Hey Steemit Family!! What was YOUR 1st blog post you authored on here, and WHY? | E.10 | Post it!! | Community Engagement Series.

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My 1st ever blog post & the FUN / Liberty based backstory is here for you below.

It was on Bushcraft / Self Reliance & Off Grid life and interests for me. It was posted on Sept. 23, 2016, about 6 weeks after I signed up LOL.

I did not feel comfortable here, everything was so new, I did not know how to format ANYTHING, and I was feeling my way out around this new place, so yes, I relate to new people -- and remember that DAILY in my posts, series I run, and replies.

That's the TLDR version, if you want the longer story, keep reading or just skip to the comments and let us know here your first blog and why you posted it!


And I want to see your first one that you authored on here, and WHY you chose that topic!


Some of my Backstory for you:

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As I just mentioned above in brief, I was not comfortable MAKING a blog post with everyone on here knowing blogging, formatting, making their posts look pretty, I basically joined Steemit the first week of August 2016 -- August is my birthday month so I will always remember that. I believe it might have been August 7th, as some others have now posted their milestones and official "Steemit joining anniversary" dates and I was named in some of them - showing August 7th.

I spent the first weeks here reading and commenting on posts.

A LOT.



I have always said I am not a blogger.... I am just a guy that blogs.

-- And there is a big difference.

I kind of fell into this due to my pursuit of Liberty.

Crypto/Bitcoin/CryptoCurrency/Blockchain is all a part of that journey.

I've always been an activist type person and like helping people, and informing them of things going on in the world that affects them.

I guess all my public activism for years as such, the run for City Council to actually challenge the corrupt establishment and help people.... led me to the research, speeches in public forums, publishing of videos over the years on these things, along with running my Real Estate business, and constantly posting on Social Media like Fascistbook etc - to try and make a difference for humanity.

It eventually over the years led me into the Off Grid / Bushcraft / Outdoors community as I had always had an interest in it, am a bit of a hippy by most standards with my daily beliefs and practices in life for the world around me, the environment, and using sustainable / best practices in my life and belief systems.


My first post ever @Steemit post - the main picture/graphic - and link to it in late Sept. / 2017:

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https://steemit.com/offgrid/@barrydutton/what-s-bushcraft-anyways-those-outdoorsy-self-reliant-off-grid-people

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Why did I pick this topic?

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Because I want to live a more self reliant lifestyle. I do not believe everyone should be forced to remain connected to the Matrix and the Grid by the government by force, manufactured and uninformed consent, and coercion if they don't want to be.

I desire to lead a simpler life than we are conditioned daily by media and the agencies to think we need.

Being able to live simply yet well, is something attainable

Primitive skills of self reliance are completely being lost for homesteading / off grid life if you wish to live that way and be connected to the simple, more primitive life and forced to remain connected... to The Grid.



How did my idea for this new series come about?

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I was talking a lot one day around March of 2016 with the wordsmith @dwinblood who is a very sharp and engaged guy about some of this.

As usual, when I am online or offline, my mind continues to work on ideas to build community, try different things, and I came up with this idea later to do this

"get to know your neighbour" series...

LOL.

It also serves as a regular reminder / library for people to use to find their FIRST POST which is always special. Some of the series I do, like the STEEMIT NEEDS series - also serves this purpose.

An archive you can always come back to, or someone else can, to find something in particular.


E.2 of this series was posted a long time ago!!! March of 2017 - nearly 5 mths ago, I have quite a few things I work on and they get buried at times, oopsy. (:

https://steemit.com/steemit/@barrydutton/hey-steemit-what-was-your-1st-blog-post-you-authored-on-here-and-why-post-it-community-engagement-series-e-2

I think it is unique and functional! That's why I have come up with a few different series' that I run weekly!!!

I am excited actually to do it so I can engage more with you, as a community and resident on Steemit -- and learn more about you!


The first post you gingerly step out and do on here, as a Minnow, likely says something important about you and I want to listen to you, and learn WHY you chose that topic!

I had an hour's worth of comments typed back and forth with @dwinblood over the March 5th and 6th 2017 period.

One comment that led me to start thinking about doing this series can actually be found right here on our friend @thecryptofiend's post about a topic I focus on regularly and had talked with him on this the night before he made this post:

https://steemit.com/steemit/@thecryptofiend/would-greater-comment-voting-help-the-community#@barrydutton/re-dwinblood-re-barrydutton-re-dwinblood-re-barrydutton-re-dwinblood-re-thecryptofiend-would-greater-comment-voting-help-the-community-20170306t161827635z


ENGAGEMENT COUNTS IN ANY COMMUNITY!

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Pls. Resteem / Share the link on others pages where you feel you can and invite people. New people! Older Steemians! Everyone is welcome!

Try to engage and help others, we are SteemitFamily I always say!!

Thanks for reading, have a nice day.








If you liked this blog post - please Resteem it and share good content with others!

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Some of my recent blogs:

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https://steemit.com/steemit/@barrydutton/facebook-wallet-fridays-show-me-yours-or-e-11-or-that-s-right-think-on-that-a-new-series-for-outreach-and-to-give-fb-the

https://steemit.com/steemitcampfire/@barrydutton/steemitcampfire-series-weekend-16-is-tonight-just-a-reminder-and-runs-all-weekend-again-starts-in-a-few-hours-consider

https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@barrydutton/earth-twine-and-stratis-partner-for-the-world-s-first-seafood-dedicated-blockchain

https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@barrydutton/dash-crypto-currency-has-migrated-moved-to-a-new-youtube-channel

https://steemit.com/steemit/@barrydutton/donation-post-proof-of-payout-tonight-dianargenti-paid-out-as-promised-extra-sent-tonite-as-well-as-the-extra-sbd-sent-to-her

https://steemit.com/life/@barrydutton/daily-digital-detox-a-steemit-community-life-series-and-reminder-or-e-33-or-intentionally-regularly-unplugging-my-quick

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This is my first post edited. It is with my account @ecoknowme
I think we have a lot in common and I will be supporting your efforts that resonate with my own vision of what is possible on here. I am taking this NEW personal account for a walk since I am going slow this time and hoping not to make the same mistakes. While you took your time before posting, I dived in and have lots of hilarious lame first posts as I got the hang of things. The idea of separating the accounts is so that I can use ecoknowme for community porjects and @wuji as my own personal ideas, separate from the project. I was inspired by @firepower and all the good he is doing. I would like to leverage the power of this platform too, but slowly slowly.
Here is my intro post from 2 months ago, I'll do another one for me, myself on this account soon enough, but here is my original vision:
https://steemit.com/permaculture/@ecoknowme/the-ecoknowme-if-the-economy-cared-for-people-and-the-planet-my-intro-edited

my first post was about luck in life and my point is that we have a role in luck. the Idea of the post approached me when I had a conversation with friend of mine and he was obsessed by luck, he believe in it more than anything else. am tried to convince him that luck not a random gift given by the universe and "those who believe in luck never achieve anything in life on the other hand who believe in hard work will reach where they aim and further more"

Thanks for commenting today!!

This was mine: https://steemit.com/microloans/@oleg326756/two-teachers-meet-in-tajikistan
It was about an experience from my field work for Kiva in Tajikistan the prior summer. I met a rural teacher who was a borrower on Kiva and I felt a genuine human connection there.

I made that post, because back then I hadn’t understood what Steemit was and how it worked. So I simply copy-pasted the text and the picture from my LinkedIn page. Boy, do I regret doing it!! lol But we live and learn, right? I survived that first experience and from then on my content has always been original and exclusive to Steem.

Good stuff man,

Hey what is Kiva?

A borrower from Kiva???

Kiva.org is the largest online microlending platform in the world that connects ordinary people, lenders and borrowers, in order to combat poverty, facilitate entrepreneurship and improve living conditions for individuals, families and communities across the world through the power of microlending. It’s probably my #1 favourite website on the entire Internet (with Steemit being close second).

great work... i upvoted you plz upvote me ??

Friend, a word of warning, since you seem to be new here. DON'T. DO. THIS. You are only going to hurt yourself, your reputation, your payouts and your future prospects on Steem. Just be a decent fellow and engage with your fellow Steemians in a meaninful and genuine way. It will serve you much better in the long term, you'll see. I hope you will heed to this advice. It's for your own good.

I don't recall my first post exactly, but I know it was something I'd originally posted on my personal blog. This question comes at an interesting time because I just shut that blog down (as in completely erased it) -- https://steemit.com/writing/@redhens/writing-grit-knowing-when-and-how-to-let-go

But that's okay, because I reposted all my blogs to Steemit so at least they can live on here. :-)

It is always nice to hear from you my friend.

Thanks for commenting today!!

I like this, we get to see the many sides of barrydutton :] - the businessman, the activist, a man for the people!!!
many different directions someone moves with their posts as they get more familiarized with steemit..myself included- when I surprised you, aha :]

Yes, this is true LOL.

The official #SteemitCampfire weekly post is up on my page - but I think you are 4 hrs ahead so it is about 11 pm there.

Then again the other nite it was about 2 am your time and you were on here LOL

And now 01:47 and I had to check in !!!.. I will have a gander at that !

Very interesting post of you @barrydutton. I have been following you for a while
https://steemit.com/people/@hope777/what-is-hope-part-1 I look at it now and it really don't amount to much. But slowly but surely I found my way and after then I found my nice, after being on steemit for 3 months, today I made my 47th Love and marriage post.

Thanks for commenting today!!

I have enjoyed hearing from you the last while my friend.

Thank you for your reply @barrydutton. I hope you won't see this as spam. Can I please ask your support for this charity post that I did for the flood victims of India. If you can take a look at it, I would really appreciate it. https://steemit.com/christian-trail/@hope777/help-for-flood-victims-please

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