Introduction

Hello friends, this is my entry for the steemit engagement challenge. This particular contest is hosted bt Steem Entrepreneurs. Its a pretty straight-forward question which I will provide a straight-forward answer before I go into details. The question is: How many hours have you spent on steemit in the last week?. My answer is this: I have spent on an average 88 hours on Steemit in the past 7 days. Here is how I arrived at this number.

An average 88 hours Spent on Steemit in 7 days

First of all, I want to say here that I do steemit full-time. I am also the founder of SteemAlive community. So Steemit is like a day job to me and I have a large training center/office in the City of Aba where I and a staff work throughout the week. My time management is split between early morning work from home, and the rest of the day spent at the office.

4 hours spent at home each morning (5am - 9am)

One beautiful thing about Steemit is that location is not a barrier. So after i wake up each day and done with morning prayers, I set to work. In the next 3 or 4 hours, I will be replying posts using the community account and some curation work. One other thing that must be done in the morning is the top 5 posts for the day. I usually make this post in the morning because we have been running an engagement project where participants must make meaningful comments on the top 5 posts. So the top 5 posts must be available in the morning for engagement.

I also do one or two other posts for the community. They I will quickly switch to my account and reply some comments. All these activities take place in morning between 5am to 9am or if I woke late, between 6am and 10 am. The work-from-home period usually ends around 9 or 10am. Then I will get up to prepare and leave for the office.

6 hours spent at the office (11am - 5pm)

I usually arrive the office around 11am or 12noon. Once at the office, work resumes. These were the major things that took my time at the office:

_{My Steemit Office}

1. Mentorship and training Like I said earlier, I do mentorship for newbies at the office. Right now, we are still running Food4thought, our recruitment which launched since April. We have been lecturing newbies, signing them up and helping them to start posting.

_{One of the newbies I assisted in the last 7 days. Source}

2. Getting Promotional Materials ready: Since many people come to the center for our presentations, getting the materials for mentorship ready is important. on Thursday last week, I was able to get our registration form and fliers ready. Getting these stuffs designed, printed and made available was one of the things I did last week, in preparation for this week.

_{Food4thought Flier, Steemit Flier and Form}

3. Publishing posts: Making posts both for Steemalive community and my personal account is another thing that took much of my time in the last 7 days. In fact, besides mentorships, publishing posts for the two accounts took much of my time. Within the last 7 days, I made 13 posts for Steemalive community and 7 posts for @focusnow. That is a total of 20 posts.

3 hours spent at home (8pm- 11pm)

Once I returned home, I I usually rest for 2 - 3 hours. This time is used to interact with family, eat and rest. I resume work around 8pm and spent the next 3 hours making posts, interacting with community leaders and engaging with posts made in the community. Yesterday evening, we held our leaders meeting, in preparation for the week ahead.

4 hours spent On Sunday (7pm- 11pm)

Yesterday being Sunday, I worked from the evening time. Our leaders meeting is usually held every Sunday. So I started by 7pm to make some posts. The leaders meeting took 40 minutes from 8.30pm - 910pm. After that, I made a contest posts, and continued to engage with our members till 11pm when I slept.

Summary of my time spent in the last 7 days on Steemit

• 4 hours spent each morning x 6 days = 24 hours
• 6 hours Spent at the office x 6 days = 36 hours
• 4 hours spent each evening X 6 days = 24 hours
• 4 hours Spent on Sunday x 1 day = 4 hours
• Total Hours Spent: 24+36+24+4 = 88 hours

Opinions about the Steemit Engagement Challenge

I love engagement so much because it is an important aspect of content creation. When I heard about this project, I lauded it. Steemit engagement challenge has helped many users to discover new people, learn new skills and explore new opportunities elsewhere. When it comes to increasing the active user count of the participating communities, we can really see the huge success this project has done.

The culture of making rich and meaningful comments is what this project is all about. Many users are now learning that important culture and I hope that after this project is over, community admins and all the leaders, including ordinary users will continue to encourage and reward engagement.

Steemit Engagement Challenge

Every project has their own weaknesses and this engagement challenge is not an exception. So I believe it can be improved upon in the following two ways:

• Expand the participating communities: With more than 50 active and hardworking communities, having just 7 in the project is a limitation. As a result, the remaining communities are struggling with retaining users as every other person is running to the participating communities for votes. So if resources can support expanding the engagement challenge, that would be great.

• A weekly Catchup Vote for the project: Votes are not guranteed for this project. Unfortunately, many users spend resources to do the contests, but end up having nothing. I have seen a few that are yet to get a single support although they are doing the right things. So can we have a weekly catchup vote for special groups, like users that participated in all contests for the week, with no single support. Their work can be reviewed and maybe, they may qualify for a single catchup vote as encouragement.

Conclusion

Thank you all for reading my story. Steemit has been my full-time job and will remain like that for the next foreseeable future. I gladly invite my great friends @ijelady, @chichieze and @beautybb to participate in this challenge.