Competition: Aspiring Authors 2011

SharePoint Magazine has always been about community content, professionally edited, but ultimately coming from community authors.

Many authors, however, never have the chance to be noticed by a large audience. Their blogs, containing valuable knowledge for both seasoned professionals and beginning SharePointers never make it into the spotlight.

We want to inspire those authors to contribute great new content to the community and help them get the attention they deserve for their great work.

We’re proud to announce our first Aspiring Authors competition. In this competition, we ask you, as an existing or aspiring author, to submit your article to us for competition entry. Then, our expert jury will pick the best three articles as finalists in the competition.

The articles from these three finalists will go through the normal editing and quality control we have at SharePoint Magazine and will then be published in the magazine, both online and in print.

Finally, after all three finalist articles are published, we ask the community to vote for their favorite article. The winner, by popular vote, will win the grand prize, while the other two finalists will receive runner-up prizes.

The prizes are career boosters, including full tuition scholarships at USPJ Academy, publishing contracts for further articles in SharePoint Magazine, and, for the grand prize winner, inclusion in our upcoming Author Mentoring program, a program designed to hone your authoring skills and give you a great start to a professional authoring career.

What do you have to do to win these great prizes? The first step is to head over to the competition page to read all the rules. Then, check out the article content guidelines, and finally submit your article for consideration.

Jump-start your path to fame. Your big chance is just an article away!

Prizes sponsored by USPJ Academy.