WebReference Open Publishing Overview
WebReference wants you! As part of our Open Publishing initiative we're now accepting story submissions for our Web site and/or weekly text newsletters, you could be next! We're looking for sharp people to write about the hot Web-dev topics of the day.
We will consider how-tos, site/software/book reviews, technology overviews, trends, interviews, opinion and analysis - anything that would be of interest to our target audience: primarily well-educated, well-compensated intermediate to advanced HTML authors and Web masters. If you've got a product, or area of expertise, who better to write an article on it and get some great PR in the process?
To start, submit a description and outline of your proposed article. Article length should be 1000-1500 words. All articles (especially tutorials) should have working example(s) that support, but don't overshadow, the main ideas and concepts of the article.
Want to get an idea of what others have written? Check out our article archive to read past contributions.
What do you get out of it?
- Fame: Sure, there are plenty of public forums on the Net. But how many guarantee hundreds of thousands of interested eyeballs, absorbing your thoughts and ideas? Articles that make the cut will be published in our text newsletter and/or our Web site and read by influential Web masters.
- Promotion: We give back-links to all our freelance writers. If you're a developer, coder, Web master, or anyone with a public project, what better way to promote your site (or yourself) than have thousands of interested parties reading your ideas?
- Respect: What better way to impress your peers than to be recognized as an authority in your subject of choice?
- A Foot In The Door: This is Open Publishing - You share your information with us for free, and we share it with the rest of the world for free. However, the WebReference columnists do get paid... we select them from our most promising freelancers. Either way, we all win.
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What do we get out of it?
- Up-to-the Minute Content: The Web is a big, big place. There's no way for our staff to cover all of it as thoroughly as we would like. But we do want to provide our readers with the widest and freshest assortment of articles possible. So who better to turn to, than our largest and most valuable resource - you, our readership! We know you're more than just interested in the Web - you're out there in the virtual trenches, creating the Web.
- Contact With Our Readers: We turn our little code-monkey grinders everyday, trying to make the Webreference Web site and Newsletter the best they can possibly be. Even though we have nearly one hundred thousand total subscribers and millions of visitors each month, we don't always get to connect with our readership. We want to make WebReference your number one information source, and by joining us, you can help us make it exactly how you want it to be.
- More Subscribers: We ask each submitter to add our newsletter signup form to their site to encourage folks to signup.
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