The Joe Parys Steemit 2.0 Video Course On Udemy Review.

I said I'd start taking Steemit a lot more seriously in 2018 and IMHO I've gotten off to a pretty decent start. I've began to blog daily, posting The Daily Dood along with a few extra posts a week some personal, some about crypto. The other day I came across an offer to take a free Udemy course about Steemit taught by @joeparys

https://steemit.com/steemit/@joeparys/01lobxp1

I know the basics of Steemit and how it works. Honestly after being on here for a little over a year I really should know a lot more than I do. I figured hey, the course is free, why not sign up and see if I learn something. So I signed up, thinking I'd know it all but hey, I was bored, had a couple hours to kill, so why not ...

What a great decision on my part, and what a fantastic surprise! The course covers the basics in the beginning. Things like getting signed up, getting around the platform, using the wallet. The first part of the course is fantastic for beginners, and especially for those new to crypto! Learning how to buy and exchange Steem and SBD can really be confusing to many noobs. I really loved how the course covered this topic. It explained everything and I even learned a thing or two about Blocktrades. I had never used that part of the wallet before.

Once we get past the basics, the course begins to cover more advanced Steemit stuff. Things I never took the time to learn about, delegation, voting bots, ROI on using voting bots, promotion. I have to say, I am really happy I took the time to take this course! I had no idea how delegation worked, or how voting bots worked. I'd heard and read about people using them, but never took the time to research it myself. WoW! This explained everything, and I can't believe it took me this long to find out about it.

On top of explaining bots and delegation in a simple way that's easy to understand the course also covers apps like DTube and DLive. More features I only just learned about recently. I wrote a blog post about it just the other day.
https://steemit.com/steemit/@the-bitcoin-dood/calling-all-content-creators-a-steem-steemit-infrastructure-is-being-built

After you've finished the course you receive an award certificate that you can download and print out. It's sort of a diploma showing that you completed the course.

The above is a screenshot on what it looks like in the browser, and here's a copy of the downloaded version.

YaY! The Dood graduated from his first Udemy course!

All in all this was a great course for free and I'm really happy I invested the time in it. It only took about 3 - 4 hours to complete. I paused the course a couple times to experiment with some of the bots, and practice as I learned. I really felt this was time and energy well spent. If you don't know about bots and delegation, this is a must learn feature of the platform. Whether you take the course or research it on your own, I'm a little disappointed in myself for not learning about these features sooner. Overall I'd highly recommend taking the course for free if it's still available. There's also another special available for $9.99 and honestly IMHO it's worth the $10 bucks, especially if you're new. The regular price is $199.00 and to me that seems a little steep, but I guess that depends on how serious you are about learning Steemit. Is it worth that much? Value is in the eyes of the beholder and honestly I learned a lot. In many ways the lessons learned in this 3 hour course are absolutely priceless. I do wish a course like this would of been available when I first got involved in Steemit.

Thank you @joeparys for this special offer. If you should come across this post, I really enjoyed the course and thank you for posting the offer to Steemit!

As always, thanks for reading everyone and Steem on brothers and sisters! Steem on!