Good move, thanks for the heads up! Nice choice of outside communities you are looking at, though I would like to see some dedicated support for musical content (I have a lot of musician friends I would love to onboard since that's what I studied in undergrad.)
The POSH initiatives are cool and can't wait until ENGAGE is a thing again on this side as the comment sections are too often a barren, empty plain. :-D
To be blunt, we need to overcome the relatively (in comparison to STEEM ATH) unimpressive price action by a multi-pronged approach.
- Onboard core users who like the concept and are not too bothered what the rewards are because they like the communities they discover.
- Create community-led initiatives to increase the distribution of HIVE (similar to the donations given by many to make the Huobi giveaway possible)
- Focus development of front-ends towards simplification, gamification, speed, and convenience. Add encrypted private-messaging.
- As activity increases, price increases; as price increases, activity increases. The hardest part is beginning of the exponential curve before network effect kicks in.