The Steem News @ 6 October 2022 : Steemit Engagement Challenge Season 5
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Steemit has announced the communities selected for Season 5 of the Engagement Challenge.
Ideas, suggestions and proposals are now coming in for the new $500K Steemit Development Incentive Program.
Today's Steem News also includes news and updates about the Steem Marketing Plan, Power Ups, Steem Video Contest, New Communities for Community Leaders and Devs, new Seed Nodes, and Contests on Steem...
1. Steemit Engagement Challenge Season 5
Steemit has announced the communities selected for Season 5 of the Engagement Challenge.
Joining Steemit Crypto Academy on the challenge are Colombia-Original, Hot News Community, Scouts y sus Amigos, Steem4Nigeria, Steem for Better Life and Steem Venezuela...
2. Steemit Development Incentive Program
Since Steemit Inc announced the details of the new $500K Development Incentive Program last week there has been a steady flow of pitches, proposals and suggestions.
The proposals from developers so far have included those from @symbionts, @starlord28 and @upvu.witness...
[DIP Proposal] User Safety Additions Along With Other Improvements
[DIP Proposal] API Endpoint / Templates & Drafts / Loading comments
Suggestions for changes needed needed from members of the community have included those from @alejos7ven, @danmaruschak and @michelangelo3...
Members of the community have until 15 October to put forward their suggestions for improvements to steemit.com.
All the current proposals can be found at...
The program is being overseen by a team of five top witnesses - @future.witness (@hightouch), @steemchiller, @justyy, @smt-wherein (@iguazi123) and @dev.supporters (@donekim, @glory7 & @wonsama).
After 15 October these five Community Developer Representatives will sift through all the proposals from developers and the suggestions from the community to start matching developers with suggestions and getting development underway.
@donekim has posted a summary of proposals and suggestions received so far...
Pennsif the Witness
After almost 2000 days on Steem I decided it was time to take my contribution to the platform to the next level.
I have therefore set up as a Steem witness... @pennsif.witness
If anyone would like to support what I already do, and what I am planning to do, by giving one of their 30 witness votes to @pennsif.witness I would be hugely grateful.
You can read my full witness announcement here...
Thank you.
3. Steem Marketing Plan #3
@pollito22 has posted an update on the social marketing plan for Steem that he is working on with @o1eh and @heriadi.
@minikay has now joined the team as a graphic designer...
4. Power Ups Still on the Up
The latest stats from @remlaps this week have revealed another small increase in the amount of STEEM that is powered up.
The past week has seen a 400K SP (0.25%) increase to 164,088,710 STEEM powered up, equivalent to a value of $35,449,232...
5. Steem Video Contest
@xpilar has extended the closing date for the Steem Video Contest he is running until 20 October.
The prize pool for the contest has now been increased to 26500 SP in delegations. The judges for the contest are @xpilar, @stef1 and @pennsif...
6. New Communities for Communities and Devs
Founder of the Beauty of Creativity, My Bengali Blog, Tron Fan Club and Steem Watcher communities, @rme, is launching two new communities.
- Steem Alliance - for all community Admins and Moderators
There will be mutual exchange of opinions, cooperation and sharing of ideas for the development of Steemit. We will all be united under one umbrella. Our slogan will be - "Make Steemit great again!"
- Steem Dev - for all developers on Steem
Here all the developers of Steemit will gather. Write about their own projects, gather feedback, discuss and give demonstrations about mutual development projects. Different types of Steemit proposals will also be discussed in detail in this community.
7. New Seed Nodes
Two witnesses have launched new Seed Nodes today - @pennsif.witness and @steemwow...
8. Contests on Steem
@disconnect continues to publish his comprehensive daily list of current contests on Steem.
There are 79 contests in the latest list with over 550 STEEM in prizes...
KEY DATA [ from CoinMarketCap ]
STEEM price | US$ 0.22 | 06 Oct '22 11.24pm UTC |
STEEM price | 0.00001118 BTC | 06 Oct '22 11.24pm UTC |
CoinMarketCap Ranking | #257 | 06 Oct '22 11.24pm UTC |
SBD price | US$ 2.48 | 06 Oct '22 11.24pm UTC |
Unique visitors (steemit.com) | 127,575 / day | 06 Oct '22 11.24pm UTC |
Page views (steemit.com) | 261,248 / day | 06 Oct '22 11.24pm UTC |
This is #458 (06 Oct '22) of this daily news service.
[ graphics by @pennsif ]
Muchas gracias amigo @pennsif por mostrar nuestro avance del proyecto de marketing de Steem. Es importante que la comunidad conozca la estrategia que se implementará y pronto mostraremos los avances más importantes referentes a nuestro diseño de feed para Instagram, plantillas para historias y todo lo necesario para arrancar con las publicaciones en las cuentas que se han creado.
Esperamos el apoyo de toda la comunidad de Steemit, para este gran proyecto!
I am looking forward to reading more about progress on this project.
you deserve to be a witness in steemit because so far you have been very instrumental in the development of steemit by helping many people to grow and now it's time for you to contribute to the next level,, I have you as a witness because I really support you in this,,, success always sir @pennsif🙏🙏🙏
Thank you for your support of my witness.
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This additional information is very important and congratulations to the community selected in the steemit engagement challenge, hopefully it will provide new innovations for those who take part in the challenge.
I hope so.
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