RE: Tribal Communities: The Importance of 'Crossing Boundaries' Between Tribes
Spreading the word to new tribes has done wonders for Christianity, Islam and hundreds of isms. One thing about promoters on Steem I don't like is how they keep on using main keywords and only promote on Steem. Yes, I know Steem is great, I'm already here, and yes, everyone who searches Reggae, Dancehall, Jamaica, Reggaesteem, and Jahm, already know about Reggaesteem.io
Getting people from other tribes is great, but most people who pay attention to Steem already know about JAHM and ReggaeSteem. We really want to start promoting this off the blockchain. ReggaeSteem would really like to reach out to more real people like you who have been on Steem for a while, are likely to travel to Jamaica and realize the potential on this tribe, not just people looking to SPAM for pennies. I'll PM you on discord join Reggaesteem discord https://discord.gg/PHEN5kD so I know who you are there
It's true that we have to attract people from outside Steem, but there is also a case for continuing to spread the word within Steem. I was surprised by some of the responses to @jk6276's post from accounts that are very active (and large) and knowledgeable on and about Steem but didn't know much about either @reggaesteem or @spinvest. When I went to the meet-up in Cambridge, it was the same thing - active, committed Steemians who put a lot of time into Steem but either hadn't heard of reggaesteem or who had only heard of it in passing. The more people on Steem who know about reggaesteem, the more people who are going to be talking to people outside Steem about reggaesteem. The people who are posting in reggaesteem have quality networks - they interact with other people like them. I agree that if any of us promote reggaesteem as come and earn easy jahm, we get what we deserve, that was Steem's downfall. But if we are promoting reggaesteem as a good investment opportunity, a place where it is worth building a stake, to people who are already in Steem and familiar with cryptocurrencies, that is going to help.
I absolutely agree that we should promote on steem-every single general tag we use does just that. There are probably 30k daily visitors here, maybe 100k a month. Let's halve those numbers for bots, duplicates and people who would never read someone else's work, so 15k daily and 50k monthly, this is generous.
Out of the 50k, many are people with multiple accounts or apps, 50% of people here are impoverished, unable to afford a flight to Jamaica or investing. A large chunk of users are from Asia where flying to Jamaica isn't common either. Let's be fair, 5000 real people here are potential customers at best.
Now, maybe 1/2 of the remaining people are interested in Reggae and Jamaica, again generous. So low thousands are on Steem. There are millions of people using cryptocurrency. There are billions of people on Facebook, Twitter, Medium, Reddit, who read news and the internet.
I don't think we should ignore the thousands but Reggaesteem is for real we're targeting the millions. #Jahm
JAHM all the way baby. Up until this point, I have been supporting my good friend super-irie get a jump start on steem and reggaesteem. He has so many personal stories and accounts, something different than most posting to reggaesteem. Honestly, the founders should be thanking him. He is promoting and putting Negril on the map.
Since now he’s comfortable with how things work around here and within reggaesteem, I’m going to begin focusing more on MY role in the tribe - stacking JAHM, commenting and curating content.
JAHM has a real use case and honestly think the idea can blossom into something that goes mainstream. It would be awesome to provide a form of universal basic income in place, that as you mention, is sought as ‘impoverished.’ This could be huge for people that are less fortunate than you and I
Thanks, as always, @crypticat
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Let's chat on discord
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Yeah mon- I’ll be on discord here soon to chat... just got off work for the day
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I do believe in organic onboarding
It’s the best way for growth as an ecosystem. as a whole. We need more of it tbh
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Much agreement here. Promotion within must take place before promotion beyond steem. Getting people here equipped with the knowledge and understanding about what’s taking place will only transverse outward when outside promotion occurs. Still issues with exposure and visibility. If we can increase transparency, then steem promotion to the outside world shall follow suit... that’s the hope at least
Thanks for your input and two cents, shani
Talk to you soon
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Surely spreading the word outside of steem will help with user on-boarding, yes.
And this is essential for the future growth of steem. There does however still need to be work done within the platform to increase exposure, visibility, and ultimately, active participation among various tribal communities. Not to mention, steem in general. New steem has helped a bit IMO, but there is still obvious room for improvements.
I’ll see you on discord. I’ll check in there tonight after work.
Cheers crypti
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