Minnow Support Project Witness Application

I am extremely excited to be a witness for the Steem blockchain! First, I would like to thank @aggroed for letting me know about the application for MSP witness support. I joined Steem in June of 2017 but didn't become dedicated to this platform until a few months later. However, I haven't been this excited about a cryptocurrency project since I learned about Bitcoin back in 2015.

What are you pledging to do to support the Steemit Community?

For the Steemit community I pledge to use my knowledge of programming to create applications to access and use the Steem blockchain in new ways. By working with other Steemians such as @ashleykalila that have great ideas but no background in programming, we can create tools to fill the needs of the Steemit community.

@ashleykalila's idea is great and it's my honour to help her turn her vision into reality. I'm also planning to collaborate with @jasonbu. I'll be playing more of a backup role to help him get more work done on the projects he has undertaken for the Steemit community.

I also started up a group call the Tech Bloggers' Guild. The aim of this group is to find and promote the #technology bloggers that work hard to produce quality, original content. Since joining the MSP Curation team I’ve found that a majority of new posts are low quality or flat-out plagiarised.

What are you pledging to do to support the Minnow Community?

I mentioned this in my witness introduction post:

Where I see my effort having a lot of impact on the Steem Community is in guiding and coaching bloggers. The more I am able to share what I know with others, the better we all become. There are so many talented creators on the Steem blockchain that only need a slight push or small tweak to start the growth ball rolling.

In an effort to help on a more personal basis, I created the Creators' Guild Discord group. The aim is to improve as bloggers, vloggers, podcasters, and all the rest! It's with this group that I aim to create a standard for the content to drive more investors and large content creators into the Steem ecosystem.

This group is not limited to minnows but they are the ones that I expect to have the largest impact upon. I am already working to recruit outstanding creators from various niches to assist me where I lack the experience. These are topics such as video editing and digital music creation.

What are you pledging to do to support the Minnow Support Project?

I would like to take the concepts I discussed above and find the best way to integrate them into the Minnow Support Project.

After all, many minnows are new to blogging which causes a steep learning curve. This is on top of the considerable challenge that Steem offers to even the most veteran bloggers such as myself.

The faster a minnow is able to pick up what it takes to create an amazing blog, the better off the Steem community and the minnow will be. The better the content created by the minnow, the faster their growth will take off. This leads to more followers, more rewards, and a more fulfilled content creator.

I will also be delegating a minimum of 25% of my Steem Power to the @minnowsupport project and 25% to the @msp-bidbot.

I love what MSP does. It is because of this community that I am where I stand today within the Steem community. Without this group I would not have met so many people and smaller groups that help me every single day. Giving back to MSP as I continue to grow is best way I can think of to say thank you.