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We welcome contributors of words, pictures, sounds, and video.

Your work is your own, you grant us a non-exclusive license to use your work.

We ask prospective contributors for:

• Full name, skype, email and postal contact information.
• A resumé or CV.
• Writing samples, although your first story is probably enough for us.
• How you want to be credited. For example, if you have a day job as CTO of a company we can credit you and your company. If you have a personal blog or a book on Amazon, we can link to those too.
• An idea of the topics that interest you.
• Interests and conflicts of interest declared upfront.

What we look for:

• Enthusiasm
• Communication skills
• Blogging experience
• A broadband connection
• Skype use
• Insight into the bigger picture

Our process:

• Talk about a topic or beat with an editor
• Pick a project to start with
• Turn it in (email or via skype) to the editor.
• Discuss it, looking to the Skype Journal voice and style
• Editor posts it on your behalf as a guest blogger
• After 4-5 posts you become a correspondent

Becoming a correspondent:

• we set up an account and train you on our authors' interface and posting tools
• we make an author bio page
• you join our standing chats
• if you want, we add you to our news release email alias
• Skype Journal provides press credentials, press access to industry trade shows and conferences, and business cards

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