First Baby Steps

Update on ILLUMINATION Success

Terrific progress made in fewer than 24 hours. Highlights added.

I am overwhelmed with interest and optimistic feedback on our team initiative for ILLUMINATION. Your comments in the attached article meant a lot to me. I took immediate actions to assign roles for editors and writers, however did not get a chance to reciprocate your wonderful messages.

Thank you all contributors for your inspiring collaboration.

This uplifting team spirit is an invaluable proposition for our planned success. With your acceptance and super support my confidence increased tremendously. Our vision looks more realistic and viable.

Since its inception in fewer than 24 hours, ILLUMINATION had:

31 editors,

71 writers,

92 followers,

839 Minutes Reads

782 Views

List of our editors

Todd Lankford, Gabrieknowseverything, Deborah Horton, Jennifer Rosater, Michael Ritoch, Chris Hedges, Henery X (long), Chrissie Morris Brady, Paul Myers MBA, Jessica Alfaqih, Karen Madej, Misa Ferreira de Rezende, Blake Lazur, Joe Luca, Shin Jie Yong, Julia Tsoi, Lilycelle Belarmino Ausa, Stella Fidem, Aurora E, Salvatore Cagliari, Will Murphy, Sylvia Love Johnson, Catherine Delia, Snezana Djuric, Isak Dinesen, Aileen Shiue Belitz, Domagoj Vidovic, Tina Morlock, Francesca Brandani, Brenda Mahler, Madoc Maduka,

List of writers added to the publication

We have writers from a wide variety of backgrounds. I am impressed with the diversity in the team.

Amy Cottreau, Deborah Horton, Michael Ritoch, Anthony Chaine, Todd Lankford, Jennifer Rosater, Brian Lamacraft, Gabrieknowseverything, Jemas Whalen, Tom Byers, Steven Anthony, Chris Hedges, Alexander Cares, Chrissie Morris Brady, Desiree Driesenaar, René Junge, The Mindful Mamacita, Deana Woolf, Bill Abbate, Dawn-Renée Rice, Margie Peterson, Gurpreet Dhariwal, Garrett Elson, Alvin Ang, Matt Ray, Brenda Mahler, Paul Myers MBA, Corrine Roberts, T H Wong, Greg Lawlor, Nicole Linke, Aurora E, Karen Madej, Jessica Alfaqih, Stella Fidem, Julia Tsoi, Mike Alexander, Gregory A ☕️, Shin Jie Yong, Abraham T. Steel, Blake Lazur, Nita Jain, Sebastian Mueller, Snezana Djuric, Aileen Shiue Belitz, Salvatore Cagliari, Isak Dinesen, Joe Luca, Joi Lake, Charlotte VanDerLouis, Catherine Delia, Terry Mansfield, Sylvia Love Johnson, Erwin Lima, Gina Daniel, novalis, Amy Marley, Misa Ferreira de Rezende, Tim Maudlin, Will Murphy, Lilycelle Belarmino Ausa, Akos Peterbencze, Francesca Brandani, GFC: Grown Folk Conversations, Domagoj Vidovic, Dipti Pande, G.R. MELVIN, Tina Morlock, JJ Lim, BSc (Hons), Madoc Maduka, Andrew George

If your name is not in the list, please request addition. When I was configuring the publication, as usual the system crashed a few times hence there maybe some unintended data loss.

Articles added in last 24 hours

The first article was submitted by Paul Myers MBA.

The second article by Alexander Cares

The third article by Amy Cottreau

The fourth article, blew my mind, by Tom Byers.

The fifth, sixth, & seventh amazing articles by prolific writer Alvin Ang.

And this fascinating one has already been distributed to #spirituality.

I added a few of my articles from my other publications hoping to add some flavor to the publication.

The role of editors

I allocated multiple editors on purpose. The main reason is to prevent potential bottlenecks for publication. Writers don’t like waiting days for their articles to be published. There are a few publications which made me wait for over a week and there were still no response from them. They use being busy as an excuse. As a writer, I naturally stopped submitting my articles to those type of publications. In our publication, we value writers time and efforts.

Our editors have full authority to edit, accept, and publish articles. If any reasons, if your submitted article is not published or you receive no notification for updates, it means that there is a system error. As we know, there are still occasional glitches on Medium system, and we need to workaround it. Please leave a private note with your concern. I will set up an application email soon and share with you.

Alternatively, if you know the listed editors, you can contact any of them by using private message on their articles. If editors are willing to share their email address for communication, I will publish them in an FAQ document attached to the publication.

Working on our first content marketing strategy as low hanging fruit

Our first content marketing strategy is configuring our Medium profiles to allow our social media accounts.

Writers can add social media connections in their profiles. This will enable the readers to click on the social media links on writers’ articles and share them. This article provide you with necessary steps for adding Twitter to your Medium profile.

As readers, let’s share articles in multiple social media sites. When we receive a medium article, let’s retweet on Twitter, re-post on LinkedIn, and share on Facebook pages.

I will provide you with a step by step guide for content marketing approach for social media in another article.

I am designing a specific Facebook page for ILLUMINATION and will provide you with the details in my next article. This will help us to collaborate better and share our content more effectively with our followers.

In the meantime, you can subscribe the Twitter list that I crated for Medium Writers by clicking on this link. Once you subscribed to this list, you can see the tweets, mainly medium posts, from the member of this list.

By using Twitter lists, I came across fascinating articles easily, as lists filter the relevant posts only from the members. We already have 90 Medium members in this list.

Quick Tip

One simple tip, on Twitter and Facebook, hashtags (#) are very important to access relevant content easily. Therefore, I’d suggest you use the #illumination in your tweets, Facebook, and LinkedIn posts to create further visibility and accessibility to our content in the cyberspace.

Conclusion

Thank you again for your outstanding support.

New writers and editors, please use this article to indicate your interest to participate in this new publication.

You made me feel privileged to work with you as a dream team on this exciting initiative.

Let’s keep the momentum going and continue growing each day iteratively.

I will closely monitor our progress and share the highlights with you.

Success brings more success.