Solo and Collaborative Writing Gigs @ Steemit
Okay so Steemians can receive value creating & curating content.
What about writing / curating for someone else? It could be content creation of any kind, but let's first stick to writing for simplicity.
The idea is to use Steemit as an organization of mercenary writers. SteemServices? There are writers on Steemit that already have reputation staked in the platform. New writers can level up by spending time and building rep. Anyone, even outside companies that require writing services (for their marketing, copywriting, content creation, etc) could submit their job requirements to the Steemit and include the pay-out. The experts in Steemit would absorb the job requirements and break it down into chunks, with subrequirements for the writing crowd to work on - if it's of collaborative nature.
Collaborative writing would make writing jobs speedy without too much degradation in quality (one could even argue this would make quality of writing better). Another point to this is to enable truly quick multifaceted A / B marketing, developed for different cultures / regions. Maybe even crowd-ghostwriting an entire book!
As you gain more rep on Steemit, you will be given more prestigious parts of the available writing projects with increasingly better returns. Ultimately, writers can define the days they are free and the topic/parts they are interested in, so the system would be efficient as it will notify on the fly. It could turn out to be an on-demand kind of deal. It could also be like Fiverr where requestors approach providers (but my as well do it outside the system).
What reputable curators can do is even recommend writers fit for the job - perhaps this will work to augment the background machine learning system that delegates gigs to the writers on Steemit.
Elements that can make this possible:-
a) An on-demand system that pings all prospective writers is necessary. This passive job search should work together with the usual active job search model. A full freelance platform is probably not desirable in the first stages as it dilutes job concentration, and lowly-populated categories would be unsexy in my opinion. Just like the age old problem with rental websites, you'd probably be turned off if you can't find what you want. So focus on writing first would be good. In some ways, measurable more than others. And you can work with just a keyboard or a smartphone.
b) There should be directors, writers, reviewers, and researchers - each roles, especially writers, reviewers, curators, and researchers to be supported / augmented by machine learning algorithms / AIs. This would ramp up production and improve writing quality. Trolls will be culled, and low quality work could be marked down or even by replaced by bots. A little of a pipe dream here - but I believe it is not too far-fetched for writing jobs. Bots could research / write pieces, and the human counterpart will improve it.
c) The writing dAPP could be open - enabling anyone to use existing / customized apps / bots to perform their work and receive notifications.
d) The job requirements can even be entirely open to the community and anyone can write away.
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I'm not sure what are Steemit's next development plans are, but writing can easily turn into any other content creation when different tools are built into the website or dAPP or whatever.
- I first posted something similar on the Etherpunk subreddit, and then on the DAOhub forums.
- Makes better sense now with Steemit as it already solves the problem of measuring rep / consistency in writing and curating as the system needs to efficiently delegate capable writers.
Warmest regards,
Kevin Wong ([email protected])
This is a pretty cool idea. I do have a question though. Who would check/edit the writing that is done? Would this be the director's job? It could be difficult to do only because everyone has a different writing style. With different writers the flow of the piece could be disrupted, at least for awhile or until people got used to each other. That is if the same people worked together on a regular basis. Just some food for thought. It is a great idea.
That's an important question! I don't have much experience working with a structured organization to give a concrete idea on how this should work. But one of the immediate solutions I can think of is by having one or a few "directors" possibly consolidating the materials into cohesive writeups by actually re-writing on the wealth of inputs by others. Chunks of materials written by others will be vetted/curated before funneling into that consolidation phase.
That would be the best solution that I could come up with as well. Magazines and newspapers work in a way similar to this. The only thing that would be different is that multiple people collaborate one one article, and not just one person per article. I guess the best thing would be to just give it a try and see what happens.
Good points