Yesterday is History, Tomorrow’s a Mystery, July is Our Anniversary!
Let’s celebrate our 6-month anniversary!
Let’s celebrate our 6-month anniversary!
In three weeks, on July 18th, The Taoist Online will celebrate its sixth month anniversary. TTO began life as my personal blog on a different website, but soon transferred to Medium once I discovered the amazing community of dedicated writers and readers. I want to take the entire month of July to celebrate this amazing collection of thinkers, philosophers, and religious scholars, we have spent the last six months building.
So, what do we have in store for you? Let’s find out!
Relaunched Homepage — LAUNCHED!
We are relaunching our dedicated homepage at TheTaoistOnline.org! No longer a blog, but an informational hub for people to learn, read, and meet you! No ads!
Featured Writers of the Month — LAUNCHED!
We wanted a chance to highlight a few special and unique writers, so we are launching Featured Writers of the Month. These are TTO writers who have impressed us with their skills for the previous month. For July, our Featured Writers are…
These three talented individuals will receive a special place on both homepages to drive a little extra traffic to their articles for July! And if available, TTO will either tip the writer or make a small donation to a charity of their choice.
It won’t always be three, so submit your best work and see if we pick you!
Merch Store — LAUNCHED!
I’ve been asked this more than once (and not just by my wife and kids), so after a lot of work, TTO will have our own merch store located at our new homepage!
Nothing fancy, but we hope you all enjoy! All items are created by and shipped in partnership with printify.com!
Guest Writer
Occasionally, we are asked to publish articles from non-Medium writers. Unfortunately, our volunteer editing team does not have time to run two separate blogs concurrently even though we desperately want to help more writers share their voices with our readers.
Starting July 1st, the TTO will feature a Guest Writer. This is an article from a non-Medium writer which will appear on both our Medium publication and our website. Chief Editor Patrick will pay the author for their work. Also, the writer will receive an extra bonus at the end of the month based on how the article performs.
Consider this a trial-run in partnership with July’s writer. If it goes well, we will select a new guest writer for August!
Be sure to check back July 1st to read our first guest writer!
Faith Week
As TTO has grown, we publish articles from a wide variety of faiths and beliefs. So, we wanted to do something fun and publish articles relating or concerning one belief system per day for one special week! Don’t worry, we kept two general days on the calendar so we will still publish articles that don’t want to participate.
Here is the list of days and the beliefs we’ll be publishing!
July 16 — Savior “Save Your” Sunday — Christianity (FaithweekSunday)
July 17 — Mecca Monday- Islam (#FaithweekMonday)
July 18 — Taoism Tuesday — Taoism (#FaithweekTuesday)
July 19 — Wisdom Wednesday (General words of wisdom) (#faithweekWednesday)
July 20 — Dharma-day Thursday — Buddhism/Zen (FaithweekThursday)
July 21 — Philosophy Friday (General philosophy) (FaithweekFriday)
July 22 — Stoic Saturday — Stoicism (FaithweekSaturday)
If you want your story to be included, Use the topic tag above for each day. The topic tags can be set when you’re editing your article. Here is an example…
Submit your best faith or belief articles now and don’t forget to tag them or they won’t count!
New Editor
With the continued rapid growth of the publication, we needed another member of the editing staff to help take on responsibilities of editing and publishing the work of our amazing writers. So, I’m glad to announce that Nanie Hurley 🌿 has volunteered! Nanie is a dedicated Medium writer and has been with TTO since the beginning. I was extreamly pleased she has decided to help out. With her pitching in, TTO can start to expand into even MORE areas…hmm…
Hang Out Call
Come hang out with us on Sunday August 6 @ 9am. If you haven’t already, please join our Discord community to participate!
There might be even MORE surprises to come as well, but you’ll have to follow The Taoist Online to find out!
We can’t wait to see you during our celebration month of July!