Life on the Blockchain. A Beginner's Guide to Steemit: a Cryptocurrency empowered social media platform

As part of my witness mission to increase the user base of Steemit and help onboard minnows I've put together a PPT presentation. I hope that over the coming weeks and months I can use this to talk to professors and college students about Steemit. The goal is to define what Steemit it, present what the problems are with other approaches, show how Steemit solves them, and give a little product demonstration. I do this stuff professionally, so I'm have high hopes it will go over well.

The appraoch

1. Create an email template
2. Email some profs in New England ask if I can speak to their class about Steemit. English, journalism, economics, and computer science are all high on my list of courses to target.
3. Go drive there or do a webex to show them this deck, answer questions, and hopefully onboard some college peeps.
4. Additionally, use my youtube audience to put this out there as a screencast for folks not in college that may want to learn about this platform and this community.

Actually I have 300k airline miles from work... I could travel to do this on a roadshow if need be.

Your role

If you're reading this please give some constructive feedback on the slides as you see them. I think I'm a little light on dropping hate towards reddit and

The Deck

Intro Slide

Definition slide

Added a picture of the lego blocks to help share some of what the block chain is

Describe key differences between static websites and blogs

Talk about digital currencies as tokens that represent real value

Currencies come in two general forms. Inflationary and deflationary.

The FED prints an insane amount of money every year, so the value that you hold goes down

Cryptocurrencies have small amounts of inflation, but relative to Government Fiat it's practically nothing. So, as more goods, services, and people use a given currency the amount you need to use to buy something goes down!!!

The major competitors to Steemit are Facebook, Reddit, and Youtube

Facebook sucks

Reddit sucks now

Youtube sucks

So, what is Steemit and how can it fix the problems?

These tokens have real value. You can trade them like stocks on exchanges!

1 BTC is worth more than an oz of gold, and now worth $2500 USD!!!

Let's talk user experience. This is my blog

Top part describes me as a blogger

The system tracks reputation so that users have a sense of how involved you are

You can figure out quickly your reach, number of posts you have made, and how many people you choose to follow <h3

Like sharing in Facebook, you can resteem other people's work and help get them exposure for content you like

Posts earn Steem, through upvotes, you can track the number of comments, if you've resteemed it and who authored it

Here's my wallet, over time posting, upvoting, and commenting you can earn a decent amount of Steem

If your post trends you can literally earn thousands!

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What are you waiting for? Join steemit today!

What can I do to make it better?

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You can find me hanging out on steemspeak, a discord channel that many steemers use to text and talk to each other- https://discord.gg/qjpRj7w

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