Daily Success Stories from ILLUMINATION
Meaningful & Functional Leadership
2,134 ILLUMINATION writers are serving 19,095 readers!
A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better. —Jim Rohn
Welcome to another great day on ILLUMINATION
Every day is joyful and exciting, thanks to the creative works of our writers. Today, my focus on creating a story to introduce our editors.
Our editors are leaders in their fields, and they transfer their skills to nurture our writers. They perform multiple roles and take responsibilities. They develop our processes and procedures and adopt technology for the betterment of our publication. They come from different professional backgrounds and have extensive writing, editing, and leadership skills. They bring expertise from multiple disciplines and enrich our diversity goal.
Even though each editor is unique with different skill sets, one common attribute among them all is how keen they are to support the success of our writers. As you know, publications on Medium do not generate income; hence all of our editors provide their services on a volunteer basis. I admire the altruistic contributions of our editors.
It was inspiring to receive fantastic feedback from our writers on a clarification I made yesterday. I am pleased that our writers feel safe and confident with our service. Unlike some other publications, they know that we will not discriminate or remove them because they choose different publishing options on Medium. Some writers have already advertised their publications on our Slack and I was pleased with their initiatives. You can read the details from this story.
ILLUMINATION embraces diversity, inclusion, and collaboration. Every writer of Medium is welcome to join our publication. Each writer is important and valuable to us. When we look at the big picture, in the end, we are all part of an ecosystem. Discrimination, exclusion, and elitism do not align with integration and the universal ecosystem philosophy.
Diversity, inclusiveness, and collaboration are core values of ILLUMINATION.
Each writer and each story is unique. I want our writers to find their voices in the most efficient way. I will support whatever works for them. Writers make a choice, not the publication. The publication is the service provider, and the writers are the customers.
What did ILLUMINATION writers create today?
Here is a bundle of stories that I was able to add to our distribution list today. Thank you for adding comments to create visibility to your great stories. You deserve recognition.
One of the purposes of this daily distribution is to access to our stories easily. You can read and share them easily. You can follow the writers. I recommend enjoying as many stories as possible from this list.
If your story is not included, please leave a comment by linking your story. As of publication team, we do our best, but it must be a collective effort to bring more traffic to Medium which a collaborative content development environment. The bottom line is; the more traffic Medium attracts the more visibility our stories get. Every Medium writer should be aware of this undeniable fact. ILLUMINATION is making the best effort to contribute to this desirable requirement by giving a wide variety of attractive options to our potential readers.
To this end, it will be fantastic for each writer to take responsibility to create visibility for his or her own story. Please remember tweeting the stories you read; share them in your social media connections. We grow with support, synergy, and collaboration. Let’s wear our entrepreneurial hats and replace scarcity with abundance!
You can find our previous distribution list from the attached story.
Let’s check our publication page for more stories. Many more stories can be found from our publication page.
Update on Writing Challenge
Many writers participated in two writing challenges. You can find the activity details from these links: Challenge 1 and Challenge 2.
I compiled submitted stories as part of this challenge in a single story for easy access. There are a few new submissions today. Our readers love these stories.
Many thanks for the submissions related to both challenges. I look forward to the remaining writers to participate and enjoy the benefits of this writing challenge. We need to collaborate.
This activity is an excellent opportunity to meet new writers and develop your relationship with them. This activity can increase the number of your followers and fans. The more fans you have, the more visible and readable your articles can be. Let’s keep our vitality and create synergy.
One of the purposes of this daily distribution is to access to our stories easily. You can read and share them easily. You can follow the writers. I recommend enjoying as many stories as possible from this list.
If your story is not included, please leave a comment by linking your story. As of publication team, we do our best, but it must be a collective effort to bring more traffic to Medium which a collaborative content development environment. The bottom line is; the more traffic Medium attracts the more visibility our stories get. Every Medium writer should be aware of this undeniable fact. ILLUMINATION is making the best effort to contribute to this desirable requirement by giving a wide variety of attractive options to our potential readers.
To this end, it will be fantastic for each writer to take responsibility to create visibility for his or her own story. Please remember tweeting the stories you read; share them in your social media connections. We grow with support, synergy, and collaboration. Let’s wear our entrepreneurial hats and replace scarcity with abundance!
New writers who joined ILLUMINATION today
38 new writers joined our publication today. We have 2,134 writers supporting ILLUMINATION and serving our 19,095 readers. A warm welcome to our new writers who joined our great team today:
Hello Self!, Ashutosh Nandanwar, Anthony Smith Jnr, M. Roman, Nathan Standridge, Serena Steinfeld, Pamela Simmonds, Vuyo Ngcakani, Tarik Ata, Jameses Tech, Vivienne Teh, Morten Waage, Şafak Yıldız, Obinna Uruakpa, Matan Valdman, Carine Ru, James Halliday, Sara Kiani, Jishnudeep Kar, Noel Corpuz , Shania Wong, KM, Pam Gaslow, Jayanti Bhasker, Loyalty Science Lab, Claire Splan, Macey Malone, A. S. Deller, Tca Venkatesan, Kevin Wilson, Ryan Bush, Krista Varela Posell, Brett Chrest, ColeTretheway, Stein Janssen, Liz McLeod, Elle C., Aerik Sylvan,
To ensure your stories are published on a timely basis, please provide required credits to the photos and extracted information from other sources. This is the most common issue delaying some stories to be published. If you turn off your private messages we have no other mechanism to reach out to you. If your article is not published within 24 hours please contact me from this link.
I received several inquiries from new writers who want to know how to add stories to publication. Please see the attached story providing step by step guidance on how to add stories to publication by Timothy Key.
ILLUMINATION Slack Channel
We created a writer collaboration platform using Slack. We have 416 members on Slack. I added several writers to our Slack channel today. Thank you for the inquires and willingness to join our collaboration 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.
Please also check our process and procedures for further details on our publication.
Featured Writer Bios Today
We featured three writer bio stories today. New writers can meet them.
Judy Millar
Francine Fallara
Christina M. Ward
250+ 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 19,000+ readers.
Please see the attached bio document as an example for creating your bios. Our readers are interested in our writers. If your bio is missing from this list, please leave a comment with your your story link.
Featured Interview Stories on Publication Page
We will be featuring one writer interview story each day. Today, we featured inspiring interviews that I conducted with:
Amy Cottreau
Tim Maudlin
Christopher D. Connors
I have been interviewing our writers to feature their profile and great stories. I added a few more interview stories today. You can read the interviews from the attached story. 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”.
Featured Stories Today
We featured 15 fantastic stories from our creative writers today. These stories will be placed on the front page for 24 hours for easy access.
Dr Jeff Livingston
Hollie Petit, Ph.D.
Marianna Saver
Ann K Frailey
Erin King
Trista Ainsworth
Desiree Driesenaar
Ahmed Jamal
Turkan M. Devrijova
conny manero
Aurora Eliam, CMP
Chirag
Marcus Musick
Geetika Sethi
Tony Young, Jr.
Stories Related to ILLUMINATION
We have two fantastic stories providing feedback to our publication, editors, and writers. I felt privileged when I read these great stories from our accomplished writers.
Britni Pepper
Agnes Laurens
Stories Distributed from ILLUMINATION to Medium Topics
15 great stories were distributed to multiple topics on Medium today. I believe there will be more soon. I share them in my next bulletin. Congratulations to these great writers.
A story by Kiev was distributed to #freelancing.
A story by Kenan Kolday was distributed to #mindfulness #self #psychology.
A story by Lisa Wathen was distributed to #society #education.
A story by Michael Touchton was distributed to #self.
A poem by Breanna Lowman was distributed to #poetry.
A story by Mariana De Freitas was distributed to #language #philosophy #psychology.
A story by Andrea Cazzaro was distributed to #productivity #education #self.
A story by Sylvain Saurel was distributed to #writing.
A story by Lou Roch was distributed to #society #history.
A story by Lisa Gastaldo was distributed to #philosophy #politics.
A story by Stuart Englander was distributed to #film #self.
A story by Simona was distributed to #productivity #self #psychology #mental health.
A story by Mike Arnold was distributed to #creativity #writing.
A story by Shanna Loga was distributed to #beauty #women #parenting.
A story by Ruby Melone was distributed to #family.
As ILLUMINATION hosts an impressive number of high-quality stories distributed to the topics from our creative writers, I compiled those stories. I aim to create awareness for the high-quality stories so that our new writers can leverage these excellent stories, model the styles so that they can improve their stories for increasing chance of curation by Medium curators. You can find the complete list from the attached story. I update it regularly.
New Writer Introductions
We have two writer bios today.
Meet our writer Linda Halladay
Meet our writer Elvy Rolle
Content Quality Focus
We strive for excellence. We make every effort to increase the quality of our 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. The curation rate increased.
We need to be proactive and maintain quality.
New writers: please ensure that you check your stories for typos, spelling, and grammar errors before submitting them to the publication. Our readers deserve high quality stories.
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. There may be other applications that you can use to improve readability of your stories
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 2000+ 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.
