Introduction

We are thrilled to make this very first community uodate post for SteemALive!!! Since the last few weeks, we have been making changes to our community activities and projects in order to achieve higher targets and sustain growth. The changes made have brought about about improved content quality and enhanced post engagement levels. And now, we are excited to introduce the community update for the previous week.

As suggested by the Steemit team, the aim of this update is to provide a review of community activities in the last 7 days. It is beneficial both for the admin and members to keep track of all that has been going on and follow up. So this update contains our community activities in the in the last 7 days that ended on Saturday 14/8/2021. The next section of this post contains those important activities we got involved in.

1. CryptoAcademy Workshop

We have dedicated every Tuesday night to the cryptoacademy workshop. It is a mentorship class where advanced students of the academy provide a review of each week's courses and provide some useful tips to help students do well in their homework. Last Tuesday was no different. @fredquantum and @focusnow run the class. At the end, students were more equipped to face the tasks for the week. Interestingly, there have been a high pass rate since our members started following the workshop.

2. CryptoAcademy Open Happiness week 6

We do not just run workshops to teach students what to do, we motivate them for putting effort to attempt the class. That is the essence of the Cryptoacademy Open happiness. We invite eligible members of our community to apply to receive support on homeworks where the score is between 4 and 6.

Last week, we made a post and asked our members to drop their week 6 homeworks rated 4-6 so we could support them with extra free steem as motivation. 4 Students applied. They are

• @alexanderpeace - Week 6 homework
• @yakspeace - Week 6 Homework
• @ochang - Week 6 Homework
• @charis20 - Week 6 Homework 1, Homework 2, Homework 3

After going through their work, we sent them Steem from the 90 Steem donated by advanced members of the class. The screenshot below shows how much steem each received.

Note: @alexanderpeace got extra 2 steem for a Week 4 homework she forgot to include in the previous week Open happiness support

3. Building our Curation Trail

The community relied heavily on our curation trail to support member posts. The trail account is @steem-alive. We continue to advertise and encourage both members and other users to join our trail. The trail is currently the most followed with 288 members. We hit that 1st spot last week and have maintained the growth. We are voting with $3 - $4 at full weight

4. Our New Support Structure

We usually evaluate our projects and systems to see if anything could be changed or enhanced. Our system of voting member posts in city turns has a loophole - some members simply wait for their turns, make a post and get the vote. Then they disappear.

We have adopted a new system whcih gives priority to members that are actively supporting community growth. So, they level of support to member posts depends on how much they are doing to stay active and particiapte in community activities. Interestingly, many love it and our community engagement level rose sharply. We hope this new system creates the kindly of robust engagement and activities required from a community of our stature. Read more about it following the link below:

SteemAlive Presents: Our New Support Structure for Verified and Active Members!

5. We Powered up 350 Steem under Save2Soar

We started Save2soar on February 2021. Our plan is to save steem weekly and power up for 1 year. Last week was the 28th week. We powered up a total of 350 Steem. We have hit a total of 10,5092 Steem power in the @save2soar wallet as shown below:

Below is a link of our power up post for the week that just ended.

Savings for weeks 27 and 28 which ended on 14/8/2021. Powered 350 Steem.

6. City Coordinator Reports for the Week

Our City Coordinators are really working hard in their cities of residence. They are our leaders and many of them such as @ngoenyi, @samuel20 and others have done enormous work in their cities to recruit, mentor and support our members in their city. We present below, the links of their reports to for the week that just ended:

Username/City	Link
@samuel20 - Coordinator Aba	Report
@charis20 - Coordinator, Nassarawa	Report
@ngoenyi - Coordinator, Uyo	Report

We are yet to get the reports of the other Coordinators. We hope they will do so soon.

7. Community Contests

We run our contests every Monday. So today, we have announced the winners of last weeks contest. We have also announced the new contest for the fresh week because we want to keep our members engaged. Here are the links of the winners posts and the New contest for the week.

• SteemAlive Presents: "Sucker Punch" Contest Winners. 15 Participants, Congratulations!

• SteemAlive Presents: "My Local Professionals". Profile of people that render useful services to us. 40 Steem Prize

Conclusion

The above is a rundown of our community work as reported to @steemitblog. We really appreciate all our members, admin and City Coordinators for the enormous work they do for us. We will do more as we kick of a fresh week of activity in the community.

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