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Submission guidelines

ITworld is a participatory site that relies on IT professionals, vendors and other technology experts to help shape the site's content around challenges and solutions that define their world.

What we're looking for:

Personal stories, tips and ideas – Things you've had the chance to put into practice.

What to submit:

You have lots of latitude, but please contribute, and never market.  Just about anything IT-related is fair game: best practices, news stories, technical or management questions, the works. Contribute by posting your own content, commenting on other posts, answering people's questions, providing another angle, challenging assertions, firing up debate.  

What not to submit:

• Press releases, new product releases, corporate webinars or other marketing materials.
• Non-HTML files with minimal value, including links to executable programs, screensavers, PDFs, Word Documents, Excel Documents, and so forth. deceptive in any way to our readers
• Content that violates our Terms of Service.

What we'll edit or delete:

• ITworld reserves the right to edit or delete any content posted to the site. Typical edits will be to correct typos, and formatting issues. Deletions will be to remove marketing content, product pitches, inappropriate comments, and other content that does not adhere to our Terms of Service. Please note that we will never edit your submission for quality or content. If we feel it includes inaccuracies, is misleading, does not adhere to our submission guidelines listed here or in our terms of service, or does not offer value to ITworld's community, it will be deleted. You won't be contacted when these edits or deletions occur. However, please contact us if you have any questions about your submission.

Blogging:

We're always looking for new voices. Presently, blogging is by invite only. If interested, please send an email to Jodie Naze with the topic you're interested in blogging about.

Etiquette: … Sorry, but we must

Please be civil, and don't say anything online that you wouldn't say in person.

We will delete comments that are not civil, or that contain unacceptable content. We define unacceptable content as anything included or linked to that:

• is being used to abuse, harass, stalk, or threaten others
• is libelous, knowingly false, ad-hominem, or misrepresents another person
• is obscene, pornographic, abusive, offensive, or profane
• infringes upon a copyright or trademark
• violates an obligation of confidentiality
• violates the privacy of others

If we delete a comment or link, we will say so and explain why.

We allow anonymous comments for now, but we will revoke the functionality immediately if abused.

For more information, please review ITworld's terms of service and privacy policy before you contribute.

Submit feedback, questions, complaints or suggestions to: submissions@itworld.com.

We reserve the right to change these guidelines at any time with no notice.