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Medium Staff

Medium Staff

·Feb 14

Elevate your brand with a new, customizable About page

As a Medium creator, your About page is a place to introduce yourself and to contextualize your writing for your readers — especially new ones who are looking for reasons to click “follow.” …

Medium

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Elevate your brand with a new, customizable About page
Elevate your brand with a new, customizable About page

Tatiana Colligan

Tatiana Colligan

·May 25, 2021

Improving Discovery on Medium with Tags

Check out the new tag pages — Recently we’ve launched some updates to the tag pages on the web to improve discovery. Tags are keywords and keyword phrases that are added to stories by the writer to improve story discovery and categorization. A writer can add up to five tags per story. …

Tag

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Improving Discovery on Medium with Tags
Improving Discovery on Medium with Tags

Abby Aker

Abby Aker

·Dec 8, 2020

Level Up Your Following

Writers: Keep your readers in the loop by letting them subscribe to email updates. You own your subscriber list. — This past year, Medium has given readers and writers more control over the stories they see by emphasizing follows over algorithms. Now, writers, you can take your follower list one step further. Let your fans know when you’ve published something new from their email inbox, in addition to when they…

Email

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Level Up Your Following
Level Up Your Following

Medium Creators

Medium Creators

·Jan 27, 2020

For Stories That Give Advice: Be Concise, Actionable, and Targeted

Tips from Medium’s Platform Editors — Write something valuable. A common strategy for this is to share your own life lessons. There’s plenty of advice around. In books, online, and on Medium, you can find tips on everything. It’s a pretty generous collective gesture. Still, even with good intentions, not all stories will land well. …

Medium

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For Stories That Give Advice: Be Concise, Actionable, and Targeted
For Stories That Give Advice: Be Concise, Actionable, and Targeted

Emma Smith

Emma Smith

·Oct 22, 2019

Improving how we calculate writer earnings

In Medium’s Partner Program, writers earn daily through a new model to reward quality writing — In 2017, we launched the Medium Partner Program to fairly compensate writers for their quality stories, with unlimited potential to earn. Since then, we’ve paid more than $6 million to over 30,000 writers, increasing payouts year over year. Today, we’re excited to announce an updated earnings model to improve how…

Writing

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Improving how we calculate writer earnings
Improving how we calculate writer earnings

Medium Creators

Medium Creators

·Jul 31, 2019

5 of the Most Common, Easy-to-Fix Problems We See in Curation

Simple tips from Medium Curation — Every day the curation team reviews stories for distribution through Medium’s topics. Curators are looking for great stories to distribute, but in addition to quality, stories must meet some minimum guidelines. (Read the full curation guidelines here.) Some of the issues that disqualify a story from curation can easily be…

Writers

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5 of the Most Common, Easy-to-Fix Problems We See in Curation
5 of the Most Common, Easy-to-Fix Problems We See in Curation

Medium Staff

Medium Staff

·May 3, 2019

The Rookie and the Pro: Different Ways to Succeed on Medium

A Q&A with Shannon Ashley and Shaunta Grimes, two top Partner Program writers — Writers come in many forms. Shaunta Grimes has been one for a long time. She has a Master’s in writing fiction, is a published author, and runs the Every Day Novelist publication on Medium. Her third novel, The Astonishing Maybe, was published by Penguin Random House in March. There is…

Writing

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The Rookie and the Pro: Different Ways to Succeed on Medium
The Rookie and the Pro: Different Ways to Succeed on Medium

Caitlin Roman

Caitlin Roman

·Jul 6, 2018

A Sweeter Deal For Writers With Two New Features

Now, writers in Medium’s Partner Program can earn money for stories they publish in publications and can share Friend Links that guarantee that fans and followers can view their work — Today, we’re making two improvements to the Medium Partner Program that have been among the most-requested features since we launched the program in 2017. …

Medium

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A Sweeter Deal For Writers With Two New Features
A Sweeter Deal For Writers With Two New Features

Elizabeth Barelli

Elizabeth Barelli

·May 9, 2018

A New Kind of Playground

Recent stories that take a deeper look at the effects of technology on youth — TThe impact of technology is something that concerns us all, whether or not we have kids. From infants and toddlers to teenagers and young adults, new generations are being exposed to emerging technologies, apps, and devices, and they’re having an effect that we are only beginning to comprehend. What we…

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A New Kind of Playground
A New Kind of Playground
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