RE: @Steemonboarding: The Marketing Tool for the Steem Blockchain You have Been Waiting For

I’m new to Steem, I was approved and registered today. (I was just about to commit to Medium before finding Steem.) This is my first input to Steem; haven’t even got my profile sorted at this point.
How did I get here? Quite an accident really. I rundown thought streams via Amazon books (among other things) and spotted David Kadavy’s book about Steem out of the corner of my eye. Insta-clicked it.
The key concepts for me were ‘blockchain’, ‘blogging’ and shortly thereafter inside the book ‘community’.
I’m attracted to blockchain because at it’s heart it is triple-entry bookkeeping about contracts (promises). My wife keeps asking me what blockchain is and has a dubious view about it because of Bitcoin’s fluctuating market value. “It’s not underpinned by anything that’s real.” she says.
I know very little about all this but my answer to her is that it’s about truth. It’s the nearest thing we have in the world today that encapsulates truth. The truth of what has happened. I value that.
While a number of caveats could be added to this point of view I can’t think of anything that rivals blockchain for truth ‘in the world’ today. Happy to be corrected on this, but that’s where I am at the moment; it’s the main reason I have joined Steem. It’s like having your input inscribed in digital stone.
I’ve had to dig around to get some sense of what else Steem is about. Most of what I have found I like. However, this onboarding concept sounds like it would be very useful. I doubt many people would do the research I have done and still join up with the incomplete understanding I have of how it all works.
Perhaps a sharp salesperson or storyteller could distill what needs to be understood into a 30 to 60 second sales pitch/story. Movie ideas have been sold on such seemingly scant efforts, so why not Steem? Could “your input inscribed in digital stone” fit into such a spiel? ; )
Incidentally, @partiko your efforts caught my attention. I don’t know that I am up to speed here either, but for me the value would be greater if I could export Steem posts and pics to Medium and Instagram.
I appreciate your app (dapp?) making it easier to bring over people in those worlds to Steem. Even so, I like the somewhat arrogant position of Steem being the source to these other (already out of date??) sites.
Imagine a growing mass of content coming from Steem to such sites; the mantra could be: Steem is the Source.
It should be or could be. Yes? No?
Okay, I am a little bit excited.
Btw, how can I get onboarded? Is it happening? Beta?
And what are the basic non-written rules? Are these expectations, predilections, wayward or righteous behaviors? Just curious.
I’m new to Steem, I was approved and registered today. (I was just about to commit to Medium before finding Steem.) This is my first input to Steem; haven’t even got my profile sorted at this point.
How did I get here? Quite an accident really. I rundown thought streams via Amazon books (among other things) and spotted David Kadavy’s book about Steem out of the corner of my eye. Insta-clicked it.
The key concepts for me were ‘blockchain’, ‘blogging’ and shortly thereafter inside the book ‘community’.
I’m attracted to blockchain because at it’s heart it is triple-entry bookkeeping about contracts (promises). My wife keeps asking me what blockchain is and has a dubious view about it because of Bitcoin’s fluctuating market value. “It’s not underpinned by anything that’s real.” she says.
I know very little about all this but my answer to her is that it’s about truth. It’s the nearest thing we have in the world today that encapsulates truth. The truth of what has happened. I value that.
While a number of caveats could be added to this point of view I can’t think of anything that rivals blockchain for truth ‘in the world’ today. Happy to be corrected on this, but that’s where I am at the moment; it’s the main reason I have joined Steem. It’s like having your input inscribed in digital stone.
I’ve had to dig around to get some sense of what else Steem is about. Most of what I have found I like. However, this onboarding concept sounds like it would be very useful. I doubt many people would do the research I have done and still join up with the incomplete understanding I have of how it all works.
Perhaps a sharp salesperson or storyteller could distill what needs to be understood into a 30 to 60 second sales pitch/story. Movie ideas have been sold on such seemingly scant efforts, so why not Steem? Could “your input inscribed in digital stone” fit into such a spiel? ; )
Incidentally, @partiko your efforts caught my attention. I don’t know that I am up to speed here either, but for me the value would be greater if I could export Steem posts and pics to Medium and Instagram.
I appreciate your app (dapp?) making it easier to bring over people in those worlds to Steem. Even so, I like the somewhat arrogant position of Steem being the source to these other (already out of date??) sites.
Imagine a growing mass of content coming from Steem to such sites; the mantra could be: Steem is the Source.
It should be or could be. Yes? No?
Okay, I am a little bit excited.
Btw, how can I get onboarded? Is it happening? Beta?
And what are the basic non-written rules? Are these expectations, predilections, wayward or righteous behaviors? Just curious.