We are so excited to have an opportunity to engage with @curie on this wonderful initiative of community building. I would like to put forward our community @steemitmamas for consideration and I really believe that we provide a special niche that is close to everyone's heart! Come on, who doesn't have a soft spot for their Mama? So we are going to dive in and tell you why @steemitmamas!
What is your community/contest and what is its purpose here on Steem?
@steemitmamas is a community which was re-birthed on the 24th of May 2018 and we are now 4 months old.
The SteemitMamas Mission
Our mission as a community is to empower mothers on their journey here in Steemit. We recognise that our challenges as mothers are unique and having a community that understands this is invaluable. We encourage all pregnant/single/adopting/biological mothers to write, post, share so that we can uplift each other to do much greater things than what they think they can do by themselves. We also encourage them to connect whilst standing out in their own ways and together as a community to contribute to this platform in their experiences and knowledge. We provide support across the globe with a clear message that "You are not alone!"
A Community, A Safe Place
We are also building a safe place for Mamas to explore, learn and adopt blockchain and cryptocurrencies. In a male-dominated space, we make sure that members of the community can openly ask questions to deepen their knowledge. On top of that, we share resources on all things crypto, Steemit and the general marketplace. We also help to guard each other against possible scams by emphasising simple guidelines. I for one am really into crypto and blockchain and want all Mamas to be able to come to a level of understanding of how it can help them to invest and develop alternative streams of income to support their families.
Quality Content On The Steem Blockchain
We continuously encourage our members to work hard on producing quality content as Steemit is a blogging and social media platform. We believe that our posts should always bring some benefit to society at large and being able to earn from this as a secondary bonus! We contribute to people's lives through our posts and all our initiatives reflect this value. For a lot of us, Steem would be the largest holding of cryptocurrency thus investing through powering up will definitely bring benefits to the platform in general.
Our Progress
- Weekly curation post to highlight posts by Mamas
- A 7 day De-Cluttering Write along Challenge to help Mamas do it together with friends
- Guest Posts by different Mamas on topics of interest
- SteemitMamas Catch & Kiss - An effort to boost interaction and engagement on posts via discord
- A Steemitville Odyssey Story Series - This is a fiction write by Mamas taking turns to write a story continuation where the last person stopped.
- Special Write-Along-Challenge - To help Mamas have different topics to write about
How much support are you seeking per month for the two-month period?
150 steem per month
How will this support be used?
Currently we would like to use the support from Curie to go towards the following 3 initiatives and it will be given in the form steem-ua delegations and SBI:-
- Rewards for our weekly curation posts highlighted authors
- Rewards for our Write-Along Participation
- Rewards for the #needleworkmonday weekly featured post authors
I have put here for easy reference some of the initiatives over the last few months.
Our Latest Curation Post
Our Write-Along Challenge
Our plans are to continue to do this throughout the 2 months of support as it has proven to be helpful and effective in getting the Mamas involved and active. Here are some of the posts in the Write-Along Challenge.
@shenchen shared her post about her homeschooling journey in conjunction with the @steemiteducation community. She shares about why she decided to homeschool and her desire to homeschool her child whilst encountering objection from her husband. It was heartwarming to know that she managed to overcome the objection and inspiring to see how she set up her beautiful classroom at home!
@happycrazycon decided to take a walk outside and show the world how wonderful and delicious food is here in Malaysia. Food trucks are fun and always available! Not to mention affordable too.
Life in general ebbs and flows...I decided to share a reflection whilst going through a challenging time with parents health and the overwhelming load at work. Hoping to remind everyone that there is a light at end of the tunnel and sharing street photography.
@kaerpediem is a freewrite youtube expert! She shares some health advice and wants to try intermittent fasting. She was also one of the recipients of @hitmeasap's "Donate and Make Minnows Initiative" and moved from Red Fish to Minnowhood in just days!
Community Support - @needleworkmonday
We have been supporting the @needleworkmonday authors and now want to officially help build the @needleworkmonday community. This will form part of our contribution towards the needle arts and crafts!
They really do awesome stuff with a needle. In this feature, knitting, crocheting and upcycling projects make you marvel at the things that you can do. Do check out their recent upcycling challenge!
Approximately how many users participate in your community or contest?
We currently have apprximately 120 members in our community discord and receive approximately 4-8 entries for our initiatives. As of the 10th of August 2018, we have had 80 authors with 796 posts and growing weekly. With this support, I believe that the participation will increase even more!
How will supporting your community or contest help grow the Steem community?
Our challenges as mothers are really unique and tough. We manage the household, children and a lot of us work full time. We believe that our community will increase the participation of mothers in the Steem platform and ecosystem. Our post quality overall is unparalleled and we bring the vital element of the family into the community! After all isn't that what community is all about?
We have also come together to support the #needleworkmonday community as many of our mothers are also keen needleworkers. Hence we are hosting the community in our discord server to help them grow. As we believe in the spirit of community and family, helping another community to grow is also part of our vision here in Steemit.
Testimonies From Some of Our Members
We are grateful that some of them decided to write a post to share their testimonies with the world whilst others sent us encouraging messages so that we could share them here too.
@fitinfun
Since joining @steemitmamas, I do now have a place in our discord channel where other moms understand my hopes and fears without me having to completely make sense about them. People who are not parents do not want to hear this stuff anyway, so I have a safe place to vent.I’m not alone with this issue and see other moms posting about similar things. We can share the joys and the sorrows of our family life and get absolutely amazing support.
Aside from the personal issues, this group has the best system I have seen to support each other on our steemit posts. Many of my other groups seem to drop links and run. @steemitmamas has a place to let others know where you voted and commented on with an honour system. We do not drop our links without voting and commenting for others first.
This is not a tit-for-tat system. We do not need to vote for or comment for the same person who voted for us. Instead, we interact with any @steemitmamas post that draws our attention. I appreciate this freedom so much and have made this a rewarding and satisfying part of my steemit day.
@ireenchew
The support from Steemitmamas is beyond just being for each other as mothers but also understanding the challenges faced in our daily life and how we help each other to find solutions or at least provide recommendations. We share spiritual strength, positive moral beliefs and most importantly, we listen to each other which is more than what I can say for our spouse at times... Ha Ha..
@iamjadeline
When you are not in a situation, you can never understand how people feel. Mothers all around the globe face one common challenge - mama's challenge. Maybe our cases may not be similar but we can certainly wrap our head around some mama's jobs and challenges because it is all about mama's nature and instinct. Thank you so much for @steemitmamas community where mamas all around the globe can share something in common. Being a mom. When mummies share together, we become more alive hence won't turn into another mummies wrap with toilet papers, if you get what I mean. Great community to be in for everyone holding a job called 'mama'.
@vincy
The one thing steemitmamas sets apart from any other community I’m in is that they encourage interaction and support of each other even when you don’t follow the trail or delegate. All you need to do is upvote and comment a mamas post and you will be able to share yours! It’s the best system and no one else has it! That and they regularly do write-alongs and we support each other on the discord channel
@happycrazycon
SteemitMamas has been one of the most inspiring communities I am in. I have learnt to much from the different mamas who multitask so well. From strangers to people whom we laugh together, comforting and encouraging each other, sharing tips and information together, we have become quite a close-knit community. The support was evident as to show that besides being mamas, we can all thrive on Steemit, in posting quality contents and discover new found abilities as well. Love this community so much for the people in it!
@thekitchenfairy
SteemitMamas has awesome contest(s) to help members grow their accounts, to better their writing, to stay active and creative. We also have a radio channel on our server, and the mamas? We send positive vibes and prayers when one is in need, and we boost one another and occasionally do giveaways.
@brittandjosie
I highly recommend the Steemitmamas Discord Community. So look up @steemitmamas RIGHT now. You have nothing to lose, and everything to gain because we are a lot of hot mamas .... SO JOIN! Now who can resist hot mamas?😂
Thank you @curie and @randomwanderings once again for this opportunity to put forth our special community for your support consideration. As mothers we are often limited by the amount of time we have and in the event that you need to contact us, our wonderful team of ModMamas will be available to chat or answer any questions that you have on discord!
Khim - khimgoh#8971
Connie - happycrazycon#3512
Metzli - metzli#4942
Faith - Alimamasstory#9071
Cynthia - crosheille#0986
We Mamas are a special bunch of girls! I am sure all you husbands out there know this! We are @steemitmamas and we believe in supporting each other across the globe. Do drop us a comment to support our application for this Curie Community Building Support Application! Mamas are awesome don't you agree?!
Thank you for taking the time to read this post!
your post is good. do you have a community? combine @akhyasad in your community. thank you
I am so excited to see this post. Go Mamas!
Thanks @fitinfun for being a part of us and supporting us all the way!
the BEST mamas gathering there is on Steemit AND Discord, so happy to be in this very empowering, supportive, creative, and crypto enthusiast women group!
@curie, @randonwanderings, please DO consider SteemitMamas :)
Thank you for being a part of us @thekitchenfairy and making our community even more wonderful!
Thank you very much @khimgoh for doing this. Your represent us steemitmamas so well. Now's let us have our fingers crossed that it will come through with @curie! :)
@happycrazycon thank you for being a vital part of this community! Fingers and toes crossed!Hahaha 🤣
Oh! What a wonderful initiative, I am also a mamma and I love this project. Count on me if you would like to translate your posts to spanish and grow a little bit more into the speaking spanish community.
Hey @gukovsky thank you for taking the time to read this post. Yes we actually have quite a few Spanish speaking Mamas and we even have a dedicated Spanish channel! Come and join us! It would be wonderful to have you with us and grow the Spanish community! The invite is on the #steemitmamas banner!
Hi! We would love more Spanish speaking mamas. There are many of us here ❤️
We the @needleworkmonday community are so humbled and honored that the @steemitmamas community has taken us in to help our initiative grow. They have already given us so much love and support by upvoting our needlework content and now they have created a space for us on their Discord server so that we can have a little world of our own to communicate.
We highly recommend this lovely giving community of Mamas for the @curie building support project because they are truly generous and supportive of others and have a desire to see other valuable communities grow ~
Thank you @steemitmamas!! You are encouraging and inspiring!!! 💗
We are so happy to be able to work with you and support you in the growth of the @needleworkmonday community! We hope to be able to do more in the coming months and are excited to see how it can grow! You are all so talented with your craft! Continue to contribute great content!
This is great! I 'm now following and already joined the discord chanel! Go moms!
Yay! Thank you. So happy to have you join.
Certainly deserves Curie's support. So that we all can sing MamaMia here we go again... :)
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Hahaha! @iamjadeline you are funnee!!
my, my how can I resist you...🤣 🎼
We can go karaoke together.. Although, ops, I never really go. The last I went was when I was young when all the relatives went we children had to tag along. Lol
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Soooo glad to be part of such an awesome community! Thank you for taking the lead and making @steemitmamas possible, @khimgoh! We love our mamas! Xx
Yes it is! You girls make it awesome! Thanks @alimamasstory for being part of the mods!
Thank you so much @khimgoh for taking the time to write up this excellent application post! It has been a pleasure being apart of such a supportive and loving community of Mamas! I’m looking forward to seeing it continue to grow and getting to know more Mamas from this Awesome plattform!! ❤️
Yay #steemitmamas!!!!
@crosheille! Thank you for the kind words and encouragement! You know that it wouldn't be this great without you and the rest of the girls working hard on the draft with me! Yes I am so looking forward to making this grow even more and making a bigger impact on Steemit!
I am so happy to be a part of this amazing community. @steemitmamas is a very special community committed to be socially, emotionally and supportive mamas all over the globe.
@khimgoh Many Thanks to your support, Blessings!
@sherylneil thank you for the encouragement! You are an inspiration with your consistent and active posting. Do drop in every so often and catch up with rest ya! Thanks again for the support!
This is a really awesome place to be if you are a mama! Sometimes life gets so hectic when you are a mum and Steemit has to take 2nd place behind family life. At Steemit Mamas Discord, everyone understands the stress that everyday life holds and completely understands it you have to take time out from writing posts and there is no pressure to perform daily. Some really supportive people here too! <3
Hey time really is precious @beautifulbullies and our children are only so small for a very short time! Family is important both on and offline! Thanks for the love and support!
A M E N ! As I said before I am a proud member of the steemitmamas and it brought me alot hope that we grow OLD 😉 Upvoted and resteemed OFFCOURSE
Hahaha! Thank you @brittandjosie for being so supportive! Love your energy and optimism in the community!
Likewise 😉
This is awesome! Thanks for writing it up and gathering all the testimonies! I love reading them! Onwards and upwards!!
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Hey @vincy not at all! This is an opportunity to grow the community and bring even more to the table for the Mamas! Thank you for being a part of this journey! Steem on!
Yay #steemitmamas ❤️
Best group EVER!
I AGREE!! 💝
With a well written proposal & the many testimonials from within & outside the Steemitmamas community, I'm confident we will be considered and succeed.
Thanks @khimgoh for doing on behalf of all of us!
Hey @ireenchew! Thank you for the encouragement and effort in writing a wonderful testimonial for the community! It means a lot to all of us that you always write consistently and share heaps of stuff with the community!
Thank you @khimgoh for all that you do for the community
I am so happy to be a part of this tribe 💗
@kaerpediem thank you for the time and commitment that you spend on being a host mama and doing our curation posts for the community during this busy time for the rest of us. That is awesome team work and we appreciate it!
It's a pleasure :)
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Thank you!
I love this community, it's good to have found them and be part of this group. regards
Thank you for your love and support @evero! I am so looking forward to the Spanish speaking Mamas grow!
If you are reading this and you are a mama, mama-to-be, a grandmama... Then quickly click on the Steemit Mamas banner to join us in discord... You are missing out all the fun, tears and love here!
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Hey @elizacheng! Thank you for continously being so encouraging and always taking the time to listen to me and share and help everyone in the community! Hugs!
Way to go @steemitmamas. Wishing the best of luck!
I think I was the first grandmother the steemitmamas allowed into the group. It has been refreshing to be with women whose hearts are turned toward their children. There's something very unique about being in the company of mothers. They question everything an an extra level or two because they are considering long term impact to humanity, with extra motivation. #Steemitmamas prove that out every day. Their Posts make great reads!
I also want to point out that their server is an effectively managed ship. I've great appreciation for all the work they do to make the server safe and efficient. It is easy to find current info and I also depend on them to keep me up to speed on all things Steem and Crypto.
We have a variety of tier levels to support all levels of Steemit users including those who don’t have any SP to delegate yet.
Our goal is to support and help build the steemit community through our curation by providing users with a reliable and affordable service.
We would love for you to check us out HERE
Thank you so much for your time!