Great post @tawasi.
I've only been here a week but am loving it too so far. Hope my experience here continues to be as positive as yours has been this last year and that there is a mass migrate off the old social media monopolies to steemit.
Regarding getting people on board, you might be interested in this thing I wrote earlier today about #OccupySiliconValley this coming Monday?
Namaste
Funny.