Hey, hey shiny happy people. I hope you're all having a great week so far. I can't complain about mine. We did have an earthquake in Panama the other day, but nothing fell down and the internet stayed on, so all good.
That time I did a steemit basics webinar with Ben Lee
A couple of weeks ago when @benleemusic was on tour in Brazil with his band Radnor and Lee (aka Josh Radnor, aka Ted Mosby from How I Met Your Mother) he asked me if I'd like to do steemit basics webinar with him to put out on his other social media networks.
I said yes.
We recorded it yesterday.
Here's the link if you haven't seen it.
We've been getting really positive feedback today on both steemit and Facebook, which is pretty awesome. Hopefully a few more people will sign up as a result.
Adelaide meet-up
Source: @timmm
The first monthly meet-up happened last week. @holoz0r's plan was to live stream it to ease the nerves of those experiencing FOMO, but his laptop failed in the 35C heat, so it only lasted about 20 minutes.
Watch what was recorded here.
Other write ups of the evening were done by @minismallholding here, @timmm here, and @thevillan here.
Brisbane meet-up
@shareyourstory has taken the first step in organising a Brisbane monthly meet-up. The first one is happening on 4 March at Southbank Beer Garden. Don't be shit Brisbane. Go along if you have the time. You can see how cool Adelaide's meet-up was. Details here.
Canberra, the forgotten city
I realised I forgot to mention Canberra when discussing meet-ups in my last post. Whoops sorry about that. There are a few of you there, so maybe you guys should organise something.
The usual community notices
You should follow @mrsquiggle, who is doing a great job recognising and rewarding Aussie creativity by curating quality content.
Check out the awesome Minnow Support Project (MSP). Details on how to join are are here. Come say hi in the Team Australia chat room in PAL-Discord. It's fun and you will make new friends.
You should consider voting for the the MSP witnesses, particularly @ausbitbank and @aggroed, who've a done a great job in getting this project off the ground.
Lastly, if you're feeling generous, you can delegate SP to the Team Australia upvote bots @centerlink and/or @mrsquiggle (or any other bot you like) using Vessel. You can delegate to any of the MSP bots using this link.
Candidate 1
Name and bio
@beery is from Canberra but living in Prague to work/finish his post grad study on plastic waste in Eastern Europe.
Intro post here.
Fun fact
"I recently submitted a patent for a small scale PET plastic recycling machine, making me officially an inventor."
That's really cool. Once you've solved Eastern Europe's plastic problem, please come and sort out Latin America's.
Candidate 2
Name and bio
@rachyroo is a mallsballer. After seeing her partner @dolladu having loads of fun on Discord and at the Adelaide meet-ups, she had a bad case of FOMO and decided to join.
Intro post here.
Fun fact
"I grew up on a farm in South Australia and when I was young I would look after the lambs and calves that didn’t have a mum. At one point I was bottle feeding five little lambs after school in my back yard."
Aw, that's so cute. I'm concerned about the fate of the mothers though.
Candidate 3
Name and bio
@strenue is a Saffa on a Kiwi passport living on the Sunshine Coast. He's also a stacker.
Intro post here.
Fun fact
"I'm a long-term silver coin enthusiast. Acquired my first crypto (Litecoin) by trading a palladium coin back in 2013."
That litecoin would be worth quite a bit more now if you've held it. More than palladium I'd imagine, so good call.
Candidate 4
Name and bio
@terrylovejoy is from Brisbane. Apart from leading an IT team, he's an amateur astronomer who's discovered six comets! (This is awesome and would have totally worked as a fun fact.)
Intro post here.
Fun fact
"I once forget where I parked a hire car in Christchurch and had to get a taxi to drive me around the city centre, one street at a time until I found it (didn't help I wasn't 100% sure what colour the car was!). That was a pretty expensive lesson, I tend to pay a bit more attention these days."
Lol, that's pretty funny, and yet, not that hard to do.
Candidate 5
Name and bio
@andyfishman is from Canberra. He's a keen angler and does a lot of miniatures modelling and painting.
Intro post here.
Fun fact
"I am somewhat of a tinfoil hat person. I love a good conspiracy theory and find out all I can about many of them. Some I even believe."
Well you do live in Canberra. It's probably wise to be suspicious.
Candidate 6
Name and bio
@trudeehunter is from Brisbane. Although retired, she keeps herself busy by travelling and/or creating gorgeous paintings when the moment strikes.
Intro post here.
Fun fact
"I gravitate to people with a sense of humour because life is too short to take everything seriously."
That seems like a good plan. Funny people are generally fun.
Candidate 7
Name and bio
@blackcaviar10 is @khufu's partner and lives in Newcastle. She likes 70s, 80s and 90s music, and horses.
Intro post here.
Fun fact
"I thought I would never have kids until one night @khufu hypnotised me and told me I was twice as fertile as an 18 yr old and then two months later I found out I was pregnant with twins."
Wow. That's pretty interesting. I hope you actually wanted kids and it wasn't a case of I'm never having kids cos I don't want them. Suddenly being pregnant with twins would not be ideal.
Source. Note this the champion horse Black Caviar since @blackcaviar10 does not have any photos on her blog.
Candidate 8
Name and bio
@dblstr is a mallsballer and another one of @mattclarke's recruits. He likes sneakers, the Adelaide Crows and Liverpool FC.
Intro post here.
Fun fact
"I used to be a professional gamer."
I feel like this would be a very time intensive activity. It will have prepared you well for your new life on steemit.
Candidate 9
Name and bio
@julienghost is another mallsballer and and a friend of @dblstr. He is also a professional gamer.
Intro post here.
Fun fact
"When I ran one of my LAN tournaments I had to build 10 PCs and 20 dxracer chairs, the day before the LAN which I ran / played in on 2 hours of sleep."
Er, you lost me at LAN tournament.
Candidate 10
Name and bio
@mushroomuser is also a mallsballer, and a stay-at-home dad who runs a mushroom kit and education business.
Intro post here.
Fun fact
"I love to eat mushrooms and watch clouds."
Are talking the magical kind here? Cos I eat the regular ones all the time and they really don't make clouds that exciting.
Candidate 11
Name and bio
@christinevenus is a vegan (woo, we're getting at least one a week now and I like it!) and lives in Brisbane. She is an aspiring Astrologer, Reiki Master, Crystal Healer, Feng Shui Guide, Natural Health and Beauty Coach.
Intro post here.
Fun fact
I love riding my bike, especially through tracks in forests around Brisbane.
I had a bike when I lived in Brisbane. I miss it. 😞
Candidate 12
Name and bio
@cassteem is from Perth. She likes cooking, baking, photography and animals.
Intro post here.
Fun fact
"I'm a dietitian and I make meal plans and exercise plans for people."
Nice. That would be a rewarding job.
Candidate 13
Name and bio
@scottweston is a SysAdmin/DevOps guy from Ballarat. He also drives a Tesla and is President of the Ballarat Hackerspace.
Intro post here.
Fun fact
"I worked at Google for exactly 2048 days."
I imagine working for Google would be quite good. Also, that is way longer than anywhere I've worked. In fact, that might be more days than I've spent in continuous employment.
Candidate 14
Name and bio
@adventuroussoul is from Perth. He's a business owner and global coach for the Entrepreneur's Organisation.
Intro post here.
Fun fact
"I took my son on a trek to Base Camp Everest last year to prove the bullies wrong. I do hate bullying."
Wow, that is really cool. I hope it worked and he's not being bullied anymore.
Candidate 15
Name and bio
@j85063 is from Tassie. He's into travel, classic cars and photography.
Intro post here.
Fun fact
"I did the big lap around Oz in 2016 I have been wanting to do it since I was a kid."
Nice. It feels good to tick things off your bucket list.
Congratulations everyone, you're now part of Team Australia.
The rules for joining Team Australia
If you’re not yet a member and want to be, this is what you need to do:
- Vote here for our resident steemit witness and our Minister for Welfare @ausbitbank.
- Send me your introduction post so I can find out a bit about you. If you’re new to steemit you'll have to write one so use the introduceyourself and teamaustralia tags to help boost your following. Use this handy guide by @teamsteem if you don't know what to write.
- If it’s not mentioned in your introductory post, tell me which city and country you’re in, cos let's face it, a lot of us live in Australia's fourth largest city—London. You need to have a connection to Australia to join.
- Tell me a fun fact about yourself. This can be anything. For example, maybe you have eight kids and three dogs, or you rode your bike across America, or you won the blue ribbon for javelin throwing at sports day back in high school, or Toadie came into the pub you work at one day and you served him a beer, or, maybe you can fit 55 maltesers in your mouth like Ed Sheeran can. It doesn’t matter what it is, I want a fun fact about you! The more fun, the better.
- Regularly check the Team Australia and Australia tags and upvote/follow the content you like. You can show your support by following the centerlink curation trail in Streemian. Instructions are here.
- Comment below or DM me in PAL-Discord that you want to join.
Once I receive this information I will try my best to write a good introductory paragraph about you for the official Team Australia membership updates. So the better your information is, the better I can make you sound. Where relevant, please use the teamaustralia and australia tags to promote your work. I will try and post weekly updates.
Are you an Aussie? Introduce yourself in the teamaustralia chat room!
Gif by @justcallmemyth
Team Australia banner by @bearone
Everyone has been registered for the dole now :)
Everyone mallsballer is ADELAIDE. We've been talking about this for months now. Come on!
I'm attaching this to centerlink's comment since it is at the top.
New rule 7 for joining TeamAustralia
No. 7. Please mark the location of "Mallsballer" on this map
Lol. Yes.
Our malls got balls 😂
Source
oh my.... whoever put them up had some balls!!!!!!
lol
Thank you very much.
Great work Choo.
Another diverse band of recruits.
TA is getting massive, no other team even comes close!
Good luck to all the new members on your Steemit journeys.
@tremendospercy
Welcome new Aussies!
@beery
@rachyroo
@strenue
@terrylovejoy
@andyfishman
@trudeehunter
@blackcaviar10
@dblstr
@julienghost
@mushroomuser
@christinevenus
@cassteem
@adventuroussoul
@scottweston
@j85063
We look forward to seeing your posts!
Upvote, resteem. Please note that all these new entrants look highly suspicious and need to head for customs... just chuck in in the ute mate.
That's a good mix of people from all walks of life! I still don't know where "malls balls" is and even @rachyroo 's intro didn't help get me closer to the explanation either! And @scottweston you could have said you worked at Google for 2^11 days and I would have known perfectly what you mean't :)
That's so nerdy.
I did think about it but I wasn't too sure how geeky the audience would be 😋
I'm glad you didn't.
You're probably right...lol !
Lol! In Adelaide city centre is a street called Rundle Mall and it has a statue consisting of giant silver balls. I'll let you make of that what you will!
I can't believe everyone has forgotten what mallsballer is in the space of a week (facepalm). I've attached an explanation to centerlink's comment up top.
Welcome everyone! It's nice we are getting bigger and stronger! @terrylovejoy I would love to have a telescope like that. Are we going to see astrophotography posts from you?
Sure will @stabilowl , go and check out some of my older posts as well. My skies are pretty light polluted here, but I still managed to get some photo's I'm happy with. Look here,here and here .
Woooh how do we get onto the Dole here lol XD I got told there's a Dole apparently from TeamAustralia? Love the idea, keep it up! Do we post our stuff on here or make a post and link to it?
Please see the steps in the post on how to join.
Welcome to the team everyone! I'll go through and add you all for @centerlink payments shortly
Holy Mackerel! 15 new Team Australians!!
Welcome everyone! We're super excited to have you here! If you have any questions please feel free to reach out, there's a lot to learn but we're all happy to spend time to help you out.
Looking forward to seeing what you post... welcome welcome!!
P.S) @mattclarke you are doing an amazing job and I can't wait to eventually get myself to Radelaide and say hello.
Another Aussie vegan, saaaweeeettt
Welcome everyone!
Yeah, we should have a vegan subgroup!
I want to join Team Australia. Im a proud Aussie and live in the Blue Mountains near Sydney. I started on Steemit less than a week ago and bought my first Crypto - Ethereum on 25th Dec 2017.
My fun fact is i won the NSW Champs in Drag Racing in 2006. In great contrast I also coached numerous National medal winning running athletes before and after the Sydney Olympics. I specialized in coaching sprinting and middle distance.
Recently im enjoying a more relaxing life and ride my Mountain bike regularly for fitness.
You're on my list. I'll let you know when you've been introduced.
You've been introduced! https://steemit.com/teamaustralia/@choogirl/team-australia-new-recruits-07-02-18-and-the-team-australia-hard-fork
Vegans in Brisbane!! Love it
Congratulations on joining #teamaustralia the diversity and content you all bring will be a key asset to our success!
Hello and welcome to all the new people. Thanks to Choogirl!, now that your famous will you have time to do the updates? (great video BTW)
Of course! And thank you.
Welcome to all the new members. I recognise some: already been interacting with them:)
Nice. Let me know if you meet anyone in real life!
Everyone's welcome, last Thursday of each month in the Jade Monkey beer garden in Adelaide from 6pm.
Great venue, fantastic people. Bring cash if you're looking for an easy way to buy steem directly.
Another excellent update, thanks @choogirl :)
Noice, noice always good to see new Team Australia members - the fam is getting huge now!! Also you are 100% famous...that's awesome that you have that webinar with Ben Lee ! How did he manage to reach out to you or do you know him personally anyway? Great job either way
Thanks for the great introduction @choogirl and thanks for the hard work you do for the #teamaustralia community. Welcome to my fellow new recruits, I look forward to reading you blogs and chatting to you on discord in the days, weeks and months ahead. Also want to give a big shout out to all the seasoned members of #teamaustralia. I have met a few of you through discord and everyone I have spoken to has been extremely helpful and provided me with some valuable advice of how to be a valued citizen of this community and of the broader Steemit community. I am definitely here for the long term, so I am sure I will get to chat to many of you... I have an idea, let's get a meetup going on the beautiful Sunshine Coast, let's get some suggestions on which beach or surf club would make a good venue.
Welcome!
Re: Sunny Coast meet up, there are a few of you up there. @stephen-somers will probably be keen. @itchyfeetdonica is also up there. They are the only ones I can think of right now.
Ah cool, thanks. I have followed both @stephen-somers and @itchyfeetdonica. I will touch base with them in the next few days to see if we can get the Sunny Coast on the Steemit Map. Do you know if they are currently on discord?
@choogirl, I can see you U are doing alot in team Australia which is aimed at Steemit awareness and meet-up. Please u are doing great, keep up the good work.
Thank you!
Our ranks increase!
Indeed they do. Another strong Adelaide contingent in today's batch.
Thanks @choogirl, love the video by the way !! Really good to be here :)
Welcome! And thank you.
More Aussie Goodness.
Welcome to Team Australia!
That’s great that you are recruiting so many new people!
Hi @drewley and please yes, do post more classical music on Steemit!!! i'm re-learning piano at the ahem... elevate age of mid 30's. Classical music has always been my jam. That and 80's rock. Currently learning some the theme music to star wars and Lord of the rings and Pretending i can learn Rachmaninov.... LAUGHS ahhhhh what a joke.
Sarah
Welcome aboard everyone - - -
@choogirl - good to have you posting again, you must be busy with your work lately...
Yes. And I've been neglecting you posts AGAIN. I'm so shit with my feed now. Urgh.
Hey Choo!
Great line up.. more vegans is tops! I'm going to sound like a massive noob, but what is "mallsballer".. first time I've heard it!
Cheerio,
Nick.
I know! So many Aussie vegans. We need a subgroup! See my centerlink comment for mallsballer.
Congratulations to all our new members !
Thank you @choogirl.
WooHoo I feel like a part of the family, the @teamaustralia family.
I had given up hope with falling pregnant cause we had been trying for so long, so yes I was happy to find out I was finally having a baby, it was a shock to find out it was twins.
That's good then. And welcome.
Welcome everyone! Really love seeing #teamaustralia grow. 😊
oooohhhh another Arts lover :-) waves
Sarah
@steemedge! Another Aussie, another artist and another Sarah!! Haha lovely to meet you. 😁
oh well now!!!! isn't that cool. I'm just quickly replying to everyone's lovely messages before i go and collect the "mini me" from preschool. I really love the look of your blog to, looks like we have some interests in common for sure. Will pop over later tonight when i have the chance. Have a great afternoon.
I don't know if I qualify but I would like to join Team Australia here's my intro post ;)
https://steemit.com/teamaustralia/@geenaizzy/4-months-on-steemit-a-reintroduction
You qualify. What city (or state if you don't want to say) are you living in?
Byron Bay, NSW and thank you, you do awesome work for the Team!
You're on my list. I'll let you know when you've been introduced.
You've been introduced! https://steemit.com/teamaustralia/@choogirl/team-australia-new-recruits-07-02-18-and-the-team-australia-hard-fork
The documentary that woke me up to fiat about 12 years ago was Paul the Canadian artist Paul Grignon's Film "Money As Debt" he made it years before the 2008 GFC and Bitcoin. I still think it's one of the best ever explanations of the whole Fiat system.
@choogirl. Thankyou for adding me in team Australia . Yes it sure is a rewarding job.
As always great work @choogirl! Have a cuppa and pop your feet up...
Great to be part of the team 😄
https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@brizhorticulture/gday-steemit-new-here-from-brisbane-australia-who-likes-plants
Hope I have done this right.
FUN FACT: Once skitched behind a tuktuk down Koh San Road in Bangkok at top speed in my thongs :-) That was a happy birthday!
Hi. Please also vote for Ausbitbank then I'll get you on the list. https://steemit.com/~witnesses
Thanks,
I will do that now :-)
done.
Thanks. You're on my list. I'll let you know when you've been introduced.
:-)
You've been introduced! https://steemit.com/teamaustralia/@choogirl/team-australia-new-recruits-07-02-18-and-the-team-australia-hard-fork
I would like to apply and join teamaustralia below is my application if need anything else please tell me. Thank you very much.
https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@akirachang/hello-steemit-first-introduction-post
You are on my list. I'll let you know when you've been introduced.
Thank you ~ ( ´▽` )ﾉ
You've been introduced! https://steemit.com/teamaustralia/@choogirl/team-australia-new-recruits-07-02-18-and-the-team-australia-hard-fork
Awesome Choo, you're the best, Welcome all!
Welcome everyone!! Glad to see some more Perth people joining us! Awesome!
Cheers everyone, happy to be apart of #teamaustralia
Welcome everyone to this awesome community we call #TeamAustralia. Jump in, get involved and enjoy!
Thanks for the intro.
Every one forgets Canberra, so don't worry about it too much. In fact, so many people forget, or don't know, Canberra, it has managed to become part of the Mandela Effect theory (stupidest and easiest to debunk conspiracy theory ever conceived. Remember something wrong? Must be Mandela.)
It was poor form on my part last week. And welcome.
Good job choo. Am I imagining it or are these posts getting longer?
Can't believe we've picked up 2 pro-gamers in this lot. That could be a very interesting trend!
Not your imagination, they are getting longer.
LAN = local area network... that's a big catch @andyfishman .... nice banana @christinevenus
welcome all..
Yeah I know what LAN stands for, it was more WTF is a LAN tournament? You don't have to explain if you know by the way, it's probably not something I'm interested in.
I will explain anyway........
Woohoo! Go Adelaide! Even a mushroom guy!! I So want to find a slot of time in my life for growing mushrooms; Is that weird?
No. Go with it.
Lol! Thanks
"Don't be shit Brisbane" hahahaha You crack me up! I'm going to go to the Brisbane meetup! I haven't had a drink in a while, so why not!
Well, I find Brisbane can be a bit half arsed when it comes to actually doing something. You should totally go. They are fun.
Thank you <3 <3 <3 xoxo
Stupid question, how can I get a team Australia banner? Help out an oblivious gal here
First you need to join Team Australia (see rules above in post). Bearone makes the footers if you ask nicely, but she has major internet issues right now since Australian internet is so shit, so I think she's got a backlog.
Good evening, the feicito for your trip I hope you enjoyed it and that you continue to travel happy success in all your goals !!
congratulations everybody