FamilyLight^sm welcomes contributions from professionals and well informedconsumers, commenting on schools and programs or on topics of interest.  Contributors will be recognized with a page dedicated to them, containing what they choose.  (This will not automatically occur when people simply give feedback. FamilyLight^sm might offer that at our option but there is no guarantee)  FamilyLight^sm will do so consistently for professionally supplied articles following a invitation to submit and for any article we actually publish as a principal article on a topic or on a school or program. 

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In addition to what we have illustrated, we will provide a  box similar to the one above promoting their practices rather than ours between the first and second paragraph of the article they contribute.  Once we have a few contributors we will change our home page to call attention to their contributions and their practices on our home page and in other prominent locations around the website -- possibly adding links to the Contributor's page on the boxes like the one above that already occur various places around website.

To help you to see how this will look, we have created a sample contributor's page featuring May Peach and Louise Slater of the Price Group.  Neither they nor any other professional has yet been a contributor in the manner that will cause us automatically and by policy to create a page in our website, but due to helpful feedback they have given us, we choose to use them for our sample contributor's page -- until we have other contributors. 

If May or Louise had contributed an article, we would have put the name of the author at the bottom, programmed as a hyperlink to the contributor's page.   Under the author's name on the page with the article, we would put something like the following:  "May and Louise are Educational Consultants in Columbia, South  Carolina." We might put a box between paragraphs near the top of the article, with a further reference to their practice.  

On their page on our website, in addition to what shows on the sample, we would place a links to any contributions on this web site, other publications they would want to have referenced, and pretty much anything else they want that is in good taste.  As you see, we also give a brief description of their practice, expression of respect for that practice, and a link to the advertising web site of that practice. 

Professionals who contribute may expect those courtesies. Non professionals, such as families, who contribute will be offered space if they find it useful and, after the paid access section of this website is up and running, we will allow them free or discounted access. 

We will give careful consideration to any suggestions from any source for getting accurate and objective information as well as responsible considered opinions.  We will do our best to credit and publicize any person or organization that supports that effort. 

These are our sample contributor pages: http://www.familylight.com/link3/3.09/index.htm and

http://www.familylight.com/link3/3.09/pricegroup.htm

Please direct feedback inquiries, and submissions to FamilyLightResponse@yahoo.com.

Responsible contributions that differ with the viewpoint expressed by FamilyLight^sm are welcome and especially encouraged.

People considering contributing might benefit from getting familiar with the rest of the website.  Only "Individual Services" and "About Us" (formerly "Qualifications")  sections, are for marketing FamilyLight^sm  exclusively.  We are happy to promote others who contribute. 

We particularly encourage professional responses to what you will find under Guidelines, Tom's Blog, Program Reviews and Topics of Interest.  We seek original contributions to both Commentary columns. 

Last updated August 23, 2008; minor edit August 28