A Guide to Medium Curation
What it is, why it matters, and how to increase your odds.
I love the word curation. It makes me think of museums, of course. But also, it makes me think of the art of pulling together disparate things and figuring out how they fit together.
Curation is the biggest buzz word in the community of Medium writers right now. Several times a day, questions about curation pop up in Facebook groups I belong to for Medium writers.
What is it? Why does it happen? How does it happen? What if it doesn’t happen? Is there some kind of magic bean involved?
I thought I’d see if I could curate a post that answers some of those questions. (Cute, right?)
Let’s start with a definition.
Curation is when Medium’s elevators — the people tasked with checking out posts and ‘elevating’ them by curating them into the platform’s many topics — choose a post to share more widely with readers.
When a post is curated, it shows up on the page for the topic or topics that it has been curated in. It can also be distributed to Medium members who follow those topics.
For instance, this post of mine was recently curated into the writing topic.
