Hello @elipowell (Elizabeth)

Congratulations on your new position. Last summer I introduced Steemhost.com which might be of interest to you. My ambition at the time was to create a site which makes use of steem for advertising. People buying ad space may do so using steem. It has a twist in that it rewards both the hosts of the content and visitors to the site in steem delegation. This would have a two pronged attack of giving steem value (companies would need to buy it to advertise) and because it is delegated instead of paid out to the people who use the site it sequesters the coin. They may earn more on their posts but can never cash out advertising rewards.

I can go into greater detail if you wish.