As you likely know, I'm long term BULLISH on Steem. I am super excited for HF 20, followed by communities and SMTs, which are going to decentralize account creation even further, and build even more communities on top of the Steem network that will add value and upward pressure on the price of Steem.
Last spring, I began writing a couple chapters for a book on Steem. Life got in the way, and I lost track of that effort as I started to spend more time directly getting my website up and running and SEO optimized.
I am much closer to my vision of Steemmaker, now! So it's time to get back to writing this book, which could be a much better resource for a much wider audience.
The first two chapters were published on Steemit last spring, but it is easier to find them on my website. I will continue to add to this and build this book as a resource for those who want to learn about the Steem blockchain and how to best optimize their experience here.
Steem projects are best done with participation from the readers and followers, so I'll be asking for feedback and help once in a while. You've been great asking questions for Steemmaker's YouTube channel, and I appreciate that! Thank you for commenting and keeping the community alive while Steem is living in these bear market doldrums. Our time spent here on Steem right now will not be worth nothing as the number of users explodes.
-Jeff
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How very interesting.
As you said, anyone can call themselves a writer nowadays. 😂
Of course, my wife is the real writer in our family. She took about 4 days to crush my page views (all time).
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You'll have an opportunity to read my thoughts on your "real writers" in my final Steemit post. Coming soon to computer near you.
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I was wondering how the book was going, but I also figured you had plenty going on already, without even considering the website. Just based on cooking for the family as often as you seem to do. :)
At any rate, it sounds like a needful project. Plenty of us could stand at least a refresher course in what STEEM is, and with so many new folks, they probably don't fully know yet. And as you allude to, the floodgates are supposed to explode when Hard Fork 20 (Velocity) hits.
Thanks for stopping by, Glen. Man, I do love cooking! Work has made it hard these past two weeks but I'm eager to get back into it this weekend and hopefully share some good stuff for next week Friday's FFF.
I'm really trying to organize my site to best give people information on Steem. The book is one method, but there are also a lot of essays I've written about various aspects of Steem, and I'm having a hard time putting them into some sort of meaningful order or representation.
If you have ideas, I'd love to hear them.
I've slacked off the FFF, too, and got called out for it! Well, sort of. In a teasing kind of way. It wasn't the only thing I slacked off. Wife had hernia surgery, so have been trying to help her through that. She's on the mend, so doesn't need me so much for help, so I'm back at it and hoping to get into some semblance of a Steemit groove.
Hmmm. Well, I'll think on it. I'm wondering if the essays could be adapted to the book just off the top of my head, and what the main method of reading them is meant to be? The website? If there's not a particular chronological order, then maybe it can be organized in order of importance. I'll think about it some more.
Best wishes with the book!
A couple months after getting started on Steemit, I was thinking Steemit sure could use a "Steem for Dummies" guide. The FAQ is great, but it's in a random order from the standpoint of someone learning. Other lists folks have pulled together are useful, but often the posts are a bit advanced and include a bunch of unfamiliar terms -- so a beginner's left with more questions than answers. So folks are left with a long, meandering process of hunting, pecking, and slowly synthesizing until the picture becomes clear.
It seems simple on the surface: post, comment, upvote. Earn money.
But for the people I meet in-person who've tried Steemit, they came to make some money and left when they nothing happened. They took content they posted on their main blog and posted it here thinking it would make money because the content was great. They were frustrated by making nickel or dime on a post (or often zero). Then they were angry when they realized the post was locked down after 7 days and no longer earned anything. They decided to invest in their main blog and the community they already built instead of starting over here -- and trying to overcome the problems on Steemit with content discovery.
These are real problems that Steem faces.
I wonder if SMTs will encourage Steem totals to fade into the background a bit and highlight SMTs instead. Personally, I have fun on Steem and enjoy chatting with people on here, but it's also something of a job and I use it to make money in a few different ways.
I think the trick is to encourage more developers who will make Dapps that will bring people in even if they make nothing.
Steem Monsters seems the first real Dapp to do this. Looking forward to more.