I filled in the application but have not heard back yet so I don't know. I'm not sure if they are taking everyone who applies or if they are choosing a certain number of publications per topic.
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've often thought that you learn 90% of everything you need to know about a new skill in the first hour, and then you have to spend the rest of your life in dedicated study to master the rest. There might be an article in that idea...
Unless you're learning code. Or art. Or music. Or how to write. I think things we learn might fall into one of two groups. The ones we learn quick and then perfect. And the ones we keep learning as we go because the water is that deep
That's valid, an hour is too short. There is a point where you start seeing diminishing returns, but perhaps it's after a year... or ten. And then, as you say, you find yourself swimming in deep water (a moment to learn, a lifetime to master). I guess the only thing you learn in the short term is that the impressions outside observers have about a skill are woefully inadequate.
Me too, and even recognizing how silly I've been, I continue to step right in and make a fool of myself over and over (good thing the learning curve is steep at the beginning) :)
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 🤷♀️
Part of what makes that so hard is we have no tools to do it. Publication owners have no way to reach out to writers. There's literally no way to just shoot an email to my writers. I can tag them all, but if they don't see the notice, it doesn't help. And the 200 character boxes for feedback are so short it's crazy trying to communicate. I sure hope they improve publisher tools soon
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.
I hadn't either but one of Medium staff reached out and asked me to. Don't know that I'm going to have much by way of live events because it's a work day. But I will have a video and submission info. And I will be clear that I'm not looking for one off writers. lol
Right? I made that mistake on History of Women. Ended up with too many writers, many who only wrote once. Had to clean my writer list and it made me rethink the whole process lol
I filled in the application but have not heard back yet so I don't know. I'm not sure if they are taking everyone who applies or if they are choosing a certain number of publications per topic.
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 :).
Me too, always more comfortable the second time. First time anything I feel like a fish out of water. I like to have some idea what I'm doing. lol
I've often thought that you learn 90% of everything you need to know about a new skill in the first hour, and then you have to spend the rest of your life in dedicated study to master the rest. There might be an article in that idea...
Unless you're learning code. Or art. Or music. Or how to write. I think things we learn might fall into one of two groups. The ones we learn quick and then perfect. And the ones we keep learning as we go because the water is that deep
That's valid, an hour is too short. There is a point where you start seeing diminishing returns, but perhaps it's after a year... or ten. And then, as you say, you find yourself swimming in deep water (a moment to learn, a lifetime to master). I guess the only thing you learn in the short term is that the impressions outside observers have about a skill are woefully inadequate.
"the impressions outside observers have about a skill are woefully inadequate"
Walter I am laughing so hard at this... right? I have BEEN that outside observer. lol
Me too, and even recognizing how silly I've been, I continue to step right in and make a fool of myself over and over (good thing the learning curve is steep at the beginning) :)
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 🤷♀️
Part of what makes that so hard is we have no tools to do it. Publication owners have no way to reach out to writers. There's literally no way to just shoot an email to my writers. I can tag them all, but if they don't see the notice, it doesn't help. And the 200 character boxes for feedback are so short it's crazy trying to communicate. I sure hope they improve publisher tools soon
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.
I had a good laugh. Every cat owner knows that move. lol
"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.
I hadn't either but one of Medium staff reached out and asked me to. Don't know that I'm going to have much by way of live events because it's a work day. But I will have a video and submission info. And I will be clear that I'm not looking for one off writers. lol
"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.
Right? I made that mistake on History of Women. Ended up with too many writers, many who only wrote once. Had to clean my writer list and it made me rethink the whole process lol
Why did the cat walk into a bar? Because it heard they had the best milkshakes in town. 😂😎😂