What is a medium?

What is a medium? A growing number of platforms to share online, one is in medium.com. Founded in 2012 by the founder of Blogger and Twitter, Evan Williams, in a relatively short time the Medium succeeded in becoming a writing platform that attracted many people. Not only ordinary people, the President of the United States, Barack Obama ever choose to publish his state speech (State of the Union) in the Medium, before he later ceded it to the United States Congress.

What is a Medium?

The medium is the platform for writing. So when you have the desire to share information (generally in the form of writing) you can use medium.com. If you use twitter with maximum 140 characters, certainly it is certainly difficult for you to write. While the Medium is a place where you can make a longer writing and then publish it.

The advantages of the medium compared with the blog in general is there a feature to a trending topic, author columns, etc.

Essentially, the Medium runs two functions at once. It became a receptacle for blogging and also social media. Like Twitter elongated character letter. We could write along with inserting an assortment of content in it.

No need to worry about technical problems.

In contrast to in WordPress, you must set the installation, theme, plugins, settings, and all other things.

In the Medium, you don’t need to do that because enough focus to what is written. For those of you who love to write, you might better to use Medium rather than using WordPress.

Easy to use.

The process of writing the article in the Medium platform now can be done either via the web or mobile applications. When writing, you don’t need to busy making an attractive design because the Medium has a standard look. After writing, you can analyze which articles are most liked by readers.

For readers, the Medium has provided a Mention feature, so that you can call other users to read or comment. The making the comments did not need to be done at the end of the writing. You can simply write a comment on a particular sentence or paragraph, so that it can be better understood by other users.

Curatorial process.

Unlike the other platform writing made Evan earlier, Blogger, you do not need to open every account that is in the Medium to find interesting articles. The Medium has curated articles that were hit, then they show up in a category named Top Stories.

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How does the medium work?

The thing that makes the medium attractive is the simplicity of the layout of the website. In a simple medium is a media platform to write with this level of complexity above twitter (more than 140 characters), but simpler compared to the blog page (especially the tab settings , categories settings , etc.

You must register first in medium.com and then create your account. You can use the account on your personal name, on behalf of certain organizations or community groups. After you have an account, you start to write.

As a beginner writer, some of you must understand these terms first to facilitate your writing process.

Post:

Whatever you \want to write, please write to making postings. Writing individually, groups, companies or brands that want you to build. Posting on medium.com.

Publication:

Previously called “collection” ‘; postings are collected into a set of publications. You can use this publication to collect your own writing on your medium account, or you can also collaborate with the other medium user to make the publication of the group.

Writing format:

Medium offers some formatting options that are concise and effective. Much simpler than using a blog page, but still provide comfort with an elegant look.

Thank you very much for reading What is a medium, hopefully useful.