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."

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Well, there's ...

[FattMattP]

Angelfire, geocities, tripod.

Seriously, that's what the web is really good at: Giving you the ability to publish your own stuff.

First, learn to spell. Next, why do you want this?

[RhetoricalQuestion]

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.