- Sara LaFaver
- Lynnsy Logue
- Hattie James
- Jimmy Burgess
- Sam Benson
- Andy Nauman
And a special congratulations to Sam Benson and Jimmy Burgess who both made the top 5 with their first contributed stories!
OTHER NEWS
- We now have 407 contributors plus a slew of Local contributors who are ready to roll on Nov. 2 -- when the Local program officially roles out. (If you are interested and in Chicago, DC, Houston, Miami, Los Angeles or San Francisco, please inquire at [email protected].)
- With that said, we are working to get everything streamlined, and the first target will be end-of-the-story bios. Going forward, we are going to edit them to be simply: name, title, company and up to two social media links. Any other information that you want to add, you can add it to your author's page. You just log in to the back end of WordPress and go to "USERS" to do so. So if your bio changes a bit at the end of the story, it's for the sake of uniformity. I appreciate your help and understanding.
- You might also notice that I have been asking you to go back and add takeaways to your stories. This is an across the board thing that I will ask everyone. We just want you to have as much control over your stories as possible, and the first thing a reader sees is the takeaways. I know you all get the importance of first impressions. You all have been great, prompt and gracious when I've asked for changes, edits or additions such as takeaways. I just want you to know that I truly appreciate all that you do.
- As we have been doing a lot more editing on the front end, there have been many stories that you or both of us mutually agreed not to move forward on. If you could please delete anything in your queue that isn't being pursued or has been rejected/given up on, please move those stories to trash. I appreciate your help on this one. Also please be sure to add your stories to "NEXT" rather than "POSTS." It just makes it that much easier to find publishable stories.
- And you might have noticed that the "popular stories" algorithm on the website has been tweaked. It's much better now. Enjoy. If you ever have questions about how anything on the site works, please feel free to ask.