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What is Open Current?

Open Current is a community resository of best practices for executives and investors charged with building and managing SaaS and Cloud computing companies. Best practices are broadly defined and can cover anything from online marketing to exit strategies. It is NOT a repository of best practices for buying and using SaaS and cloud computing applications.




Who can submit?

Anyone can make a submission, but all submissions must properly attribute and link to the original author and publishing website.




What to submit?

Submissions are divided into the two gerneral categories of "classic blog posts" and "best practice guides" which are pretty much what they sound like, but with some room for interpretation. Best practice guides should be deep, edited content such as eBooks, training presentations, industry research, etc. probably in the form of PDFs, PPTs, online presentations, or website sections. Classic blog posts are lighter content, not necessarily from a blog post, but definitely classic. What doesn't cut it is light content that isn't classic (like your average blog post). Classic can most easily be determined by the online visibility (links, tweets, search rank, etc,) and offline word of mouth that the original article generated within the SaaS and cloud computing community. Please review content already approved for a benchmark of expected quantity and quality.




How are submissions approved?

All submissions are moderated by Chaotic Flow with the intent of maintaining a high standard of quality. Please understand that all submissions will not be approved. In particular, the original content itself must be unbiased, sales-free and genuinely helpful to executives at SaaS and Cloud computing companies. It absolutely cannot be sales presentations or marketing brochures or they will be rejected without predjudice. If the original content itself is paid, e.g., a research study, there is room for a sales pitch in the summary description. So, the short answer is to submit really high quality stuff.




How to submit?

Only registered users can submit content. Regisration is simply email address and password. The email address is not used for any marketing purposes whatsoever, it is strictly used for authentication to create a secure account where you can create and update your submissions. If you wish to subscribe to the content from either Open Current or Chaotic Flow, you must do so by subscribing separately to the RSS feed by feedreader or email, or by following on Twitter.




Submissions should consist of a summary or exceprt from the original article (up to 1000 characters), NOT a complete copy of the original content which in many cases may be protected by copyright. A complete submission should include the following:

• Title
• Summary description or excerpt ( < 1000 characters )
• Hyperlink to the original article
• Original Author's name
• Original publishing website name
• Hyperlink to image ( optional, but recommended...rendered at 100px x 100px )
• Category and tags ( category required, tags optional but recommended )

You will be notified about your submission approval status within 24 hours (usually).

Please send inquiries to submissions [at] open-current.com.

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