A New Contest? & #thealliance Updates

If you are not a member and you happen to be reading this, you may be asking yourself...what in Steemit is #thealliance???? Good question. I'll summarize it as such:
#thealliance is a group of allies that stay consistently supporting each other here on Steemit, #upvoting and #curation being just a small part of our system. Members come and members go, but the underlying thing that we all have in common is, we are great content creators, and don't mind taking the time to actually read a post and give a full fledged opinion in replies and comments. Feel free to follow us around on here or on Twitter, or you can be as bold to join our group on 'ew' Facebook. It works by throwing in the tag #thealliance here on Steemit. Simple enough, right? Follow us. We'll find you.

I would like to welcome 2 new additions with this update. First, we have @awarenessraiser who is a deep philosophical vlogger here on Steemit. Be sure to stop by and get engaged in her videos! The other new addition we have is @anialexander. She is a best selling author and I highly suggest reading her The Day I Started Breathing Words post as it is very inspiring!

Current active members are:

@enginewitty

@michaeldavid

@miriamslozberg

@thequeendizzle

@sagittarianqueen

@razux

@flexifriday

@rlyeh

@classydapper

@nolnocluap

@awarenessraiser

@jan-mccomas

@jrtbx

@christheaudioguy

@stephiesawyer

@jaynie

@eddyova

@sam19

@thedamus

@nagavolu

@phelimint

@jrandolph

@anialexander

and be sure to follow our pet @killerwhale!

Giphy rocks Just keep swimming...just keep swimming

A New Contest You Said???

Yes, with a long afternoon brainstorming session, veteran alliance member @michaeldavid and I have come up with a new contest! CLICK HERE FOR ORIGINAL POST Karaoke! No finite date is set, as we are still trying to get a few more eyes on this so please resteem this post and the one about the contest, it'll help us all out!

We already have our first week's judge, @hardikv, who was the winner of Open Mic 39 (2nd position) and won @fyrstikken's 50k SP for a week contest! Excited to have him aboard. He also is co-founder of a music academy, @muziclub, and the keyboardist in a band called Alif. Prizes have yet to be determined, and I imagine initially, it will be somewhat small. I am hoping to work with @music-trail, @vocalists-trail, @luzcypher and @pfunk to try and do perhaps a cross posting with the Open Mic team. See what happens. Either way, it's happening! See you on the next current!