Congratulating myself on my ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY ON Steem!
@surfyogi STATUS - MAY 15 2018:
Interesting to look at my steemreports voting and Word Cloud :-)
http://www.steemreports.com/outgoing-votes-info/?account=surfyogi&days=14
Shows I vote for 221 votees of which 2.5% are for myself.
http://www.steemreports.com/steem-word-clouds/?account=surfyogi
Looks like a few words are missing, and I start to think it's intentional and some words they just won't use for some reason.. like Nigeria, and Africa?
And ARTzone is there but WAfrica is not?
Hummm..
SO MUCH has happened in the last year, where to even begin?!!
I was unemployed in April 2017, then learned of Steem in May, then was working for a while, before GRADUATING to Full Time Steemian! Yeah!
And being my own boss, so to speak ;-)
Now I'm really living... and took some time off Steem in Nov, traveled to Mexico for a month and just wanted to chillax for a while.
Then began to have some new ideas and decided there were new vistas ahead I wanted to explore.
I got a message from @punchline and he was wondering why I was sitting on top of SP and not using it for a month. I guess I had not learned how to use an upvote bot yet? can't remember.. But he and I talked about communities quite a bit and delegation and I started to understand those things better then..
If there is one thing that really stands out to me, it's how long it took me to learn, and how much I learned in one year!
I learned so much, but it took a whole year, some of it... to fill in the holes that were still in my knowledge. But I realize now what an advantage it is, to have that year of experience, compared to a new user joining today.
I got a message from @misrori, a pesky developer that wanted help financing his bidbot... at first I just ignored him.
Then he offered to setup a bitbot for me too; now that was interesting. I didn't know anything about bidbots but the income was nice, so I agreed to try it.. (with reservations, not wanting to be known for it).
But I decided there were pros and cons to them, and that they exist for a reason; because Steem has flaws that need to be fixed. So this was the community reaction in many ways..
STATUS:
@artzone now has 7400+ followers and seems to be organizing well. Shout out to @nmalove for covering the bases lately as @artzanolino had his computer down last week. @web-gnar and @edprivat filled in like the champs they are! Thanks Dudes!
ARTzone is starting some new curators and it is my pleasure to announce @jacobite joins the team last week, @gbija and @gvand this week, and several others are now curating, a few of whom I have not yet introduced myself to, my bad ;-)
https://steemit.com/artzone/@artzone/artzone-logo-contest-winners-announced-30-sbd-awarded
The ARTzone logo contest 2 weeks ago attracted about 200 artists with many hundreds of artworks submitted! And our first music contest was titled "QUIT YOUR DAY JOB" and was a whole lot of fun ;-)
@wafrica is doing so great with 4400 followers and rising quickly!
We of course, know we are very lucky to have @lordjames at the helm and we look forward to each new daily post that goes up, with the best of WAfrica all in 1 spot!
WAfrica community would not exist without the wonderful team of curators whom have all just pitched in and made it work without ANY egos getting in the way. @chiama, @gee1, @jeaniepearl, @phunke, @steemgh, @mcsamm, and the rest..
Building these 2 communities has taught me some great lessons, and I look forward to sharing my learnings, in the weeks to come. I hope to have more communication with people about how Steemit organizes SMT, and launches the coming HF20 and HF21. @ned has been pretty communicative lately and that's been fun ;-)
Shout out to @misrori, it's great to have a mate who is so open to new ideas with a great technical creative mind. We've got ourselves quite the THINK TANK going bro!
@prettyjules158, thanks for keeping me sorted out!
FINALLY, I DO BELIEVE in the vision that Steem directs us toward. There will be pitfalls in the months to come but we have no choice but to follow our destiny here and make our communities as great as they can be with the tools we have. So much evolving so quickly is hard to keep up with!
I have some projects in the works I look forward to sharing very soon and so much more to come for 2018, really going to have fun with it!
Cheers Yall,
SY-
Happy one year anniversary @surfyogi, it's been fun since I met you and I want to let you know that we sincerely appreciate your contribution to the development of West Africa.
As you mentioned, the future is brighter than today. Lots of project in the pipeline and you've got yourself a pretty great team of thinkers. We may fall a few times but I'm sure we'll always rise stronger than before. Thank you for letting me grow this far, I will never forget.
I hope we will look back on these times as the magic years that changed the world ;-)
It's very good @lordjames, I think, @surfyogi is a person who has a very high social life, and wants to help people who are less able, therefore he is entitled to get all this success, hopefully all your dreams will run smoothly.
I, alongside many others have been truly blessed to encounter you on this voyage. You are an amazingly meaningful link and catalyser, thank you, you are appreciated 🖖🏽
yeah man its going to get SUPER real when Steem Hardfork 20 comes out VERY soon and allo2ws for instant user registration whiel also limiting new users to a cerytain amount of posts and comments per day UNTIL they buy or earn some Steempower, and why not? We don't want new accounts be ing allowed to just flood the blockchain I belioeve only peope with SP should be allowed to even post more than once a dya but new accounrts will have more freedom than this I am sure, but we WILl finally see some INSTANt accounts and Millions of accounts per Month then WEEK and we will see exponential growth and a LOT orf new Apps and front ends
Then Communities comes out and ALL Subreddits Migrate over to Steem just like Ethereum ERC20 tokens will migrate to EOS :D
Then we see HF21 and SMT s come out probobly late this year or early next year but we will all be having so much fun with HF20 New users and Communities that we will be content waiting another YEAR for SMTs, That won't be as important as the $50 Steem price we will experienmce later this year and seeing steem all over the news and hearing Rappers all talking about how much steempower and steem dollars they make off of posts of them getting head on Dlive LOL Imagine all the NSFW Porn focused versions of Dlive and Dtube that come out that wil use IPFS to host Porn to then get Upvoted on the steem blockchain, hahah rappers will be talking about getting paid to smOke WEED on Steem and this will make steem SO popular!
No one will use instagram or snapchat when steepshot becomes more advanced and we have a snapchat clone for steem with IPFS or Amazon or CDN video hosting, I mean the videos disapear after 24 hours so its actually perfect for our situation having to rely on video sharing that isn't quite premament without a lil extra work pinning fiules to IPFS haha so Snapchat woill be PERFECt foir steem!
I cannot WAIt to see the MASSIVE social media RIUSH of young people ALL making A LOT of money Posting And upvoting on steem!
Imagine eveyrone who decides to just BUY steempower to REALLy get ahead and gain influence in this new ecosystem, this is gong to beINCREDIBLE and with Steem at $20 then $50 it will be SO HARD to get up to 1000 steempower!
The whales will be seen as like large stock investors like warren buffet that you can't just match without going back in time. People like @thejohalfiles and @fyrtsikken will be see as investors who saw an early opprtunity to get steem cheap and took it and made more money than we can ever imagine on steem., but its OK because they're wealth allows for all of US to create wealth!
Even small minnows today will in the future with $50 steem have huige upvotes like whales have now! And whales of today with $300 Upvotes will have $10 maybe $20,000 Upvotes all in one click, the reward pool will be 50 million dollars a week instead of just 2 and we will see people feeling like they have WON the fucking LOTTERY when they get Future Whale upvotes at $50 Steem price! We will see people getting $100,000 Upvotes eventually , I mean the steemit account can already give $9000 Upvotes if it wanted to, Thankfullit doesn't thatd REALLy d"drian" the pool or make it feel like that! But just imagine when we have $1 MILLION dollar upvotes! It WILL happen Whales that have $1000 Upvotes today will have $1 million dollar upvotes if steem ever goes from $3 to $3000 and in 5-10 years that COULD happen , and so just imagine getting a million dollar upvote
Steem will become a life changing machine for so many people.
Congratulations @surfyogi, one year with so much achievement.
Before I met you, I had heard people called you "daddy Africa" from a distance I wondered why they did, initially I thought you where an African only to get close and realise you are an American?
Then why daddy Africa? I deep thought. 🤔🤔🤔
Then I got closed and realised "you have impacted life's in Africa, your love is unimaginable.
You have a golden heart, greater height my boss.
Official announcement, only Jules gets to call me "Daddy" ;-)
Lol, now I have a password? Only Jules.😉
Thank you daddy.
Hahaha
I just bought in.... Lol
Watch out 😜
Daddy, hope I too can join @prettyjules158 to call you daddy?
It best captures who you are to us; Artzonians and Wafricans.
Hmmmm, If you call him daddy without adding my name to the source, is gonna be plagiarism.
The statement is official and its sealed.lol🙈🙈
Oh Jules....
Kikikikiki
Worry not, I will source it properly. Pending till daddy makes mine official too.
lolzzz
Oh snap! Daddy Africa, hes the African Sugar Daddy, Sugar Yogi. Dude when communities comes out after HF20 comes out WOAH get ready jules! HF20 is soon and it will allow for instant account creation for free and we will see millions joining in short period of tyime and this is our chance to quickly onboard every internet user in West Africa! THEN we can finally pay for BIG ad campaigns and not waste our money , because as you know it doenst matter how much ads you pay form steem has a bottleneck and only so many people are approved for free eveyrday and paying for new account creation is too big of a liaboility even for steemit inc so after HF20 new accout creation will be instant and free for all and thnmsg will be changed so you will probpobly need some SP to post a LOT in one day which is actually good! Less psammers! Anyway, its going to be SOON so NOW we can FINALLy get BIG ad campaigns in Nigeria and Ghana and get some serious Youtube Ads and @surfyogi and you can star in a Ad for Steem and Wafrica, a cross promotion ad to promote steem for africans and to show africans that when they DO get on steem the can come to Wafrica like we have a TABLE for them at the PARTY so when they get in they feel at home!
I think I may have to start calling you daddy for this.
I haven't heard of HF20 before, it would be nice if another steemit-like platforms come up to tackle the account creation time probs.
Daddy I can't wait to join the HF20 party.
Congratulations on your one year on Steemit.
The road hasn't been an easy one, but you've thrived yet.
You really have achieved great feats on this platform and I'm sincerely happy for you.
You have been of great help and support to many on this platform.
Wafrica and Artzone are a success because of you.
It's good to know how supportive you are of Africans, your reward is sure.
Thank you so much for your support to me and of course, others.
Many have benefited from your rare act of kindness.
How come I didn't know there was a music contest? 🤔
Too bad I missed it....
Maybe I should do a song for you then....
Lol...
Bless your heart @surfyogi....
You're the best
When I saw your blog, read what kind of fire is in your being, I knew we would have to find a way to work together.
And I'm glad we getting there.... 💃
Just need to set a few things in place....
Good news coming soon 🤗🙂
Congratulations @surfyogi. It has been such a pleasure working with you!!
More boundaries to break and more achievements to reach.
Congratulations dear.
wow you really are a community builder! i'm so happy for you that you've 'graduated' and become a full-time steemian! it's a dreamlife of financial independence. i hope i could get there someday too 😎
Hey brother ! Everyone is amazed by what you accomplished in so little time, I look forward to year, I am proud to be a part of @Artzone and excited of what's to come!
Happy Anniversary man !
Congratulations on your one year here and thank you for all you have done for this community during that time. In addition to what you have done with the artzone and wafrica, you provided the jump start that the funny community needed. Your delegation made it possible to provide prizes for some humor based contests that grew into some truly amazing things here. Because you never asked for any credit, I don't even know if people know how instrumental you were in providing the jolt the funny community desperately needed.
Thank you for all you have done and continue to do for this platform!
My initial talks with you inspired me to do so much; thanks for your time and attention talking about Communities with me.
Oooo wow happy one year steemit anniversary boss..
It is a blessing meeting you.
I am so grateful to be an Artzonian.
May your steemit journey continue to be rosy.
You are the best 👍
Congrats on QUITTING YOUR DAY JOB buddy!
;-)
Thanks boss
*smiles
Happy one year anniversary. You have an amazing personality and i wish you more success in your endeavours.
All Right Nma!
Pretty soon you can help me pick out the first JET in the FLEET! ;-)
Yaaaayyyyyyy 🥂🥂🥂
See how far you have achieved. See how much Impact you have made.
I am glad that our paths crossed.
Congratulations sir!!!
You’ve done an amazing job with self voting. I remember when @artzone and @wafrica had only few hundred followers just recently. They have grown at the fastest rate out of everyone. Great job! Congratulation to your one year anniversary! You have changed not only your life, but to so many steemiens as well. Being an example of steemit comunity is a great honor. And you definitely deserve it.
Wow....that is quite selfless @surfyogi. You got to help others and that is all that matters; inspiring story.
Your communities are growing rather quickly by the day. Congratulations and happy Steem Birthday.
👏.....first of all... I think you deserve to be given some huge credit, because looking at your impact In the steemit blockchain within one year is amazing. @surfyogi you have brought some much colours into this blockchain, thanks for contributing towards making steemit what it is today and thanks for impacting greatly into the lives of steemians and the communities within the steemit blockchain. Happy one year anniversary to you, to be truthful you really need to be celebrated, thanks for adding value to steemit. We steemians appreciate you.
Wow, congratulations to you sir. You are just one year on steemit and you are already a role model and mentor to so many people here on steemit, myself inclusive. You have impacted so many lives especially here in Africa.
@fatherfaith celebrate you sir
Thanks for your kind words.
I forgot to mention while I'm at it, that you, @phunke, @jeaniepearl and @prettyjules158 ALL published charitable acts 3 weeks ago, with educational, food and medical attention in NIgeria. So glad to be working with you all and we need to organize this for monthly charitable acts. Chat me up!
Noted
One major thing i always do is to go serially through every single post you made since i joined steemit and i must say that your last post on where does the money come from on cryptocurrency,was the best informative post i have seen so far, i copied and save it in my mail for reference purposes.
You are really a man of high intellectual faculty.
God will enrich you with more knowledge just as you have devoted yourself in enriching minnows like me especially Africans.
Happy one year anniversary on steemit sir.
We love you.
Hi Brother, I had my 1 year on Steemit only a few days ago.
Cool that we started around the same time.
Later gator!
Congratulations @surfyogi , the journey of a year sure has been pleasant and as it seems many great things went by .
Being over here and to witness many changes and get to know about a new world is indeed great and splendid.Sometimes it just changed our world. So it did to me.
I am glad that I am here.In the coming days it sure will be great and we will get to see the amazing changes coming :)
While the two projects are indeed doing great that I must say and that video of the ladies was indeed the limelight of it ;)
The use of your SP is wisely taken care of as seen in the chart while many are misusing it.I got mine as well ;) , it sure has been great to help others in our own ways and like someone said every effort matters.
Hope many years you got to be here and enjoy the time and help others in need.
Happy one air anniversary Jeff. Congrats
Congratulations for one successful year here. You have no doubt touched so many lives on this platform, mine inclusive. Thank you for @artzone and @wafrica.
Isn't is just beautiful to see that you have yourself only 2.5% of your total upvote? What a selfless attitude. I wish you more happy years here. You are always my number one man and I am always your number one fan.
@surfyogi - thanks for eveything
You are the first person who upvoted me on steemit. I have followed you since then (Jan '18). It has been a pleasure to see you share your passion here on steemit.
Congratulations! Not only on completing your one year on Steemit but also for what you have accomplished here (yes, I have followed your support of artists, here on steemit :D )
A very big and massive congratulations to you sir as you celebrate your one year anniversary on this platform.
You are really a man of creativity and I admire each and every single step you took to elevate your profile and create more awareness mostly among minnows like me.
I really benefited a lot from @wafrica and @wafrica-curators, Their curations helped me grow rapidly even when I had no one to upvote my post.
You are a leader @surfyogi.
God bless your new Age on steemit
God bless wafrica and wafrica-curators team.
Thanks a lot for sharing your informative post..
I appreciate this concept .
Keep it up..
You are one of the principal individuals I began to take after when I joined and it was stunning to see exactly how much exertion you put into it! Extremely persuasive, as well -
as in the good 'ol days I couldn't accept exactly how long individuals like you spend on the web!
I follow your every post..
I will wait for your next post..
Resteemed This is a true beauty and a perfect handy work..you are a true leader and an inspirer. Most of us takes inspiration from you and we hope to see you help bring the best in us. Thanks for this @surfyogi
Well done and well deserved! You are one of the first people I started to follow when I joined and it was amazing to see just how much effort you put into it! Very inspirational, too - as in the early days I couldn't believe just how many hours people like you spend online!
(By the way, hope you're feeling better!)
And - Steem on!
Happy 1 year anniversary @surfyogi. What you are doing here is really great. Just 1 year and you are already doing unbelievable things in the economically backward regions where government seems helpless. In the upcoming years we together can do a lot many things for the thriving of humanity. Best wishes from India.
Congress @surfyogi Very inspiring post. I liked the paragraph about the community, that is the feeling i experienced when i joined a little less than a month ago, and this feeling remains. I just hope it stays that way when Steemit gains even more momentum! The world is what we make it, so i will try to do my share to fight for that spirit.
first I want to wish you happy birthday @ surfyogi, hopefully with age, you are more mature and more successful and certainly your age always take you to things that are positive, especially for this steemit platform, here you are struggling from an incredible base in my opinion that you can now enjoy your reputation, once again congratulations to you for being one of the best on our platform, hopefully your new thoughts and ideas will keep this platform evolving and to be one of the best in the world. good luck always bapak @surfyogi
Happy Steem birthday mate!
Really cool the fact you have build communities in Steem, that is what Steem is about actually, and what every user with enough power should do.
Cheers bud!
Wooow happy anniversary friend, come many more. Thank you for belonging to this great family and for giving us support through your great knowledge, happy to follow you and read your interesting posts, may God bless you and give you a lot of health, for to continue enjoying in this wonderful space. Greetings friend
Wow what an amazing journey this has been for you full of adventurous ride i can say hahah but it will get more interesting along the way you have empowered other people here which is really incredible not lot of people are able to do that so hat's off to you for your great hard work and taking the community along the way to forward wishing you all the best for future and keep doing great things for all :) Steem on
Congrats sir
It's a mark that you are really doing well on steemit
I am just a newbie who needs guidance
I have heard a lot about you
Please help a young lady
Once more congrats
happy birthday dear on steemit 1 year.in 1 year i hope you enjoyed or learn a lot of informations.i m agree with @mukhlis89.
i wish all your dreams will run smoothly.
The important thing is that time has not been in vain, you have learned what is necessary for now and are willing to continue evolving and learning every day, the way to go to grow on this page and anyone who decide to undertake will not be easy, but with patience and disciplined Ina I'm sure you'll accomplish anything! Congratulations on your Success
Congratulations on your 1 year anniversary.
The 2.5% self-vote showed how much you're giving to this community.
Kudos to you, sir
I look forward to see more of your projects :)
Hello Friend. It is really amazing what you describe, the precise way in which you give, a challenging study of your year of life in steemit. I like that a lot, people like you do that, other people are inspired and want to give their best, of themselves in this world of steemit. I always try to give my best, and I know I can do much better, and I hope to improve every day, it always takes me a while, maybe not so much because I study medicine, and that takes me technically all the hours of my day . But I have faith that, soon I will start growing on this platform. I congratulate you on your year here, it continues to reap success.
I am very impressed to see that you only gave yourself 2.5% of the upvotes. I mean! What a generous man. I admire you so much for this. And thank you so much for everything you've done for African Steemians especially Nigerians via @wafrica. May God always enrich you.
I created this for you.
Happy one year anniversary to the generous man I know.
A big congratulations to you my friend on your one year on steemit, you have really been an amazing fellow by helping other people to achieve here on steemit. And recently steemit reached a million accounts so its amazing
Happy one year! Mines on June 2cd =)
Youve affected steemit and the blockchain positively even your stats can testify to it. Your writings are all over and @wafro and @wafrica and even myself and a lot of others can testify to it. Congrats @surfyogi. Keep being a blessing.
Well happy anniversary!
I wish I could become a full time Steemian too but seems impossible at the moment.I wish you good luck in every aspect of your life because you deserve it.
Congratulations sir, your impacts in this community are monumental. I thank you for the support so far through #wafrica and your other projects.
Regards.
Congratulations Sir!
You have achieved a lot for yourself: the height you have attained is worthy of emulation....
Higher ground i pray for you.
Awesome work bro' - 1 more follower for artzone here :)
REPUTATION 69!
WOw, I'm totally jealous of you!! ;-)
Hehe - 69.93 now.. At 70 I will have a 70th celebration.. Everyone is invited, but I will need an early nap and my cake blended into a smoothie.. It's tough being a Steem elder. lol ;)
Happy Annivesary Sir, you've made Steemit a better place with @artzone and @wafrica. Thanks and stay blessed.
Congratulations for one successful year here
1,000,000 steem account users celebrate my post.
Please sir check it
https://steemit.com/steemit/@anikearn/1-000-000-steem-account-users-celebrate-db54de8f8579a
Happy one year anniversary. I hope you stay another 100 years in steem and grows every day more because you are a talented blogger. Hope you the best and congratulations @surfyogi
Congratulations for your one year ceremony in steemit sir...😊👏 you are a great man sir... i come to know you from a moths ago but i found that you are loved by most of the people in steemit... you are really kind you helping lot of people. i respect you sir from my heart. Sir always be here in steemit. I will always support you sir. thanks to be here in steemit sir @surfyogi.☺