My 2nd Year Anniversary on Steem - The Creative FUN Continues . .

in #lifestyle5 years ago (edited)

This weekend marks the beginning of my 3rd year on the Steem blockchain.

Time has gone by so fast. The 2 years seem to have flown by very quickly. Yet, when I look back, so many things had happened that it seems like it has been years since I have been on Steem.

Having spent 2 years on the blockchain, I learned a lot about blogging, not just blogging but CREATIVE blogging!


My 2 Creative Years in Review on Steem!

I remember when I first came in, there were a lot of old-timers here. We all know them. Their posts always appeared on the trending page. Some had gone on to other things while some are still remaining on today holding strong.

For half a year before I signed onto Steem, I was lurking in the background for a while on the blockchain. Finally, on August 16, 2017, I decided to plunge in and registered for a new account. It took about 7 to 10 days to get my steemit username approved.

I thought long and hard what name to use. Come to think of it, it is quite funny. I was so 'serious' like trying to find a name for my first child. I believe many of us came onto Steem with a serious mind and wanted to make our blogging count here on Steem.


I used 3 hours to CREATE my first image for my first post.

I remember using one week to think about how to make my entrance. This was how 'serious' I took the matter. Don't we all!

So after playing around with some art work and images for 3 hours, I finally got this creative artwork done.

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I already have my own website, so coming on Steemit.com was like starting a new page of blogging to make myself known to the world.

This is also the first blockchain I participated, so the excitement of knowing that I was getting paid for blogging was very exciting.


Steemit Verification

At that time, I remember reading a lot of posts where people tell you to verify yourself. So I took this matter to heart and worked on my verification.

So after about 10 days onto Steemit, I decided to do an artwork to verify myself.

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Look! I even noted the time and date!

I became very CREATIVE in making my posts unique with my own added touch!


Why did I choose the name @rosatravels?

My life has been so enriched from my travels, and I have been to so many places and met so many people, so I wanted to talk about travels, places, culture and share all my photographs.

I came on Steem and started blogging about My travels.

I made a banner for my Steemit profile which is still remaining here today:

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I love the Mediterranean Sea. Whenever I get near it, I just want to dive into the ocean.

The Mediterranean gives me a good feeling of vibrant life with its changing turquoise and deep blue color. The water is always moving. There are high waves and low waves. I love riding on them.

I feel I belong to the Sea.

I don't like lying under the sun.

I want to be in the water swimming, swimming and swimming. The best part is to swim out to the unending sea watching the sunset.


My Travel Adventures

Taking this whole matter of blogging about my Travels on Steem, I started creating collages to make beautiful blogs about Traveling with Rosa.

I spent lots of time creating these travel collages for my followers.

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I love going to the mountains taking panoramic pictures.

I love hiking to the top of the hill to breathe the fresh air.

I love shooting sunrise and sunset photos from the top of the mountain.

I also love visiting volcanic mountains in Santorini and Cappadocia to learn about the earth and mankind history.


Flying High In the Sky

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One of the fascinating thing I experienced so much is being on the hot air balloon ride. The first time when we went to Cappadocia, we missed the chance. We were too young and didn't have enough money to go on such an adventure. So the second time round when we went to Cappadocia in Turkey, we were determined not to let this chance go under the carpet. We saved enough money. We seized the opportunity and flew high in the sky in the HOT Air Balloon.

Up up and away . . .

So free . . .

It is heaven . . .

This is a once-in-a-life time adventure we must all try. For this reason, I keep a photo album in one of my blog posts so that people are aware of this great adventure and go for it themselves.

The ride is not scary at all. Your heart doesn't leap out. It is never too high going up. You feel safe and secure inside the basket breathing the fresh air of God's creation.


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Of course, food is another pleasure of life that you get to enjoy in your travels.

You get to taste a lot of new food that you don't have at home.

Blogging about food in my travels used to be one of my highlights.

So this was how it was for me when I came onto Steem on August 16, 2017.


After 2 Weeks on Steem, I set off for a new travel trip

In September 2017, we went off to Dubai and Turkey again.

I made my own Steem cap to go on this trip to spread the word about the Steem blockchain. I had just been on it for 2 weeks and loved it.

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I created my Steemit cards to give to the hotel managers, tourists, and practically anyone I came into contact with so that they too can join the blockchain.

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Little did I know that I became a Steem ambassador myself.

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You can tell, I was dead serious!

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Even this pilot here who flew the hot air balloon loved my Steem Cap!


And Guess What I saw in Dubai?

On the first day when I arrived at Dubai and got off the Metro Station near our hotel, look what we saw:

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I could not believe what I saw.

I saw STEEM Design in the Metro Station Floor!

I thought I was going crazy.

Am I hallucinating?

Of course, I had only been on Steem for 2 weeks and then still doing Steem blogging during my travels . . .

"Is Steem following me to Dubai?"

Or someone on Steem came to Dubai to decorate the metro station here?

These were my initial experiences of my first month on Steem. This was how it all began.


Blogging About My Travels

After I came back from from Dubai and Turkey, I started blogging about my travels.

Day after day, I blogged about my travels!

At that time, it was not so easy to post pictures.

Today, we can just drag them onto the Editor.

In those days, we had to upload the pictures onto another server and then use that link to post into the editor. There was a lot of hard work done before we could post a real nice blog.

I worked really hard to POST each BLOG and to make each POST count!


Then Came @Utopian-io in Oct, 2017

I remember watching videos of SteemFest 2 in Portugal and the emerging of Utopian.io project. As an entrepreneur who has been involved with a lot of Open Source projects and softwares, I soon started putting my full energy into contributing to this platform that I know a lot about.

I got involved in translations for FOSS and doing video tutorials for Audacity and Calibre.

Soon, being the Community Manager for the translation category at @Utopoian.io and @Davinci.witness consumed most of my time on Steem.

I had no more time to blog about my travels.


My 2nd Year on Steem

Towards the end of my 1st year and onto my 2nd year on Steem, I found myself getting involved with many different DApps.

I became ambassadors in promoting different DApps.

I was appointed as one of the @Partiko Partners. I did tutorials and ran many contests for the Partiko community.

Instead of blogging about my travels, I wrote reviews and promoted many DApps projects.

The whole atmosphere of Steemit was changing and I went along with the change. Somehow people were more interested in all the shiny coins of DApps emerging and soon, fun and games of DApps took over my Travel Blogging Journal.


Early this year, 2019 it suddenly dawned on me that newbies were having a difficult time trying to understand the Steem blockchain.

When I started on Steem mobile, there were mainly the Steemit site, eSteem mobile, Steepshot and Dtube.

But soon enough, more and more DApps were added almost each week towards the latter part of 2018.

New Steemians were asking me a lot of questions as they were a bit lost and discouraged in this Steem Maze World.

I sort of grew up with the DApps and knew what was going on because they came up one by one during my time on Steem.


The Beginning of Mentoring Program in Jan, 2019

To solve the issue, I came up with a @BeAMentor Program to onboard newbies and train some mentors to help them on a one to one basis for one month. In this way, the newbies won't be so lost and will have s real person to talk to them when they come in. It would certainly be too discouraging talking to the 'bots' greeting them at the door in their introductory post.

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Thus, the starting of building Steem Mentor Teams to Mentor newbies.

I have started building 6 Steem Mentor Teams for the following communities:

  • Partiko
  • Actifit
  • Steemhunt
  • Steem Engine ( still under consideration)
  • AAA
  • SteemLeo

This is actually a work of service to the newbies and also to support the Steem Blockchain.


The New Era of Tribes

Since May, Steem has entered into a new era where new SCOT tribes are appearing on the scene almost week by week.

We have never been so busy!

Much busier than before!

But much MORE FUN!

Tribes need to be tested to see how well they run and how valuable these tokens will be.

If we don't try them out, we never know.

So far, I am trying out these different SCOT Tribes:

  • Palnet
  • AAA
  • Steemleo
  • Creativecoin
  • Neoxian
  • SonicGroove
  • Marlians
  • Sports Talk Social
  • Reality Hubs
  • Tunes
  • Lifestyle
  • ZZAN
  • SteemCoinPan

This is more than a handful.

For some, I am more involved. For others, I am watching on the sideline.

Soon, I need to focus on only a few tribes that I can most contribute the best in!

That's it for my 2 Years in Review!

Even though we are facing the bear market now, is it worth it? Of course! We need to look further ahead to what all this can become. Inch by inch, we will gain in our investment. Rome is not built in one day and neither will our investment. Easy come easy go. Long term is what keeps all of us going at the moment!

What do you think?

Which one do you think I most likely would be getting MOST Involved in?

Which ones are you participating in actively?

I like to hear from you. Which ones are you participating in actively?

I like to hear from you. Share your thoughts with me in the commentss below.

Let's celebrate my 2 years on STEEM together,
Rosa
@rosatravels

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Congrats on the anniversary!! I've been here for a while myself and i can definitely say you're a big plus to the community! Keep STEEMing and dreaming!!

Than you @opinizeunltd. Yes, keep STEEMing ...

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Congrats on the milestone! Time flies when you are having fun and the way things move here so quickly it will continue to be that way without a doubt!

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Yes, I believe things will move faster from now on and will be a bit tough to keep up.

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Congrats!

You’ve been busy!

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Thank you. No boring moment for sure

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Congratulations on the anniversary.

I see you are getting very involved in a lot of the tribes. I wonder how you have the time to catch up with everything! 🙃

Thanks @trincowski. I am beginning to cut a few. But I need to try them out in the beginning to test the potential. I will soon be going off in my travels, so I won't be trying more new tribes for a while.

I see. Speaking of Travels, is there any Tribe specifically for that content?

Not yet. Ha ha... maybe when that tribe comes, that will mark the final tribe I will join!

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Congratulations for completing 2 amazing years with steem. Such a nice write-up and I thoroughly enjoyed it. You are doing fantastic work in the platform I see you are part many tribes and communities. Beamentor initiative is such a great programs which you started and I appreciate your efforts. Congrats and many more years to come.

Thank you @alokkumar121. This has been a wild ride. I hope to be able to use @beamentor program to help newbies and mentors on platforms that worth spending the time for short and long term investment. I am choosing platforms that give newbies some great investment when they join these communities.

Congratulations on your two years with Steemit. I loved your story and your post was great! You are a talented storyteller indeed. I think you have become a great Steem Ambassador as well. The Steem Be a Mentor program looks like a great addition to your achievement list and I am sure you many more good ideas that you haven’t implemented yet!
Thank you for your helpful posts and efforts to help others be successful on the Steem Blockchain.

Thank you @shortsegments. Appreciate your feedback. Success to you too.

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