Daily Success Stories from ILLUMINATION
Creating Visibility for Writers
1087 writers are gaining visibility through ILLUMINATION!
It’s wild to be seen differently and have more visibility, but it’s rewarding. — Tatiana Maslany
One of the primary goals of ILLUMINATION is to create visibility for our writers. We proactively conduct innovative approaches internally and externally. Over the last two months, many of our writers leveled up by increasing the number of followers, story views, and read times.
ILLUMINATION is recognized by Google and has gained site authority. For example, when the search term “illumination medium” is used, it hits to the top of the page with details of the publication and showing bios of our writers clearly. I am glad over 200 writers submitted their bios which create excellent visibility for our writers.
Flipboard also authorized our story syndication. Our stories are automatically and instantly added to a Flipboard magazine which has a high rank on Google and shared in various social media platforms. Our external readers can easily access stories created by our writers. You can follow us from the attached link to Flipboard.
Apart from Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn, now, all our stories are also automatically turned into pins on a Pinterest board. We also add our stories to Quora. Several writing communities started approaching us joining our collaboration hub on Slack.
I also started a series of stories featuring our writers in an interview format. These stories provide further visibility to the profiles and the excellent content they have on Medium and other platforms. The attached story includes the completed interviews.
If you are a writer on ILLUMINATION and would like to be interviewed, please send a request via this link with title of “Interview Request”.
What did ILLUMINATION writers create today?
Our writers created many eclectic stories today. I am pleased to see that our writers are engaged in the curation process by leaving comments explaining their great stories to the readers. Attached is a bundle of stories we created on ILLUMINATION today.
Meet New Writers of ILLUMINATION
25 new writers joined us today. We have 1087 writers supporting our publication now. A warm welcome to our new writers: Leon George, Eva L., Nilesh Khatri, Antony Terence, Shental Rohan, Hector t, Luke Beling, Bashar Salame, Charlotte Ivan, Praveen Vijayan, Austin Chan, Michael Shook, Matt Stevenson, Bill Stubblefield, Akash Ray, adan kovinich, Cassius Corbin, Lucy Crisetig, Ben Van Delm, Kristina Segarra, Margaret Eves, Nancy Ann, Harsh D. Singh, MSc, John Cunningham
New writers can start submitting their articles to our publication. Please see the attached story on submission process documented by our editor Timothy Key.
I added many writers to our Slack channel today. Thank you for the inquires and willingness to join our collaboration, ideation, and innovation lab. New writers are invited to join our Slack to have a chat and collaborate with other inspiring writers. We discuss editorial matters, Medium policies, content quality, and overall writing skills improvement. You can request an invitation to Slack from this link. Please type Request for Slack on the heading as I have many other requests from this link.
You can check this story from Timothy Key to learn how to use Slack if you haven’t used it before.
New writers, please check our FAQ document for details of our publication. Our submission guidelines and several other useful documents are attached in this story.
Writer Introductions
We have two introductions today.
Meet our writer Suellen Wheless Estes
Meet our writer GK
200+ writers introduced themselves in their stories so far. This is an opportunity for our writers to showcase their writing portfolio.
I recommend all new writers to introduce themselves in an article. We compile these introductions, keep this resource on the first page of our publication and also share the file with our 8000+ readers. Please see the attached bio document as an example for creating your bios. Our readers are interested in our writers.
Featured Articles
Due to increasing variety and diversity of topics, we featured nine stories from our creative writers today.
Celine Lai
Dr Joel Yong, PhD
Maria Angel Ferrero, Ph.D.
Christopher D. Connors
Ryan Frawley
Jordan Gross
René Junge
Tim Maudlin
Terry Mansfield
Stories from ILLUMINATION distributed to Medium Topics
Four stories from ILLUMINATION were distributed to Medium topics today. Congratulations to all writers who created extra visibility via topics.
A story by Brian E. Wish, PhD was distributed to #economy #politics.
A story by Daniella Mini was distributed to #race.
A story by Leon Purton was distributed to #self.
A story by Erin King was distributed to #parenting.
Content Quality Focus
Our current writers know that we strive for excellence. We aim to increase the quality of your stories and provide an enjoyable reading experience to our followers. Quality is an iterative process. I notice that the quality of our stories is increasing day by day.
New writers: please ensure that you check your stories for typos, spelling, and grammar errors before submitting them to the publication.
We have some volunteering editors who can perform a proof-reading for the writers from the non-English speaking background. You can search for volunteers from our Slack channel. One of the proof-reading tools our writers recommend is Grammarly.
ILLUMINATION Social Media Links
We share our stories in the following platforms. We encourage our new writers to join and follow these links.
Invitation to writers who may be interested in ILLUMINATION
If you want to join our growing and supportive publication as a writer, please leave a message via this link. We curate valuable content for our readers; we create awareness and visibility of our content to wider audience. We also amplify Medium articles on social media to bring new readers and subscribers.
If you have already applied from different means and not added to the publication yet, please try again by directly writing to me. Some messages are easily lost on articles.
Several new top writers joined us. We have now over 650+ writers. The more the better for our diversity. We aim to appeal to millions providing diverse and insightful content globally.
Please see an article by Timothy Key on writer invitation.
