Collaboratively Growing Southeast Asia Steem Community

Since January 2018, i have active on steem blockchain, there has been so much collaboration with so many personalities and initiatives that i have been involved with. If i were to create a list, it would take several days to complete them, however some of the key partners for collaboration include @bitrocker2020, @veenang, @viverridae, @bboyady, @beverlyjoe, @melindajamulis @cryptocurator, @promo-steem, @steem-ambassador, The Ministry of Education and Innovation, Sabah Malaysia, @myach and so many more out there. The list would just go on and on.

Our activity stretches from charity event to a blockchain event and all is in the name of promoting steem blockchain and community building.

However, one of the most interesting collaborative initiatives was when @bitrocker2020 and i began shaping up SteemXP.

We envision the possibility of Southeast Asia community to be on steem blockchain and slowly shape up what @SteemXP is all about. We recognized that many people out there don't have the talent of writing skill to produce a quality post. However, we believe that everyone with guidance and training on content creation would learn and slowly improve as they keep on posting.

The challenge is that those newbies would easily get disheartened on few factors;

1. being on steemit alone, as a lone ranger
2. not being able to be in a supportive environment
3. do not have the right info and continuous education
4. their post not being noticed with no or so little upvote

While most of the curation trail out there is based on voting quality content, one of our goal is to establish a curation trail that supports good original content to keep newbies encouraged while they are on their path toward being part of a supportive community that continuously guiding and learning from each other to be better day by day.

Question is, how are we going to start all this when most of our existing members in my locality is also new in steemit and their steem power is pretty much limited.

Months back, we heard of @byteball and what it is all about, we also learn that the more we get other steemian to setup up their own @byteball account, the introducer would get some reward.

Source

I began calling for a meetup and explain to our existing Sabah Community on the vision of SteemXP and initiate a crowdfunding campaign. Inviting them to donate their byteball to @steemxp and we slowly grow our vision.

Without hesitation, the community that we have been building in sabah, jump in and decided to collaborate and supported the cause. While most of our discussion is on our discord channel, the important discussion is held at a meetup or i called it Community Founding Members Meeting.

These are the people we collaborated with, The SteemXP Community Founding Member includes;

@arwine, @zayyadmikael, @bboyady,@viverridae, @zamifara @matthewdoughty, @audreyclaire, @verasj, @melindajamulis, @nytrie, @abellehera, @beverlyjoe, @alvinauh @NickyChu @deborahneils @kilathecla @emmanuelnukchee @gelfire @heartbeat1515 @veenang @ychaa @inugarang @borneoairbrush @ivora @darryljonesjr @keydeet @angeljames @v1tko @arjimi @celo769 @edulan @veenalo @garryliew @shirlylee @Vasco @ambergrace @wilsonkoh @papanog @sealion2020 @emilydonna @cukin @tommyl33
@zayyad83 @kennethtks @chanelcalestus

After crowdfunding all the byteball received, and then purchase steem, we manage to raise approximately 560 Steem and was all power up at @steemxp. That was how we began. Our next step was to establish a curation trail and we called it The Southeast Asia Curation Trail

Our voting value is not great as for now, but we believe there is power in being united for a common mission. Someday someone bigger would notice us and realized that there is value in what we are trying to achieve for steem blockchain in general.

Our focus now is growing our community, continue doing promotion and education program called Steem Bootcamp and Steem Masterclass, getting more crypto investor invest in steem and inviting more steemian to be part of us on our discord channel.

We have just finished organizing our successful Blockchain event called Borneo Blockchain Summit and will soon announce the opening up for application to be a SteemXP City Chapter Manager

@steemxp is practically a couple months old, but we began to see amazing progress. This Friday we are invited by the Ministry of Education and Innovation Sabah, Malaysia Borneo to present them about steem blockchain and how it can help the local community in regards to content creation education and blockchain education.

I also see other steemian from other nation members of Southeast Asia nation began joining our discord channel. I am proud of our collaborative work and tiny successes despite having little resources, I hope to see it is duplicated in other Southeast Asia city through the appointed SteemXP City Chapter Manager.

Thanks to the SteemXP Community Founding Members for taking a leap of faith. I hope that in time, our work will get noticed by other steemian. There is so much to do, yet all this is a collaborative work that requires one step a time.

Working Committee of SteemXP, After Event Photo

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Founder of SteemXP