Medium - A Place Where You Might Just Be Inspired

Last week, we got to respond to Vanessa's #MediumChallenge, and I must say that I really like this tool very much for its unique features. So I tried it out, played around and what I discovered was a tool that has many distinctive attributes when compared with other similar type platforms. 

What is really interesting about this tool is that it not only serve as a blogging and online publishing platform, but there is also a big and diverse collection of journals and genres that one can explore in their area of interest. From this perspective, Medium could also be considered to be performing as a curation and bookmarking tool designed to curate the most appropriate and interesting materials that would naturally find its audience. 

In essence, Medium is a community that offers unique perspectives on ideas, personal thoughts and experiences, and you would often find interactions between writers and readers through the comment features. Such interactions form the basis for knowledge sharing and exchange of ideas on the platform, and certainly one can observe a great sense of appreciation and respect for diverse viewpoints from the responses. 

Medium is also a network that connects writers to readers, as users could follow each other either on their stories, or on the Twitter platform via the simple buttons on the website. In a nutshell, I find the stories on Medium to be extremely inspiring to the point that I have been frequently using the tool the past few days, so it must be a good thing and therefore I have decided to incorporate it as part of my PLN!