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RE: The STEEMU asks "What Are You Blogging About Today?" | E.15 | DROP YOUR LINKS & IDEAS here like mad!! - Pictures - Thoughts - Ideas etc. right here for Community Engagement!! (:
Hi @barrydutton! Thanks for giving us a chance to spam our articles at you.
If you don't mind, I'd invite people to take a look at my article about the importance of checking your Replies Tab and engaging with the people who reply to our blog posts and comments.
https://steemit.com/steemit/@mikepm74/what-do-you-do-first-on-steem-it-s-important
I appreciate the opportunity, and any views that come over for a look. Thanks for your support of the minnow community!!!
I was new!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks again for commenting!
Have a good day!
Sometimes it is hard to imagine people with high reputations ever having been new. But then you look at the fact that Steem is a relatively new service and still in Beta. In the grand scheme of things, we could all be considered new, to one level or another.
Thanks again!!
I regularly talk about how I always remember every day here, how new I was and I do not forget, that is why I write how and what I do, most days!
One series I run weekly you can find on my newness --- is the What Was Your 1st Blog -- Post It!" series, if you want to see the story.
I'll definitely look for that @barrydutton! learning from those who have come before is a big deal I think.
Sometimes it is better to go out and seek the guidance of those who have been using the tool longer than to get caught up in the masses of people trying the newest latest greatest way to get attention. I'd rather learn what's really going to work for the long term, than find a few minnows to swim around with throwing each other a couple of pennies every day in random upvotes.
Thanks much!!
Don't let him fool you. Old Man Barry their was never new!!!!!! He had walk both ways up a hill to steemit : )
I always get on. Check my replies first to see if anything needs answering. Move over to my feed and see what everyone been up to. Then work on some blogs and reply back to people as it they came back in.
I am a big supporter of engaged and commenting. I really like that you high light that as something you do. It is often overlooked by a lot of people. Blog about it a couple times as well.
Not everyone want to put in the time required to get anywhere here. They just think “oh I blog and everyone see me” or something along those lines. They do not seem keen on engagement and I often see them leaving after a while since “no one is coming by their blog.”
In one of my comments on that thread I linked to I talked about Steem as being a street corner in a busy city.
Each of us is a street performer, hocking our wears (blogs) to all the people passing by hoping to get a couple of coins dropped in the hat.
Problem of course is, there are thousands of other performers on the same street corner trying to get the same attention. So how do you make yourself stand out?
In my brief experience, going out to other street corners and being the one to throw a couple of pennies in other people's hat has helped get people to come to my street corner and notice me. But instead of pennies, since my upvote is worth all of 0.01, I drop comments into the hat and try to be a beneficial part of the conversation.
There is an element of Darwinism to Steem I think. It is great for those of us who are willing to evolve.