Daily Success Stories from ILLUMINATION
Service Excellence with Abundance
2000 ILLUMINATION writers are serving 18,000 readers!
Here is a simple but powerful rule: always give people more than what they expect to get. — Nelson Boswell
Accessing 10,000+ stories easily
With recent growth, our publication holds around 15,000 stories. I captured over 10,000 of them via daily distribution lists. The accumulated records increase quickly and make the daily list unmanageable; therefore, I archived all distribution lists shared with our subscribers within the last three months and made them available in a single story.
Apart from providing excellent customer service to our readers, I also aim this archival story to be indexed by Google so that our old articles can be discovered by millions and have many views and reads. Some stories may even get viral if this list is curated by large content organizations. I am a true believer in serendipity. With collaboration, we can create extended visibility.
You can access our distribution lists from this story and add comments, especially by linking your stories which may be missing from specific lists. I recommend new writers connect with our current writers and create meaningful engagement using these stories as a starting point. Information is at your fingertips, so seize this opportunity to grow.
Curation Feedback
I received positive feedback from our writers whose stories are being curated faster than before. As you may have noticed, our writers shared their experience and provided insights on curation success. You can check these practical articles which can be helpful for you.
Paul Myers MBA
Brian E. Wish, PhD
Ming Qian
And an excellent analysis of ILLUMINATION success progress for curation by Arthur G. Hernandez
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.
Thank you 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.
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.
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 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. We grow with support, synergy, and collaboration.
Let’s check our publication page for more stories. Many more stories can be found from our publication page.
New writers who joined ILLUMINATION today
23 new writers joined our publication today. We have 2000 writers supporting ILLUMINATION now.
A warm welcome to our new writers who joined us today: Kashaf Chandio, Kirshi Yin, Tomi Esuruoso, Dr Sula Windgassen, Adam Vrána, Kaz Matsune, Larry Sells, Paul Crosby, Andrew McNeal, Matt Summers, Kenan Kolday, Hakima T A N T R I K A, Leonardo Silva, Blossom Greene, Katie Rodante, G M Potter, Nicole Rose, Gerardo Bolaños, Tamela Handie, Priya Aggarwal, Matthew Przybyla, Chantal Maru, Ella Figg
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 392 members. 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.
Simona Rahmanova
Sarkis Ardjian
Judy Millar
Writer Introductions
We have two writer introductions today. I enjoyed reading these creative bios.
Meet our writer Lynda Coker
Meet our writer Libby Mitchell
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:
Ann K Frailey
Jeff Hanlon
Alison Tennent
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 stories from our creative writers today. These stories will be placed on the front page for 24 hours for easy access.
Adam Tabriz, MD
John Cousins
Pamela J. Nikodem, MS
Linda Halladay
B.Ashwin
Diana Rus
Panos Grigorakakis
Britni Pepper
Alejandro Castañeda
Matthew Gliatto
Keira Fulton-Lees
Infiniti
Marcus Musick
MaryJo Wagner, PhD
Anitei Alina
Stories Distributed from ILLUMINATION to Medium Topics
Nine inspiring stories were distributed to multiple Medium topics today. Each story is unique and well crafted. I felt privileged to have early access to these great stories on our publication. Each day audience from new topics come across ILLUMINATION, represented by its creative writers.
A story by Sharon Hurley Hall was distributed to #race #world #equality.
A story by Christina M. Ward was distributed to #mental health.
A story by Mathias Barra was distributed to #self.
A story by @Marina T Alamanou PhD was distributed to #science #health #lifestyle.
A story by Eira Braun-Labossiere was distributed to #food.
A story by Kylie Fuller was distributed to #psychology #self.
A story by Gina Huang was distributed to #productivity.
A story by Charlotte Zobeir Ali was distributed to #history.
Another story by Charlotte Zobeir Ali was distributed to #media #race #equality.
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.
Content Quality Focus
Our current writers know that we strive for excellence. We aim to increase the quality of your 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.
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.
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.
