Our community is growing, and so is our Editorial section.
This article is a How-to” article for first-time Editors.
For new Writers, please check “How to submit a draft to Serious Scrum”.
First of all, take some time going through our handbook by our founders Sjoerd Nijland and Willem-Jan Ageling. This gives you a complete overview of our Purpose, Values, Roles, and Ambitions.
Now you have all the background information you need, it’s time to get to work! So, you’re an editor, an article has been gone through our review process steps and is ready to be launched.
First, go to https://medium.com/serious-scrum and make sure you are logged in. Click the Serious Scrum icon in the right top corner.
The menu will open and you can go to the “Stories” section where all Drafts are listed for your convenience. ( so, if you don’t see a reviewed story over there, it is probably not submitted to the publication yet and still on the writers’ private account)
After opening the selected article, you can hit THE PUBLISH BUTTON|
Before actually publishing, please check if the “ Serious Scrum Tag” is added to support the ability for Medium users to find our articles easily
After publishing, copy the “Friend Link” and add the article to our #General channel on #Slack.
The minimal text used when posting to the #General channel is
[Name article] by [Name Authour] followed by the Friend Link. ( but please, add a summary of the article or a personal note when you feel like it!)
When an author requests to have his/her article been published on a specific date/time, you can also choose to schedule the publication in the final step before publishing.
After successfully publishing an article to our Medium channel you can take a nap. Every night a script will run that adds all articles that were published that day to www.seriousscrum.com. So, you don’t have to worry about that. ( as long as the script is running as it should do…)
The final steps after publishing the article are to promote them on our Social Media channels on LinkedIn and Twitter. That part is covered by Sjoerd, Willem-Jan, and the Ambassadors.