Summary

Dancing Elephants Press, a publication focused on positivity, reflects on its 2021 accomplishments and shares plans for the future.

Abstract

Dancing Elephants Press, a publication on Medium, was launched on October 9, 2021. The publication's mission is to bring positivity into people's lives. In its first three months, Dancing Elephants Press expanded to include Health and Wellness and Recipe for Health sections. The publication's statistics show an increase in visitors and readers, with the highest viewed article being "Everyday Habits That Cause You to Age Faster" by Cypriano Mokobia. In December 2021, the publication published 54 articles and shared them on Twitter, Facebook, and Quora. The founder, Gabriella, expresses gratitude to the writers and readers and shares plans for the future, including finding editors and columnists and creating a yearly book featuring selected articles.

Opinions

The founder believes that the increase in visitors and readers is a great accomplishment for the small publication.
Gabriella expresses gratitude to the writers and readers for their contributions to the publication.
The founder is looking for individuals interested in participating as editors or columnists in the publication.
Gabriella plans to create a yearly book featuring selected articles from the publication.

Dancing Elephants Press: Looking Back on 2021 Accomplishments and Plans for the Future

Dancing Elephant created by Andrea Mihaly

Today our publication it’s getting close to being three months old. An infant. We are still in our early stages of development just like the little avocado leaves we are emerging from the soil slowly before becoming a fruit-bearing tree. Dancing Elephant Press was born on medium on October 9, 2021.

The goal and the mission of the publication are to bring positivity into our lives. Since the publication was started we expanded from a regular column by adding a Health and Wellness section and a Recipe for Health Section into the publication. Many wonderful articles had been published since we started our publication. It has been great to meet many new writers and interact with old friends.

Dancing Elephants Press Statistics for 2021:

In the past 90 days Dancing Elephants Press had:

21,109 minutes read

17,784 views

146 visitors — 90-day daily average

In the past 30 days Dancing Elephants Press had

18,888 minutes read

14,562 views

392 visitors — 30-day daily average

As you can see in the graphs above our visitors and readers are increasing and been higher this past month than in the previous months. I think this is a great accomplishment for our small publication.

In 2021 our highest lifetime viewed article in Dancing Elephant Press for the past 3 months Cypriano Mokobia Everyday Habits That Cause you to Age Faster with 9.7 K views. Internal referrals 94%.

Our Next highest lifetime viewed article in Dancing Elephant Press is from Jo An Fox-Wright Maddox How to Bathe a Dog and Survive with 1.1 K views. 98% external referrals. This article was chosen for distribution on December 29th. The distribution created a little bump in the readers but was not significant compared to when the article was originally published. This article takes the first spot among the articles in December.

#2 viewed article in 2021 and #1 article in December

Our third-highest lifetime viewed article in Dancing Elephant Press is by Ayoub Mouhachtt 10 Books to read in December 2022 with 558 views. 93% internal traffic. This article takes the second spot among the articles in December.

#3 article in 2021 and #2 article in December

In December Dancing Elephant Press published 54 articles. The articles were shared on Twitter and Facebook in the Dancing Elephant Press group. We also started to share some of the articles on Quora.

I would like to thank all the people who signed up as writers and readers for the publication.

Jo An Fox-Wright Maddox, Antonis Iliakis, Wendi Lady, Dr. Preeti Singh, Sharing Randomly, Yana Bostongirl, Trista Signe Ainsworth, Ayoub Mouhachtt, Vidya Sury, Collecting Smiles, Carrie, Cynthia A. Morgan, Cypriano Mokobia, Tunnel Books, author and creator, Francis Edwards, Filiz Özer, Christina DeFeo, pockett dessert, Natalie Gasper, Alejandro Betancourt, Neal Lemery, Art Bram, Victoria Gregg, Jodian Marie Thomas, MS, Bsc, Asc, Sumit Kumar, Siobhan Champion, Synthia Stark, Saif Farooqi, PhD, Rane Kelze, Rahul Anand, Nimity, Nikki Waterson, B.R. Shenoy, Umme Salma, Nathalie Clair, Marrisa W., Kevin J Fellows, Kedy, E. Katherine Kottaras, Gaurav Jain, Judey Kalchik, Darlene Corbett, DR Rawson - The Possibilist, Holly Faupel, Winston, Pius Adejumobi, Bright Okeye, Andreas D., Alex Lorenzen, Agnes Davis, Adam Nathan Wieland.

Vision for the Future:

I would like to support our writers and readers more in the future and would like to find a few people who would be interested in participating as editors or columnists with their section and responsibilities in the publication.

If you are interested, please let me know and we can set up a time to talk.

Dancing Elephant Press Book of 2022:

I have been also thinking about collaborating and creating a book for the publication that would be published yearly from the articles and authors who would like to participate. I would like to start this process this year and create a separate column where the Dancing Elephant Press Book articles are published. The articles will have a separate tag and set criteria. I will be working on this plan in the next few weeks and announce it once it is fully formed. Depending on how many articles are submitted a collection of stories would be published yearly or more frequently. Sections of the book would focus on Positivity — Feel Good Articles, Health and Mental Health, Wellness, and Other categories as they emerge. This will be a good way to place our writings in a more permanent form.

Thank you for reading and being part of Dancing Elephants Press.

Happy Writing and Reading in 2022,

Gabriella