An Outreach Program for Steem #4 : time for @CommunityAction
I have been heartened and inspired by the support and comments received on the three posts so far about starting an Outreach Program for Steem.
There is definitely a need, a desire and an urgency to get an outreach program up and running.
The question is what can do with the immediate resources available and where do we start.
If you haven't yet read the three posts please take a few minutes to glance through these to get up to speed on the ideas so far...
Starting an Outreach Program for Steem #1 : Steem Ambassadors - Can we just do this?
Starting an Outreach Program for Steem #2 : Regional Leaders
Starting an Outreach Program for Steem #3 : Promotional Merchandise
First steps - Steem Ambassadors
This will be the more difficult of the two parts of the Outreach Program as it will require more planning and more funding.
It will largely need to wait for a successful proposal to the Steem Proposal System before it can really get going.
But in the meantime we can start to plan.
As well as recruiting the Ambassadors themselves we will need to identify potential crypto conferences to present to.
For each we will need to research the potential audience size and type, when and where it is being held, and perhaps most importantly the costs involved to get on the presenters list.
I will make a separate post to start researching and collecting ideas for the conferences.
We will also need to look at how we can best select the most suitable Ambassadors for the initial six month trial. More on this shortly.
First Steps - Regional Leaders
This will be somewhat easier to progress as it does not initially at least require significant funding.
Once an SPS proposal is put forward for the Ambassadors program, an additional element can be added for funding to support the Regional Leaders.
In the meantime I am keen to start moving this forward.
A number of people have already expressed interest to be involved. I will be putting a separate post out to follow this up and recruit more people who would like to get involved as Regional Leaders.
From there we can look at how we can get started with more limited funding.
The @communityaction account
To make everything easier to manage I am going to move the administration of this program on to a separate account @communityaction.
I will be delegating 15,000 SP to this account to begin supporting people involved in the program and their activities. Hopefully the post rewards will also build up to provide some scale funding.
In the first instance I will be directing this at the Regional Leaders as the resources are unlikely to be sufficient to be make much impact with the Steem Ambassadors program.
If you are interested in getting involved in any part of this Steem Outreach Program do please follow @communityaction for more news.
Please also comment below or message me on Discord (Pennsif#9921) particularly if you would like to be considered as a Regional Leader for your country or region.
Thank you.
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this is such a great initiative ... i would love to help out and see how we can collaborate and grow this.
Hi @Bitrocker2020, it would be great if you would like to join in.
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Regional Leader interest. Don't worry, i'll discord message you too. This has some great potential.
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Excellent, thanks John.
Very Interested
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Interested
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I am interested in being a Regional Leader and I have already held 6 meetups in the Philippines.
Here:
https://steem.com.ph/category/official-meetups
@nathansenn, a blockchain developer, has also said that he'll start creating a Steem-based DAPP for another domain name I registered:
https://steem.ph
Thank you.
~ @chrisrice
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I've just tried to sign up someone for a steem account and there doesn't seem to be any reasonably straightforward, reasonably quick (say within 24 hours) way of doing this. Every process I've looked at so far (aside from the two week wait for a steemit inc account) involves another learning process - ie barrier - either buying some steem or other crypto or downloading an app like steem wallet or keychain.
I managed to resolve the problem for this person, but only by intervening personally and with help from steem.ninja in discord to find a manual fix. What was irritating is that there is nothing on steem.ninja's website or blog that explains that they are not taking credit/debit cards at present. It was an embarrassing shambles. I don't know if he has signed up, I wouldn't be surprised if it was too high a barrier to entry or he lost confidence in steem. This was after hours of work to explain steem and the potential to him.
Yes, he could have had one of my claimed accounts, but he preferred to go about things, privately and independently, in his own way. This is as it should be.
Regional leaders, ambassadors, outreach workers are going to need a simple way to sign up new people that doesn't involve them in holding keys to other accounts or placing pressure on new account holders over what username they want and having to make a decision there and then.
Hi Shani, I didn't know Steem.Ninja was no longer taking card payments - that doesn't help.
The onboarding procedure really does need to be nailed down and made as simple as possible.
Wish a best journey for this program .
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