My Steem Ambassador Application - @futurethinker

in ambassadorapplication •  7 years ago  (edited)


Hello Steemit community!


This is my application for the Steem Ambassador position. In the beginning I was not sure whether I should apply because I can't fulfill one of the requirements which is showing a picture of myself. Mostly, for a personal reason and partly because I value my privacy. I am doubting because I have a feeling it was not "fair" towards the other applicants.

After thinking more about it, I have decided to take a shot at it, because I think as a Steem Ambassador I am able to contribute to the Steemit community, which have given me so much. It is a valuable position, because ambassadors will form the support pillar for the #promo-steem movement which will help out hundres and thousands of Steem promoters. I am already a part of this movement and I want to be involved more.





My Story


When @starkerz held his iconic presentation at Steemfest about how little attention Steemit promoters were receiving, I immediately felt I had to do something. As someone who has invested his funds into Steemit it seems logically to me if we are able to do something that could add to the value of our investment, we should do so or atleast try.

I was not sure how to start, so I began with a contest to support the Steemit promoters. When I posted the contest something happened what I didn't expect. First of all the promoters I had on my list reached out to me. At that moment it moment it was clear to me how passioned they were about their promoting. The second thing that happened blew me away which was people asking me how to join my support list. The first one that did this was @seyiodus with whom I have been working till this day.


After the first contest I spoke with many promoters. Whenever I talked with them I asked them things like what problems they were facing with promoting. To my surprise, most of them told me that the promotion itself was not a big problem, but it was getting people to stay. So that got me thinking. The most obvious reason is that people get demotivated because they don't get attention for their posts. However as a curator for @curie and @ocd I noticed that even when people got decent rewards for their articles, they still left. So apart from the rewards there was something missing. And I have come to believe that part is interaction, connection or something with being in a group.

The realization led to the beginning of the @promo-mentors community. I started out with gathering a group of curators (a few were from Curie). We discussed for a few days with the promoters what we could to retain the newcomers. After a week of curating we added mentors to provide newcomers an experienced Steemian with whom they could talk to.

How it now runs: the community is a collaboration between promoters and mentors. The promoters invite people to the group while the mentors are there to help the newcomers to get on their feet. Daily mentors are giving personal guidance and hold workshops, which all the members can attend to get feedback for their posts. In addition, we with the help of @curie and @ocd curators and our own voting trail (our biggest contributer is @anomadsoul) we are rewarding quality authors AND giving small but encouraging votes to the ones that are eager to contribute to the Steemit community.

While @promo-mentors strictly isn't doing direct promotion it grows the Steemit community through "a network effect". Due to our collaboration with the Steemit promoters and our members inviting their friends, family and lovers our member count has grown to 550. Our group is diversed. We have people from Venezuela, Nigeria, South-Africa, Indonesia and the Philippines. At the moment we have 14 mentors of which 5 are Spanish mentors. In the future we are planning to recruit more people that speak different languages. Our discord group link: https://discord.gg/vDPAFqb.

Another positive effect of our community is that people are being made aware of the #promo-steem movement, which has created new promoters. An example of this is my @ocd-colleague @mariska.lubis who is an amazing women from Indonesia who was already telling people about Steemit wherever she went. When she learned about #promo-steem she was more encouraged to promote Steemit outside her area. A month ago she went to Bandung which is one of the big cities in Indonesia to promote Steemit with her group.





What I am going to do as Steem Ambassador


If it is possible for me to get delegation I will use this to grow @promo-mentors. My vision for @promo-mentors is that it will be a project incubator, a community that encourages people to initiate their own projects. At the moment we are scouting and mentoring promising authors, we want to do the same with projects. We will focus on projects that bring value to Steem or puts Steem on the map. For instance one of our members @leap8 is working on a creating a Pixabay (free high quality image source) for Steemit. Due to this personal situation he is not able to work full time on this. However with promo-mentors' modest support he is more encouraged to work on this. I believe in encouraging people to start projects will make Steemit more interesting which automatically will attract more users to this platform. If I become a Steem Ambassador this will be one of my biggest focus.

I hope that the Steemit community will find me worthy of being an Ambassador. Anybody that wants to see the result of my work, feel free to visit me in the Promo-Mentors Discord group and my blog.

At the moment I am working on the main page of @promo-mentors and on the promotion of our group. I have posted our demo video below.

Thank you for reading my application.


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Can we vote for you to get this position?

BTW: as a Steem ambassador, would you consider supporting the Thunderclap to promote Steem on social media?

@fitzgibbon We get chosen by the promo-steem team and then we will be forwarded in a blog to the Steemit community who can object us.

Yea ofcourse man! Any projects that helps Steemit I will try to support as much as possible. I even shared your post in the announcement of the promo-steem group!

I wish you the best in getting chosen to be an Ambassador. Promo mentors is already an awesome group. I come to discord and feel comfortable chatting because you and the other mentors just made it so easy. I felt welcomed from the start and the encouragement and support from all of you, just inspires me to be better. I have been looking for a platform and a group that supports community and I'm glad I was introduced to you and your group otherwise, I would have felt frustrated at trying to figure things out while making connections. I know promo-mentors is going to keep growing exponentially and steemit in general, will benefit from the many projects that you will be able to oversee and help fund if chosen.

Thank you very much @blanca237!

I fully support @futurethinker here. He has been instrumental in my growth and confidence here in Steemit.

He was the first person to nominate me for a curie vote and that set me to the path of building communities like @steemitfamilyph and @promo-mentors.

I act as a scout for @futurethinker in the @promo-mentors and I absolutely love the community that he is building. It's not that hard to get people to sign up, it is retaining them that is difficult.

Not everyone can create curie or OCD ready posts and having a mentor is a great way to help people adjust. With him leading the promo-mentors you can see his dedication and passion in molding people into great Steemians.

Other people are investing in SP and the blockchain, @futurethinker is investing in the talent and skills of the people who would be using those.

If he becomes an ambassador I can just imagine the good that he can do. I have full confidence that he will create the future whales and dolphins of the system and all they need is a chance from him.

Thank you bro.

Making people dolphins and whales? Now you are putting a lot of pressure on me :P

I'll be your first one hahahha

@futurethinker has been instrumental in getting the dpixify project off the ground. His support and excitement about the project gave me the confidence that I was bringing something of value to steemit and it will be supported. His great community also made it more comfortable for me to invite another person to steemit who is now happily writing quality content for steemit and is getting involved in the @promo-mentors community.

Thank you, @futurethinker for your dedication to this community.

Revealing an identity does not mean a person will do the best. But the work of a person always speaks for him.
Words cannot express the work you have been doing for all in #promo-mentors' discord server and on steemit @futurethinker. You are really an Ambassador already: seeing is believing and with the delegation you will be getting (I know you will get it because you deserve it and I hope they can see what we are seeing), you will do more for the planet steemit. I have not yet met someone like you on steemit who is dedicated to the growth of steemit and individuals. You are surely a blessing for steemit and it citizens and even to those that are yet to come in.

Thanks for the mentioning and I hope to do more with you to grow the community. I wish one day I will get the privilege to meet who futurethinker is in person, sit together and chat for long hours.

Our Ambassador, Futurethinker! The future of steemit is bright with you being part of the growth!!!

Thank you @seyiodus. You have been there with me from the start.

You are a major support to @promo-mentors and I have never met somebody who learns so fast!

Thanks. blushing

Hello, Thanks for such a great application and all the fantastic work you have been doing to increase awareness about the steem blockchain and its potential applications!

We at #promo-steem and @steem-ambassador have reviewed your application to become a Steem Ambassador and we are pleased to say that we would like to propose your candidacy to the community per the Application Approval Process HERE!!! :)

In order to proceed we would like to know that you are happy to follow the Steem Ambassador Responsibilities and Guidelines outlined HERE.

Please respond below with your positive response and we will proceed to propose you to the Steemit community as a Steem Ambassador!!

STEEMON!

Thank you @steem-ambassador. I have read the guidelines today and I just re-read them.

I am ready!!! Bring it on!!

#promo-steem

GREAT NEWS!

For me, I have not seen a steemian who is more worthy of being a steemit ambassador other than you. You are the perfect type of person that is needed as an ambassador because you will perform better than expected of you. I'm not going to wish you best of luck, I'm going to wish you congratulations because I'm 100% sure that you have been selected....

Congrats in advance my friend..... Cheers 🍻

Thank you for your kind words @jajdgenius :)

😀 😁 😂

I have never seen someone as dedicated to growing a community as much as @futurethinker! He has done so much for the community whether its doing feedback sessions for the members or engaging with the new members or creating activities and contests to liven up the community and strengthen the bond of the group, he's always there! I support this guy 100% in his vision and direction for this community! You got this bro! Bring home the bacon! 😀

Hahah! thank you @andywong31 :D

You have come a long way. Your contributions have been immense and selfless and honestly feel you deserve all the support you can get. I sincerely hope your application is granted for the sake of steem, steemit, we steemians that have benefitted from your selflessness and those that will still benefit it.

steem-on into the the future!

Thank you @gentleshaid. You are helping us immensely too with mentoring people about #steemstem :)

I am personally very pleased to see this up here @futurethinker. Your work is tireless, and we are very lucky to have you doing what you are doing to support #promo-steem! Application is being reviewed!

Thank you @anarcotech! It has been a pleassure for me! Looking forward to the future of #promo-steem!

I totally support you as a Steem Ambassador!

Thank you for your support @stellabelle! It means very much to me!

I think you will be a worthy representative as an ambassador for Steemit, it is not important that people see your face, it is the actions that are important.
This is your face, and it looks pretty good.
Best regards and a lot of strength for your job
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Haha you look awesome!

And thank you for your support @zanoni :)

My face sometimes look sometimes like a squid, hahahaha, thanks to @overkillcoin

All the best with the ambassador application, would be awesome for the group if you got it. You just made it very easy for me to convince people to join the discord server, I just have to show them the video :P. Thanks for all the support and mentorship that you and the group have provided so far, it has been a big help.

Thank you @chr7is I am glad to have you in our group! You and your wife make our group more fun :)

Hi @futurethinker - really pleased you have applied and just sorry that you hesitated. I think you should rule out though that there is n't actually two of you ---can't understand how you manage some many projects and the Discord Channel!! lol

Thank you haha!

And about whether there are 2 of me, I have a team that is helping me with @promo-mentors. They have been the best support for me!

I truly hope that you get the delegation @futurethinker, you deserve it!!! Maybe I wouldn't be blogging on Steemit anymore if it weren't for @promo-mentors! Keep doing what you're doing, and your picture is awesome!

Haha thank you @evecab, you were there from the near start. I am blessed to you have still around :D

Bossing @futurethinker you have all the support from the comedic trio @maverickinvictus and @andywong31 on your advocacy.

Together with Ohana/ @steemitfamilyph we are with you.

I am very greatful for your support! I enjoy being in the Ohana group too. Unfortunately I have missed all your karaoke nights!

We had a karaoke night last night till 2AM here. Don't worry you will be able to attend that real soon!

@future thinker, a steem ambassador any day! Looking forward to this progressing!!

Haha thank you @starkerz, @anarcotech and @stephenkendal for starting the amazing #promo-steem movement which gave birth to @promo-mentors!

Congrats

Great application - I've enjoyed reading a number of these now and it appears you've been putting in great effort to get this far - best wishes and continued success with 'getting people to stay' ...

I agree it's not always about the votes - it's about feeling like no one has heard what you've had to say - which is difficult if it comes from the heart. It appears to me that nothing worth having ever came that easy and if it did it wasn't appreciated the same.

Fingers crossed for you! DJ

Thank you for going through the applications!

If you have the time come by @promo-mentors discord server :)

How taken a look and [followed] thank you! Kindest DJ

Heyy bro!

Best of luck with the Embassor Application!! I really hope you can achieve this! You really deserve it after providing amazing help for everyone that need it. Especially with your feedback sessions!

Cheers!

@futurethiker, is there anyway I could vote you as a witness?

You are really thinking for the future of steemit.

Keep it up

Thank you @mrposyble. Haha I haven't thought about being a witness, but I don't think I am worthy of being one.

but boss @fturethinker, you are really doing a good job and you need to be commended for it.



We will support you 100% :)



Thank you @ezraabas :)

:)

Great to see your application sir, haven't see the level of impact made already I must tell you deserve to be a promo-steem ambassador

Thank you @samiwhyte! You have been an inspiration for your tireless mentoring of people!

I'm honored sir
I feel I haven't even done much yet
I hope to do more and better in the future.

You deserve this and more. Your group has helped a lot of people @futurethinker

Thanks @samstickkz! You brought us many people. I'm sure in the future we will be able to support more people with your help :)

Nice one @futurethinker. Your group has helped so many newbies and I wish you best of luck in your application.

Thank you @shodiya! I am also very glad to see active members like you :)

You're one of the good ones brother! I really do want to see you as Steemit-Ambassador you have worked really hard for the Steemit Community.

Thanks bro! Your support is appreciated!

Looking forward for your return btw!

woo hooo! You would make a great ambassador my friend :) you've already put so much hard work and time to uplift the community!

Thank you @polebird!

May God bless you... Keep up the good works! All the best and good luck with your application...

Amen o, I join you in prayers

Keep on with the good works, I feel you deserve it
I do hope they find you deserving enough to be a Steem Ambassador

Thank you @estherikott :)

Awww I hope you get it Future! ❤️

Thank you Karen <3

You are working hard ! You deserve the best

Thank you @rbayan!

Good Luck! :)

Thank you @lhyn :D

Wish you all the best in all ur efforts to promote steem-blockchain

Thank you @noblekings!

thats good

I am pretty sure for your reputation that you are proper to be an steem ambassador. You did a good job in @promo-mentors, I learned much from what you did there. Wish you all the best my friend. Regards from Aceh, Indonesia.

I am rather new to all of this but each day my knowledge and understanding expands. I do appreciate your efforts to create a sense of community and to support those who are making and effort to make their way on Steemit. Appreciate the discord link. Will check out your group too. Blessings.