What Topics Do You Think Should Be Included in the Onboarding Process?
What were some of the things that confused you most when you were new? What do you wish someone could have easily explained to you back then?
We would love to get your feedback on what topics you the community think will be most valuable to include in our educational materials. As we work with our writers to develop scripts – we want to make sure we are doing our best to create the most valuable content we can.
That’s where you come in.
We would love to get your feedback on what topics you think should be covered during the onboarding process. If you have a few minutes, please consider leaving a comment below with your topic suggestions!
Because this is a tool that is being created for the community - we want to do our best to get your feedback and ideas along the way to make sure we are creating the most dynamic and valuable tool that we can. Thank you in advance to everyone who stops by and leaves a comment on this post.
Current Topics
Here is a list of our first 10 topics as they stand now.
- What is Crypto?
- What is Blockchain?
- What is Steem?
- What are Steem Dapps?
- Where Does the Money Come From?
- Account Security - Passwords and Keys
- Your Voice is Worth Something
- Curating Other's Content : Do's and Don'ts
- Engaging With People Through Comments
- Steem - Finding Your Community and Getting Involved
After going through these 10 videos, the new user will then be able to pass a short quiz and get a free account.
We look forward to hearing your thoughts on topics!
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Hey guys ,
In all my workshops and bootcamps , i NEVER had to explain these 2 things :-
Its not that everyone already knows what it is ... its just that they don't care and just want to get started on STEEM
I don't think it should be part of the Onboarding process as having that knowledge does not contribute to the main objectives which seems to be "getting people involved in creating content and be part of a community"
Suggested Topics to be added in
Making your first introductory post ( Introduce Yourself )
The power of the hashtags ( Find your niche )
Tools to help you start your content creation
( Picture editing http://canva.com , Writing - http://themostdangerouswritingapp.com http://grammarly , Posting App - http://partiko.app , http://esteem.app )
The other topics seems to be fine in getting a new user started. The idea is to make sure that the new user straight away writes a post and not wait for the Perfect post before posting.
Hey Bitrocker thanks so much for the input. Perhaps you are right about the first two, which is exactly why we are going to have a testing phase with real onboarders and onboardees and get as much intel we can gather about the first ten videos and how people react to them. The reason we started with those two, is because down the road, concepts like Exchanges, investment, long term mindset, uses of steem as a coin and many more will come, and we want these people to understand the implications and the whole universe they are going into. It´s not just a blogging platform, its a new universe!
Thank you for the suggested topics, we will definitely find a way to include them in the second set of videos :D
Just seeing this after payout, so can't upvote, but I agree with you 100% both on leaving out those first two (or making them bonus material in a bonus section) and on adding in those other topics.
I'm digging in my memory to see what topics I would have loved having a clear-cut answer on in the first weeks/months. Also looking at some questions I got from new users lately. These are the first things that I come up with now, maybe more will be added later:
Thank you so much for your intel @soyrosa, definitely the post payour interpretation is something to keep an eye to so people doesn´t get discouraged about how they receive the $.
And yes, Trending page and Bid bot etiquette is soo important!
Great points to cover for sure! Great to see the community supporting this initiative which is so important for the future of the ecosystem!
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Yes! That last point definitely!
Yes! Great additions.
These are great and as a relatively new user I completely agree.
"Where does the money come from?" was a big one for me... and took me a long time to really figure out. I was super worried that Steem was a ponzi scheme. Once I worked it all out, I was a lot more comfortable with the platform.
Maybe a section on Realistic Expectations?
When you Google or YouTube "Steem" you still see videos or articles about making a thousand dollars per day on Steem... I've never made anything like that, but I log on daily because my various communities are so much fun... and I've learnt so much. Steem has been life-changing, just not financially (not yet anyway). Setting realistic expectations might weed out the people just trying to make a quick buck before you spend accounts on them.
Indeed, one of the most difficult to explain selling points is where does the money come from without making it sound like its a complete scam, @revisesociology was a key player in getting the proper message in the videos regarding this topic!
Thanks for the input in realistic expectations, you are correct, if people arrive to steem thinking they´ll be millionaries in 3 months, then we have a very negative situation to handle in 3 months and one day :P
Exactly... and then it's kind of a waste of your amazing efforts to onboard them. Also, people definitely, definitely share more bad experiences with family and friends than good ones.
Realistic expectations is a great idea!
The challenge will be writing it without being too snarky about the abusers!
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Hahaha, yeah... I wouldn't be great at that.
Maybe that needs to be included in the realistic expectations as well? No system is 100% abuse-proof, but on Steem it's more frustrating to see because it affects everyone.
Oh my good! A lot of good comments here! I don't talk about anything different that was suggested. How the witness, and payouts work are my favourites for now!
Witnesses would be important. People skip it too much.
My first "duh" moments were about voting - I treated it like the Facebook like button, and did not know that voting old posts was useless, or that my vote was worth 0.00, or that the value of my vote got even smaller if I depleted my voting power.
I also avoided discord for too long - I didn't want to learn a new program, and didn't think I needed it. But it helped a lot once I started - especially with getting involved in communities.
Are these videos intended to be watched before the new user opens their account?
I have been outlining some learning experiences at @steemitblackbelt also to help with onboarding. My first outline is here and you are welcome to take a look at the learning objectives to see if they are helpful.
Kudos for what you are doing!
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Me too! When I started I thought of it like Hey I´m just going to vote for everyone so they see I liked their post and maybe they´ll like my post back and I was using like 200% of my VP daily in other people and I was literally at 1% VP for at least 2 weeks until I learned about how VP works.
The first ten videos are meant for people to watch before they open their account, then, these 20 videos we are asking the commnuity about, are meant to be watched after the user gets an account from Steemonboarding.
Sounds interesting, I´ll check out the blackbelt and see what can be merged. Feel free to send me a DM on discord @anomadsoul #8455 to talk further about this!
Hey @anomadsoul,
I was thinking it would be a great idea for steemonboardng to launch a mentorship platform. It would work this way:
New user comes on steem, looking for help. Gets on your platform, learns a lot. But guides will never be complete! he will always have more questions.
Or another user might get bored going through the videos but would prefer to ask questions right away to someone. Specific questions that he thought of.
So why not create a program where the user pays 5$ to get a mentor for a year. mentors would be experienced users on steem who signed up to become mentors. They might even be rewarded with upvotes from steem onboarding or simply a share of the 5$.
Also, if the user didn't have an account, the the 5$ cost would also buy him an account on steem. This is the same process steemmonsters uses to sell account. They sell them with the first pack that the user needs to buy.
Looking forward to your response on this.
Agree with discord. The little.program.that.could.
Quite literally the backbone of steem.
Great initiative and a couple of things spring to mind:
Why use Steem and not another platform (e.g. Whaleshares, Smoke, Weku, Trybe, Medium etc) - maybe a comparison table with the features and benefits vs them.
A roadmap of the platform and how it is looking to develop? Where is it going etc?
What are Resource Credits and Voting Power?
Bid bots (what are they, why are they used, ethics of them, trending page)
Steem on the go (mobile apps, Partiko, esteem etc)
Oh nice, the Steem on the go topic sounds great, thanks for the tips!
Definitely a guide on bid bots (and etiquette using them) will do wonders. We are aiming to onboard the users with a long term mindset and avoiding the get rich quick way of thinking, so we are at an advantage here; when they join the platform, they will already know that abusive practices are looked down into.
That's a great idea... it might be worth going into the math behind bidbots, and how most people probably don't realise that they're losing money in the transaction when you take into account the curation and price changes between the bid and the payout.
Also.. this is starting to feel more like an Intermediate course that should be available to people after they've been around for a month or two.
Yea I realised as I was writing that maybe bidbots would be a bit more advanced than beginner level but it won't take long for a newcomer to see bidbots in action I don't think.
To be honest, I have been on the platform around 10 months and still don't know what they are 😂
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You're welcome firstly, if I can think of anything else I will let you know. I have been writing a "Bluffer's Guide to Cryptocurrency" last year and did a little bit about Steemit so if you want me to do some writing for the welcome guide, let me know.
Long term mindset is key for sure. I think the emphasis needs to be on helping newcomers find communities of similar interest. For example, I like blogging, music and travel related things so I joined those discord communities.
But I didn't know that when I first joined. In fact it took 7 months to realise and, although I am very patient, I was getting pretty disheartened and desperate at that point. So definitely don't want someone new feeling that way!
Perhaps another point about how tags work can be included?
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Great engagement from the community! I am so excited with the participation and thoughts from the community.
Although rather early for new users, I would add how to acquire Steem and send to wallet for powering up. Given the limited fiat conversion capabilities, this would be an important aspect for the investors interested in also joining (although we all are investors).
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Exchanges and Wallets are definitely a focus point for these next set of videos! Thanks for the input mate!
At some point down the line we´ll have a specific interface for investors (leaving out all the content creation part and focusing on the economics of it).
You already hit the spot with the first 10 video selections:
Some additional ideas which might come across better as written guidance as opposed to videos (I can see the sense in limiting the video's to a reasonable number):
the distinction between STEEM/SBD/SP
Powering UP & Delegation of SP (Incl. places/ communities/ groups they might go to in order to find or pitch for delegation as a new user)
The role of witnesses and how to vote for witnesses
Discord - and how building rapport in discord groups can help foster relationships / not to be afraid to ask for help in discord communities
places to go for tutorials/ guides on markdown/ how to do the first posts/ the value in the use of the correct and appropriate tags / how to use other medium if they are video content producers
Great to see your progress guys...….
Witnesses! Definitely. Even voting for a proxy until the person wants to choose the witnesses themselves would be a great way to be involved.
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Markdown! Yes. There are so many great guides out there..
Here are things I've always wanted to know, and other things that may be useful for newbies:
Oh nice, the payout calculation is great, I remember when i started I used to get frustrated when I saw my post payouts drop without a reason!
The 10 To-do-list sounds very clever and didactic! I like it, thanks for the idea! :D
There will be a special tab just for communities, so each steemian can browse them all and find their niche. By the way, it would be great to feature SMW there, if you can send me a discord message to discuss that I´d appreciate it :)))
Thanks Eric, have droppes you a DM
Great initiative and glad to see all these topics already! Here are a few more popping up in my mind:
And what about asking the potential users to do a questionnaire or a Q&A session, including questions like: