A Mentoring Program

in #community7 years ago

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Another day, another idea how to help all those wonderful people who find their way to my blog.

Suesa's favorites works already pretty well and I will absolutely continue doing that. But it's only a small drop of water on the hot stone as I'm only promoting those Steemians who are already producing good content.

Day after day, I'm contacted by newbies who ask me to mentor them. I usually decline as I know that I can't help everyone that asks. Not while being a full-time student, trying to get my Bachelor's degree.

But why not help just one person at a time?

I'm presenting to you my new project, a mentoring program.

For one week at a time, I will help a new user by reviewing, discussing and editing their posts before (or after) they publish it. I won't do it every week, there will be slots assigned to those I choose for the project.


What are the requirements?


  1. The user hasn't been on Steemit for more than 4 months
  2. Their reputation is below 60
  3. Their usual payout is below $20
  4. They're actually prepared to publish more than one post during that week
  5. Their topic is either science or fiction, as those are the topics I write about and can thus mentor best. As a member of the steemSTEM management team, I will preferably pick those who seek to publish scientific posts.
  6. The user has to speak either English or German fluently
  7. You need an account on steemit.chat so we can write with each other

How do we know who is being mentored?


The new mentee will be announced at the end of one of my usual posts, just like Suesa's favorites. There you will also find the new time slots. I'm doing this to avoid an unnecessarily high amount of posts per day.


This is great! So ... how much do I have to pay you?


Nothing of course. I'm doing this voluntarily. But that also means I might cancel the project if I feel like it's interfering too much with my education.


The first time slot starts Monday, 27th November and ends Sunday, 3rd December. I created a google form where you can submit your application. Don't be disappointed if you're not immediately chosen, I will start a list.



And now, something fun!


Have you ever seen this animal:

Mole

This is Condylura cristata, the star-nosed mole!

It's a small, almost blind, carnivorous animal. The weird star-shaped thing on its face? It contains 100,000 nerve fibers with which it can feel the vibrations in the ground, created by worms and other possible food sources.

In fact, the star is so sensitive that the mole can create a detailed image of its surroundings, just like we can with our eyes.

And that's not all! The little animal can actually smell stuff underwater!

So if you're living in the Eastern USA or Canada ... watch out. Maybe you'll meet one of those little fellows!


Sources:

Totally bizarre facts about the star-nosed mole
Inside the Bizarre Life of the Star-Nosed Mole, World's Fastest Eater


Picture credit:

First one from pixabay.com

Second one by gordonramsaysubmissions (star-nosed-mole-3) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons


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maybe instead of focusing on one person focus on many of them proper incentivization will make them posting. #suesaTopicOfTheWeek For each 1 week period propose set of topics, during that week users pick one and post about it(many users can take same topic) by the end of week community will vote for the winner and he will recveiv sbd from summary post =)

The usual science challenge is already a lot of work, I don't know if I could manage such a project. Will keep it at the back of my mind though!

By the way: A new challenge is already planned for December :)

Excellent :)
I'm already looking forward for the challenge. Is its topic still a secret?

Kind of, I think it would spoil the fun to reveal it already. But it will be great!

If I would only knew the little birds.

Did you feature the star-nosed mole because you're here to sniff out new talent...?

Ahhhhh I wish I had! No, I just really like it :D

Well good luck on your STAR Search!

Ghaaaaaaa!!! I freaked out when I saw the picture..I'm terribly scared of moles! I never expected to see one in Steemit! 😱

They're really harmless :P

Wow. Wow. I like you the more day by day. Even as a full time student, you still make out time for others. I respect you for that. I guess thats what steemit is all about. Helping each other. But these days the aim has been defeated. Its now for business alone with so many cliques and cabals.
Finally, an old chinese proverb tells it perfectly “If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody.”
I wish you a lifetime of happiness.

This is wonderful. It seems much easier to write about things that can be substantially researched. Often it's just a matter of organizing it in a logical and interesting way but writing fiction really requires dedication to get both the facts right and still present a plot that is coherent, interesting, and that will make your audience empathize with the situation and sometimes a character. It takes some real dedication to combine it all.
Somebody will be getting a valuable insight.

Wow this is my second day on this site and I love that compaired to other social media sites there is really a community effort to build creat content. I will be traveling I Columbia starting in a few days so I don't think I'd be the best to mentor at this time, as I may be distant from wifi, but I would be interested if you made a post with tips for new steemians. Also I love these little guys. I never knew why they had that nose. I kindof wish my nose was that useful. Or at least the feeling in my hands

Finally! this might be an opportunity for me to get mentored by someone I genuinely respect and looks up to. Thanks for the selflessness.

I support this initiative! You rock <3

Wow. Really happy to hear this. I would fufil the last requirement by getting the steemchat account.
Lending a helping hand is one of the easiest/hardest things you can do to make a difference in this world. You can improve the world, one day, one person and one act of kindness at a time.
I like your mindset alot. Most people think, “I don’t have time to serve someone today.” And it’s true; we’re all busy. Between school, work, family obligations, but since you have considerd this important, i believe you would do well with the first degree. See you at the top

You're kind to offer as much help as you do. For as busy and productive as you are, you must be incredibly diligent and organized. Here's to hoping that you don't burn out and that you make time to care for yourself.

Hello @suesa

Wow. This is such a great initiative. Filling the form ASAP. Thank you so much for the gesture and for enlightening us about the star nosed mole. Cheers!

@melanie00

Great idea, and an example for other senior writers in other categories to follow in my opinion. As we are starting to see an increasing quantity entering steemit, supporting initiatives, jointly, to increase quality seems like an obvious value driver for the platform.

A blogging platform with built-in access to mentors sounds cool enough as it is. Add on top of that a frictionless way of rewarding the person setting off their time to help you through shared author rewards on posts makes it that much more interesting. I mean, there's already a huge business of people selling courses on how to make a successful blog or getting started as a freelance writer. Most of these require the customer to pay up front, usually with a guarantee that they can have their money refunded if they are disappointed with the mentoring. Taking paid instead through shared author rewards on posts that are made jointly by the user and the mentor makes an elegant form of payment where the user only pays the mentor if the resulting piece gains significant rewards. Adding also an extra incentive to the mentor to help their client succeed in order to receive better payment themselves.

Anyways, brilliant idea!

Yes! It would be great to see others adapt the idea and mentor new members. It's kind of what I am hoping for.

The payment through shared rewards would be cool too, although we'd need a proper feature for that. I know that there is the option to set a beneficiary but it sounded unnecessarily complicated to me.

I will mentor people for free for now and see where it leads :)

I think this is a fantastic idea! Kind sucks for me though seeing as I don't post sciency things. I do however have a short story which I've started but have failed to finish.

Maybe, just maybe... ;) Anyways love the post and looking forward too more.

Wow, great idea.
I also heard about some minnow accleration project.

Hey! Great idea, nicely done :)

Great initiative!!

Thank you so much for this. new guys like myself are thank full to you @suesa. you already help us so much :)


Thank you for making this platform a better place.That is so nice of you @suesa. We need more people like you here on steemit.

Interesting idea, I'm looking forward to the effects ;)

We all could use the help we can in growing. Thank you for doing that initiative.

Wow! Finally! Oops....Am disqualified according to condition 3.

I had a meme for an opportunity like this one.

You're already on the list for "Suesa's favorites" :P

Great idea