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GEN GLOBAL POST GUIDELINES

GEN Global welcomes guest blog posts from Global Entrepreneurship Week hosts, partners, theme ambassadors and event organizers to help disseminate information relating to their milestones, entrepreneurship support events and programs, as well as insight into the entrepreneurial ecosystem in their local community or country.

POST REQUIREMENTS:

  • Well-written and high-quality original post related to Global Entrepreneurship Week, partners and events to promote the weeklong celebration
  • Post should be roughly 250 – 500 words
  • Proper attribution of data, quotations, and other third-party content referenced in the article
  • Short (2-3 sentences) author bio and photo

WHAT TO INCLUDE:

  • 250 – 500 word blog post
  • Short (2-3 sentences) author bio and headshot photo
  • URL link to your existing GEN Global personal profile page
  • Please make sure your proper title and organization are included
  • Suggested headline
  • High-resolution, horizontal picture or image (typically 1 MB or larger)

TONE / FORMAT / STYLE:

  • Tone should match that of other posts on the GEN Global website –substantive and informative but accessible, not overly formal or academic.
  • Posts should avoid excessive self-promotion or hype-laden marketing language.
  • Posts should be submitted in HTML or in a Word document with links fully embedded.

PHOTOS:

  • The post should include one photo of image of high quality and be relevant to the post content – no clip art or blurry, pixelated images. Images are typically 1 MB or larger for full quality.
  • Proper attribution should be included at the bottom of the post as follows:
    [image credit: Name]
  • You must provide assurance that he or she may freely dispose of the rights to use the work and that there are no rights of third parties that prevent the free use of the work by the Global Entrepreneurship Network, in particular no copyright, trademark, personal or other protective rights.

EDITORIAL REVIEW / REPUBLISHING:

  • The GEN Global communications teamreserves the right to edit and adapt guest blog posts or in some cases to reject them.
  • We cannot allow you to republish your member post to your own blog afterward (sites get punished by search engines if they have too much duplicate content), but you're more than welcome to link to it and share it on social media.

HOW TO SUBMIT:

  • Member posts should be emailed to Jessica Wray, marketing and communications associate, at .

RESTRICTIONS:

Please refrain from publicizing products or events that have a cost.