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A Guide to Starting a Medium Publication
What they are, why they matter, and how to do it.
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Medium is, at its heart, a blogging platform with a super easy What You See is What You Get interface. You type your post, hit ‘ready to publish?’ and bam. You’ve blogged.
It’s not the same as having your own website in several ways. On your own blog, you can have ads, for instance. You have control over how the website looks. You can arrange your posts to make them easy for your readers to navigate. Also, writing on your own website is considerably more complicated than writing on Medium. You have to figure out the backend, which might be super easy for you. Or, if you’re like me, it’s totally not.
What I love about Medium right now (who knows, maybe it will change? But as I write this . . .) is that you can make your own Publication on the site that gives you some of the good things about having your own website super easily.
What is a Publication?
On Medium, a publication is a place where you collect your posts. Very similar to a website that you own. You give it a title, it has a header, you can arrange your posts via tabs, you can feature your most important posts.
