Collaboration
Onboarding New Writers
Welcome new writers joining ILLUMINATION, ILLUMINATION-Curated, ILLUMINATION’S MIRROR, SYNERGY, Technology Hits
Dear new writers,
We are delighted to add you to ILLUMINATION, ILLUMINATION-Curated, ILLUMINATION’S MIRROR, Technology Hits, and SYNERGY.
Thank you for joining. Welcome to our publications and a large writing community on Medium. All our publications adhere to Medium rules and 100% compliant with platform policies. We don’t tolerate breaking rules of the platform.
ILLUMINATION is a unique and significant publication with many writers and readers. Our uniqueness may be one of the reasons you choose us. ILLUMINATION is a diverse and inclusive publication covering 100 plus topics across several disciplines.
ILLUMINATION is currently top 70 most followed publication on Medium, out of 15,199 publications. 71,000 Medium members follow this publication now. We completed our our 7th milestone last week.
Dr Mehmet Yildiz sent you an invitation to our Slack workspace. This virtual site is our main communication and collaboration platform. We have 6,000+ members. More information about Slack is in this story. You are all welcome to join and start collaborating with other Medium writers.
You can write about almost anything as long as your stories meet Medium rules.
There is a new issue on Medium. The platform cannot support more than 30 editors per publications. We have 60 editors but not all of them have access to ILLUMINATION due to constraints of Medium. To cover our extensive workload, we had to create a mirror version of ILLUMINATION and allocated new editors to support the workload.
Please see details in this story about ILLUMINATION’S MIRROR.
We recommend submitting only one article to ILLUMINATION or ILLUMINATION-Curated per day and the rest of your articles need to be submitted to the mirror copy of ILLUMINATION, if you are a prolific writer. You have access to both publications now. We will inform the older writers to do the same.
We value your contributions. The diversity and variety you bring delight our readers. Many readers use ILLUMINATION and ILLUMINATION-Curated as their front page. These two publications now followed by around 87,000 readers registered to Medium and many thousands from our external sources.
We have established two new publication. The first one is Technology Hits for a specific audience interested in technology matters.
We also created a new publication for specific needs of writers called SYNERGY. The purpose of SYNERGY is to bring altogether many Medium writers who also publish in other platforms such as Vocal Media, News Break, Hub Pages, Patreon, Substack, and many other freelancing platforms.
Details are in this story.
The purpose of this post is to notify new contributors joined ILLUMINATION ILLUMINATION-Curated, Technology Hits, SYNERGY, and ILLUMINATION’S MIRROR.
Please check your account for the publications you entered. If you don’t see the publication in your profile, please leave a comment so that we can add your account again. We experience some glitches on Medium and have to add some writers second time.
Our objective is to help you succeed in Medium.
You joined a significant group of publications making a noticeable impact on Medium. ILLUMINATION and sister publications growing rapidly and supporting 8,000+contributing writers . We grow rapidly with contributions from inspiring and engaging writers like you.
We are proud to support different level of writers.
Our publications hosts stories of aspiring, experienced, accomplished, and influential writers. All contributors play an important role in this platform.
We cross-pollinate all types of writers from different professional backgrounds, skill levels, and writing goals. This unique mix of writers is an attractive value preposition to our readers, enjoying our stories covering multiple topics.
Thank you for choosing our publications to host your stories. Our publications operate with an abundance mentality. Rather than competing with other publication, we collaborate with them.
We don’t put constraints on our writers. Our contributors get flexible options to be successful. You are not exclusive to us. We encourage you to try other publications too. You can also create your own publications.
If you have a publication, we can help you promote it. We support your writing goals and show flexibility in raising your voice.New Writers for ILLUMINATION.
Let’s meet the new writers joining us.
Welcome new writers joined ILLUMINATION and ILLUMINATON’S MIRROR:
Curtis Hooker, Savanna Jordan, Dimple Garg, Thilina Dasantha, Anthony Vega, Tom Lahey, Sarmi P, Hannah Brown (she/her), Fiona Feng, Stephan Chatigny, Samantha Radefeld, Ty Ellison, Joanna Simoens, Bart Luttels, Jacqueline O’Leary, Larrylambert, Mdsmith, Adam Plotkin, Michael Hananta, eDawn Springs, Rosy Gee, Jaanvi Thakur, Andreia Amorim, Fazle Rab, Faty EL, Ada Kasm, Carol J Arcus, Ruby Lee, Pooja Rane, Karen Schwartz, My Bilingual Life,Neon-Knight, Chana Harris, Alana Rister, Ph.D. Laxaa, Jon Middaugh, Clive Wilson MCIM, Prudence Anne, Christian Behler, Matthew Weeks, Sayan Mondal, Mihai BC, Rosy Gee, Shiraz Zafar Hussain, Judson Vereen, MindJuice, Alex Vazquez, Katlego Malahlela, Ana Dalen, Kate Rose, Alexandria Rey, Amy Pierovich, Katrina Bos, Vincent V. Triola,Naomi Legorreta, Samuel Aigbotsua, OnBlog, Alphabyte, Aaron Mitchell, Bhanu Priya, Emlyn Boyle, Sohaib Muhammad, Martins Bumanis, Parris Baker, Tyana Wolff, Hassan Uddeen, Martin Vidal, Ana Dalen, Alexandria Rey,Kate Rose,
Welcome new writers joined SYNERGY:
Savanna Jordan, Anthony Vega, Erin M. Singh, Hannah Brown (she/her), Fiona Feng, Stephan Chatigny, Samantha Radefeld, Joanna Simoens, Jacqueline O’Leary, Larrylambert, Mdsmith, Michael Hananta, Ada Kasm, Carol J Arcus,Ruby Lee, Pooja Rane, Karen Schwartz, My Bilingual Life, Chana Harris, Alana Rister, Ph.D., Laxaa, Clive Wilson MCIM, Prudence Anne, Matthew Weeks, Mihai BC, Rosy Gee, Shiraz Zafar Hussain, Judson Vereen, MindJuice, Kate Rose, Terry Mansfield, Katrina Bos, Vincent V. Triola, Samuel Aigbotsua, Aaron Mitchell, Martins Bumanis, Parris Baker, Hassan Uddeen, Martin Vidal, Jennifer Dale, Myriam Ben Salem, Rejoice Denhere, Corrine Roberts, Daniel Asuquo, Dr Jeff Livingston, Tooth Truth Roopa Vikesh, Fazle Rab
Welcome new writers joined ILLUMINATION-Curated:
Jon Middaugh, Sharon Ransom MD, Kainat Kadir, LS,
Welcome new writers joined Technology Hits:
How to benefit from our publications
We provide you with the essential guides so you can produce joyfully. Our readers expect quality content. We strive to meet this expectation.
You can find ILLUMINATION related articles and writer resources on ILLUMINATION Blog publication. You can bookmark and follow this new publication designed to address needs of writers.
We redesigned ILLUMINATION frontpage. We removed all publication related articles and hosted them in a blog publicaion. Our aim is to give more space to stories of our writers. Please check this story for details.
Practical Guidelines
1 — Please submit your best work for readers.
Your stories must be the type of content that you want to read.
2 — Caption [copyright-free photos] with source links.
This is common concern. In fact it is one of the most time consuming and stressful situation for our editors. Editors are tired of leaving comments and wait for responses from writers who neglect captioning photos. All photos must be caption with source links. We recommend using copyright free photos e.g. stock photos from unsplash.com or pixaby.com. If you add your own photos please clearly explain the copyright status.
3 — We don’t accept plagiarised content.
We only accept stories written by you. Medium does not accept plagiarism. It is an illegal act. Our publications have zero-tolerance for plagiarised materials. Our editors diligently monitor and detect plagiarism by using different methods and various tools.
Our position is detailed in this article.
4 — Initially, please submit only one story a day.
Considering contributions from thousands of writers, it is not possible to cater to multiple submissions from each writer.
Our prolific and experienced writers can submit up to three drafts within 24 hours to ILLUMINATION and ILLUMINATION. Since they submit high-quality materials, we don’t have to spend too much time on these types of submissions.
Due to current editorial limitations by Medium, we created a new publication to load balance ILLUMINATION. If you write multiple stories, you can submit one to ILLUMINATION and the rest to ILLUMINATION’S MIRROR.
Until new writers improve their writing skills and gain acceptance by readers, we recommend them to submit only one story a day. This restriction is for writers who are not familiar with the fundamentals yet.
The good new is that we are now using short-form stories. We allow additional three short-form stories per publication. Details are in this story.
5 — Please check and respond to your private messages.
Medium allows communication between publications and writers only via private messages. If your private messages were turned off, you would not receive a notification. Please check your story for * sign, which indicates a private message. This sign can usually be on the upper part of your story.
Editors may request you to fix an issue in your story. Please acknowledge and address the issue in a timely manner. We cannot hold stories for more than 24 hours in our queue. If no response is provided, we will return the story.
6 — Platform rules and expectations of your audience.
We are working on a large and complex platform.
It will be useful to learn the rules of the platform and get to know your audience.
Please check the conduct guidelines in the attached article.
7 — Check Publication Conduct Guidelines before submitting your story
Here is the simplified rules for new writers.
This story focuses on fundamentals and some advanced topics for writers.
8 — Quality checklist for beginners
Please use this checklist before submitting your stories to our publications.
When you submit acceptable content, your stories can be published faster. You can reach out to your audience quicker and gain more readers.
9 — Amplify your stories
Writers must take personal responsibility to create visibility. One way of increasing visibility and reading times of your stories is to amplify them meaningfully.
We created collaborative tools and platforms.
Collaboration is a crucial for Medium writers.
Please check these simple guides to get you started.
Amplify Your Medium Stories with Facebook Pages and Groups
How to Get Started with Quora and Amplify Your Medium Stories
How to Get Started with Pinterest and Amplify Your Medium Stories
Amplify Your Medium Stories with YouTube
Amplify Your Medium Stories with LinkedIn Groups
You can join ILLUMINATION LinkedIn group from this link.
Details for each item can be found in this story.
Grow your network on Goodreads
Collaborate on Goodreads. It is a large platform with 20 million members.
If you authored books, Goodreads can be an ideal place to create visibility.
Introduction to new publications
Technology Hits
We have a new publication to extend our services and reach out broader audience. Writers have flexibility to share their stories among three publications to gain maximum visibility and readibility.
Here is the initial invitation by Dr Mehmet Yildiz -Founder
Featured stories on Technology Hits by Editor of Technology Hits
Weekly editorial review by Karen Madej
Reading list on Technology Hits
Value proposition for the publication articulated by senior editors
The one by Tree Langdon
By Liam Ireland
Synergy
SYNERGY a strategic and entrepreneurial initiative to empower writers and create synergy with collaboration. It has the same values as ILLUMINATION. But it is a specialized publication.
ILLUMINATION is a broad publication with 100+ plus topics, whereas SYNERGY is dedicated to writers, bloggers, and freelancers.
SYNERGY will be powered by ILLUMINATION.
How we create more visibility for your stories
We use various platforms and tools to amplify your stories.
Daily Digest
One way of sharing your stories with Medium readers is daily digest.
Here is a sample to our latest daily digest. This daily digest can also be useful for writers to explore the stories of other writers in our publication. We recommend you share daily digest in your social media tools.
For ILLUMINATION-Curated we create daily volumes. Here is one of the latest posts.
Outstanding Stories — Volume 80
Selected stories from top writers of ILLUMINATION-Curated
medium.com
We keep a link to all volumes in this story.
Blogs
We blog the daily digests and also replicate all stories to our blog site using Medium RSS service.
Social Media
Editor tweet your stories after reviewing and publishing them.
https://twitter.com/illum_official
We have two Facebook pages and a Facebook group. We automatically post your stories. However, you can supplement with your posts. Instructions to participate are in this story.
https://readmedium.com/amplify-your-medium-stories-with-facebook-pages-and-groups-606fdb4f7c85
Quora
Quora is important for our writers. We share your stories but you can also share your stories in two Quora spaces. Details in this story: https://readmedium.com/how-to-get-started-with-quora-and-amplify-your-medium-stories-969f309b0967
We automatically post your stories to our Linked page and groups. https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13914581/
Another creative distribution is using Pinterest. https://readmedium.com/how-to-get-started-with-pinterest-and-amplify-your-medium-stories-94435d586d51
Useful References for Writers
The stories below can provide guidance on use of publication and interacting with others.
Process and Procedures for ILLUMINATION
A Practical Guide for Writers
About ILLUMINATION-Curated
References about ILLUMINATION-Curated can be accessed from this single story.
Writer bios from their pen
We recommend you submit a story about yourself.
You can find samples from this story.
Six Reasons Writers Need Bios
Interviews with writers
Invitation to ILLUMINATION YouTube Channel
Meet Top Writers on ILLUMINATION
Meet Editors of ILLUMINATION
Link Your Twitter Handle to Your Medium Account
How to earn good money on Medium
How to create viral stories on Medium
Can you make $10,000 on Medium in a month?
Writers Invited to Promote Their Publications
Publications Owned by Illumination Writers
Testimonials about ILLUMINATION
Collaboration with Other Writers
Then we have three virtual clubs for your engagement. These clubs are fun and run on our Slack Workspace. 6,150 Medium Writers are collaborating in our Slack group.
Here is essential information about our Slack Workspace
ILLUMINATION Fiction Club
ILLUMINATION Poetry Club
Technology Hits — The TSEE Club
Fiction and Poetry Bios of ILLUMINATION Writers
Meet our editors
Our editors work hard to help our writers succeed. They invest their precious time volunteering for smooth publishing of your stories. ILLUMINATION-Curated, ILLUMINATION, Dr Mehmet Yildiz, Tree Langdon, Brian E. Wish, PhD, Dr Ron Pol, Dr Michael Heng, Dr John Rose, Paul Myers MBA, Karen Madej, Joe Luca, Dipti Pande, Kevin Buddaeus, Kate Maxwell, Arthur G. Hernandez, Bill Abbate, Michael Patanella, Aurora Eliam, CMP, René Junge, Geetika Sethi, Ahmed Jamal, Britni Pepper, Selma, Earnest Painter, Dew Langrial, B. A. Cumberlidge. Lanu Pitan, Agnes Laurens, EP McKnight, MEd, CR Mandler MAT, The Maverick Files, Sumera Rizwan, Liam Ireland, Tony Young, Jr., Neha Sandhir S, Desiree Driesenaar, Stuart Englander, Ntathu Allen, Thewriteyard, Haimish Mead, Maria Rattray, Cristo Lopez, PhD, Dr. Preeti Singh, Holly Kellums, Kristina Segarra, Yohanan Gregorius, The Dozen, Audrey Malone,janny’s heart, Sabana Grande, Jennifer Friebely, Zen Chan, Aamir Kamal 🚀🚀🚀, John Cunningham, [arlie] PEYTON, Georgia Dimitrious, Kim Petersen, Josh Balerite Acol
You can find editor profiles in this story.
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