Thank you for covering several extremely important points here. I'm planning on doing something similar to Mark about how to keep new plankton here as well. We all need to be doing a lot more, and greeting them when they first come in the door is a HUGE first step towards that.
Resteemed as well. Keep spreading these messages.
One thing I've thought about is creating an "Unofficial Welcome Team" -- a group of us dedicated to greeting 10 or so new Steemians each day, and working to share their stories, reward them for creating a strong introduce yourself post and sharing some important pieces of info with them. For example, a YouTuber dropped in a couple of days ago and shared their intro post. In the comments, I mentioned DTube, which they had never heard of -- those little pieces of info "Make sure to check out..." will help them buy in early and get them more involved in the Steem blockchain instead of just checking Steemit out a little and leaving after a week.
I love the unofficial welcome team, loop me in. I know Mark well enough to know he'd be totally down to help with that as well. What a super cool idea!
Okay great. I'll move forward and come up with a one pager based on this idea to share.
That sounds awesome!
HEY! Count me in on this! I'm really excited by this idea. Awesome.
Awesome! The one-pager will be open to any additional thoughts and edits, but will get the idea rolling. Expect to hear more around 2/10-2/13, will be gone on vacation but thinking on this and working on the idea when gone. Take care and thanks for backing what is so far just an idea. I believe we can make a big difference with this though. Thanks!
Can't wait to see this! Very cool.
Absolutely! There's a small group of steem users on Facebook I'm in. I'm pretty sure some of them will be interested as well.