Partiko Mentorship Update

I have been a @partiko Mentor for a couple of weeks now and have tried my best to actively engage with the new user community as I often do for my curation efforts. I have to admit that since starting this mentorship initiative, I have felt that the engagement levels on new user posts have increased substantially. While in the past, there were always a number of communities to welcome new users, now many Dapps have gotten involved in engaging with these users to attract them to their communities. I think this is great as it allows new users to feel how broad and diverse the ecosystem truly is. It is a demonstration that we are no longer just a blogging ecosystem which should attract more interesting personalities and communities.

However, it has also brought a lot of information competing for the user’s attention. Given how many people have grown accustomed to being part of the new attention economy through traditional social media, this has gotten them used to ignoring some of the comments that seem promotional. I think this has impacted the ability to attract new users who are also just learning their way around and obviously have reservations on clicking on links openly (I know I did when starting). Therefore, I think that instead of being an immediate Mentor for them, I have started to learn myself about the ecosystem which is always great given how dynamic it continues to become.

My approach has been visiting the newest Introduction Posts and posting a comment welcoming them to Steem and explaining the benefits of using @partiko as a front-end. Unfortunately, except for one user I did not really get feedback or responses to my comment. I will go into the details further below.

Another challenge I have had given my approach is that not only does @partiko already also reach out to each new user with its own comment but there has also been a competition amongst my fellow Mentors to approach them as well! I have more often than not look through the comments of these posts to find other great Mentors already reaching out to the new user. Therefore, I respect their space and do not engage unless I do some for my other #introduceyourself curation efforts. I hope that the other Mentors have gotten great results as well.

Here is the list of users I have approached since starting my efforts. I have included the amount of Partiko points they each have which only demonstrates that one had signed up. However, in all transparency, when I engaged with the user he mentioned that his brother had also suggested using @partiko as well. So I may be in zero if I take that into account! It unfortunate as I was looking forward to helping some users through the process. However, I did not give up there! I reached out those that have remained active by posting (represented with an asterik on my list) to follow-up on my efforts to have them try the @partiko app. I gave them a small upvote on their latest post and left them a new message:

These subsequent posts by these users have, as expected, received less engagement than their first ones so I hope to gather their attention as they consider engaging with our community. I look forward to really becoming a mentor to share my experiences and thoughts on how to remain motivated and engage given the opportunity that Steem has to grow and create value. Even after this mentorship program is over, I expect to continue providing support to onboarding users as the community grows.

I look forward to the community in general to strive to do the same as it seems they have been as of late. While I cannot say that I am proud of these results, I have learned from my experiences that adjustments can be made to improve future results. I intend to engage actively with fellow Mentors to see how they have succeeded where I have failed. I am proud to be part of an initiative that allows me to build community for those anxious to add value to the ecosystem!

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