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CONCEPT The BrainFoodToGo.com is an Internet based collaborative learning web portal is an on-line gathering place where business owners and managers, aspiring entrepreneurs, and students who will be tomorrow’s leaders can create and share the kind of hard-to-find BrainFood that will make them winners in today's competitive marketplaces. The portal offers a host of unique features.

CUSTOMERS

BUSINESS LEADERS The BrainFood DigitalDiner provides small business owners and operators with the kind of know-how they need to succeed. It also serves as a business incubator that nurtures start-up enterprises.

ASPIRANTS AND EDUCATORS The BrainFood FreeMarket is a virtual exchange where students and educators can create and share materials for use in classrooms and in distance learning courses. In the works is a college-level distance learning course on entrepreneurship and innovation which will be made available to military personnel (free of charge) and to secondary school students for "advanced placement credit."

COLLABORATORS Participating organizations include schools, student organizations (even individual classes), alumni associations, economic development agencies, libraries, and business incubators. Each is entitled to its own, branded BrainFoodToGo.com homepage "skin" on which it can provide content and links of its choosing (as well as optional advertising). Visit the following links to see what a web site looks like. www.BrainFoodToGo.com/UB www.BrainFoodToGo.com/EDC.

CAMPUS CLIENTELES Everyone on a campus can benefit; Students, teachers and alumni can learn how to use and contribute learning materials.

STUDENTS can apply their computer skills and native curiosity to exploit available Internet, audio, video, social networking, and crowd-sourcing technologies as a means of collaborating with peers and self-educating through selective "harvesting." This approach accommodates their affinities for contemporary media, bite-size content, computer-based interactivity, social networking, and speed of achievement. Through Legacies of Legends, class assignments involving project-based interaction with business leaders and accomplished alumni, students can gain real world exposure and valuable job finding skills. Each participating class also has an opportunity to publish an institution-branded, print, audio, or video “yearbook” of the content they’ve created during the course semester. A qualifying entrepreneurship class can also be eligible for its own "home page" on the BrainFoodToGo.com portal. There's a wide range of additional student benefits.

EDUCATORS enjoy no-cost instructional content for classroom, video conference, or distance learning use. This enables them to free up time from course construction labors and use it for all-important student counseling and coaching. As an adjunct to the campus library, the Freemarket offers course content, instructional modules (course bolt-ons), entire courses, and inexpensive, customized textbooks that are created collaboratively on-line.. There are even more teacher benefits.

ALUMNI can enjoy a lifetime "warranty" on their college diplomas. Through the auspices of their alumni association, BrainFoodToGo.com can provide them with a continuing stream of practical, career-enhancing ideas, insights, and inspiration (some of it from former faculty members!). It keeps an institution and its current students connected to key graduates by providing them with a valuable, ongoing benefit. It gives alumni a powerful reason to stay involved and provide on-going support to their alma mater. It’s also a great way for institutions to cement relationships with important business owners and managers in their host communities.

CONTENT The BrainFood menu consists of lore, lists, legends, legacies, and life-learning that’s condensed into printable Tip Sheets, Tip Lists, Brass Tacks Books and e-Books, and audio and video podcasts. It features practical know-how about starting and growing a business; leading team members; and harvesting the health, wealth and happiness a business can provide. There's also guidance for commercializing new technology and buying a business or franchise. Terms of use and the Agreement for content providers are available at www.BrainFoodToGo.com

CONTRIBUTORS Content is contributed, gratis, by real-world movers and shakers who've been there; done that, as well as by students, educators, journalists, consultants, bloggers and coaches. The BrainFood Pantry also benefits from a network of tipsters who are rewarded with the special know-how they collaboratively create. Coming soon...an opportunity to network directly, one-on-one with Owners-On-Line. Portal administration and content aggregation is provided by the Center for Business Ownership Inc. and Electromedia Technologies LLC. Patrons provide financial assistance that makes possible the creation and distribution of free BrainFood.