"Teach them how to fish" i would say. "This is a more valuable and long term", i would also say! 

This is very paramount even when introducing people to steemit. Many will say "join steemit to earn", i prefer to call the whole journey of joining steemit, "empowerment" instead.

How Do You Empower People

Right now, one simple yet solid way; is to get them onboard steemit. 

It is also human nature that you may not want to do so. Well, it is possible that you may want to keep the "positives" to yourself; "the less the competition the better"; but there is a huge sea and there is fish for everyone. 

Ulitmately, if steem attains mainstream adoption, then steem will go to the moon in return. 

You can also look at it this way; We are all stakeholders on steem, so building your own train as it only does you good as much as it helps steem overall.

More recently there have been many charities on steem, in a bid to use steem/SBD to empower lives as well as accomplish some awareness to steem among other things but the reality is: real empowerment comes in getting these people on steemit. "Teaching them to fish"

A simple example of a way to tackle this, is in how we went about it with @steemph in the recent outing to support Red Cross Philippines.

Ultimate aim is to get the leaders from Red Cross Philippines to steemit, to fully empower them, so that they can fully empower others! This we will try to impart in our next meetup likely to host 93 youth Red Cross Philippine leaders.

I have also seen @steemitph and i have started the motion to see how we can really impact people, by means of their charity efforts by bringing these people who are being helped by these charities to steemit. 

This is true empowerment! 

Coming upon steemit to find yourself, develop in your knowledge, practice expertise while getting rewarded in different forms; from a truly better life, to true connections and friendships, is the real empowerment!

You can also offer your expertise for SBDs as has been the case, with the many steemians supporting #steemgigs. 

We also contacted with @denisechips, who left USA to be in the Philippines with her family for charity work. There are ways to fully apply steemit in this regard and the simplest true way, is by getting these ones that we help through charity, to steemit as well. 

There also other forms of gifts that we can give out as well as food and clothes; we can also give them things like education, internet connections, computers, books created by steemians etc 

This is something we will try to work on with the steemgigs community over time!

Many of these people have talents too, how much more lasting fun it would be, if they can also earn by honing this talents on the steem blockchain.

We also like the strategy of @shellany who has integrated some steemit into her teaching curriculum.

We got to speak also to @hiroyamagishi, a Filipino in Japan, discussing more effective ways on how he can get his many Filipino friends who reside in Japan on to steemit. 

He reiterated the language barrier and i reminded him of how Filipino steemians can feel free to speak their mother tongue and how good it will be for steemit growth in the Philippines, if more Filipinos kept joining steemit after finding answers to their questions on the search engines, from steemit posts written in Tagalog.

Here is a simple post he did, to explain steemit in a video using Tagalog. He would like to show this to his friends and the support it got; so we encouraged him by supporting his post and encouraged him to keep on doing more.

He is becoming the Tagalog version of @jerrybanfield, which is good!

Finally, @jassennessaj & @themanualbot have been the bomb, in driving steemit growth movements in Cebu. Today's orientation in their University was a success with around 19 sign-ups. 

Ofcourse, there is that technical barrier e.g things like "where does the money come from" etc but we spoke on how to be effective at this point, by cutting down on technicalities till these new ones are signed up, while steemians (the steemit community) continues the onboarding process by sustaining these newbies with support and steemit knowledge. 

He will apply this to the next orientation on Sunday, prospected to have around 90 attendees comprising of secular workers.

image is for: @jassennessaj & @themanualbot 

They also made sure to maintain a spreadsheet of attendees, so that there can be follow ups on others that weren't able to sign up, by means of a Facebook group to be created for this purpose.

Ofcourse, awareness to steemit was attained as everyone in attendance had steemit-powered souvenirs.

A Few Hours Later....

I will also try a quick steemit meetup later this morning, starting with a group of ex-co-workers. I will be treating them to a free meal courtesy of steemit and trying to get them over to steemit. 

In my case, i will basically help them see how to evolve as humans, stop their vices and meet a world of great minds by simply joining steemit. They are my friends, so i can present steemit in this manner and let's see how it goes!

Please join the comments to leave any suggestions for growth of steemit in the Philippines. Too, if you are considering budget steemit meetups and signups in your area, consider contacting me here: https://discord.gg/feucZRj. I am still @surpassinggoogle on there as well as on www.steemit.chat

Your Boy Terry

@surpassinggoogle

 

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