Write for Us

What we're looking for

You may submit a rough draft, a partial draft, or a short pitch (a paragraph or two summarizing your blog or social media content and why it matters to our readers) paired with an outline. The more complete your submission is, the better feedback we can give you. Keep in mind that we only accept original content—we do not publish anything that’s been published elsewhere (including on your blog).

Before you submit, look at our recent articles for insight into structuring and formatting your piece, and make sure your submission:

• Has a voice. Be bold, interesting, and human.
• Is written for an audience of primarily Cisco voice engineers, network engineers, unified collaboration engineers, unified communications engineers, uc administrators, solution architects, or similar.
• Is supported with convincing arguments, not just opinions. Fact-check, and cite sources where appropriate.

What we publish

We publish blog articles of anywhere between 600–2,500 words, depending on subject complexity. 1,500 words is about average. Articles often run with a custom illustration. Articles may be casual in tone and content—great for less-intensive tutorials and posts—or rigorously structured and edited. All should be well-considered explorations of current and cutting-edge topics in the Unified Collaboration industry.

How to submit (and what happens next)

Email us (marketing@variphy.com) your submission. We prefer submissions as Google documents so that editors can easily provide feedback and guidance directly within your draft. You may also send us a plaintext file or a link to an HTML document. (Please do not send a ZIP file of assets unless requested by an editor.)

Here’s what happens after you hit Send:

• An editor will review your submission and determine whether it’s a potential fit. If so, the whole team will review and discuss it. This happens once a week.
• The editor will collect the team’s feedback and get back to you with notes. (We rarely accept an article the first time around, but we’ll tell you if we’re interested.)
• Once you’ve addressed our comments, send your revised draft back. The team will discuss it again and let you know if we want to accept it.
• If we accept your article, an editor will work closely with you on things like organization, argumentation, and style.
• We’ll schedule you for publication as soon as revisions are complete. We can’t give you a specific publication date until the article is almost ready to go live.

Payment

Once published, you will receive payment in the form of an Amazon Gift Card sent via email.