The Steem News @ 17 July 2021 - Communities of the Month Support Program...

After a short gardening break Steem News is back.

Steemit has announced the Communities of the Month Support Program.

Today's Steem News also includes news and updates about the Steem Business Magazine, Steemit Iron Chef, SteemAlive, SL-Charity, Powered Up STEEM, PromoSteem, Steem Music 3.0, the Greens Arboriculture Project, and over 100 contests...

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1. Communities of the Month Support Program

Steemit has announced a new Communities of the Month Support Program.

Six communities will be selected every month to receive an enhanced support package from @steemcurator01.

Communities interested must submit an application by 24 July showing how they are following the recently posted Community Guidelines...

• The Communities of the Month Support Program

• Steemit Community Guidelines

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This looks like it is going to be a very popular program with applications already received from @steemkidss, @steemthai, Italy Community (@girolamomarotta), Comunidad Latina (@cotina), World of Xpilar (@stef1), Steem Library (@event-horizon), @steemitfoods and @steemit-turkiye.

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2. Steem Business Magazine

@oscarcc89 has published another edition of the Steem Business Magazine.

@baristaacademy, @mvchacin and @cactusgens are the businesses featured in this latest edition...

• Steem Business Magazine | Edition 02 / July

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Founder of the Business Activity community @oscarcc89 has also produced some flyers to use for recruiting businesses to Steem...

• Flyer to bring Businesses and Entrepreneurs to Steemit

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One business on Steem through the Steem-VirtualStore is @rhoddysfabrics which is now selling genuine African fabric for STEEM...

• Looking For Genuine African Fabric, RhoddysFabrics Will Give you the Best, Buy With Steem

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3. Steemit Iron Chef Round 10

The Steemit Iron Chef cooking contest run by @progressivechef is still going strong and has now reached Round 10.

This week the featured ingredient is cabbage...

• STEEMIT IRON CHEF ACT 1 ROUND 10 : Contest now open ! 25 STEEM to win this week + Grand Reward Pool over 150 STEEM already and growing each round! Join to win !

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To celebrate reaching 700 subscribers in the Steemit Iron Chef Discord server the prizes for the winners of Round 9 have been increased from 25 STEEM to 55 STEEM...

• Celebration Time : Crossed over 700 Subscribers in Steemit Iron Chef Community - 55 STEEM AS PRIZES FOR THE ROUND 09 TOP ENTRIES INSTEAD OF THE USUAL 25 STEEM!

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4. SteemAlive is One Year Old

@meymeyshops reports on the celebrations for the SteemAlive community reaching its first anniversary...

• One Year Anniversary of Steemalive Community - An Event Worth Celebrating || 17/07/2021

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The @steemalive community has also just reached 5,000 subscribers and 11,000 SP...

• SteemAlive Presents: 5000 Subscribers and 11,000 SP Achieved. Just Powered up 704 Steem!

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5. SL-Charity Phase III

Steem Sri Lanka has announced that it is starting Phase III of its SL-Charity program.

It currently has 2,300 STEEM to distribute and is inviting people to submit suggestions and requests...

• Announcing SL-Charity Phase III

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6. Powered Up STEEM on the up !

@remlaps has published another update on the amount of STEEM that is powered up.

After a brief pause on 7 July the amount of STEEM powered up has continued to climb again with almost 128 million STEEM currently powered up... ...

• Steem Total Value Powered Up - $47 million - July 16, 2021

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7. PromoSteem Survey

PromoSteem Community Leader @arie.steem has posted a feedback survey for community members...

• Questionnaire - Community Feedback ( Please Fill Out This Survey )

PromoSteem has also just published guidance for members about beneficiaries to help the community grow...

• PromoSteem - 10% Payout Beneficiary

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8. Steem Music 3.0 Artist Pick on Twitter

@marvalstudios is running a poll on Twitter to select Steem Music Artists...

• Participa en la elección del Artista Steem Music 3.0 en Twitter // Participate in the Steem Music 3.0 Artist Pick on Twitter

The contest is sponsored by @stephenkendal.

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9. The Greens Arboriculture Project

@thegreens reported on their latest environmental project building a tree nursery, greenhouses and a propagator...

• The Plastic Bottles Recycling and Arboriculture Project Update 001 | Cleaning site and construction of a Propagator

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10. Contests

@disconnect continues to post a comprehensive list of the 100+ contests currently running on Steem...

• Contest Alerts: Active Contest List on 18th July 2021 – Win 2000+ STEEM

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KEY DATA [ from CoinMarketCap ]

STEEM price	US$ 0.38	18 Jul '21 1.35am UTC
STEEM price	0.00001187 BTC	18 Jul '21 1.35am UTC
CoinMarketCap Ranking	#171	18 Jul '21 1.35am UTC
SBD price	US$ 6.05	18 Jul '21 1.35am UTC
Alexa rank (steemit.com)	#7,500	18 Jul '21 1.35am UTC
Unique visitors (steemit.com)	389,464 / day	18 Jul '21 1.35am UTC
Page views (steemit.com)	1,635,750 / day	18 Jul '21 1.35am UTC

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This is #373 (17 Jul '21) of this daily news service.

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