FEEDBACK
Share Your Profile, We’ll Give You Feedback (Updated)
Friendly input from Creators Hub on your About page and bio, story titles, and post formatting.
Update: Wow, what a great response! As of 11:50am EST on 4/7/22, we have reached our capacity for today’s session. If Amy or Harris clapped on your response, we’re working on your feedback and you’ll see it soon.
Please keep an eye on Creators Hub for another chance to get feedback in the future. And consider reading the feedback we’ve shared in the responses — we think you’ll find advice that’s relevant to you, too.
Although most questions about posting on Medium are answered in Medium’s useful and comprehensive Help Center, creators frequently ask us for general feedback on their profiles, so today we’re going to do just that.
One of the most efficient ways to improve your experience on Medium is to have a polished, complete profile — it signals to your readers that you are a trustworthy writer whose work they should pay attention to. With that in mind, we’re doing a little experiment: You share a link to your Medium profile in the comments of this post. We’ll look at your About page and bio, your story titles (aka headlines), and the formatting and image selections of your posts. We will briefly respond with some editorial input, with an eye toward helping you to make your Medium profile stand out and speak to more readers.
The “we” here is Harris Sockel and Amy Shearn. We work on Medium’s Creator Support team and are editors of this publication, Creators Hub. Harris is a seasoned writer of personal essays, a longtime editor of Medium’s beloved publication Human Parts, and the brains behind Medium’s popular Creator Workshops. Amy also works on Human Parts and Creator Workshops, has worked as an editor at many publications, has taught writing classes, done manuscript consultations for many venues including NYU, and is an essayist and novelist.
We’ll respond to however many we can, and we will edit this post to let you know when we can’t accept any more submissions. If there’s a lot of interest, we’ll do this again in the future, so don’t worry if we don’t get to yours today.
And one more note: If you want to offer some supportive feedback on each other’s profiles, that’s cool! But please keep it civil, relevant, and supportive. Sharing work — especially work that’s not all the way finished yet — can be scary, and we would like this to be a safe space for creativity and experimentation.
