 WebReference Open Publishing Overview
WebReference wants you! Yes, you - to join our team, and to be seen and heard across the world. We're looking for sharp people to write about the hot web-dev topics of the day for our site and newsletter.
We will consider how-to's, site/software/book reviews, trends, opinion and analysis - anything that would be of interest to our target audience: primarily well-educated, well-compensated intermediate to advanced HTML authors and webmasters.
To start, submit a description and outline of your proposed article. Article length should be 750-1000 words. All articles (especially tutorials) should have working example(s) that support, but don't overshadow, the main ideas and concepts of the article.
What do you get out of it?
- Free Stuff: Authors that are published win a free internet.com t-shirt and a copy of Adobe GoLive 4.
- 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 Web site and read by influential webmasters.
- Promotion: We give back-links to all our freelance writers. If you're a developer, coder, webmaster, 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.
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 over 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 signup form to their site to encourage folks to signup.
Now, before you go any further, take a look at the legal agreement below. We know nobody likes legalese (other than the lawyers), but it protects you and us. After you've read the agreement, click on either Agree or Disagree below. By clicking on Agree, you are verifying that you have read and chosen to accept the conditions specified.
INTERNET.COM FREELANCE AUTHOR/ARTIST AGREEMENT
ONE TIME WORK
This Freelance Author/Artist Agreement is entered between internet.com Corp. with offices at 2020 Hogback Rd. STE 4, Ann Arbor, MI USA 48105 voice 734-971-7906, fax 734-975-9184 ("Internet.com") and you concerning the terms for the use of a certain piece of work in a Internet.com.
Internet.com Publication:webreference.com
- Grant of Rights
: You grant to internet.com an exclusive worldwide right of first publication to the Work for a period of 30 days after internet.com’s publication of the Work, in any and all media and forms of expressions now known, or hereafter devised, including but not limited to all print, computer, on-line, audio, video, Internet and other electronic media or publications in both the original and all foreign languages. After completion of the preceding exclusive term, you grant to internet.com a non-exclusive, and perpetual, worldwide right to the publication of the Work for all print, reprint, book, syndication, computer, on-line, audio, video, Internet and other electronic media use now known, or hereafter devised.
- Retention of Rights
: During the exclusive term, you retain the right only for the following: a) your right to make and distribute copies of all or part of the Work for non-commercial classroom teaching; b) your right to use the Work as part of your private portfolio of works. At the end of the exclusive term, you retain all rights except as granted to Internet.com in Section 1 above.
- Fees
: The fee for the Work will be $0 (the "Fee") and an email and site link within the article. Internet.com is under no obligation to publish the Work.
- Acknowledgment
: internet.com agrees to always acknowledge you as the creator of the Work.
- Acceptance
: Your Work must be delivered complete and in a format that is acceptable to Internet.com. You agree to comply with all time schedules and other requests of Internet.com including providing up to two rewrites of the Work. Upon request, a list of all sources that you relied upon for the Work will be provided to Internet.com. Internet.com reserves the right to adapt or edit the Work as it deems appropriate. All Work is subject to final acceptance by Internet.com.
- Representation
: You represent and warrant to Internet.com that: (1) the Work is original and that you are the sole creator of the Work and have full power and authority to enter into this Agreement; (2) the Work has not been previously published anywhere in whole, or in part; (3) the Work does not, and if published will not, infringe upon any copyright, trademark or other right of any third party; (4) the Work is true and contains no matter that is defamatory; and (5) you will not publish the Work in violation of this Agreement. You agree to cooperate with Internet.com in its defense of any action related to the Work. In addition, you agree to indemnify and hold Internet.com harmless from any and all claims, losses and expenses that are a result of your breach of the foregoing representations.
- Independent
: You agree that you are an independent contractor and not an employee or agent of Internet.com and that you may not bind Internet.com to any agreement or liabilities and that you are solely responsible for paying any taxes, costs, or expenses related to your Work and your receipt of the Fee.
- Assignment
: You may not assign any of your rights under this Agreement. Internet.com may assign its rights in this Agreement with notice to you.
- Miscellaneous
: You agree that this is the entire Agreement between you and Internet.com related to the Work and that this Agreement supersedes all previous agreements and understandings related to the Work. This Agreement may not be amended, or modified nor may any term of this Agreement be waived except by a subsequent writing signed by you and Internet.com. Any disputes related to this Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the State of Connecticut and you consent to the jurisdiction of the courts of the State of Connecticut.
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