08There’s a pretty good chance I am going to start writing for Doximity’s Op-Ed section on the Medium platform within the next few weeks.
In preparation for this, and thanks to some excellent advice and links from Dakota Shane, here are my pre-novice tips I have extracted from his information. (For the sources I extracted this information from, refer to the links below ).
(As for most of my website blog posts, I tend to write first for myself – to clarify my own ideas, and second, for others. Put another way, these are my notes to myself before I dive into this effort, which may or may not help others. Proceed with caution, just as you would from a eating food from a cook who hasn’t yet even tasted it himself!.)
- Have a Niche, and stick to it.
- Write in Your’e own voice.
- Add Value.
- Track comments for your metrics.
- Medium is about serious stuff, mostly tech, startups, entrepreneurship, etc.
- It’s about motivation.
- Get into a publication.
- Make it personal ( ie use the words you and I ).
- Don’t swear.
- You don’t need listacles.
- Stories are based on time the average is a 7 minute read.
- Use images – approx 3.
- Remind them to follow you at the bottom of your post.
- Dont disable responses.
- Use a clever titile and subtitle and customize.
- Do good stuff with your header images.
- Make your preview image perfect.
- Use image grids.
- Consider image links.
- Write image captions and credits.
- Use breaks in your writing and quotations.
- Drop caps are cool.
- Figure out what TK reminders are.
- Pick the right tags for your article.
- Write good stuff.
- Figure out how to capture emails on Medium ( link to your squeeze page or Rabbut or Upscribe).
- Respond to comment.
- Write comments.
So, will these work for me? I don’t know yet, but at least I am staring off with a suitcase full of information.
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