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March 2024: Monthly Updates from ILLUMINATION Editorial Team
Helpful information summarizing achievements and plans for writers, readers, editors, curators, and administrators
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Dear writers and readers, Happy March. This month, I needed to write this newsletter from my secondary account, which I mainly use for publishing and curation activities, especially for Technology Hits. For those who don’t know me, my main account is Dr Mehmet Yildiz. The reason I wanted to pen this newsletter is our volunteer editors and administrators are exhausted with publishing, curation, and problem solving duties, and giving them this additional task will make their duties even harder.
Last few months Aiden (Illumination Gaming) helped us to compile updates, but now he is busy with curating, boost nominations, publishing, media coordination, and moderating our Slack workspace.
Yesterday was ILLUMINATION’s 4th anniversary. Mike Broadly, DHSc wrote a great story about it. I established ILLUMINATION on 19 March 2020 as a small publication, but now it has become a massive resource on Medium, contributed by 27949 writers.
Since 19 February, 924 new writers have joined, and we successfully onboarded them and gave them access to Slack workspace with the help of volunteer administrators, editors, and moderators. These activities are tedious and time-consuming, requiring much time and effort. All volunteers donate time to maintain this wonderful reading and writing community.
I aim to help every writer, especially new ones, build their audience quickly using our large community. With the support of many writers, our goal is to delight loyal readers and contribute to the growth of Medium, which is a wonderful platform for all of us.
Apart from orchestrating the workload of 151 volunteer editors, as an owner and chief editor, I have multiple roles. As our pubs do not earn income, I must shoulder support activities daily, which consume significant time. For example, as I mentioned in a previous story, I have thousands of unopened emails and Slack messages that concern me. Considering my workload, it is impossible to respond to these inquiries timely. If I cannot get back to you within 24 to 48 hours, please contact my backups Aiden (Illumination Gaming), Mike Broadly, DHSc, Lawson Wallace, K. Joseph, The Sturg, and InYah, who kindly volunteered to answer urgent inquiries in my absence.
Our loyal readers always appreciate fresh voices, so we quickly introduce new writers when they join us through welcome packs like this. Our writers range from absolute beginners to experts. Around 10% are beginners, 20% advanced, and 70% in between. We support absolute beginners via Readers Hope, most experience via ILLUMINATION-Curated, and the large group in ILLUMINATION and our specialized pubs. We have a good structure as every level of writers is valuable for our diverse range of readers. You can learn the details in each updated guideline of our pubs below.
We have updated submission guidelines to align with Medium’s new distribution guidelines after August 2023. New writers can find them from the following links.
ILLUMINATION Videos and Podcasts: Submission Guidelines 2023
Publishing and Conduct Guidelines for the Lampshade of ILLUMINATION
ILLUMINATION’s Nutrition- Nutrition: Curated Stories — Volume 1. [new]
To ensure your content is published promptly, we kindly ask for your patience and request that you submit high-quality content and copyright-free images. We cannot stress enough how crucial quality is.
Boost Nominations
After so many questions, I answered some critical ones in a new story. I believe it will be helpful to increase your chances of boosting in our pubs.
Since October 2023, our special publication, ILLUMINATION-Curated, has served as a boost nominating pub. In addition, Aiden’s popular pub, ILLUMINATION Gaming, is now part of the boost program. Aiden and I, with support from other editors, spend several hours daily to find exceptional pieces for boost nomination.
Recently, editors interviewed me on our boost nomination approach. We hope the script of this interview can guide you. How ILLUMINATION Publications Support the BOOST Program
We feature boosted stories weekly or fortnightly. Here is a sample one sent by Aiden (Illumination Gaming) . This is an excellent resource for writers and a curated collection for our readers, particularly Friends of Medium, who ask for such content.
Boost Education
Last year, I created a comprehensive checklist to increase the chance of boosting especially for new writers. This checklist will help all writers enhance the quality of their stories.
I also published an important article addressing the most commonly asked question about increasing income from writing on Medium and other platforms based on my decades of content development and marketing experience to guide aspiring writers.
Aiden started an education series by analyzing boosted stories of accomplished writers with a high acceptance rate.
Why Did I Upgrade Our Accounts to Friends of Medium Subscription?
I have three publication support accounts and one personal account. I upgraded all of them to Friends of Medium subscriptions to support our readers. Reading from these accounts will allow writers to earn four times more. I posted a bulletin in December 2023 titled Why I Became a Friend of Medium. I invited all our readers to become Friends with Medium in a post titled Importance and Value of Medium Friendship for Writers and Readers. In addition, I upgraded my personal account to support our writers, as I read a lot. Here is my story: Celebrating My Reading Anniversary with My Upgraded Subscription to New Medium Friendship.
Our curators Mike Broadly, DHSc and Aiden (Illumination Gaming) also upgraded their subscriptions to contribute to our writers as they read a lot and curate many stories daily. Aiden shared his sentiments.
Out of the 28,000+ writers supported by my publications on Medium, over 8,000 are currently non-members. We support them as a diverse and inclusive community. If these 8,000 writers chose to support the platform by investing just $5 a month, it could significantly boost our collective earnings. This could contribute around $480,000 annually to the pool, a sum that would substantially benefit all writers. Medium Friendship payments will be a bonus to increase writers’ income.
Sharing by Friends of Medium is very important our writers’ visibility an income. Editors interviewed me on how to do that and I guided readers in a story titled How Friends of Medium Can Amplify Important Stories Via Customized Social Media Sites.
New Curation Service to Increase Visibility of Non-Boosted Stories
Out of 151 volunteer editors, a team of 57 volunteer curators developed a new service idea to address the visibility of stories. Each editor nominates a few stories from their reading list daily, and our lead ILLUMINATION-Curators compile them into collections. But we can only add a limited number of stories to keep these posts in a reasonable size.
Our lead curators include them in lists, which is a great Medium feature. When you see your stories in lists, you may save them, share them on social media, link to them, comment on them, and like the list for increased visibility. The entire curation process takes up substantial time, so we will appreciate your support as your time allows.
Curated Collections by Aiden (Illumination Gaming)
In addition to his multiple roles, Aiden compiled 104 collections. Here is his latest one.
Curated Collections by Mike Broadly, DHSc
Mike compiled 78 collections from his favorite stories that you may adore. He mainly features older stories that do not get many views. Here is the link to his latest one.
Curated Collections by Elin Melaas
Elin has just started and created two collections. Here is the latest one.
Curated Collections by The Sturg
Gerald also joined the curation team, choosing his favorite stories from ILLUMINATION. Here is his latest one.
The ILLUMINATION curation team compiled and posted many collections. Here are some earlier links for interested readers. Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4, Volume 5, Volume 6, Volume 7, Volume 8, Volume 9.
Several editors, including myself, also created a list of the stories we read from our publication. We will compile lists in these collections. Here are sample curated pieces I created from my secondary and tech account Dr Mehmet Yildiz (Tech)
Building a Synergistic Tech, Business, and Leadership Community — Part III
Extended Benefits to Write for Technology Hits Publication with New Leadership Commitment
New Communication & Collaboration Platform
Our main communication and collaboration tool is Slack Workspace. You can learn about it from this story: An Introduction to ILLUMINATION Slack Workspace. It is free and moderated for our writers.
As some writers cannot join Slack due to limitations, our editor and media coordinator, Aiden (Illumination Gaming), volunteered to set up a new Discord service as an alternative to our main Slack workspace. All registered writers are welcome to join this new platform. Aiden posted an article about it explaining the rules and the way to join it.
He also created a YouTube video to simplify it: ILLUMINATION Discord: Video Introduction to Beginners.
Update on ILLUMINATION Stats
All stats improved this month. Here are our 90-day stats covering reading times, visitors, and views to give you an idea.
Reading times
Reading times increased from 7.3 to 7.4 million minutes from last month.
Views
Views also increased from 6.1 to 6.2 million.
The average of unique daily visitors
The average of unique visitors increased from 53.5K to 53.6K
Followers
ILLUMINATION has gained 1,107 new followers since last month.
Writer Registration
Since last month, 924 new writers have registered in our portal.
Slack Members
An extra 670 members joined our Slack workspace. So we have now over 21000 members. Around 6K of them cannot use Slack so Aiden created Discord.
Volunteer Editors
After two new members, we now have 151 volunteer publishing and consulting editors.
We will provide stats and updates on ILLUMINATION-Curated in another newsletter, as this publication is now growing rapidly like ILLUMINATION. We also plan to create monthly newsletters for our other 12 pubs, as they all have different audiences and writers. But ILLUMINATION is our flagship pub; therefore, this newsletter is exclusive.
Plans for Handling Massive Workload and Invitation to Support our Substack Subscription Library
The demands on our team, encompassing editing, publishing, curating, and administrative tasks within Slack, have reached an unmanageable level for our dedicated volunteers. In response, I am actively exploring avenues for securing funding to bring on at least one full-time administrator. This strategic move aims to effectively alleviate the workload of our volunteers.
In an effort to involve our community and share the responsibility, I want to obtain support from our Substack subscribers, including writers and readers using our free services. We plan to provide free curation service using Subtack to support our writers and delight our readers, especially Friends of Medium, who pay extra for their Medium subscription.
I would like to extend an invitation to pledge our ILLUMINATION Library on Substack from those who can afford it to support the continuity of our free services and the sustainability of our supportive community. I will provide more details about this initiative in an upcoming bulletin. With no announcement yet, we received some pledges on Subtack for last month, and we are sending our appreciation and gratitude to these caring supporters.
Our Focus on Quality
In January, I set the strategy of our publications for 2024. You may read the details as I provide helpful info about our plans.
I also shared my personal strategy as a writer, publisher, curator, and editor for 2024 and 2025.
As we grow, quality and meaningful engagement are the most important factors for making our stories visible. Here are some key points to remember:
We prioritize well-written articles free of language errors or image issues. Stories with errors may take longer to be published.
To give every writer a fair chance, we accept only one story per writer within 24 hours. However, you can submit additional stories to our smaller publications tailored to different audiences.
If your story does not fit the Illumination scope, editors might ask you to move it to a more suitable publication to ensure our readers receive the best content.
Writers who don’t follow our publication rules may experience delays in publishing while issues are resolved via private messages. Due to timezone differences, this process may take several days. To expedite publishing, please consider using our complimentary Slack workspace.
We don’t reject stories. We only return them for updates or to transfer them to a relevant pub. Recently some writers contact me saying their stories are removed from ILLUMINATION. I noticed that it is bug. We don’t remove published stories unless there is a serious issue like harmful content. Even for that we leave a private message. So please don’t panick and let me know when this happen. I will guide you to republish.
Bots, Scam, and Spam Accounts on Medium
There is a significant increase in harmful accounts contaminating the platform. I shared my perspectives in an article titled Scam and Spam Accounts on Medium Are As Bad As Hate Speech and Defamation for Writers. We know that Medium works hard to fight against that, but recently, they cloned many writers. Here is an example.
As they cloned our other editors and writers, we posted another bulletin to inform the community and invite them to vigilance. Please review this bulletin and share it with your friends. We give a friendlink so that everyone can read on the Internet.
In late September, we received numerous inquiries from our writers expressing concern about a notable decrease in earnings despite consistent stats. While some speculate it might be a system glitch or a depletion of Medium’s funds, the exact cause was finally identified. We heard that some writers were compensated, delighting them. One of our editors Mike Broadly documented the issue regarding income loss, giving us valuable perspectives on the situation. Here’s What Seems to Happen to Medium Last Week. Let’s protect the platform from abuse collectively.
We acknowledge the concerns raised by many writers regarding this drop. However, we want to emphasize that while monetary aspects are significant, Medium offers writers a range of benefits beyond just income.
In response to the situation, our editorial team has posted a story guiding writers through these changes. We encourage you to read this story, where we transparently share our position as editors.
Medium Isn’t a Money-Making Machine, It Offers Better Benefits for Writers
Update on Recent Account Suspensions
In the last two weeks, Medium started a fraud detection analysis and identified some fraudulent activities. While it was great appreciated for the safety of the platform unfortunately some members were accidentally lost thir accounts. I wrote a guiding story from both angles.
I also wrote a testimonial about one of our editors. 🥰Lanu Pitan🥰. But the good news is that her account was restored on ILLUMINATION’s birthday, which made our editors and her readers happy. You may read my testimonial about Lanu in the attached story.
Writer Bios in a Collection — Introduce Yourself
If you are a new writer, introducing yourself to the community can bring many benefits to you, as we explained before. I have shared six compelling reasons why every writer should create a bio on Medium in 2020.
From the beginning, I have encouraged our writers to share personal bios in their stories. These bios have been curated and shared with our subscribers, allowing readers to get to know the writers better. However, as the number of bios grew, it became challenging to manage them all.
To address this, Aiden (Illumination Gaming) has reorganized these bios into a shorter and more manageable format. We understand that our readers are keen to learn about the writers they follow, so you can explore these updated bios in our new collection.
Meet ILLUMINATION Writers from Their Personally Penned Biographies
If you are interested in earning some cash and increasing your email marketing skills, you may check an opportunity introduced by Aiden step by step in an article. He also created a YouTube video about it with clear instructions.
Practical Guidance for Absolute Beginners
1 — How to submit your stories to publications
Now that you have joined Medium and written your first story, please follow these simple instructions. Once you do it a few times, it will be second nature. Many new writers waited for days because they did not know about this feature.
When you draft your story, please click on the … (3 dots) on the top right side of your screen. Click on the add to publication, choose Illumination or other relevant pubs, and submit your story. When the story arrives in the publication queue, editors will review and publish it if your story qualifies. If not, they will leave a private message and return your story to fix, resubmit, or transfer to one of our other publications if it does not suit ILLUMINATION.
We no longer publish certain types of stories on ILLUMINATION and ILLUMINATION-Curated, so please review the new submission guidelines.
2 — Use Copyright-Free Images and Remember to Caption Them
A crucial issue is some new writers forget to add captions to photos and use copyrighted images. Violating copyright rules can lead to substantial penalties imposed by legal institutions.
Several writers got hefty fines; our editors don’t want this to happen to you. Therefore, our editors are diligently working to protect our writers. We kindly ask that you honor their requests, as they have your best interests at heart. You cannot use every image on stories behind the paywall.
If you are a new writer on Medium, please review the Photo Handling Policy before starting, as it is the most time-consuming issue for our editors and causes delays in publishing. Writers failing to meet our photo handling policy will be removed from publications.
3 — We don’t accept AI-generated content per Medium’s new strategy except for one dedicated publication [the Lampshade of ILLUMINATION]
Our publications do not accept content written by artificial intelligence tools, but we have a viable solution to make writers and readers happy.
Those writers who use generative AI tools like Jasper or ChatGPT can send their stories to our new publication, the Lampshade of ILLUMINATION. Details are in this story: AI-Generated Content Policy for ILLUMINATION Integrated Publications.
Essential Resources for New Writers
We compiled essential guides for new writers in a post titled Starter Kit for Writers of ILLUMINATION Integrated Publications. This collection might be a one-stop shop for new writers to learn more about writing on this platform. Please also review these guiding policies before submitting their stories. We are tolerant, but the following are non-negotiable rules and Medium’s content hosting and distribution policy.
Publishing and Conduct Guidelines for the Lampshade of ILLUMINATION
Helpful Resources for Beginners
You may find more helpful stories from my content management collection, which is written to help new writers joining Medium. I compiled them in a list for easy access.
Writer Introductions, Featuring, and Interviews
We introduce writers by creating profiles or interviewing them to create visibility for their profiles and content.
I also interviewed many writers since 2019. Here are the recent ones.
A Candid Peek into the Personal and Professional Life of Lorwen Harris Nagle, PhD, Lorwen Harris Nagle, PhD
An Interview with Matt Williams-Spooner, Ph.D. Matt Williams-Spooner, Ph.D.
Meet Pernoste and Dahl: A Writing Duo of a Neuroscientist and an Artist Pernoste & Dahl.
An Interview with Dr. Yogesh Haribhau Kulkarni, PhD — Yogesh Haribhau Kulkarni (PhD)
An Interview with Author, Raymond M.E. Aguirre Raymond M.E. Aguirre
Here’s an Interview with Hakima TANTRIKA Hakima T A N T R I K A
We also have a new initiative titled “Make invisible stories visible “to increase our contributors’ views and read times. Here are some samples:
Meet Psychologist Cedric Johnson, Ph.D. on ILLUMINATION Cedric Johnson, PhD
Chosen Stories from Melinda Blau’s Unique Collection Melinda Blau
Chosen Stories from Sufyan Maan’s Collection Sufyan Maan, M.Eng
We introduced a few writers whose work you may explore from the introductions.
Writer Introduction
We introduced several writers recently. The most recent ones are Thomas Allen Moon , Sneha Nagre, Sridhar Pai Tonse — Leadgen Coach- Tech Startups, Zondra Dos Anjos, Ani Vals, Jozsef Kovacs, Davor Katusic, Dr Emmanuel Ogamdi, and Seda Anbarcı
You might also check recent editorial introductions from our team.
You can learn about our other editors’ backgrounds from this collection curated by ILLUMINATION-Curators.
We feature our writers’ profiles via the Illumination YouTube channel and blog the transcripts. For example, our volunteer YouTube coordinator Aiden (Illumination Gaming), features writers on our channel. Contact him on our Slack workspace if you want to be featured.
You might find some sample YouTube videos featuring our top writers in this collection titled Meet Top Writers of Medium on YouTube.
We need more volunteer editors.
Our editorial team sometimes gets exhausted. Therefore, we need more volunteer editors as our publications keep growing. Some editors go on vacation, some need a break, or sometimes they get unwell.
If you have time and are interested in supporting our smaller publications as an editor, you may contact me on our Slack workspace. The eligibility criteria to serve as an editor for our publications are outlined in this article.
Our Slack group is open to all our contributors. We have around 20K+ members on Slack. If you don’t have access to Slack or haven’t received the previous invitation, you can request it via this online web form.
Editors play a vital role in our writers’ success and our readers’ satisfaction. They review your content, publish it on time, and promote published stories to our readers using various methods.
These volunteer editors are also writers. Therefore, they understand the needs of writers. Currently, 145 volunteer editors support our 24K+ writers using the Slack workspace. This is a massive workload for them.
We thought that meeting our editors could be valuable for writers. Therefore, we started an initiative to introduce our editors’ backgrounds and writing styles. We add new editor profiles as our time allows. They usually use the same account on Slack so that you can contact them directly.
Writing Challenges and Prompts
Several writers completed writing challenges. The 100-Day Writing Challenge is popular. A few writers attempted to 1000 short forms in 100 days, too. If you are into short forms, you can submit one to each publication. However, our focus is not on quantity but quality now.
You may consider sharing your story links, concerns, and aspirations in this unique challenge. Many readers enjoyed the Challenge called “The Proust Questionnaire.”
These challenges might bring new readers to your stories. We look forward to reading your stories about these challenges. We also feature those who complete challenges in our curated collections.
Publications Created by Our Writers
I helped several writers to create their publications and gain visibility. Publication owners made significant progress in getting loyal readers. Here is a guiding story: Compelling Benefits of Personal Publications on Medium.
ILLUMINATION collected the publications of our contributors in a post titled: Why Writers Need Personal Publications: Invitation to introduce your own publication to the audience of Illumination Integrated Publications.
Let’s Welcome New Writers Joining Us Recently
Thank you for joining our publications. We are grateful to our administrators for reviewing your applications and helping me to add you to our pubs. Our editorial accounts are part of Friends of Medium, so we try to follow you and check out your stories, but we cannot follow more than 150 a day. We will follow all of you eventually. It takes time.
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