SteemPH Meet Up Caravan #2 - Cavite

Committed to follow-through to our earlier announcement about the SteemPH Meet Up Caravan, we have completed our second stop in Kawit, Cavite.

We were very excited about Cavite because it is a stop that started with a simple comment on our post from @watersnake101 where he stated his interest in holding a meet up in their locality. It had been pretty much himself and his family searching for possible venues, negotiating with managers, encouraging attendees, and liaising with us on logistics.

Cavite is about 73 Kilometers from where we live. We left at 6:30AM to give ample time for Manila traffic and ensure that we get near the meet up venue ahead of time to have some breakfast before we start. We took the fastest route and got to the location at 9:30AM, had some breakfast from a fast-food chain, unloaded our stuff, and started setting up.

We started with the opening remarks at 10:30AM. We opened the discussion with a little background about ourselves, why we decided doing the SteemPH Meet Up Caravan, and thanking everybody for joining us. We were very pleased with the attendees listening intently throughout our presentation as can be seen in the photo.

We started with making our intentions clear by re-stating the objectives of the Caravan:

• Start or improve engagement between existing Steemians located outside of Metro Manila
• Provide educational materials to improve existing Steemians' experience in the platform with the help of @SteemNest
• Encourage Steemit promotion among existing Steemians by requiring them to bring a non-Steemian friend to the meet ups
• Explore community related events in each location to improve visibility for Steemit, and support @SteemPH's vision
• To encourage powering up to drive accumulation of Steem Power for the Philippine Steemit user-base.

We showed this video created by the lead of @SteemPH.Manila, our friend @monkeypattycake. Since there are more Non-Steemian attendees in this group, we thought the video offered a really good introduction to Steemit. We also used the video to get everybody introduced to @SteemPH, and tell them about the objectives and completed projects of the family.

We were pleased to know that the attendees are already known to each other and have been engaging with one another both on-line and off-line. We felt really welcome with the group. They were very open with their questions and lively during the discussion.

There were a total of eight attendees who are Non-Steemians and we promised to help them in getting their accounts created to get them started in Steemit sooner. I will allocate time tomorrow to get the eight accounts created using @pharesim's SteemInvite.

This photo is taken at the time when we were discussing about content creation. This part of the discussion is what we found to be most interesting to the participants. This tells us that there is deep interest in the group to create more quality contents. We highlighted the lessons in @SteemNest in this part of the presentation, covered the Does Size Matter? analysis I've done for Utopian to emphasize on the importance of being detailed and including visuals in relation with the expected payout, and gave some inputs on some basic requirements from curation efforts like @SteemPH.Curator, @bayanihan, @sndbox-alpha, @OCD, and @curie based on information from known curators and our experience in getting curated.

On the more technical side of things, we spoke about the blockchain, how the blockchain works, why was it created, and explained the difference between the Bitcoin blockchain, the Ethereum blockchain, and Steem blockchain in terms of purpose and capacity.

We believe that every Steemian should know about what the blockchain is, what it does, and the problems it can solve. Once everybody understands those things they'll have a deeper appreciation of their investment in form of money, time, or effort in Steemit. This gave us a good transition to our call to power up, and the thought about having @PHDolphins.

Both @dandalion and I believe that the only real way for the Philippines to progress in Steemit is to have more users with bigger Steem Power holding. Our efforts in promoting Steemit and increasing the Philippine user-base will amount to nothing if we can't address the issue around retention. We need to have enough Steem Power to reward the brilliant talents who come in to the platform, and be able to contribute to the bigger global community within the platform.

Still on the technical side, we covered the Steem currencies their nature and uses, Busy as a graphical user interface connected to the Steem blockchain and it's many features, a couple of Steem blockchain explorer (SteemD and SteemWorld), and contributing to Utopian. The participants liked this part of the presentation, most of them being fairly new in Steemit they didn't really know about the tools we discussed.

A question came up about automation of some basic activities in Steemit, and we covered this by talking about SteemAuto in length.

We moved on to answer some questions about use of bid-bots, payout options, and accumulation of Steem Power, then capped the presentation with this slide. We had an open discussion about potentially having a sub-community in Cavite that the group can start and grow. We gave our thoughts about how community work can be very exhausting, but at same time rewarding. We highlighted on the commitment required, and offered our help in getting them started once they're ready.

Towards the end of the event, we were serenaded by a performance from @okaereyes while enjoying our meals. We told her about DLive and DTube as great platforms to share her talents right after her performance.

Credits:

Meet Up Caravan Banner - @oppaniayu
Malolos to Cavite Map
Opening Photo Capturing All Attendees - @beatenegg
Wacky Group Photo - @watersnake101
Content Creation Discussion - @beatenegg
SteemPH.Cavite? Slide - @watersnake101
What is Steemit Video - @monkeypattycake
Hosts' Photo - @watersnake101

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Your SteemPH Meet Up Caravan Hosts: @steemitph & @dandalion
joined by Cavite's future @bearkid saying Thank You!

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