I found what you said about building pub editors building relationship with writers a crucial but often overlooked point - in my three years on Medium, I have seen a scant few who actually focus on that aspect - I guess they are too busy to see the trees for the forest - in my opinion, if you own a pub and your intention is to make it known as a pub where good writers want to be published - then you have to nurture them - but then again my def of 'good' is completely different from a pub editor - especially one with no clue about the nitty gritty 🤷♀️
I signed up to host a booth. I feel it's an opportunity for readers, writers, and other Medium personalities to stop by and say hello. I did a talk on Medium Day too. With a thing like this, I feel kind of uncertain about the technological side. It looks like playing a video game but instead of a talk with an NPC, you can enter a room and talk to a personality from Medium (at least, that's how I understand it). Perhaps this is something they'll start to offer every 6 months or so. I'm always much better at something the 2nd time I try it :).
Love it, as always! I was wondering how it was going to work. I'm not attending nor am I hosting. I have way too much to do now. Stealing the joke, btw.
Interesting that Medium used to promote publications, then "killed" them off, and is now promoting them again as a pathway to boosting for fame and fortune. The more the algorithm changes, the more it stays the same ...
I found what you said about building pub editors building relationship with writers a crucial but often overlooked point - in my three years on Medium, I have seen a scant few who actually focus on that aspect - I guess they are too busy to see the trees for the forest - in my opinion, if you own a pub and your intention is to make it known as a pub where good writers want to be published - then you have to nurture them - but then again my def of 'good' is completely different from a pub editor - especially one with no clue about the nitty gritty 🤷♀️
I signed up to host a booth. I feel it's an opportunity for readers, writers, and other Medium personalities to stop by and say hello. I did a talk on Medium Day too. With a thing like this, I feel kind of uncertain about the technological side. It looks like playing a video game but instead of a talk with an NPC, you can enter a room and talk to a personality from Medium (at least, that's how I understand it). Perhaps this is something they'll start to offer every 6 months or so. I'm always much better at something the 2nd time I try it :).
"I don’t want 200 writers that submit one post and move on." same here. Even a fraction of that would be a nightmare, Thanks Linda.
Are you doing it, Linda?
"As I publisher I don’t want 200 writers that submit one post and move on. I want to know my writers."
Same here, which is a large part of why I didn't sign up to host a booth--I just couldn't get past the name and the connotations.
Love it, as always! I was wondering how it was going to work. I'm not attending nor am I hosting. I have way too much to do now. Stealing the joke, btw.
Interesting that Medium used to promote publications, then "killed" them off, and is now promoting them again as a pathway to boosting for fame and fortune. The more the algorithm changes, the more it stays the same ...
Why did the cat walk into a bar? Because it heard they had the best milkshakes in town. 😂😎😂