avatarDr Mehmet Yildiz

Summary

ILLUMINATION, a Medium publication, has reached new milestones with over 5248 readers and 350+ writers, expanding its presence on LinkedIn, and implementing strategies to enhance writer collaboration and content visibility.

Abstract

The ILLUMINATION publication on Medium has achieved significant growth, recently surpassing 5248 readers and now boasting a diverse group of over 350 writers. In the past 23 hours, the publication has made strides in its editorial news, including the creation of a LinkedIn site, the development of a social media strategy tailored to LinkedIn's professional audience, and the syndication of stories to Flipboard. The publication encourages cross-pollination among writers through interviews and features new writer introductions. Additionally, ILLUMINATION has improved its navigation and curation process by incorporating reader feedback and has seen ten articles distributed to Medium topics, increasing visibility. The publication also emphasizes the importance of submission quality, providing guidelines to ensure timely and high-quality publishing of articles.

Opinions

  • The publication values continual growth and progress, considering these elements essential for success.
  • The expansion onto LinkedIn is seen as a strategic move to tap into a professional audience, with a dedicated social media strategy being developed.
  • There is an emphasis on creating a supportive community for writers, with initiatives like writer interviews and a Slack channel for collaboration.
  • The publication actively encourages new writers to join and contribute to the diversity of content and perspectives.
  • ILLUMINATION prioritizes the quality of submissions, with a focus on proper image citation and adherence to submission guidelines to maintain high publishing standards.
  • The curation process includes reader input, suggesting a reader-centric approach to featuring content.
  • The publication celebrates individual writer achievements, such as articles being distributed to Medium topics, highlighting the collective success of the community.

Daily Success Stories from ILLUMINATION

Editorial News

ILLUMINATION serves 5248 Medium readers with 350+ writers

Image by S. Hermann & F. Richter from Pixabay

“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.” — Benjamin Franklin

After reaching our 5th milestone yesterday, we made further progress in preparing for the 6th milestone in front of us. Our daily growth is noticeable from the increasing number of readers and the participation of several new writers.

In this post, I want to provide you with our progress made in the last 23 hours.

What did we create today?

Stories in the attached article were distributed to 5248 readers today.

LinkedIn Presence

After our presence on Twitter and Facebook, one of our editors Sylvia Love Johnson created a new site for ILLUMINATION on LinkedIn. You can find the details in the attached article written by Sylvia.

Since LinkedIn has a different culture than other social media platforms and has over 620 Million professionals, we are working on a social media strategy. To this end, one of our leading writers Arthur G. Hernandez created a story to discuss the strategy. Your input will be invaluable.

Flipboard Story Syndication

In addition, we worked on syndicating ILLUMINATION articles to Flipboard.

Please find the Flipboard Magazine I created today. It is called ILLUMINATION on Medium.

Other writers created ILLUMINATION Magazines on Flipboard.

The Flipboard Magazine by René Junge. It is called FLIPS.

The Flipboard Magazine by Brian E. Wish, PhD. It is called The Fifth Wall.

I recommend our writers to create their Magazines to create visibility of our stories. To learn how to create your Flipboard Magazines, please see the article from our writer Holly Jahangiri.

As mentioned yesterday, I syndicate all our stories to my blog by using RSS feature on Medium. This syndication enables Google to index our stories. Here is the link to my blog.

🦄 Chris Hedges also created a site to index all our stories on Google. You can access the site from this link.

Design Update

Our publication logo and avatar were designed by one of our entrepreneurial writers Tameem Rahman. With Tameem’s contribution, our publication has a a more professional look. Hope you enjoy the new look!

New Challenge for ILLUMINATION Writers

To enhance cross-pollination among our writers, I recommend each writer to interview at least one another writer in a story. The purpose of this exercise is to explore a writer on ILLUMINATION you don’t know yet. You can ask 5–7 key questions to understand their writing practice featuring sample stories of the writer. You can create an engaging story by featuring your selected writer with your creative description. I plan to use these interview stories as a collaboration building artifact for our writers.

New Writers of ILLUMINATION

17 new writers joined us today.

A warm welcome to our new writers:

Destiny Femi, Dr Gautam Kulkarni, Tony Young, Jr., Aimée Gramblin, Amritansh Sagar, Carol Piasente, Neha S.Saberwal, Edward Hines, Kayo Zaduban, Alexander Boswell, Dimitris Leo, Celine Thrane, KIP — Knowledge is Power, Mike Goldberg, Tim Ebl, Marina Lopes, Margherita Gilley, Murat Can Budak

New writers are invited to join our Slack channel to have a chat and collaborate with other inspiring writers. We also discuss editorial matters, Medium policies, content quality, and overall writing skills improvement.

We created a comfortable and innovative social circle for our writers. If this link does not work, please contact me so that I can send you a private invitation to Slack.

Please check our FAQ document for details of our publication. Our submission guidelines is in this document.

Writer Introductions

Five writers introduced themselves. I enjoyed reading these great bios.

Meet our writer Debbie Walker

Meet our writer Meen Sokri

Meet our writer Viktor Marchev

Meet our writer pinkleather

Meet our writer Keno Ogbo

100+ 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 5000+ readers. Please see the attached bio document as an example for creating your bios. Our readers are interested in our writers.

Featured Articles

Please check the first page of the publication to find the featured articles.

We made some changes to the look of the publication for easy navigation.

As a reader, if you are impressed by an article, you may leave a message to this article so that we can consider featuring them on our publication. As a reader focused publication, we want to include the choices of our readers to our curation process.

Articles from ILLUMINATION distributed to Medium Topics

I am pleased that ten insightful articles were distributed to Medium topics in the last 24 hours. Distribution of these articles to topics creates additional visibility to our publication. Many thanks to these writers for their contributions.

An article by George J. Ziogas was distributed to #self #parenting

Another article by George J. Ziogas was distributed to #work

An article by Daniella Mini distributed to #race #equality

An article by Helen Cassidy Page #self #health

An article by Dew Langrial was distributed to #self

An article by Rebecca Romanelli was distributed to #mental health

An article by Julia E Hubbel was distributed to #self

An article by Simona was distributed to #self #psychology #neuroscience

An article by Mallika Vasak was distributed to #Philosophy

An article by @Marina T Alamanou PhD was distributed to #science #health

Invitation to new writers

If you want to join our growing and supportive publication as a writer, please leave a message on our FAQ document. 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.

Several new top writers joined us. We have now around 350 writers. The more the better for our diversity. We aim to appeal to millions.

Please see an article by Timothy Key on writer invitation.

Submission Quality

Current writers, please check our submission guidelines authored by Kevin Buddaeus to ensure your articles are published on a timely basis. One key point delaying some articles are not citing the images. This is a simple point but essential for publishing your stories on time. We strive for excellence. Our aim is to increase quality of your stories. Details are in the attached article.

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