RE: Steemit 101: If You Want People to ENGAGE with Your Content... Create Engaging Content!
Great post, thanks! It's interesting, engagement in Steemit. We've been building our YouTube channel for about two years now, and I guess in videos you get to be so personal with people (if you want). And people will respond to you in same way. In written text, what Steemit is more about, I'm still looking for how to open up without boring people, how to share what I am passionate about that adds value to others. One thing I'm noticing is people aren't necessarily on the look out for the biggest answers to their biggest questions. Rather, they love to see and hear about what you love, what I love, the special little things. The things that they may or may not recognize from their own lives, but that they can relate to nonetheless. I've noticed that when I share on topics like that, people respond a lot. And that when others post like that, I enjoy responding and building relationship too.
Thanks for opening great topic for discussion!
Steemit-- in some ways-- is a bit of a throwback to the "social blogging" movement that was really popular around 2002-06 and died an untimely death at the hand of MySpace and Facebook.
People mostly wrote "personal" blogs, rather than niche specific blogs in some area of expertise. And yes, people are more interested in learning through insights from your personal experience than simply hearing the 1278th version of "Why iPhones Are Cool."