How to Contribute
Overview
Having resource documents for our members to access is a crucial part of our mission to support our members with useful information and tools to enable them to continue to raise the bar. We also have resource documents for the general public to access, which is an important part of demonstrating our commitment to supporting the larger sense of community. Most importantly, providing our members the opportunity to submit resource materials is aligned with our vision of connecting and promoting those who positively influence personal, social, business and environmental standards, through the sharing of our knowledge, skills, wisdom and stories with other members and the broader community.
These guidelines have been prepared to assist High Ideals members to create Resource Documents for the resources section of the High Ideals website. Resources can be created for the Members Only area or for the General Public section. Only High Ideals members are allowed to submit materials, as this is aligned with our commitment to supporting each other within the High Ideals community.
If you have any questions regarding these guidelines or any of our resources, please email our Director of Operations, Noel Posus on noel.posus@high-ideals.com.
Review and Acceptance of Submissions
All submissions are reviewed by the Director of Operations and will be either approved for inclusion or feedback will be provided as to what changes would be required in order to accept the resource.
Guidelines
Please review all of the following points which are required to be met in order for the submission to be considered for inclusion into our resources section.
- The resource document must relate specifically to, demonstrates or develops the values and/or respective criteria of High Ideals as published on our website.
- The document must help “those who put their actions where their values are”.
- The resource document must have a professional development and/or business orientation, even though there may also be a personal development application.
- The resource document must be original work, which can include the work of others as long as that work is properly attributed, and where permission is granted to reprint the information where required.
- The content needs to be validated by proper research, current professional academic thinking, tried and tested processes, substantial experience, etc as compared to being simply based on opinion.
- The scope of the material needs to have broad application across professions as compared to a limited scope of within one or a few trades or professions.
- The content must encourage best practice. It is about helping people achieve an above standard capability in a particular area or competency.
- The resource document needs to be encouraging and positive in nature. If it is necessary to highlight negativity, ineffective behaviour and practices in order to illustrate a point, that is acceptable as long as it is clear it is being included for that purpose AND that the document continues on to provide positive outlooks, strategies, tools and resources which could minimise, eliminate or otherwise counteract the negative in appropriate ways.
- The document must directly or indirectly encourage people to consider membership to High Ideals.
- All resource documents must be written in easily understood and non-ambiguous language.
- Where possible, supplementary resources or references need to be provided to support readers who may wish to undertake more research on the subject.
- All submissions much include a one paragraph (100 words or less) Author Information statement. See Commercial Promotion section below.
- There is no word limit on the document, but our preference is that documents are no longer than ten pages.
Commercial Promotion
No resource document is allowed to contain commercial promotions of the author’s goods and services, or the goods and services of others, except for the promotion of High Ideals membership.
That said, the Author Information section can contain up to 100 words which identify the author and their business, including a brief statement about the nature of the business’ products and services, contact information and website address. Readers will be able to make their own choices about contacting authors for more information including being able to inquire about a commercial relationship.
Editing Rights
High Ideals maintains the right to edit any document received and which it chooses to publish. The author(s) will not be provided an opportunity to review the edited version before publication. The nature of editing will mostly be proofreading for spelling and grammar usage and aesthetic layout in our High Ideals document templates.
More significant editing requirements would be handled by sending the submission back to the author(s) with instructions.
Disclaimers and Indemnity
High Ideals will format the document into our standard template which includes a disclaimers section at the end. All authors must indemnify High Ideals of any responsibility for the proper attribution of content to original authors, including any copyright infringement issues. Authors are required to ensure they have full permission to use material and/or give proper attribution as required.
Where to send your submissions
Please send your submissions in Microsoft Word format to our Director of Operations, Noel Posus at noel.posus@high-ideals.com.
