An Initiative for Accelerating Curation

My Curated Stories on ILLUMINATION — Sample

Selected stories by Dr Mehmet Yildiz hosted on ILLUMINATION to invite all writers to create their collections

A good system shortens the road to the goal. — Orison S. Marden

Purpose and Context

The purpose of this story is to introduce a new initiative for collecting curated stories of ILLUMINATION writers. My goal is to provide a sample story framework to get the action started.

As Benjamin Franklin pointed out for every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned. We need a smart system to make our stories easily accessible by our readers. This structured approach will enable us to promote our content in more effective and efficient ways.

There are millions of stories on Medium. Unless we purposefully make them visible, our stories will be buried, and our readers will not have a chance to review them. Effective organizational and information management skills are essential for the success of Medium writers.

Our publication aims to help our writers to gain maximum visibility to their readers. As an editor, I lead the way; however, as an author, you need to take responsibility to make your stories visible using practical tools and techniques that we offer.

Once you submit your stories, I will enter them in a new collection file and distribute them to our 24,000+ readers. Please feel free to tag me so that I can be notified when you submit your collection.

In addition, I want to create a comprehensive resource to help our new writers experience curation on Medium by learning from the work of our accomplished writers. This resource aims to increase cross-pollination among our writers. Curated articles can create serendipitous encounters.

In the following section, I provide you with the syntax to create the collection consist of your curated stories. I will give similar guidance to other collections in separate stories related to our productivity initiatives.

Here is the proposed structure to prepare your collection for curated stories.

The title of your story

Collection of Curated Stories on ILLUMINATION (in Heading 1 format)

The subtitle of your story

Selected stories by [insert your tagged account name] hosted on ILLUMINATION

Kicker

An Initiative for Accelerating Curation

Sample presentation of curated stories in your collection

The syntax for this collection requires four components.

1. Title of the curated story to be in heading one format

2. Name of the topics for distribution to be in heading two format with # sign

3. An abstract of the story in italic quotes including around 100 words

4. Provide an embedded link to the story.

The following section provides sample stories from my collection hosted on ILLUMINATION.

Anxiety in Difficult Times

Distributed to #Mental Health

We notice that the level of anxiety is growing globally due to current situations caused by public health concerns. As it is on a massive scale, I want to provide a practical framework based on my studies and experience to deal with anxiety in these difficult times.

Innovative Use of Negative Criticism

Distributed to #Psychology #Education #Self #Mindfulness

My central premise in this article is looking at the topic from survival versus thriving point of view. While survival keeps us safe in our comfort zones, thriving requires effort to move out of our comfort zones and challenge our abilities. This significant yet straightforward viewpoint is the major success factor for humans to grow and design their lives based on their desired goals and objectives.

Cross-Pollination at Work

Distributed to #Leadership #Work

In this article, I highlight the value and importance of cross-pollination for high-performance teams in transforming business environment. I share a simple example which helped transform a competitive, rigid, and difficult culture to a pleasant learning environment.

Ethical Hacking

Distributed to #Cybersecurity

In this article, I aim to create awareness on ethical hacking, its purpose, use cases, and a brief introduction to the role of ethical hackers in digital transformation initiatives. My goal is to help security executives and managers choose the best ethical hackers for their business. As a by-product, the information in this article can also guide the aspiring ethical hackers to build their skills and plan their experience.

How to Spark Innovative Collaboration

Distributed to #Leadership #Business

In this article, I share my thoughts stemming from my experience on how to ignite collaboration leading innovation in the workplace, particularly in the digital transformation initiatives where innovation truly matter. We know that the term collaboration is overused and loses its significance nowadays, especially with the emergence of Internet technologies and digital transformation initiatives.

Power of Design Thinking for Writers

Distributed to #Writing #Design

Design Thinking can be useful for writers too. This is my main premise in this short article. Writers can use Design Thinking principles for quality, simplicity, and agility purposes. Design Thinking can be considered as an innovative problem-solving technique with close interactions of the actual users of the solutions. As writers, one of our fundamental roles is to solve problems for our readers and delight them.

Prominent Adult Learning Theories

Distributed to #Leadership #Education #Psychology

In this article, I share the summary of the literature review which I conducted to underpin learning characteristics of technical leaders. In this review, my aim is to introduce major adult learning theories and models as well as their major principles. These principles are used to recognize cognitive patterns of technical leaders whom I surveyed and interviewed both qualitatively and quantitatively for validation of findings. These theories and models were used to support key ideas and discussions included in the major themes of the research study.

Inventor’s Perspective to Leadership Growth

Distributed to #Leadership

One of the best lessons I learnt in my childhood from my parents was taking full responsibility for everything I did in my life; whether good or bad. This well-rounded principle has been an important transformational success factor in every aspect of my life, including my leadership pursuits in later years. This life lesson helped me explore and discover the leadership capabilities hidden in my DNA. I enjoy experimenting and learning from trial and errors.

How to be an excellent technical leader

Distributed to #Leadership

In this article, I provide an overview of the 26 key characteristics of excellent technical and technology leaders who can survive and thrive even in the most critical situations to deliver outstanding business results, keep their team members sane, make their stakeholders happy, and delight their customers. My goal is to provide practical guidance to aspiring digital transformation entrepreneurs for startup companies or intrapreneurs working in large business organisations. The context of the leadership in this article is related to new technology business, transformational environments, and enterprise modernisation initiatives. However, these traits might also apply to leaders in other domains.

Business Value and Architectural Overview of Robotics Process Automation

Distributed to #Artificial Intelligence

In this article, my aim is to briefly introduce what Robotics Process Automation (RPA) is, it’s business value, the major use cases, how it works, how we can enhance it, and my experience on architecting solutions to meet the customer requirements. If you are tired of performing tedious and repetitive tasks and witnessing too many errors upsetting your clients, your business may need the use of Robotics Process Automation empowered by software robots and the capabilities artificial intelligence.

Cognitive Transformation

Distributed to #Artificial Intelligence

The purpose of this article is to briefly introduce to you what cognitive computing entails, its current progress in the industry, the value proposition for its necessity, and my personal observations and thoughts on trends and future plans. Most of us in the IT industry most likely heard, read about, or already started working with the cognitive systems for various practical use cases. Would you like to have a quick taste? Then, keep reading! I simplified this complex topic as much as possible in this article.

Business Architecture Framework for Digital Transformation

Distributed to #Software Engineering #Leadership #Programming

In order to create effective business architecture for complex digital transformation programs, we must follow an established yet innovative framework. A framework is a basic structure underlying a business and technology system. Our framework can start with understanding the organizational structure of the business. This framework can include multiple considerations and business viewpoints. Business organizations are made up of stakeholders with different roles focusing on common goals.

Conclusion

Thank you for reading my stories. I look forward to exploring and reading your fascinating stories too. Keep creating and sharing meaningfully. Think big and thrive! Don’t let the critics kill your beautiful dreams. Life is too short to worry about the petty demands of critics. Our focus is on uplifting people who work hard to make a real difference for humanity.

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