Medium
Medium was created by Ev William. Ev previously created Blogger (sold to Google). Then he founded Twitter. Medium is his current project.
Who uses Medium:
- President Obama
- The 2015 State of the Union was posted before it was recited
- don't miss the Easter Egg Pictures
- Ben Stiller announced he had prostate cancer on Medium
- Mark Harris investigative report on the biggest KickStarter ($3.5 million dollars) ever to fail
- Joe Biden announced The Cancer Moonshot on Medium
Why Medium
Easy
Content looks great
No expectation of serial authorship
Is designed with Twitter in mind
Activity
Pick one of the four topics to write a short blog post right now.
Tutorial on getting started with Medium on a computer
Tutorial on getting started with Medium on an iPhone or iPad
Choose one of the following four topics to write a short blog post with Medium:
- My thoughts on SPRINT (example post on Medium | blogger toolbox)
- Dietary recommendation for hyperphosphatemia (example post on Medium | blogger toolbox)
- PPI and CKD, is there a link? (example post on Medium | blogger toolbox)
- Marathon running and acute kidney injury (blogger toolbox)
See what we're looking for by exploring the example posts. Use the resources in the blogger tool box to help you build your post (links to references, editorials, images, abstracts, etc).