New Writers’ Onboarding
Tags: Entrepreneurship, Writing, Technology, Self Improvement, Reading

Dear new writers,

Thank you for your joining ILLUMINATION, ILLUMINATION-Curated, and Technology Hits. We are excited to meet you.

Welcome to our publications.

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.

You can write about almost anything as long as your stories meet Medium rules.

There is a new challenge on Medium. The platform cannot support more than 30 editors per publications. Since even 42 editors cannot cover our workload, we had to create a mirror version of ILLUMINATION and allocated new editors to support the workload.

The design manifested today as you are the first group of writers added to ILLUMINATION’ MIRROR. This means that we recommend submitting only one article to ILLUMINATION per day and the rest of your articles 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 because each new writer brings new perspectives and contributes to enhancing the breadth and depth of our publications. This diversity and variety delight our readers. Many readers made ILLUMINATION and ILLUMINATION-Curated as their front page. These two publications now followed by around 70,000 readers registered to Medium and many thousands from our external sources. We have just started our third publication for a specific audience.

The purpose of this post is to notify new contributors joined ILLUMINATION ILLUMINATION-Curated, Technology Hits and new ILLUMINATION’S MIRROR. Your account should have 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.

Our goal 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 7,000+contributing writers . We grow rapidly with contributions from inspiring and engaging writers like you.

We are proud to support different level of writers — aspiring, experienced, accomplished, and influential. You all play an important role in this platform.

The strength of ILLUMINATION relates to cross-pollinating 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. We’d appreciate your contributions to our readers. Our publications operate with an abundance mentality. We don’t compete with other publication. We collaborate with them.

We don’t limit our writers. We give them flexible options to be successful. You are not exclusive to us. We encourage you to try other publications too. We also encourage our writers to create their own publications. If you have your special publication, we can help you promote them. We support your writing goals and show flexibility in raising your voice.New Writers for ILLUMINATION

New writers joined ILLUMINATION. Welcome: Živa Pika, Himanshu Shekhar, Akshay Bhardwaj, Muhammad Sakhawat, Harshit Makhija, Yvette Brand, U-Ming Lee,The Practical World, Georgia Lewitt, Amelie Bauer, sam crespi #SHE, Yaqoot, Winter Wrights, Google Talks, Shelton Sellers, Tom & Jerry, Matt DeLaney, Ana Gomez, Charith Peris, João Vítor de Souza, C S Bhambra, brinda koushik,donthewriter, Fazle Rab, Amen Naqvi, Baturalp Akin, John Roe, Matthew Taylor, S|B, Grace Bea, G Correia,AdventureRaf, Sajjad Choudhury, Kate Frick Sheridan, Roger Skibowski, Justin Cordero, Mohammad Hassan, Vishal Makwana, Mariana Vargas, Telling You Something, Shreya Varma, Pauli Raivio, Kirsten Porter, Alexander Bird,Abdulhafiz Abdulkarim, Yana Hempler, Financial Nuggets, Francis M. Garcia Fernandez, Edima Essien, anuj gautam,Kennedie, James Woods, Kara Summers, Jason Bowling, DebGupta, Arslay Joseph, Rahul Bhadani, Gaston King, uzair amir, Lewiscoaches, Dipak Anand, Veronika Kaufmann, Onete Gabriel, AdventureRaf, DISHA GARG, lauren dahlia,Erik Etminan, Shuana Yap, Ghani Mengal, Dominique Willis, Monika Gupta, Jack Seagrist, Toya Qualls-Barnette, Evie Jane, Blank Voice, Rebecca Ruth Gould, Kate Irwin, Bruce Noll, M. Collao Quevedo, Claire Boyce, Embrace Your Life Coaching, JL, Sadia Awan, Victor Kananda, TUSHAR PALANKAR, Marc Hadd, John M Smith, Dipak Anand, Ibrahim K, Kay Valley, Priyanka Nadiya

Welcome new writers joined ILLUMINATION-Curated:

Kennedie, Shuana Yap, Jair Ribeiro, J Freeman, Sirisha Reddy, Cíntia Antunes, Himanshu Shekhar, Nick Wong, Carla Sharpe, Ryan DeJonghe, Sarib Saif, Karan Shah, A Rustic Mind (Manali Desai), Rebecca Clifton-James, TJ Larson, Georgia Lewitt, Venu, Iulia C. Bocaneala, Cristian Nunez, Carel Kolchinski, Drew Wardle, ASHLEY HOKETT, Michael Shook, Nathan Foolchand, Samrat Dutta, aman, Ebenezer kalu, Jerry Ng, Carla Sharpe, Drew Wardle, Rohan Abeysinghe, Ryan DeJonghe,

Welcome new writers joined Technology Hits: Charith Peris, Roger Skibowski, Ibrahim K, Jason Bowling, Bianca Zagan, Shuana Yap

How to benefit our publications and become successful on Medium

We want to provide you with the essential guides so you can produce joyfully.

Our readers expect quality materials. Meeting this expectation is the critical success factor for you.

Submit only your best work for our readers.

Your stories must be the type of content that you want to read.

Caption your [copyright-free photos] with source links.

This is one of the most time consuming and stressful situation for our publication. Our editors are tired of writing a myriad of comments and wait for responses from writers. All photos must be caption with source links. We recommend using stock photos such as from unsplash.com.

Do not submit plagiarized material.

We only accept stories written by you. Medium does not accept plagiarism, and it is illegal in the industry. ILLUMINATION has zero-tolerance for plagiarized submissions. Our editors have expertise in detecting plagiarism by using different methods and various tools.

Please see the attached article for our position and details.

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.

We allow our prolific and experienced writers to submit up to three drafts within 24 hours. Since they submit high-quality materials, we don’t have to spend too much time on these types of submissions.

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 cannot handle the fundamentals.

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.

Please 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.

Learn about the platform rules and expectations of your audience.

We are working on a large and complex platform. I touched on the publication rules, but the platform rules are critical too. All writers must learn the rules of the platform and get to know their audience.

You can find the details for these six items in the attached article.

Publication Conduct Guidelines

Please check these simplified the rules for new writers.

In terms of platform rules, many new writers benefited from this story. This story focuses on fundamentals and some advanced topics for writers.

Please review this quality checklist

Please use this checklist before submitting your stories to ILLUMINATION and ILLUMINATION-Curated.

When you submit quality content, your stories can be published faster and you can gain more readers.

How to amplify your stories

Writers need to take personal responsibility to create visibility for their content. One way of increasing visibility and reading times of your stories is to reach out to a broader audience by amplifying your stories meaningfully.

We help you share your stories by creating collaborative tools and platforms.

Collaboration is a critical success factor for Medium writers. Here are the 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 collaboring with 20 million members

If you authored books, Goodreads can be an ideal place to create visibility.

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 propositions were articulated by three senior editors.

The one by Tree Langdon

By CR Mandler MAT

By Liam Ireland

How we help writers to amplify their 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.

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

We tweet your stories automatically and manually by several editors.

Twitter

Our Twitter handle: https://twitter.com/illum_official

Facebook

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://medium.com/illumination/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://medium.com/illumination/how-to-get-started-with-quora-and-amplify-your-medium-stories-969f309b0967

LinkedIn

We automatically post your stories to our Linked page and groups. https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13914581/

Pinterest

Another creative distribution is using Pinterest. https://medium.com/illumination/how-to-get-started-with-pinterest-and-amplify-your-medium-stories-94435d586d51

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Esential References for Writers

The following stories 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

Do you enjoy collaborating with others?

Then we have three virtual clubs for your engagement. These clubs are fun and run on our Slack Workspace. 5,200 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 current 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

Meet editors joined us today

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

You can find their profiles from this new story published today.

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