Vendor Forum Rules

The APMdigest Vendor Forum was established to give vendors of Application Performance Management (APM), BSM, ITSM, virtualization and cloud management, and related technologies an opportunity to share their views with the IT community in an objective venue. All commentary in Vendor Forum blogs is intended to be objective, vendor-neutral and non-promotional content to educate and enlighten our readers.

All vendors in APM, BSM, ITSM and related market spaces are welcome to blog on the Vendor Forum. To request a blogging account on the Vendor Forum, contact Pete Goldin, Editor-in-Chief of APMdigest.

Please observe the following rules when blogging on the Vendor Forum:

- A request for a blogging account on the Vendor Forum must come directly from the individual whose name will be on the blogs, from that individual's corporate email address.

- Only one representative from each vendor will be allowed to maintain a blogging account for the Vendor Forum at any particular time, if that vendor does not sponsor APMdigest. To change the blogger for your company, contact Pete Goldin, Editor-in-Chief of APMdigest.

- APMdigest sponsors are allowed multiple blogging accounts on the Vendor Forum. Gold Sponsors get 4 blogging accounts, and Silver Sponsors get 2 blogging accounts. This sponsor benefit is especially helpful for companies with multiple "thought leaders" in the industry who would like to claim authorship for their own blogs. Click here to find out how you can sponsor APMdigest.

- Do not promote your own company, products or partners in blogs on the Vendor Forum. Topics should be general industry interest.

- Do not criticize a competitor's products or company in any blogs on the Vendor Forum.

- Do not include any links in the body copy of the blog. All bloggers will be allowed to include a link to their company website home page at the end of the blog. However, only sponsors of APMdigest can include additional links at the end of the blog, to other pages on their websites, white papers, webinars, articles, blogs, etc. Sponsors of APMdigest will also have a company logo at the end of each blog, linking to their website. Click here to find out how you can sponsor APMdigest.

- Try to keep blogs to 500 words or less. This is more of a guideline than a rule. You can include more content if you wish, but I recommend posting shorter blogs more often. If you have written a 1000+ word blog, consider breaking it into two or more blogs, and post them a week apart. You could call them Part One and Part Two, if you want.

- All blogs will be reviewed by APMdigest prior to publication. The publication of any blog is at the sole discretion of APMdigest.

- You can re-post your blogs from the Vendor Forum on your own blogs or websites, as long as you mention that the blog was posted on APMdigest, and include a link to our site. However, we recommend linking to the blog on APMdigest.com rather than posting the full blog on your site, to highlight the fact that the content was published by an independent third party. Publication of your blog on a respected industry site provides strong thought leadership credibility for the author and company.