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- 1. Pay it Forward: Sharing Your Story on Medium Cakelin Marquardt
- 2. Greetings! I’m Cakelin You can find me most places at @thecakelin 2 Pay it Forward @thecakelin
- 3. What happened? … life happened 3
- 4. 1. What is Medium ??? Pay it Forward @thecakelin
- 5. “Medium is a beautiful space for reading and writing—and little else. On Medium, you’re not alone. You write beside and with other people. Medium is not about who you are or whom you know, but about what you have to say. - Ev Williams 5 Pay it Forward @thecakelin
- 6. Medium Partner Program ⋆ Membership paywall ($5/month) ⋆ Opt individual articles in ⋆ Medium curation ⋆ Real member engagement => payment Time to start small... 6 Pay it Forward @thecakelin
- 7. 2. Location Location Location Pay it Forward @thecakelin
- 8. Publications Types ● Medium run ● Externally run ● External that do not accept contributors (The Atlantic, etc) Tools Smedian - ~650 publications to submit to Details ● Newsletters ● Submission guidelines ● Time constraints for new contributors 8 Pay it Forward @thecakelin
- 9. You Do You Any Medium member can start a publication 9 Pay it Forward @thecakelin
- 10. 3. What Do I WANT TO say Pay it Forward @thecakelin
- 11. Article Ideas What do you have? - Your stories - Journal entries - Previously published articles What are you looking for? Teach yourself by researching what you are already curious about. What are they looking for? Read, read, & read some more Pick a popular publication and create article ideas for it 11 Pay it Forward @thecakelin
- 12. 4. Don’t be a writer, just write Pay it Forward @thecakelin
- 13. Make it Look Goooood Titles - You/I/We Photos, Memes, GIFs Formatting Let’s Do This Make it Happen Asking for Edits Google Docs Share a Medium draft Conference/talk driven 13 Pay it Forward @thecakelin
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- 16. 16 Pay it Forward @thecakelin
- 17. Share! -Facebook - to relevant groups & pages -Twitter - include images of text from the article (with captions!) -LinkedIn - if you really want to (or someone else does) 17 Pay it Forward @thecakelin
- 18. What’s Next For You? ⋆ Failure Hot Potato ⋆ Publications: The Startup, Better Humans ⋆ Came from journaling & wanting to learn more about my experience ⋆ Final edits before asking others (gDoc style) 18 ⋆ What topics do you read about? ⋆ Where do you connect most strongly with others? ⋆ What happened recently you were curious about? ⋆ Who can you share thoughts and drafts with? Pay it Forward @thecakelin
- 19. Let’s review some concepts COMMUNITY Joining or starting a publication Interact with other writers STORYTELLING Everything revolves around it JUST KEEP WRITIN’ Track ideas Let it flow 19 START SMALL Quality > quantity One at a time TEACH OR LEARN Find what people are curious about SHARE Tell the world! Or at least your great Aunt Dorothy Pay it Forward @thecakelin
- 20. 20 Thanks! ANY QUESTIONS? You can find me at @thecakelin & kaitlinmarquardt@gmail.com Pay it Forward @thecakelin
Editor's Notes
- Rough things happened, and my search for community and info brought me to tech disability project. I was working again… so I went for it. Jk jk, I was damn terrified to write about this
- https://writingcooperative.com/a-quick-guide-to-medium-9f61864ab26
- “How Medium’s Curation, Distribution and Paywall Systems Work for Writers” by Michael Sippey https://link.medium.com/ZFgwYM5SBX “Medium’s top 10 most followed and active publications” by The Startup https://link.medium.com/m7XvGu8QBX Publish frequently, not just pageviews!, start small
- “Medium’s top 10 most followed and active publications” by The Startup https://link.medium.com/m7XvGu8QBX Medium, external, small specialized, each have their ow *Finding where to write Outside publications - will all have their own submission guidelines -some are run by Medium -Time deadlines Submission tools - smedian
- https://medium.com/med-matters/should-you-submit-your-medium-stories-to-a-publication-3a0c76d8442e
- Re-publish Journals Stories not clickbait Teaching - what are you looking for? Read! Listen to what people are looking for Pick a publication, then an idea for it https://writingcooperative.com/write-to-learn-not-just-to-communicate-b881fe51acba
- Write about writing
- Titles - you/I Make it pretty - photos Asking for edits - google docs, sharing the medium draft Talk driven writing https://medium.com/swlh/16-tricks-to-turn-your-medium-drafts-into-beautiful-looking-stories-e828e035b5da
- Share! This can be the best or worst part depending on how you feel Share pictures of text on twitter, make sure to copy text into the image description Gift of grey spaces - 111 facebook shares Look - my heads cut off