Personal Mentoring Statement from @pennsif : now accepting up to 5 minnows who would like a mentor to help them on their steemit journey

To help move forward some form of mentoring system for newcomers to steemit I posted a couple of days ago about the idea of Personal Mentoring Statements.

This is where more experienced steemians who are willing to become mentors post a Personal Mentoring Statement outlining what they can offer.

The idea appears to have been well received so here is my Personal Mentoring Statement to get the ball rolling.

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Personal Mentoring Statement for @pennsif

Who am I

• I am in my 50's and male. I am married with 3 teenage children.

• I live on a smallholding / homestead in rural west Wales in the UK.

• I run a web development agency that gives me the flexibility to spend quite a bit of time on steemit.

• I am in the UK, currently UTC, timezone.

My experience on steemit

• I joined steemit in mid June 2017.

• I have been active on the platform continuously since them, posting on average 6 times a week.

• I have been most active in the Homesteaders and Preppers community. As part of that I regularly publish the list of Homesteaders and Preppers on steemit - now on version 11 with almost 300 members.

• I have also got involved in supporting a number of charities on steemit both directly and through my A Dollar A Day giving project. The main charities I currently support include @schoolforsdg4, @youarehope, @papilloncharity and @tarc.

• I have recently started co-hosting a 1960s show on MSP Waves Radio, and will be launching my own Alternative Lifestyle Show at the beginning of 2018.

• Another area of interest is steem and business. I have started publishing a list of Businesses accepting payment in steem.

• Finally I am coordinating the first meetup of steemians in Wales.

• My main goals on steemit are to continue to power up to reach Dolphin status as soon as possible and to continue developing the projects I am involved in. I am also very keen to improve the low retention rate on steemit. This mentoring protect is one part of helping that.

What I can offer as a mentor

• I have a good range of experience on steemit that I can offer to help newcomers have a smoother and more fulfilling journey on the platform.

• I am available on steemit on most days from around 10am to midnight UTC - and often beyond. I am therefore most suitable for mentees in Europe and Africa but I would still have considerable time overlap with people anywhere in the world.

• I have a growing network of connections on steemit so I usually know someone who knows someone to help out with most queries and situations.

• I have good skill levels in post presentation, including writing, formatting and image manipulation.

• I have growing voting power (currently well over 4000SP) that allows me to give useful upvotes as and when needed.

Type of mentee that I can best work with

• I can particularly help new steemians interested in the areas of homesteading, prepping and alternative lifestyles. I am also happy to mentor anyone with any interests if they are based in Wales.

• As mentioned above timezones are not too much of an issue, but steemians in Europe and Africa will be most closely matched to my online availability.

• I am mainly based around written posts, I don't so far have experience of video posting. I also have less knowledge of the music and art areas of activity on steemit.

• Although I have some Spanish, I will only be able to mentor in English.

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I currently have capacity to take on up to 5 mentees. I would look for them to have a reputation of below 45 and to have been active on the platform for two months or less.

I expect to work with the mentees to help them become well established on the platform and to reach a reputation of 55 or thereabouts.

I will be looking for people that can commit to posting at least 3 times a week.

The main means of communication for the mentoring will be via Discord.

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If you are looking for a mentor and you think we might be able to work well together please put a comment below with your brief details. Please also include a note of what you are looking for in terms of mentoring and why you think I will be suitable to help you.

I will respond to you in the comment and if we want to take it forward we can connect in Discord and discuss in more detail.

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You might also be interested in some of my other posts :

• [CONTEST] MSP Waves Radio : Pennsif on Air with Globocop : What happened in 1964? - 500 SP delegation to be won

• Homesteaders & Preppers on steemit - heading towards 300 by the new year? v11 [23 Dec '17]

• 888 Followers - Time for a Festive Season Giveaway for all my followers

• Steemit coming alive in Wales - First meetup taking place on Saturday 10 February 2018 in Lampeter

• [FICTION CONTEST NOW CLOSED] Christmas Day in 2050 - list of entries - winners will be announced by the weekend

• SteemRadio - schedule of all the steemit radio shows - week beginning 18 December 2017

• The Steem is Rising - 2018 is going to be a good, good year - are you feeling the buzz?

• SteemCommerce - Businesses accepting payment in steem (v 1 @ 15 December 2017)

• Double Down Chicken Disaster Strikes UK Homesteading Community

• I Believe in Steem - Five things I can do to help steemit grow

• Where in the world can I spend my steem? Real World Outlets that accept Steem / SBD

• SteemTowns - connecting the virtual with the reality - would it be possible?

[ graphic by @pennsif ]