Promo-Steem Website White Paper
Dear Steemit Promo community, happy new year to all. Our team have been working hard on our website (which we almost have completed). Release of basic functional site will be in Mid Jan 2018!! We really hope it will be a great place for promoters and whales to find resources, advice, help and assistance whilst leveraging the Steem blockchain to support your important promo work! Please see the website white paper below and let us know your comments.
PROMO-STEEM WEBSITE WHITE PAPER
PROMO-STEEM / STEEM AMBASSADORS
The Promo-Steem group aims to facilitate the promotion of Steemit and Steem by harnessing the resources of the Steem blockchain as a mechanism to support promoters.
Promo-steem is a voluntary group of Steemit users consisting of affiliate members known as Steem Ambassadors. Steemit users wishing to become Steem Ambassadors may apply and will be accepted / rejected by the Steemit community.
WEBSITE OBJECTIVES
- To provide a mechanism whereby Steem and the Steem community can reward promoters for doing high quality promotional work.
- To provide a location for Steem promoters and Steem whales who support promotional work to congregate.
- To assist with the organisation, support and communication of promotional initiatives for Steem and Steemit.
AUDIENCES
• New comers to Steemit & Steem
• Steemit Promoters and Steem Ambassadors
• Steem whales
SITE STRUCTURE & CONTENT
The site structure shall minimize number of sub-pages and maximise simplicity and a flat hierarchical structure where possible, using a simple hub and spoke structure with the home page as the hub.
Home Page
The home page shall focus on summarizing the goals and main functions of the promo-steem website
A method of removing spam from the current #promo-steem tag shall be adopted. This may have to be done via manual selection initially, however shall incorporate a community voting process (see below) as the site progresses.
On-boarding Page
Shall include multiple methods for on-boarding to Steem. The aim is to allow for all Steem promoters to have a one stop shop in order to onboard each type of potential new user they encounter. This includes but is not limited to the following:
• “I was introduced to Steemit by” - allows us to keep a record of which Steemians on-board the most new comers
• Various sign up options:
• Anon Steem
• SteemInvite.com
• Standard sign up.
• Accounts pre-charged with Steem to avoid multi exchange fiat - Steem purchase.
Resources Area
Shall include multiple resources for promoting steem and steemit, including but not limited to the following:
• Steemit help links
• Community Links
• Whale shares, steemnow, steemcool links
• Welcome page
• Promotion methods
• Others….
Steem Ambassador Programme
Shall include the selection process (to include community), limited section criteria and instructions on how to apply / pitch to be a Steem Ambassador.
As the site progresses we should identify benefits / privileges & rewards of Steem Ambassadors
Guild
The Website shall include a simple description of the Guild with sign up option
Upcoming Promotional Events
Allow the community to add their planned promo events to this page in order to obtain publicity and support from the community, link to Steem blockchain so that up votes can be obtained directly from the site.
Promoters Map of the World
Shall show the location of all Steemit Promoters on a map of world.
Promo-steem shall contact @steemitworldmap regards to promoters world map for potential integration, as this project has significant funding and recognition.
Artwork Area
Community to submit artwork for promo-steem. This will enable promoters to easily download steem and steemit logos for use on promotion apparel.
Chat Area
A structured chat area which shall link from a discord channel. We should think about the structure of this prior to implementation and bring lessons learned from other chat areas. Implementation of an affective chat area is a complex matter and should be approached with a structure and strategy in mind.
A clear set of guides for how we want this chat area to run may be worth writing (possibly to include in the guidelines for use on the website)
• Public Area
This includes a longer term view on posting all public comments to the Steem blockchain so that most valuable can be up voted. This will encourage Steemians to provide support to other users voluntarily in return for up votes.
• Private Area
An area for private messaging that is not useful to show publically such as meeting time arrangements and other items not for public viewing.
Newsletter
This area will link to the promo-steem centralised blog on steemit.com with a focus on news and updates in the promo initiative. Additional comments welcome.
Applications Area
To include apps that we endorse, such as promo-trailing bot, promotion ideas / instructions
Promotional Merchandise Shop
Should allow for revenue gathering and the sale of Promo-steem apparel and steemit.inc apparel. Additional comments welcome.
Steem Whale Promo Bounty’s
Allow a place for Steem Whales to propose awards for promotional events / achievements such as getting the steem logo on TV at Glastonbury or making Steemit trend on reddit etc.
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Voting Guild Community Up voting Process
The Promo-Steem team shall propose Steem Ambassadors and request approval from the community. Following approval, these Ambassadors shall have voting rights on the promo-steem voting guild. Should any 3 of these members vote for the same promo-steem tagged blog a % of the guild’s vote shall be placed on said blog along with any trailing up votes from our trailing bot. These blogs shall then be featured on the home page with options to sort by trending or by newest.
New User Referral Tracking
We shall develop an automated way of tracking the “I was introduced to Steemit by” tag on the on-boarding page. This will allow us to reward, promote and encourage the best performing Steemians.
Pre charged Steem Accounts
We should discuss the legal implications of using credit cards payments (or others) in return for the private keys to pre charged steem accounts. Following this we need to obtain steem in order to provide a range of account sizes. This should be made functional through the on-boarding page, such that upon payment receipt, they private key and account name, along with instructions on how to change the master key are sent to the email of the recipient.
Upcoming Promotional Events / Artwork / Promo Bounty
This should display upcoming promo events & Whale Bounty’s that have been blogged on steemit.com. The promo event blogs & bounty’s should auto up load to the webpage based on scanning for a tag such as “#promo-event” and include the community up voting process above in order to avoid spamming to the tag. For events we plan to use an eventbrite API to display promo steem events on our website.
Chat
Technical requirements for the chat are:
- Importing discord chat to webpage and displaying it in private & public form on the promo-steem website
- Allowing public posts to the blockchain and enable upvotes on chat threads
Promoters Map of the World
Team to consider making this interactive for users (e.g. include links to Steemit accounts of promoters).
NON FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS
• The website shall be accessible from the following devices:
• Desktop, PC, tablet, smart phone, with view to releasing a #promo-steem DAPP at a later time.
• Team to consider any Terms and Conditions required
STYLE AND LAYOUT
The style of the site shall be minimalist. The team shall carry out a review prior to alpha release to bring all functional content on the website to an absolute minimum in order to maximise simplicity while achieving the best practical functional use for the site
LOGO
The logo shall be such that the word PROMO is the main feature. An additional word shall be featured in the logo such that PROMO can be paired with other words to create PROMO sub categories. For example, PROMO-STEEM, PROMO-WORLD, or PROMO-OTHER etc.
MAINTENANCE
• Analysing and rewarding best performing promoters
• Review & proposal of Steem Ambassadors + maintenance of Steem Ambassadors list including who has which specific privileges
• Reviewing and up voting #promo-steem, promotional events, Artwork
• Updating Promo World Map
• Maintaining part time presence in chat area to provide assistance to community
• Writing Newsletter
• General Site content updates & Maintenance
• Voting Guild & trailing bot maintenance & troubleshooting
• Merchandise design, distribution & stocking
• Micro Loan pitch review and loan tracking
• Maintenance of pre charged steem accounts
• Publicity of promo initiatives to Whales.
• Others please add
HOSTING
Site to be hosted outside of EU to avoid GDPR legislation (due to come into effect in May 2018)
SCALABILITY
Promo-steem team to meet and carry out a scalability review once the initial alpha version of the website is prepared. Ideally this should be completed prior to website release.
PENDING TEAM INPUTS
• Consider contacting @steemitworldmap to combine with promo world map + consider interactive features for map
• Propose Steem Ambassadors for voting guild
• Consider any Terms and Conditions required
• Functional Content review prior to alpha release
• Scalability Review
It's been a great couple of days working with you dude. And we made some money trading too!
And great work @anarcotech and efforts you are putting into this. Happy Holidays.
I am not sure if you heard about me or my past post ideas to help improve the steemit front-end in @utopian-io , however, I have been following your efforts with @starkerz updates, communications, and he told me a lot about you. And also @stephenkendal doing great efforts with you and the #promo-steem project.
I wanted to give you personal thanks for all your top quality contributions you are doing for the steem blockchain and steemit, and wanted to let you know I have created a full 11 chapter steemit guide to help new visitors, new steemit users, minnows understand as much as possible about steemit and the steem blockchain, and thus help them make their way faster and easier on the platform.
Thanks to the help of many great known steemians like @lukestokes , @blocktrades , @cryptographic , @timcliff , @starkerz , @stephenkendal , @steempower , and many others is that this guide is reaching the most amount of hands.
Here is the link to the first chapter/post:
https://steemit.com/steem/@gold84/chapter-1-of-11-have-you-recently-sign-up-on-steemit-and-don-t-know-what-to-do-first-basic-things-for-new-people-make-their-way
Looking forward to your feedback and hear some words from you in the comments section of any of the chapters, if you get a chance.
Regards, @gold84
I Think this is great! we are adding a section to our website addressing new steemians and how they can start steeming! i think this would be a great addition to it! thanks for this!
@starkerz great it will help! Thank for your feedback and support! Thanks to your support and @lukestokes , @blocktrades and many other great steemians we are helping the full steemit guide to reach as many people/hands as possible!
Regards, @gold84
This is a great progression for whats coming on steemit. Its going to be awesome with a website. Most likely this project will be run like utopian with our own website. There is greatness to be achieved in 2018. Great work @starkerz.
I cant wait to release the site! its looking great,it is almost in a position to release to you guys for your comments! will be great to get your feed back as we hope that you guys will be using it the most!
@starkerz... how can I best help?
@brian-rhodes, Rhodesy! great to hear from you sir! hope all is well! We are smashing away at the website! the voting mechanism will be the first of its kind in history as far as i know, we will allow the community to use our voting guild to vote for great quality content, independant from us, so that we have no say over what the community supports! cant wait to get it implemented. the site is almost complete to first release and we will release to community in about a week or so for their comment. there will be all sorts to do with promoting steem on there! its juicy and i cant wait! if you know any programmers in python who can link with the steem blockchain that would be helpful. (although as a man of your many talents, I am sure you have already mastered this!) apart from that, for now, please check the promo-steem tag, upvote and support the amazing work going on there (excuse the spam on the tag - our new voting system will reduce spam in the near future), if you are doing any promo work, please post it to promo steem tag. and for now we are just busy getting the website out and setting up this voting mechanism. more to be revealed shortly! stay tuned!
Wow, looking forward to that sir. It's an awesome development and will be a good interface for those who are looking for quality on steemit. Your contributions to the blockchain have been superb! @starkerz. I just saved this page for offline use.
I cant wait to release the site! its looking great,it is almost in a position to release to you guys for your comments! will be great to get your feed back as we hope that you guys will be using it the most!
I'm anticipating sir, especially the account opening feature, we've been facing some difficulties registering new accounts at the offline minnow school with others like steeminvite, due to our low steem power. This features on your site will go a long way in facilitation our promotional efforts @starkerz
we will see, so far we will use steeminvite, standard sign up and anonsteem. but we plan to build pre charged accounts and possibly our own sign up method in the medium term future.
Thank you very much @starkerz for your post Many are accepted and used here. The work is priceless by Promo-Steem. We hope the promo-steem is always successful and many use it in the year 2018 ... happy new year @ stakerz
I cant wait to release the site! its looking great,it is almost in a position to release to you guys for your comments! will be great to get your feed back as we hope that you guys will be using it the most!
of course we will use it, good luck @starkerz ..we'll wait for it..your yeah i have for promo-steem, if there is time please check my blog
Great one! Waiting for the guild option as well! Great content makes steemit bigger!
Dylan may want to collaborate with you on the guild python scripts if you can help...
Just been told you're a bit of a programmer. Wonder if you might be able to assist with a bit?
No, more like a marketing guy. I looked into Python for data analysis but I rather started SQL for the same reason. I wish I could help with that :(
@starkerz Happy New Year first of all! You are showing huge efforts with the progress of the website and the whole structure and business plan. This will have a huge impact when done! Congratulations for all these!
I just thought that once the full steemit guide is completed, I will compile it into 1 post with brief summaries, and perhaps it will be of help to place in the @promo-steem website somewhere. I am convinced this can help capture the attention of lots of new visitors, new steemit users and minnows, so us to help them understand the steemit platform faster, and also the steem blockchain, and thus help them make their way on the platform.
As you already know, you have my support for any help needed. If you need to translate the entire site in Spanish, for sure we can help you do it once its launched on whenever you need. I am fluent in Spanish as well as in English, also a bit or Portuguese.
Looking forward to hear from you in the new Chapters #2 and #3. Your comments and additions there are very appreciated.
Chapter 2 of 11: Focusing on the Details of the Steem Wallet to learn as much as possible How to use it - Transfer Steem SBD - Convert it to ETH LTC Bitcoin or other Crypto - This is part 2 of the 11 Chapters (Full Guide) to help new people make their way
https://steemit.com/steem/@gold84/chapter-2-of-11-focusing-on-the-details-of-the-steem-wallet-to-learn-as-much-as-possible-how-to-use-it-transfer-steem-sbd
Chapter 3 of 11: Understanding Where the Funds from Upvotes come from, Focusing on Steem Power & Reward Pool - This is part 3 of the 11 Chapters (Full Guide) to help new people make their way
https://steemit.com/steem/@gold84/chapter-3-of-11-understanding-where-the-funds-from-upvotes-come-from-focusing-on-steem-power-and-reward-pool-this-is-part-3-of
Regards, @gold84
absolutely GREAT work! I will do my best to get this onto the promo steem site!
@starkerz it will be an honour if the full steemit guide link is their in the promo steem website!
Regards, @gold84
Thank you @starkerz for your post. Much to digest and utilize here. Invaluable work by Promo-Steem. We look forward to benefiting from it in 2018!
Thanks very much for your interest in this initiative! its all very exciting stuff! :)
Look who's back :d
So you're working on a website now.
Looking at the quality of your previous projects it should be kick ass.
Wanna see the end result.
Happy upcoming new year btw :p
we will make promo-steem as much as possible and will invite people to join in steemit as much as possible, happy new year also friend
I cant wait to release the site! its looking great,it is almost in a position to release to you guys for your comments! will be great to get your feed back as we hope that you guys will be using it the most!
with there promo-steem, steemit users in indonesia will continue to grow, and thanks @starkerz has supported it