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BrainFood for Leaders and Learners

Experience is the best teacher
...shared experience is the best education. 
BrainFoodToGo.com is a web FreeMarket that provides free print, audio, and video learning materials in the areas of entrepreneurship, small business management, innovation, and leadership. Students, educators, entrepreneurs, managers, and business owners can benefit greatly from the know-how you’ve accumulated. 
You've learned the hard way; now share what you've learned the easy way. Contribute ideas, insights, experiences, and research findings in the form of written and recorded content for inclusion on our BrainFood menus.  Anyone can submit content!
If you have personal insights, experiences, advice or “answers” you'd be willing to share with others…. send them along in the form of a Tip List, Tip Sheet, audio, video, web link or even a book.  In fact, a simple e-mail will do. Or just write or paste-in your contribution in the box below (don't worry; that teeney little box holds a lot!).
By clicking on the topic headings on the Index below, you can get more detailed information.
 
How your BrainFood will be distributed  
The content you provide will receive wide exposure and recognition for your talents via:
  • BrainFood class “yearbooks”                                 

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  • Your BrainFood audiences

    •  In addition to aiding business leaders, educators, and students, membership organizations, BrainFood is a big help to members of affinity groups and alumni associations; libraries; coaches and counselors; corporate training departments; university distance learning coordinators; trade associations, franchisees and independent contractors’ associations; and Chambers of Commerce and economic development organizations.    

      

    Your rewards as a contributor

    Brass Tacks BrainFood is the product of interactive participation that creates unique benefits for all involved.

    • Creators of original print or electronic works get great satisfaction from knowing that their hard-earned knowledge is becoming part of a valuable, timeless archive which will be put to productive use by other ambitious business leaders, educators, and students.
    • Creators also get deserved recognition for their efforts and experiences by virtue of the world-wide distribution of their creative products. With a contributors’ permission, each print or electronic submission identifies the name of its author or producer, and provides a link to that individual’s e-mail, web site, or social media page.   
    • Compilers of materials aggregated from other sources enjoy all of the above-cited benefits and can, by virtue of their in-person research and interviews, make valuable, one-on-one personal contacts, get prominent personal exposure in the business world, and gain recognition from the sources they contact.
    • All contributors become eligible to earn product discounts, obtain cash grants for their organizations, and become personally eligible for High Five Awards.
    • All those who share their BrainFood gain exposure of their talents in the global workplace and job market.
     

    The benefits you offer others

    A wide range of audiences will benefit from your contributions. In addition to aiding business leaders, educators, and students, BrainFood is a big help to members of professional organizations, affinity groups, and alumni associations; libraries; coaches and counselors; corporate training departments; university distance learning coordinators; trade associations, franchisees and independent contractors’ associations; and Chambers of Commerce and economic development organizations all put BrainFood to good use.  

     

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    The kinds of written and recorded submissions we invite

    • Tip Sheets: Brief, single topic articles that provide nitty-gritty know-how in a condensed format that is custom designed to stimulate thinking and provide immediately actionable ideas. They range from 100 to 1000 words in length that can be read on line or downloaded as PDF file for printing via any PC. See what one looks like 
    • Tip Lists: Lists of short tips based on your learning and experience. They are simple, old-fashioned, to-the-point itemizations of advice, insights, counsel, suggestions, and admonitions. Lists can contain any number of specific tips, but each individual tip typically ranges from 25 to 250 words in length. See what one looks like
    • TipCast Audios:  MP3 and WAV programs that range from two to ten minutes in length and can be listed to on line or downloaded for replay via iPods, compatible cell phones, PCs, or other listening devices.  Listen to an audio
    • TipCast Videos:  MP4 programs that range from two to ten minutes in length and can be viewed on line or downloaded for replay via iPods, compatible cell phones, PCs, or other viewing devices. 
    • Legacies of Legends: Audio and video programs that presenting the personal legends of successful venturers, and  company histories. These dramatizations or interviews range from thirty to sixty minutes in length. They can be downloaded as MP3 or MP4 files or obtained on Legacies of Legends CDs. Click here to learn more

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    How we do it - Patroned publishing 
    Production and distribution costs are defrayed by revenues from Patrons who act as funding sponsors to cover our costs of production and distribution.  The patronage model was the prevailing practice in the world prior to the nineteenth century -- especially during the Renaissance -- and was responsible for bringing the talents of writers like Shakespeare, Jonson, daVinici, Chaucer, Barbour, Wycliffe, and others to new and larger audiences. Eventually, mass production techniques and increased consumer affluence allowed readers to personally purchase creative works in the marketplace. Today, new technologies and market realities make it possible to provide the works of aspiring and accomplished authors toas BrainFood to everyone in the world at no cost. This is the basis of our Patroned™ publishing model.  
     
     

     
    HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR MATERIALS
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    It's easy to contribute material, too. You can use e-mail attachments or snail mail. Or just write or paste-in your contribution in the box at the bottom of this page. If you believe that a remote, recorded, one-on-one interview with you would allow you to present your material more effectively, let us know about your topic and your availability for a telephone interview with one of our audio producers. 
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    GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSIONS

    Guidelines for written submissions
    • Content can be:
      • Created by you (Think “term paper.”)
      • Culled by you directly from another identified source. Provide a brief description or bio of the source. An e-mail address or telephone number that can be used to verify the source and the validity of the submission should also be provided.
      • Citied, summarized, or re-purposed from materials created by others. With such abstractions, give credit (author, title, and publisher of original source). Click here for tips on guidelines for researching, preparing, and writing content that does not violate other authors or producers rights.  For submitted material that has been aggregated directly from other sources, an e-mail address or telephone number should be provided so that we can verify that third-party’s agreement to use. Verbatim abstracts should comply with the Fair Use doctrine or be accompanied by permission from other original creator. 
      • Summarized and paraphrased from the observations and conclusions of a recognized figure (e.g. historian, philosopher, “thinker,” pundit, etc.) if the material so sourced is relevant to the listening audience and if credit is given.
    • Written content for printable articles, i.e. TipSheets,  works best if it
      • Runs from 100 to 1000 words in length.
      • Focuses on only one principal topic, issue, event, or personage.
      • Includes relevant quote(s), and/or significant facts or statistics historical or contemporary)
    • Written content for printable TipListsprovide condensed, itemized input on a single topic. They offer short, to-the-point, real-world bits of advice.
      • Each list can contain any number of tips on a single topic as long as each tip included is succinct, to the point, and actionable.
      • Any relevant topic can be covered, no matter how narrow or specific
      • Lists typically run from 25 to 500 words. Click here to see some samples.
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    Guidelines for video presentations
    Use your creative talents to the max in creating audios and videos for distribution. Some great ideas for production techniques can be found at YouTube.com 
    ·       Videos should be from 90 seconds to five minutes in length and submitted as MP4 files or a similar commonly used file format. Presentation format should be single-person narration or (one or more) one-on one interviews.
    ·       The presenter, narrator, or other participants should employ a conversational tone without sacrificing pointed delivery.
    ·       Recorded third-party quotes and comments can be inserted with subject’s permission or if such quotes are in the public domain. Click here for guidelines in using third-party materials. LINK
    ·       Sound and video effects may be used for emphasis; Graphs, charts and lists add value to video productions. Open and close music may be used, but “fading musical beds” should not be employed. The music and effects used must be in the public domain or be appropriately licensed for use in your video.
    Guidelines for audio presentations
    ·       Audios can range from two minutes to thirty minutes and should be submitted in the MP3 or WAV formats or a similar commonly used file format. Presentation format should be single-person narration or (one or more) one-on one interviews.
    ·       The presenter, narrator, or other participants should employ a conversational tone without sacrificing pointed delivery.
    ·       Recorded third-party quotes and comments can be inserted with subject’s permission or if such quotes are in the public domain. Click here for guidelines in using third-party materials. LINK
    ·       Sound effects may be used for emphasis; Open and close music may be used, but “fading musical beds” should not be employed. The music and effects used must be in the public domain or be appropriately licensed for use in your video.
    Scripts for audio or video podcast production
    Written scripts for use by us in the production of a BrainFoodToGo audio or video podcasts should adhere to these criteria:
      • Tailor your submitted written material to the time period targeted:
        • 90 seconds = Approx. 225 words
        • 2 minute = Approx. 300 words
        • 5 minute = Approx. 450 words
        • 7 minute = Approx. 750 words
      • Write content for single-person narration.
      • Limit verbatim quotations of others’ source materials to an aggregate total of less than 50 words;
      • Include any suggestions you have that will enhance audio or video presentation (e.g. sound effects, graphs, etc.)

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    Guidelines for submission of audio or video Legacies of Legends
    The guidelines for written submissions (see above) apply to audio and video productions as well.
    In addition, recorded audio and video productions that you submit should be formatted in accordance with these guidelines:
    • Audio recording should be submitted in the MP3 format
    • Videos can be used if they are in the MP4 format.
    • Tailor your material to twenty-minutes to sixty-minutes in length
    • It should be a one-on-one interview
    • Videos should feature an abundance of close-ups
    • Cutaways to other interview subjects discussing the topic of your presentation are allowed
    • Discussion should employ a conversational tone without sacrificing focus
    • Recorded third-party quotes and comments can be inserted if such quotes are in the public domain or such content has been cleared for use.
    • Sound and video effects may be used for emphasis; Graphs, charts and lists add value to video productions.
    • Open and close music may be used, but “fading musical beds” should not be employed
    Click here if you'd like to receive a comprehensive list of leading questions you can use to conduct a productive and painless interview with a business leader. If you are creating your own Legacy of Legends, you can use these questions to trigger your memory and evoke recollections you might otherwise overlook.   
    Guidelines for Professional writers and producers
    We encourage submissions and digital audio and video recordings from:
    • Individuals who pursue writing as a profession or an avocation.
    • Publishers of current or out-of-print books; monographs; articles, transcripts; scripts; “factoids” from surveys and studies; journal articles; case studies; theses; or research papers.
    • “Podcasters” who have produced digitized audio programming and would like to “re-feed” it to entirely new audiences. We are the 21st century Radio of Choice! 
    • Amateur and professional video producers and YouTube contributors
    • Editors who are interested in condensing the in-demand works of other authors and creators in accordance with the BrainFoodToGo.com style guidelines.  

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    BrainFood Fans.
    When preparing content always keep in mind the nature of our audiences. While our publications and programs can be downloaded, free of charge, from the BrainFoodToGo.com® web site by anyone at anytime, our principal audiences consists of educators, students, and business owners and managers. Regular listeners can also arrange to have new programs and printouts automatically forwarded via RSS protocol to a designated file folder or a “podcatcher” or feed aggregator on their computers. We also provide special e-mail distribution of program and printout links to: Membership organizations, affinity groups and alumni associations; libraries; coaches and counselors; corporate training departments; university distance learning coordinators; trade associations, franchisees and independent contractors’ associations; and Chambers of Commerce and economic development organizations.  
     
    To contact us or submit your contributions use the box below!
    You can paste-in your written contributions in the box below (don't worry; that teeney little box holds a lot!).  
    You can alo e-mail your content as an attachment > info@BrainFoodToGo.com.orm
     

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    NOTICE
    When necessary, we re-format and re-edit submissions to accommodate the standards expected by our audiences. Upon receipt of your submitted material, the Electromedia Technologies Corporation, creator of BrainFoodToGo.com, or the Center for Business Ownership Inc. will assume non-exclusive, unlimited rights to edit, condense, distribute, and disseminate in any manner said materials without limitation. Continuing credit will be afforded all writers and producers, and copyright protections will pr cited. If our portal manager becomes aware of a copyright or trademark claim or dispute involving any content being displayed on this portal, the material in questions will be removed immediately and efforts will be made to resolve the dispute and honor legitimate claims. Click here to review our Terms of Use.