This mindfart is written in spirit of Working Out Loud #WOL on a boring Sunday afternoon.
Third Eye Express is the name of our voluntary, open-participation community on the blockchain. There are no real experts here, only learners and communicators. STEEM's socioeconomic design has so far shown us a great way of doing things, and that's to freely help out anyone with their ventures.
Well it's only me at the moment, but whatever. The hope is to lend our experience and more importantly, act on our desire to help out STEEM community members in strengthening the value proposition of their projects - big or small. Only if they're decent projects, of course.
About Us (first draft)
We are a group of ideation and branding consultants. The spirit is to enable others to have insights into the future of their ventures, then work towards it.
We work out loud, freely contributing to the wider community.
We will voice out honestly if faced with terrible ideas and sub-par brand images.
We tend to propose and gravitate around low-barrier ventures.
We value time. However, we'd also like to keep things casual and friendly.
We are all about rapid-prototyping and testing. Yes, that's Third Eye Express. Example: "logo" above cooked up in Canva in under 10 minutes.
Refinement and finalisation of materials will not be part of what we do.
Although we'd always contribute in the open like any Steemians, special request for our time and assistance will naturally come with a minimum price-tag, depending on time and degree of work required. But if I'm very free, then I wouldn't bother with any fees. Helping increases value of the network anyway.
Our credentials.
Well again it's only me so far lol. I've some experience under my belt when it comes to branding and ideation. Just a lifelong enthusiast. One of my works - Hybrid Entertainment. Also at time of writing, I'm part brand consultant and idea-dude in another unrelated blockchain project. Not going to disclose that at the moment, so you'd just have to take my word for it.
However, I believe in learning and cooperating more than anything else. Credentials and requirement of deep experience aren't paramount to the spirit of TEE, in my opinion. Lifelong TEE-spirited enthusiasts are far more important.
Update: the best way to dive into this is to understand there's really no great standard for ideation and branding. People only have different preferences.
Who may use us?
Anyone, as long as it's a generally mama-approved kind of project. It can range from personal blogs and vlogs, to larger ventures like blockchain companies and communities. As for Steemians, everybody is actually a one-man company with their own blog, and some honest personality imaging / branding wouldn't hurt.
How to be part of TEE?
There will be no official, contractual stuff here. You can freely adopt and be part of TEE or change it to whatever you want to call it, and it's up to others to decide if you're the right fit for their attention.
Anyone can participate and point Third Eye Express (TEE) to any ventures. To be honest, there are plenty of awesome TEE-ers on Steemit, especially the early adopters.
Future plans.
A TEE-token, just because. But on a serious note, TEE-tokens may be purchased as a way to request for our time and assistance. Maybe not. Will think about useful, differentiated functionalities later. A TEE-token is not necessary, but it would be cool.
Will use communities function to power TEE. If you already have that handle, please put it to good use. Or is communities namespace a different thing? Not so sure.
"Well again it's only me so far lol. I've some experience under my belt when it comes to branding and ideation" Well I noticed it after following a few of your posts. Brilliant idea. Resteemed and followed.
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Age old idea.. now supercharged by the blockchain.. thanks for the deed :)
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You are welcome @kevinwong
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Very interesting idea, I love it. "We are all about rapid-prototyping and testing" is perfect for me, I use often Canva too ;)
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Yeah just slap some decent standard stuff to look at first is usually good enough. Leave the rest to the true specialists!
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Fast, free and good enough for the first look, the best way to start something new! :D
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There will definitely be a need for this service; As projects start using the Steem blockchain, they'll need branding assistance. That's where you come in, I hope! It would be great to have a branding community helping out there.
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I've been spending time coming up with an acceptably loose schedule and framework so I can start travelling / going around while participating in the community well enough. Been staying too much at home studying new ICOs and formulating all these nowadays lol.. getting sick of it tbh haha..
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There's no shortage of good Steem projects that are a rebranding away from actual business.
Like Squeek.
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I'm in! If you'll have me of course :)
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rule #1 of tee. there are no participation rules lol
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Excellent work dear friend it is always good to learn something new, now that you mention it I realize the difference, thank you very much for this information
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thanks @mars9 hope to be seeing what you'll be up to :)
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I love this kind of community, how to join so I can contribute. @kevinwong
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Hahah thanks for the interest. I'm just putting it out there openly. For starters can give opinions to others on their ventures, maybe on steemit.chat, or if not too intrusive, on their posts on Steemit. Haven't figured this out :D lol
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Hehe ... thanks, I'm very left behind in the field of technology, so my question sometimes feels very silly. Hehehe...
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Not silly. I mean, it's the same with helping anyone on the Internet, except the voting and reputation stuff around here really helps with contribution and cooperation within the (blockchain) community :)
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Hmmm ... thanks for the information, really help me @kevinwong
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Oh one idea: if you think you can help out with another person's ventures, just come up with your own post about improving their brand, giving ideas, etc..
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Ready ... i will do it step by step. Thank you
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step by step :D
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Very timely idea. Thanks.
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Np. Hope to be seeing what you'll come up with :)
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wohoo!! Like the idea!!!
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Feel free to do anything about it :)
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You got a great name there. Thats always a hard part!
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Anything with an eye in it is usually okay Lol.. but tbh this name was supposed to be for something else, though it kinda fit quite well in this context!
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That's true about anything with an eye in it. When I read it and then the acronym I thought, oh yeah, totally works!!
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like it
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thanks! - the steem car is still up and running?
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engine problems at the moment. but it will be fixed until next rally. thanks! :)
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Nice! Wanna see when it's back in action :)
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