Hello all!
My name is Robert Carter, an American living in Cebu City, Philippines. This is my second account, created specifically for my witness server. My other account @rcarter has been inactive in blogging, as I have been focusing on becoming a witness.
I am 36 years old
Served in the Army for 6 years, with 2 deployments to Iraq (19D10)
I ignore news, religion, and politics.
Live a humble, and conservative life. I save 90% of all my earnings, and reinvest in myself and others.
Why do I want to become a witness?
My biggest reason for wanting to become a witness, stems from the past elections we had in USA. (back when I was following the progression of one of the biggest political upsets of our lifetimes). During this time, I noticed a lot of media censorship-As well as a lot of fake and misleading reports, blogs, and articles on the internet, TV, and radio. Once I found Steemit, I realized this was the platform of truth that the world needed. A place where the community isn't censored, and polices themselves. Where we are held accountable by our peers, and benefit from creating original content-No matter how controversial it could be.
From here, where?
As a witness, living in the Philippines; I see a lot of people struggling to make ends meet. The minimum wage here in Cebu is 400 pesos per day (less than $8). Living here for 5 years, I can say without a doubt, that every Filipino I have ever met, has been gracious, and kind to me. I would like to give back to them, through Steemit education and support.
What do I intend to do about it?
I would like to make it my mission, to develop community teams here in the Philippines. In the military, we followed a chain-of-command, and I would like to implement groups that can adopt this leadership style. By having smaller, more efficient groups, it will ensure;
Better Communication
Keeping Steemit Underwhelming
Synergy Between Members
Increasing Productivity
A Familiar Support Network
For instance here in Cebu (to start), there could be one voted chapter Cebu Team President, one Secretary, 3 Regional Leaders, and 6 Provincial Leaders. The 6 Provincial leaders would be in charge of their teams consisting of no more than 10 active Steemit friends/family members. They would be responsible for holding weekly meetings to spark creativity and to promote Steemit in their communities through sponsored events.
What would my role be?
Since I already receive a fair salary from my investments, I intend to roll 100% of my Steem into SteemPower, and use that to kick-start these smaller groups by sponsoring coffee shop talks via giftcards. As the smaller groups become self-sufficient, I will be able to focus on another group. Eventually delegating the main Team Presidents, my SteemPower, so they can be in charge of using it to grow their communities.
If I can humbly ask for your support, in voting me for a witness, it would be very appreciated. No matter how many votes I get... I still intend on keeping my server online, to secure the Steemit network.
Step 1; open this link- https://steemit.com/~witnesses
Step 2; type my name rcarter.witness and click on vote :D 
_Robert Carter
A special shout out to @someguy123 who helped me setup my Steemit server on @privex
You know I will support you! Thanks for your help in sponsoring the upcoming Cebu Convention ;)
XOXO,
Gilaine
mishuhuuh girl!!! san ka na? punta na tayo ng Mars!!
I will support @rcarter.witness turuan natin sya "Gorabels" keribels" pak ganern!
hahahha
Upvoted followed!
@sunnylife natawa aq sa comment mo. Thanks for making my night.
hehehe ok olrayt! :):)
Awesome. I'm new here and I'm just learning about this witness thing and how it works. I'm voting you nonetheless. All the best!
I appreciate that, I have been helping behind the scenes for awhile now... And am now hoping to get more attention, to become able to help on a larger scale.
_Rob
I wish you all the best. I've voted you for witness. Keep up the good work. Thanks for replying.
We will always support you! upvoted you as a witness :)
Thanks for the vote :)
#savenemo
_Rob
Great post ! :)
oh wow!! I will support you!!!
Gorabelsssssss!!!!!
Thank you :) You are in Spain right?
_Rob
Hi @rcarter.witness!! Sunny is my good friend as well!!
As I said before, you have my vote!!
oh wow!!! thanks Papa Bear!! muaa
yes that's correct:)
I voted you last night:) good luck!
gorabels!!!!
Thank you.. I just posted to start thinking about setting up a witness.. id you start with the 16GB version or the 32GB version? I also want to do it for the community, but also to break even after some months... What do you expect to get per month after 3 to 4 months?
32GB is preferable to most, for upcoming changes that may stress the network a bit. Future proofing, I guess.
I paid for a 64GB on Privex (since they allow payment in SBD), and then I paid @someguy123 to set it up for me. A bit more than one would need so soon, but it was in a budget that I was comfortable paying.
If you will do it yourself, @someguy123 has a good guide here; https://steemit.com/steem/@someguy123/your-guide-to-setting-up-a-witness-server-steem-in-a-box-hf19
Best of luck!
_Rob
Oh, and TBH... I am not sure on the return-on-investment. I jumped in now, since I loved the recent whitepaper Ned posted.
Ok great, I hope you will receive a lot of votes.. I hope you would share some details with me after some weeks... I cannot afford a loss each month by running a witness.. So I want to do it but also need to have some value.. I just started 3 months ago on steemit.. and don't want to powerdown just for a witness server..
I understand that :)
We have to always help ourselves, before helping others.
Ask me in a month or so, and I will let you know how my server worked out for me.
_Rob
Thx rob.. I will.
Looks good @rcarter @rcarter.witness :)
Thank you :)
Good luck good luck @rcarter.witness and @purepinay!
Thank you @dreamiely,
Did you vote for me as a witness? I could always use more support :)
https://steemit.com/~witnesses (If you scroll down, and insert rcarter.witness and click vote)
Thanks again!
_Rob
Done! Yay, happy to support you, too. Have you met @cloh76.witness, @steemgigs, @precise also?
I voted for them, but have not met them. I will pay for their flights, and hotels here in the Philippines... If they make the time to speak at the event.
_Rob
And thank you... Witness voting is 100% free, and you can always pull your vote if the witnesses you voted for, aren't following through on promises. :)
Oh wow, that is quite generous of you! cloh is in the US though (I think).
How was the (was it Thailand?) crypto conference you attended recently? Read your post on it and the 'dad' bit was quite hilarious. playing with 'em coins again
Oh, I thought @purepinay said he was in Manila.
And it was great, thanks for asking. I will be going back to Thailand with @purepinay in 2 weeks :)
I am sure she will have some blogs about it. Will you be attending the Cebu conference?
_Rob
Cloh flew back to US recently. Terry and Precise are both here though.
I'm not sure about the Cebu conference on November yet. I'll let you and @purepinay know once I've finalized my schedule. I know it would be awesome to meet the Cebu steemians! ^_^
Interesting plan for the Cebuanos. Upvoted and resteemed. Will vote you as a witness once I have access to my desktop.
Mabuhay!
Thanks @st3llar,
Although I would love to help on a larger scale, it is just impractical to try and help everyone, in a country with over 7,000 islands :)
I appreciate your vote!
_Rob
If anything for the benefit of Cebu community, I will support! :) You have my vote @rcarter.witness ! :)
I appreciate that @jassennessaj
Helping me, to help others. As I mentioned in my first blog, I will always use 100% of the SP received on this account to give back to my witness projects.
Hope to see you at the conference!
_Rob
Glad to have you as a diligent supporter of Cebu community. I also have mine, you might wanna check it :
https://steemit.com/steemit-engineering/@jassennessaj/steemit-engineering-update-shirt-sizers-are-ready-schedules-for-sizing-now-set-creating-a-better-community-for-engineers
All good for Cebu! :)
Nice job.
I think smaller groups for Steemit always work best. I love a big community, but think it would be more productive if this community split into smaller 10 person groups... Holding larger meet-ups monthly.
Even a Steemit/Cebu/Engineers could be a team.
:)
_Rob
Sounds like a really nice plan, good luck. :)
Thank you, and also for your vote. I appreciate it.
_Rob
hey @rcarter.witness sorry for getting to this so late. It's great to see another PH Witness - I have moved back to the US, but I plan on continuing to visit the PH every 3 months since most of my work is there. I will probably move back there eventually. I have upvoted your witness account using my account(s). I hope I get the chance to meet you at the Cebu or other PH meetups. If you get the chance, you can also join the Steemit PH discord channel at https://discord.gg/55265yj. I have been a bit busy lately getting re-settled, but I'm back on now.
Hopefully we can work together on some projects in the future!
Hey Cloh,
That sounds good. I will cast a vote for you as well. If you are in Philippines in December let us know, would be great to get you to speak at the Cebu conference, and to reiterate to all the Filipinos why witnesses are important.
Rob
Followed and voted you as witness.. Thank you for your help to cebuanos here on steemit. Keep it up!
Thank you for your vote. Feel free to always keep me in check :)
_Rob
You're welcome. ;)
I replied to you on @purepinay's post.
I do appreciate the support, and really hope you do attend :)
Don't even worry about helping financially... It's a beautiful gesture, but I would love to see you buy more Steem instead :)
_Rob
Im also from Cebu sir you have my support 😀
Thanks :) Did you vote for me as a witness?
I appreciate your help... Every vote counts!
Mabuhay, from Busay :)
_Rob
Do you know how to speak bisaya language ?
No :)
Everywhere I go, Filipinos only want to speak English with me :P
I have lived here for over 5 years.
_Rob
Ahh whos with you in cebu ?
I have a Pinay girlfriend. @purepinay on Steemit. She also helps the community... Although, a bit overwhelming for her since its a huge task to keep up with everyone :)
I see , I know @purepinay she recently visited our school for promoting the steemit
voting now.
@rcarter.witness got you a $7.97 @minnowbooster upgoat, nice! (Image: pixabay.com)
Want a boost? Click here to read more! @originalworks
The @OriginalWorks bot has determined this post by @rcarter.witness to be original material and upvoted it!
To call @OriginalWorks, simply reply to any post with @originalworks or !originalworks in your message!
To enter this post into the daily RESTEEM contest, upvote this comment! The user with the most upvotes on their @OriginalWorks comment will win!
For more information, Click Here!
Special thanks to @reggaemuffin for being a supporter! Vote him as a witness to help make Steemit a better place!
This post has received a 14.39 % upvote from
thanks to: @rcarter.witness.
For more information, click here!
This post has received a 31.94 % upvote from @boomerang thanks to: @rcarter.witness
@boomerang distributes 100% of the SBD and up to 80% of the Curation Rewards to STEEM POWER Delegators. If you want to bid for votes or want to delegate SP please read the @boomerang whitepaper.
This post has received a 6.23 % upvote from @booster thanks to: @rcarter.witness.
Congratulations @rcarter.witness! You have completed some achievement on Steemit and have been rewarded with new badge(s) :
Click on any badge to view your own Board of Honor on SteemitBoard.
For more information about SteemitBoard, click here
If you no longer want to receive notifications, reply to this comment with the word
STOPCongratulations @rcarter.witness!
Your post was mentioned in the hit parade in the following categories:
Hello Rob...
My name is Greg and I am also living here in the Philippines near Cagayan de oro.
Kudos to you friend for you efforts to help support those Filipinos here stuggling here to earn a living.
Although I have been into Bitcoin and Cryptos for a couple years my wife and I are fairly new to Steemit.
Not familiar with witness, but have voted for you.
Cheers.
P.S.
Please follow my wifes account as she has just started too @fairyanneschoice
Thanks
Let us meet up Greg! :)
hey @rcarter.witness sorry for getting to this so late. It's great to see another PH Witness - I have moved back to the US, but I plan on continuing to visit the PH every 3 months since most of my work is there. I will probably move back there eventually. I have upvoted your witness account using my account(s). I hope I get the chance to meet you at the Cebu or other PH meetups. If you get the chance, you can also join the Steemit PH discord channel at https://discord.gg/55265yj. I have been a bit busy lately getting re-settled, but I'm back on now.
Hopefully we can work together on some projects in the future!
Hi :) I supported you, thanks a lot
Hope to visit Philippines soon
@Bibitcoin