After a lot of expectation, the 2017 roadmap was finally released yesterday, and naturally, it created a lot of excitement.
First you start receiving messages about it, then your friends start writing about it, then everybody you respect start explaining the exciting parts about it, and then before the day is over…
Forbes writes about it.
At first, I didn’t know wether I should post about or not, but since nobody did, I thought the community would love to see this:
Obviously, this is great news.
For instance, one of the most immediate questions that journalists receive from their editors and producers is apparently this one:
Who else has covered that start-up or who else has featured product?
Once you start getting media attention, it becomes easier to get more.
The Attention is on Steem
Just a two weeks ago, Rolling Stone Australia published a story where they named steemit the Hottest Social Media of 2017.
Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures wrote an amazing post in his website when he recommended Medium to look at steem.
And yesterday, hours before the Roadmap was released, Forbes published an amazing story about steemit and the steem blockchain.
The Momentum is Building Up.
Plus, it’s always great to celebrate these wins when we get them.
More importantly, I would like to take the occasion to thank and acknowledge Roger Aitken for the fantastic article he wrote in Forbes.
Ask any writer and they’ll tell you that the most important thing about the first line is to make the reader want to get to the second line.
In that sense, Roger Aitken did an amazing job opening with “Steemit, creators of the world’s fastest growing decentralized social media platform”
I’m an average reader who has never heard of steemit and I’m already hooked.
The entire first paragraph describes the potential and ambition of steemit doing so by migrating the servers to the largest hosting provider in the world, Amazon Web Services (AWS).
The second paragraph gives a short yet concise description about the steem Blockchain. (since many people may not be familiar with STEEM)
Then follows with an eloquent description about the achievements, the great user-base, the ambitions, the goals ahead and of course a backstory of @ned and @dantheman and how they started with a team of only seven people and made this beautiful thing happen.
Oh, and this is just the beginning.
The entire article was excellent, you might not notice it at first, but it conveys a perfect mix of a savoir-faire and diligent planning (even detailing targets by quarters) and at the same time the ambition and possibilities of the steem blockchain.
Many of the important of upgrades in the roadmap explained were highlighted as well, from the new steemit Mobile Apps to the cutting-edge parallel blockchain.
This was clearly a diligent and insightful article, and I personally want to thank Roger Aitken, and I'm sure that many fellow steemians share the sentiment as well.
Without further ado, here’s a link the article in question:
Hope you read it, enjoy it, and if at all possible, share this Forbes story with your friends.
And more importantly:
Thanks for posting this, this is great news!
I know! It's awesome news!
Very funny - I C&P'd this article and elected a zero payout as I could not justify it - I should have done as you have but ... spilt milk etc
Pffffff! This is HUGE again... So much momentum is being built, it is in itself blowing my mind, especially considering where the platform itself is at so far, in its infancy! That is simply incredible, thank you so much for sharing.
All for one and one for all! Namaste :)
This is very huge for the platform and the beginning of a trend I believe, thanks for posting! Not only do we need new members but we must work to keep the ones we have.
We absolutely need to keep those we have of course! No doubt about that.
Who else has goosebumps
Haha Exciting times :)
For sure! I'm glad I caught this post, definitely.
Fantastic! This is exactly what the platform needs to grow.
Thanks for sharing, I had no idea.
Resteemed
Thank you Marly! :)
Great work on breaking the bad boy down ;) It was indeed a well written piece without any misinformation..
Yeah he did an amazing job if you look closely. It was great!
This is a big step forward! This is great! And I am pleased to hear from you!
It is a great step forward, you're right.
Someone did post about it yesterday, but without the extensive coverage you have. The More the merrier. Nice post.
Oh I didn't know.. I was waiting just in case someone else would wanna cover it and was scrolling through the trending page before studying Roger Aitken's article..
You know who covered it? To give them an upvote and stuff?
@thedeplorable1 - wrote about it 17 hours ago - I think I saw a resteem of that.
@slickwilly - wrote about it two days ago...
@bloggersclub - wrote about it 22 hours ago...
So a few people... but it is good news, so getting it out to more people is a good thing.
@pilot 23h ago....I resteemed it!
Thanks @steved! I just gave it a vote a the 23 hours.. I'll go quick vote the rest that @dwinblood just recommended.
I'll look and see if I can find it... but you know how searching through the feeds are... will try google and forbes + steemit first.
I'll google too, thanks btw!
I thought you knew who by memory, I didn't make to make you work for it of course. :)
Heh... that was easier than trying to dig through my feed. :) I don't believe I commented, I just up voted, so I couldn't look for my own comments.
Thank you!! I'll check them out right now!
Great points! Forbes gets a lot of readers! Plus it gets a lot of investor type readers... now those would be some welcome additions ;)
Yeah and great points in your comment! Haha That's a great audience!
Exciting !!!
I know , right? :)
someone else on here posted about this earlier
so awesome
Yeah @dwinblood told me, I upvoted them, there were 4 in fact. But I'm glad the community knows about this :)
the more posts on it the merrier! :D
Absolutely!
Forbes huh. That's kind of good.
Kidding. This is awesome news!
Amazing news! :)
If media attention is getting larger and larger... this may be the signal for a big "steem to the sky" moment :)
Yeah closer and closer towards a snowball moment... Let's keep working and celebrating these small wins :)
Yep, Roma has not been built in one day, as it is said ^^
Super dope! Very exciting news
Looking forward to more things like this :)
Downvoted for Over payment!
What will steem price be at the end of 2017 after so good year start ....
Good question, I guess we'll see in a few months :)
STEEM WILL JOIN THE WORLD
Sorry, I mean,
WORLD WILL JOIN THE STEEM
Haha I love it!
great!!!
Wow, that is great news. This platform definitely has a huge potential, especially with all the talk
on corruption and #decentralization. Thanks for the heads up, will definitely load up on some #Steem.
Cheers
Nice news...
I'm a huge fan of newslinks as I believe you are well aware, but this particular post is excessively rewarded (likely based on autovoting from your whale followers) and I'm downvoting it modestly for that reason. I do not object to the post nor that you receive a more modest reward from it.
I respect the fact that you're telling me the reason why.
One thing I should explain (for value purposes) is that the proceeds of most my posts go to the marketing operation we are launching very soon, I shared one of the strategies we will use with you, and if you want I can show you a lot of details about what's in the works.
And we will probably launch next week.
And this is not a new thing, when I was part of Curie, although my posts were rewarded, none of the rewards I kept, all of them went to pay the staff, so there too although my posts seemed on the surface over-rewarded, if I'm putting my sweat, thinking long term for the benefit of all, and giving away my rewards for the purpose... In that case, I don't know how much over-rewarded I was since none of it went to my pocket.
But I understand if someone was upset.
Notice how in the time frames between the outreach and Curie how infrequent were my posts in regards to when funds are needed.
You're one of the most open whales in the chat, that's true, and if you want I can show you the work that has been done underground or anything you need to know, that's all I can say.
Anyways, thank you for the explanation.
From all I've seen you are great contributor to Steem and I support your efforts 100%. There was nothing personally directed at you here, just an adjustment I felt was appropriate for this particular post. The reward reduction goes to all the other voted posts and comments, as I'm sure you are aware, so we can view it as a form of balance more than anything else. I am happy to discuss your outreach and marketing efforts any time!
Thank you and you know I feel the same about you. I know it's not personal, no bad feelings of any sorts.
I'll send you a message then and let you know more then.
Interesting development. When Forbes pays attention so will most of the world.
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ColdMonkey mines Gridcoin through generating voluntary BOINC computations for science...
This is great upvoted and resteemed
Thank you, I appreciate it!
The direction we are heading is looking bright.
Tweeted on @Steemit
Yes it is! :) Thanks Randy!
Awesome news!!! Upvoted ReSteemed and reposted on my Facebook.
Do you have any other social media brother?
We salute this!
Thank you!!