A Highlight of Yesterday's Meet-Up

Good Afternoon friends, recalled I made an announcement 3 days ago that there's going to be a general meet-up specifically for Akwa Ibom Steemians yesterday, Saturday 19th August 2023. The meetup holds and it was successful!

The main purpose of organising the meeting was to get to know new ones in my city (Uyo) and train them, making Steemit alive to them, and the purpose was fulfilled. The turn-up was quite encouraging and we were revitalised. Let me tell you in detail how it was.

So we first of all introduced ourselves by our usernames after that I thank everyone who made it to the meeting, I then encouraged them to be consistent and active, because this is the only way we can go further in the platform.

Next I spoke on the need to be original and creative, I advised the new ones to always write about what they are very good at, for example, if they like cooking, and know lots of recipes they should focus on that, be it sports or art instead of scanning the internet to paraphrase information. I encouraged them to write diary games, and they should be creative, considering what makes the day a success, special, sad or fun etc, as well as some spectacular events that happen during the day, these will teach them how to produce original content.

They should always develop topics based on what they knew already and expatiates on that, use their photos, or free from Canva, pixel etc, their cover photo should always depict their idea. And never used AI because a person like me will detect it without using a detector, likewise many others, it is an abuse of the platform as such they should abstain from it.

I warned them never to beg for vote because it's unethical, they shouldn't write for steemcurators but for the community, they should engage with fellow users, read their posts comment meaningfully on them, upvote them, do this consistently that they will likely reciprocate before they know it they've formed new friendships, gain visibility and every other thing will come naturally.

I told them to join engagement contests, and as the name implies should be engaging meaningfully with fellow contestants, that I want to see their names among the 100 active users every week, quality engagement is so important, we can even get a reward for engaging meaningfully.

The Burnsteem25 project I explained in layman's terms for them, giving them a well-known example, that if a particular commodity is scarce in the market that its price will rise because demand will be higher than supply, that same applies to Steem coin, and by the way Burning of crypto coin is not a new thing, I mean even bitcoin, Ethereum, Shiba, dodge etc have been doing this from time to time (taking the coins out of the market, thus strengthening its price) so Steem shouldn't be different. So far it has helped Steem's price to stabilise.

I've educated them on how to support the project, that it is by setting 25% of the beneficiary reward to null, and I've shown them how to. That they should use the Burnsteem25 tag only when they've set reward to the account @null. If not it will be considered as tags abuse.

Then power up, I really emphasize the importance of power up, it's the only way we can strengthen our account and gain visibility. We have 3 types of club status so I've encouraged them to maintain the one they can comfortably operate on for many years without feeling pressured. I also encouraged them to buy Steem and power up or keep it so that they can take advantage of the price when time reaches.

We've created a WhatsApp group for the new users so that we will train and mentor them there, and they can drop any questions bothering them there, drop their posts links for engagement etc. This will help to avoid steeming in isolation and apathy.

Lastly, we played football, I bought it on my way to the meeting, and we took a lot of photos, shared experiences, and had lots of fun. We refreshed ourselves with soda drinks and puffs sponsored by yours truly and Ngoenyi. We left at 7 pm the new users really enjoyed themselves and asked meetup should be held frequently.

17 users turn-up excluding 2 Steem babies 😜 among them was @ngoenyi, @udyliciouz, @manuelhooks, @bossj23, @okere-blessing, @bela90, @etete, @samuelnkenta, @fortwis09, @wizzyboy3, @jozzie90 , @uduak123, @basil20 etc.

I hope Nigerians will grow stronger again, I just hope we can take back our lost glory, I'm just hoping!