Greeting my esteemed Steemians,

Last weekend was the most productive weekend that I have ever experienced.
I got to learn many tricks and tips about creating good content in steemit.
The Steemit Masterclass that being held in KK was the first of it's kind.

Introduction

I had written in my previous blog on How to be better with steemit Masterclass and have been talking about:-

1. Content creation.

Today I am going to continue on:-

1. Curation;
2. Courtship and
3. Community.

Just to catch up with what I have written that allow you to use applications to make your life a little bit easier.
The applications are:-

1. Grammarly;
2. Coschecule and;
3. The most dangerous apps.

I am currently using all the above applications. It helps me with my grammar, select the title and "force" me to continue writing. The later was really amazing. It literally forces me to "milk" ideas after ideas from my brain. Please continue using this app called 'themostdangerousapp".

Curation

In steemit.com, we are rewarded in two ways.
If you are the author, you will get the author reward. If you read and upvotes, you are entitled to get the curation reward.
The author and curation rewards are split into 75:25 ratio respectively.
More details curation rewards when you upvote can be found here.

The other part of curation that I wanted to emphasise is when you reply someone else blog post. The upvote that you will get, is 100 % yours.

After you have written and posted your post, you may probably have ample of time in between your next post. It is a good practice to actually look for the good article and reply the author. Usually, new steemian like me will look for an article written by fellow steemians who are dolphin, orca or whale level.

There are a lot of benefits from reading their post.

1. You will learn something totally new;
2. You know their topic of interest;
3. If you have similar interest, you may be able to drop few awesome reply. If they like it, you will get an upvote. That upvote reward is 100 % yours.
4. If you are doing this for several times, you will get their attention and maybe can become a good pal.

The other benefit that you may be getting is an increase in followers.
No doubt that there are very good articles, which were written by new steemians.

Try to drop some good comment and you may get a follower. If you have upvoted that person and his/her post become trending, that is another additional reward for you.

At the end of the day, to be a good steemit blogger, you need to spend an equal amount of time of writing and reading.

Courtship

In this topic, it's all about how you engage with someone that can help you grow in the steemit platform.
Similar to what I have discussed in the curation topic, you need to look for the steemians that have supported you by reading your blog post and upvoted you.

Just remember when you a comfortable with someone, you will keep engaging them until you got their attention. If they are also comfortable with your approach, they may continue to support you.

In steemit, that is very important. The more steemians with high steem power you have in your network, the better your reward.

There are few tools that you can use to check the steemians that have supported and most loyal to you. One of the tools is steemsupply.

The link will bring you to my details. You can change my username to your username as such:-

www.steem.supply/@yourusername

Community

This is the part where steemit platform becoming more valuable.
More fellow steemians, especially the whales together with the orcas and dolphins are building communities.
In #teammalaysia alone, they are few other communities that were formed. #myjuniours, #myach and few others like the architect and cartoonist community. The latest that was formed is the musicians' community.

Other communities that add a lot of values to this platform are #curie, #sndbox, #adsactly, #minnow-power just to name a few.

It is a good practice for you to join any communities that have similar interest as yours besides #teammalaysia if you are a Malaysian. Once in a while, they will organise a contest. This is also a good courtship skill.

Conclusion

Basically, that was partly what we have learned on our first day of Steemit Masterclass in KK which was held last weekend.

I really hope that this post will help you grow in this wonderful platform. It is also my genuine hope that you will be responsible with the steemian that you have invited to join steemit.com.

By teaching them to be better steemians will directly help your network to grow.
Sometimes in the future, after the Lunar New Year 2018, we are going to organise a Masterclass -like 101 courses for the 150 steemians and growing in Sabah. Hope more will be able to join us that time. Please look out for the announcement in the very near future.

Last but not least,

Happy Lunar New Year 2018 to all steemians, where ever you are. Have fun!

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@papanog is a General Practitioner who loves to talk about health. In his spare times, he will cook for his family. A new passion is to learn more about how to be a good steemit blogger and promoting steemit.com. Making sure that all contents are written to add value to whoever visits and reads this blog post.