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Repositories for IT White Papers?
itsAsony asks: "What are the free and paid repositories / portals where I can present my technical white papers (IT papers) that appeals and reaches a wide network of IT personnels such as engineers, technical management, IT sales, in the area of eBusiness & eBilling. I know of one such portal: ZDNet. Basically I am looking for an online portal and print & media source thru which I can present my case to the peer group, not a B-2-C, but peer-2-peer. Thanks for your help."
Holy shit, portals, P2P, B2C, IT whitepapers...? Are you sure you're at the right site??
Seriously, that's what the web is really good at: Giving you the ability to publish your own stuff.
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There's always itpapers.com.
The Tao that can be spoken is not the one eternal Tao
If it has anything to do with the research or numbers outside of your own company (like you surveyed someone in the industry or you consolidated the questionnaires from your clients), I will take it (link to it with article piece).
I run IT Facts site, which collects facts on IT, mostly research, surveys, numbers and graphs.
Send an e-mail to webmaster at that domain name. The site is also syndicated to some other outfits, so you'll get exposure on other resources, too.
When doing IT research I use the ACM Digital Library first, my school has a subsciption. However depending on what specifically your looking for there are probably better DBs available. I've found that it really matters, for example I'm writing on KMSs, I find most hits under Business/Law Databases. See what Databases a local university has access to, and try to take advantage. Take a zip or something so you can take copies along with you.
My inner self is ineffable, so don't eff with me.
People pay me to write whitepapers. If you want to be paid for this (or even get reputable free online publishing), you must first learn that "thru" is not a word.
You haven't really made it clear why you want to put this in an online repository. Do you want to the world to see your research that you did on your own time? Or have you written something for your company and now you want to do some fast and cheap (and therefore, probably not good) PR and Marketing Communications? Or what?
In any case, most whitepapers (these days) are written by companies promoting their particular approach to a solution (some of these have good tech information, others are basically long bad brochures), by research groups like IDC, or research departments of large companies like IBM. These are typically distributed (or sold) by the companies who produce them -- so if you hit company X's website, you could pull up whitepapers written by company X, or written by IDC for which company X paid $20,000 to acquire distribution rights. Occaisionally, they will work through various partner arrangements to get these posted elsewhere -- like ZDNet, or more specialized areas like BEA's partner website. Usually it's in exchange for something like the ability to co-market in some way.
I'm not really aware of other big general repositories -- companies I've worked for have tried to go for targeted distribution, not some massive online repository. In any case, get some detailed, buzzword-free information on who your audience is, and then ask them a) if they read whitepapers (sales people usually don't), b) if they find them useful, and c) where they get them from. That will tell you where need to put your information.
If you really want to get this information out to a larger audience, you may be better off re-organizing the information as an article instead of a whitepaper. Find a magazine (online or otherwise) that targets your audience, ask them about their writer's guidelines (tech magazines often have these online) and check that they take unsolicited articles. You could then self-publish the whitepaper online, and have the (shorter) article point there.
I can spell. I just can't type.
Why not publish it in one of the journals?
Well, since you want to posture yourself this way, you should expect replies like this one. Hopefully, instead of saying "FLAMEBAIT!! OFFTOPIC!! MUST MOD DOWN!" right away, you will ponder the application of this message to your writing.
Occaisionally, they will work
I do not believe "occaisionally" is in the dictionary. Your acid-dipped cursor is rendered impotent by this spelling error. Granted, it could simply be the result of typing too fast.
Or what?
Can you diagram that sentence?
Or have you written
Do not start sentences with the word "or".
(some of these have good tech information, others are basically long bad brochures)
This should have been a sentence. It makes the sentence it was gratuitously inserted into much harder to read.
Usually it's in exchange
There is no verb here. You are probably using "it's" as a contraction for "it is" in this case, and your meaning is confused by the poor structure of the previous sentence. There is no antecedent for "it" here.
information on who your audience is
This can be shortened to "information regarding your audience" for clarity.
typically distributed (or sold) by the companies
have the (shorter) article point there
You do not need parentheses here.
In numerous places your usage of parentheses could have been replaced by commas, semicolons, or new sentences. Some commas and double hyphens could have been altered as well. Redundant punctuation only obfuscates your writing.
Avoid contractions.
In summary: You have addressed the author's question, and answered it adequately. The last paragraph is the most meaningful, useful and direct answer given in your entire message. However, your assumed superiority was not justified by the quality of your writing. Is this the quality of your typical paid writing? Setting your writing standards higher will earn you more money and repeat customers.
I do not believe that this person was the one trying to promote his writing skills, so perhaps you should impose your subjective choice of writing style (hey, some people like using parentheses) on the original poster (unless that happens to be you, in which case you should really get some thicker skin if you want to put your personal writing out for all to see (I bet these parentheses are killing you)).
Allows you to search all kinds of papers, including technical paper.s
This is RhetoricalQuestion. I'm posting anonymously to avoid cluttering this thread with this sidebar discussion.
Thank you for your comments. Your assessment of my writing in this post is correct. I'm aware of my tendancy to overuse parenthetical remarks. I try to avoid this tendancy in my professional writing by carefully planning the structure of each piece before writing.
No, the parent post is not reflective of my professional writing. I plan and edit my professional work, whereas I seldom plan or edit my slashdot posts. Clearly I should have for this particular post. I keep my slashdot persona separate from my professional persona by not revealing my slashdot nickname to anyone. You could figure out who I am with very little effort, but most of my employers are not technical and have not heard of slashdot.
"Thru" is a pet peeve of mine. I think the unintentional superior tone in my post is a result my irritation at seeing "thru" being used among some very annoying buzzwords.
Again, thank you for taking the time to comment with constructive criticism.
I am the same author who wrote your reply's parent.
It appears that we understand each other. This is good. It also appears someone else doesn't get it, and that's a shame.
I too notice - and produce - spelling and grammar errors quite readily, and have my share of pet peeves. So, I try to correct them where possible in the interest of honing my own skills and my recipient's skills. I always welcome constructive criticism of my own work, and it's good to see someone else who understands what constructive criticism is. We would probably get along well if we worked together.
Glad we're seeing eye to eye here.
Wish I had my mod points, I love it when people talk smack and get smacked for the same issues.
Can I get an eye poke?
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Did you know what he meant by "thru"? Were you incapable of deciphering his meaning? Did you rush eagerly to your dictionary, "what the devil does he mean using such a complicated cipher"? If you asnewred yes to the 1st and no to tw0 and thr33 tehn you are a pmopous a$s.
bnet.com is a pretty good repository from what I have seen. I have never tried to submit anything there, but it seems to be a decent site for business and IT related white paper.
If you want your paper on itpapers.com, and the rest of the ZDNet sites, just submit it, and if it is good, it will be added. An advantage of this, is that you will definitely get indexed by the major search engines.
I have mod points, but I make it a rule not to waste them on AC posts.
Which is really a shame because discussion that was actually more valuable that the main topic itself was.
Of course, having posted this, I'm no longer able to mod it anyhow.
Just once, I'd like it if someone called me "Sir".
Without adding, "You're creating a scene."
Ahhhhhhhh! Brain fart!
Which is really a shame because THAT discussion was actually more valuable THAN the main topic itself.
Just once, I'd like it if someone called me "Sir".
Without adding, "You're creating a scene."