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I've been looking for Medium alternatives, but my audience wants me to continue on it. 123 votes to where should I publish my posts: - 34% Medium - 9% Dev.to

by fhoffa 7y ago

I've been looking for Medium alternatives, but my audience wants me to continue on it. 123 votes to where should I publish my posts: - 34% Medium - 9% Dev.to - 45% My company's official blog - 12% LinkedIn, my domain, ??? This tells me that - even if Medium continues to annoy their fans with their new model, I should still consider it as a great platform for quick publishing. Survey via Twitter to my 10k followers (https://twitter.com/felipehoffa/status/1148334055689031681 https://twitter.com/felipehoffa/status/1148334055689031681). Disclosure: I'm Felipe Hoffa and I work for Google Cloud - and I frequently post on Medium and elsewhere.

gringoDan 7y ago
Why not cross-post your free content to Medium, LinkedIn, etc? Then you can take advantage of their distribution while pointing people back to your own site. I'm wary of companies/products built entirely on top of other products - too much risk (see Zynga). Same concept with Medium.
- redorb 7y ago
  Your company blog first, Medium 2 weeks later and always mentioned that 'my posts are posted [insert url here] 2 weeks earlier'
  - fhoffa 7y ago
    My company blog first - yes! Except that I can go from idea to post in 12 hours with Medium, and that's not at all the experience for the official posts when multiple teams want to chime in...
    - fitzroy 7y ago
      These sound like two different kind of posts. Either way, make sure the canonical location is some place that you or your employer (whoever owns the content) have control over. I'd suggest: - Post your personal stuff on your own domain. - Post your Google Cloud stuff on the company blog. - Syndicate / cross post to Medium, LinkedIn, Twitter, wherever etc. if one or both make sense for the topic. - You don't need to cross post the whole post if the platform doesn’t warrant it (lots of eyeballs, but hostile to the content-publisher, i.e. Facebook). You can put 2 paragraphs and a link to "read more on xyzblog". You're mostly using these services for discovery. In general, treat platforms you don't control as discovery-only. - Encourage and enable readers to subscribe and engage directly at the canonical location (if practical), and not on the edges, as long as that doesn’t create a poor experience for them. - If you find that more people want to engage / or the conversation is higher-quality at one of the distribution points (say HackerNews, vs the comments section of your blog), then provide a link to there from the canonical location and encourage conversation there. (edit: Formatting)
catacombs 7y ago
Publishing on your site and adding a free comment feature is, in my opinion, the way to go.

by fhoffa 7y ago

gringoDan 7y ago

Why not cross-post your free content to Medium, LinkedIn, etc? Then you can take advantage of their distribution while pointing people back to your own site. I'm wary of companies/products built entirely on top of other products - too much risk (see Zynga). Same concept with Medium.

redorb 7y ago
Your company blog first, Medium 2 weeks later and always mentioned that 'my posts are posted [insert url here] 2 weeks earlier'
- fhoffa 7y ago
  My company blog first - yes! Except that I can go from idea to post in 12 hours with Medium, and that's not at all the experience for the official posts when multiple teams want to chime in...
  - fitzroy 7y ago
    These sound like two different kind of posts. Either way, make sure the canonical location is some place that you or your employer (whoever owns the content) have control over. I'd suggest: - Post your personal stuff on your own domain. - Post your Google Cloud stuff on the company blog. - Syndicate / cross post to Medium, LinkedIn, Twitter, wherever etc. if one or both make sense for the topic. - You don't need to cross post the whole post if the platform doesn’t warrant it (lots of eyeballs, but hostile to the content-publisher, i.e. Facebook). You can put 2 paragraphs and a link to "read more on xyzblog". You're mostly using these services for discovery. In general, treat platforms you don't control as discovery-only. - Encourage and enable readers to subscribe and engage directly at the canonical location (if practical), and not on the edges, as long as that doesn’t create a poor experience for them. - If you find that more people want to engage / or the conversation is higher-quality at one of the distribution points (say HackerNews, vs the comments section of your blog), then provide a link to there from the canonical location and encourage conversation there. (edit: Formatting)

catacombs 7y ago

Publishing on your site and adding a free comment feature is, in my opinion, the way to go.