Success story for ILLUMINATION Writers
Super Views & Reading Times
ILLUMINATION stories are recognized and going viral
No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team.— Reid Hoffman
We strive for increasing views and reading times for stories of our writers. The most pragmatic way is to create visibility and increase traffic proactively. With increasing number of writers and followers there is a substantial traffic spike within the last two weeks contributed by especially some idiotic backfiring campaigns against our noble mission. Many thanks to our writers and readers who support our vision and goals.
There is an excellent news today. One of our stories went viral and attracted tremendous traffic to our publication. This single story gained 711 hr 53 min read time within last 24 hours.
I shared my observations and opinions about this story earlier. When I was authoring this story a few hours ago it was 52,000, since then the story gained extra 6,000 views and still trending. You find more info about this story and the author of the story Brian E. Wish, PhD who is an accomplished writer and consulting editor of our publication.
We have several other stories which started trending. I will compile them in my upcoming bulletins.
In the meantime, here is an illustrative representation of our publication views in the last three days, to give you an idea.
Amazing things happen on ILLUMINATION each day. Serendipity can create magical moments.
New Writing Challenge
I want to offer a new writing challenge for our accomplished writers whose articles were curated.
As part of our cross-pollination goals, my aim is to collect educative and guiding stories about curation process to help our writers increase their chance of curation.
Since we have many top writers whose stories are curated, I want to transfer these skills to other writers who want to gain new experience. You can find our top writers from this list.
The purpose of this challenge for each curated writer is to create a story about curation guidelines based on experience. So the story outline can include the following points:
- Essential guidelines for content to be eligible for curation
- Specific points in each topic based on your specialty. For example, if you are curated on topic #writing, you can make recommendations about this particular topic. Each topic may have different styles.
- Samples from your curated stories, giving highlights
- Summary of the take of away points
You can use your creativity to make your story engaging and educative. These stories will be featured and distributed in our newsletters.
Please tag me in your stories so that I can find them quickly and include in our education pack.
By using the package, our new writers can learn from our accomplished writers; hence we can increase the curation chance for every writer.
This activity can also improve collaboration among our writers.
I also featured a story of a successful writer for a viral YouTube video reach to 364,696,486 views. You may be amazed by the story of Kaz Matsune.
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 these great 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 so that readers get a chance to read your stories.
You can find our previous distribution lists from the attached story.
New writers and those who missed previously, please check our editor introductions and meet them.
New writers who joined ILLUMINATION today
33 new writers joined our publication today. We have 2,360 writers supporting ILLUMINATION and serving our 20,920 readers. A warm welcome to our new writers who joined our great team today: Pavi Sandhu, Nathalie Weisz, Kristina Coggins, James Michael Knauf, Jen Kleinknecht, Katrina Paulson, Chris Gage, James P. MacLennan, Momna Jamil, Hope Coalesce, Sorin Malcolm, Marco Tiro, Katie Russell, Bernadette DeCarlo, Kaneptune, Thaddaeus Amralo, Thaddaeus Amralo, Njide Mkparu, Kitami Prescott, Scott Hickman, 360 Stories, Aaliya Gul, Kerl Galindo, Tanush Prem, Susan Scandiffio, Mohammed Smani, New Kid on da Rock, Terry Matlen, Luxiya D., Noah Ingram, Keara Lou, the-writingelk, Sydney Reis,
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.
There are 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 443 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 receive 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.
New Writer Introduction
Meet our writer Allison Gaines
If I miss your writer bio, please leave a comment on this story so that I can add them here and to our main repository. Writer bios are important to use. We want to create visibility to your profile.
Featured Writer Bios Today
We featured three writer bio stories today. New writers can meet them.
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 20,300+ 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:
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.
Stories Distributed from ILLUMINATION to Medium Topics
11 stories were distributed to multiple topics on Medium today.
A story by Polly Clover was distributed to #race #education #equality.
A story by Jagger Bellagarda was distributed to #digital life #productivity #self.
A story by Anna Martinez was distributed to #work #social media.
A story by Amber Cezanne was distributed to #music #productivity.
A story by Max Klein was distributed to #culture #books #leadership #work
A story by Sappho Fortis was distributed to #relationships.
A story by Kylie Fuller was distributed to #health.
A story by Eira Braun-Labossiere was distributed to #self #outdoors.
A story by Jake Daghe was distributed to #self.
A story by Ugur Akinci was distributed to #self.
A story by Marco Tiro was distributed to #self.
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
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
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 2,300+ 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.
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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.
