The Steem News @ 5 May 2021 - Contests are booming & STEEM hits $1 again

Contests are booming on Steem.

Total prizes for Thursday and Friday closing contests have soared past US$1000.

Today's Steem News also includes news and updates about PromoSteem, a Steemit Assisted Village, Steem Fanbase, ACOM Dividend Tokens, Steem Sri Lanka, Steem Women's Club, some useful guides and how-to's, and many more contests...

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STOP PRESS

The price of STEEM has just gone up past $1.00 again as this edition went to press.

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1. Contests are booming on Steem

In the latest edition of the Win With Steem daily contest listing post @pennsif has recorded 40 contests closing on Thursday and Friday with over $1100 worth of prizes.

Contests are a great way for newcomers particularly to network, get involved in the platform and potentially win STEEM prizes.

There is a massive range of contests from dancing to crafts to photography to cooking to football to poetry to travel - very much something for every taste...

• WIN WITH STEEM : Contests closing in the next two days @ 6 May 2021 - $1120 to be won

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2. Daily Contests

While most contests generally run for a week, there is a growing trend for daily contests.

@tht has been running his sports/crypto prediction contest every day for some time...

• Daily Contest 06/05/2021 || New Format || Reward 5 STEEM!

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Two new PromoSteem dailies have just been started by @arie.steem and @julstamban...

• Daily Chat Contest #3 (06-05-2021) - 10 Steem Everyday [Total 300 Steem] 3 Winner List

• DAILY TAG A FRIEND CONTEST 1 | 10 STEEM PER DAY [300 STEEM TOTAL PRIZE POOL][5-6-2021]

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@alikoc07 has just launched a near daily food photo contest for the SteemFoods community...

• Daily New Contest -1- Results | Best Food Photos of the Day Results | 10 STEEM Award Distributions

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@mister-omortson has been running for a while a near daily 'guess the movie' contest...

• Blitz contest -Guess the movie- round XXI

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3. PromoSteem Update

PromoSteem is buzzing with activity.

The team has just put out an update regarding sponsorship and delegation...

• UPDATE Sponsorship & Delegator - 2 New Sponsorship

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PromoSteem sponsor @stephenkendal has put forward a generous offer to help fund anyone looking to produce promotional T-shirts...

• Do you have a Promotional Campaign promoting Steem and would like some help buying Promotional T-Shirts? If so, I would like to Sponsor you

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@collinz was wearing his Steem Ghana T-shirt when he went store to store promoting Steem in the Achimota Retail Center in Accra...

• From Shop To Shop Introducing Prospective Investors to Steem: The Strategies to get them on board (10% to @promosteem.com)

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4. Steemit Assisted Village

Following the success of his Steem funded house building project @sultan-aceh is now levelling up to power a whole village on Steem.

The village in question is Buket Village in North Aceh, Indonesia...

• Steemit Assisted Village and Build a Mushalla AL-QARIAH

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5. Steem Fanbase Updates

Following its release last week the @ItalyGame witness development team have been making rapid updates and feature additions to their new Steem Fanbase auto-voting tool...

• New STEEM FANBASE Updates and Features [ENG-ITA]

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6. ACOM Dividend Tokens Sold Out

@imagen reports for ACOM that their new DVT dividend token was sold out on Steem-Engine within three days.

The next release of tokens will be on 14 May...

• All ACOM DVT Sold

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7. Steem Sri Lanka Online Training

@steem-sri.lanka are hosting an online training session for newcomers to Steem on 9 May.

The Zoom meeting will be for speakers of Sinhala...

• Online Session | Let's Learn Steemit | Invitation

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8. Steem Women's Club Seeks New Representative

The fast growing @steemwomensclub is expanding its team once again.

They are now seeking a Representative from the India / Pakistan / Sri Lanka / Bangladesh area...

• Steem Women Club Community 4rd Representative Selection | Apply for a SOUTH ASIA REPRESENTATIVE ! | India - Pakistan - Sri Lanka

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9. Guides & How To's

Venezuela Country Rep @edlili24 has published the third in her very useful 'Things You Should Not Do on Steem' series...

• Cosas que no debes hacer y que debes tomar en cuenta dentro de Steemit! Parte(3)

@steem-ghana has posted the first part of a guide to using @steemchiller's very useful Steemworld.org account management tool...

• Tutorials on steemworld.org Part 1

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10. Contests, Contests, Contests...

As an offshoot of Steem News @pennsif now publishes a daily listing of the 'soon to close' contests on Steem...

• WIN WITH STEEM : Contests closing in the next two days @ 6 May 2021 - $1120 to be won

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@habercitr who runs the Steemit Contest Club Community has produced a compilation of current contests on Steem...

• Active Competitions / Steemit Contest Club Community (06.05.2021)

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KEY DATA [ from CoinMarketCap ]

STEEM price	US$ 0.97	6 May '21 4.05am UTC
STEEM price	0.00001698 BTC	6 May '21 4.05am UTC
CoinMarketCap Ranking	#165	6 May '21 4.05am UTC
SBD price	US$ 6.41	6 May '21 4.05am UTC
Alexa rank (steemit.com)	#20,219	6 May '21 4.05am UTC
Unique visitors (steemit.com)	192,267 / day	6 May '21 4.05am UTC
Page views (steemit.com)	615,255 / day	6 May '21 4.05am UTC

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This is #348 (5 May '21) of this daily news service.

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[ graphics & images by @pennsif ]