The Taoist Online Newsletter #3
March 19th, 2023
March 19th, 2023
Greetings!
New Team Members
So much as happened this week as we welcomed five new writers and one new editor. Let’s quickly meet them and learn about their interests:
Cold Start — Writer: Taoism
Nanie Hurley ✍🏻 — Writer: Non-religious, veganism
Hope Bill Helps — Writer: Non-religious
Morgan Smith — Writer: Zen, Christianity
Hiren Bhatt — Editor: Hiduism, Spiritualism
Existing Team Members:
Patrick Stewart — Cheif Editor & Founder: Taoism
nathanlovestrees — Writer: Taoism, Non-religious, Animist
Dr Roger E Prentice — Writer: Taoist, Buddhist, Zen, Christian, Inter-spiritual, Non-dual, Baha’i, Hindu, Jewish, Humanist, ‘first-nation people’
Simon Kupfer — Writer: Stoicism, Judaism
Each one has been presented an official (but for fun) letter from Patrick congratulating them on being accepted as a team member. Thank you all again for your hard work, your contribution, and for helping The Taoist Online grow!
Standout Articles of the Week
With the team growing larger, 20 new articles were published this week! That’s an average of 2.8 articles per day. With all of the new articles, it can be easy to miss a few. Here are the stand out articles of the week:
Stoicism: The BEST Mindset To Change Your Life by Simon Kupfer (https://medium.com/p/85b993ae535b)
Coming Soon to a Medium Publication Near You by Patrick Stewart (https://medium.com/p/ea6badbf3b51)
Why does the first sentence of the Tao Te Ching have so many different translations? by Cold Start (https://medium.com/p/9c78c8156f24)
Join us next week to find out the next top 3.
Trademark Application & GoFundMe
It only took 5 days, but we reached our GoFundMe goal of $250 to file for our trademark from the United States Tradmark and Patent Office. Thank you to everyone who donated!
The application was filled out and submitted on Thursday and should take around five months to complete the process. It might, however, take up to 18 months so we will be sure to keep you updated on any developments.
By The Numbers
It’s been an incredible journey these last three weeks and we aren’t even to our first 30 days in publication! I wanted to share some stats with you on how we are growing.
As you can see from above, not only are our views steadily increasing, but our minutes read are also on the rise! I’m so exicted to see the publication growing and I hope you all spread the word!
Social Media and Requests
We are looking to expand our social media presence. Currently, you can find us on Mastodon, Flipboard, Twitter, and Discord, but what other platforms would you like us to join? Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, or YouTube? And what kind of articles or content would you like for us to create? Are there topics we aren’t covering or do you have any suggestions on things you want to hear our opinions on?
Let us know in the comments!
Farewell
Thank you for catching up with us and, if you’re not already, please subscribe to this newsletter so you’ll receive updates each week! You can also subscribe or join any of our social media channels and say hello!
If you would like to write, edit, or just help out please see our How To Write For Us article. We can’t wait to meet you!
See you all next week!
