I need a membership to follow along?
Do I have to follow all eight?
If I come on, do I have to be on camera?
My directory is small. Is it worth featuring?
Is this a course?
The desk is on. Pull up a chair.
Follow whichever channel suits you — or take a membership and come sit on the other side of it.