Introduction

After a phenomenal season 1 of the Steemit Engagement Challenge, I write to officially apply for SteemAlive to be selected among the 6 communities for season 2 of the challenge. I hope we are properly ready to shoulder the responsibilities for any community that will be selected. Below are some relevant information about our community that made us think we deserve a slot.

The Purpose of SteemAlive community

This community is 100% into Steem Promotion. We have successfully launched and executed various promotion campaigns in Nigeria. The fact that more than 90% of active Nigerians on Steemit came directly or indirectly through our community is big testament to our effectiveness in promotion. We recruit, mentor and support newbies as they kick-start their journey on Steemit.

SteemAlive Community - a brief history

A July 12th, 2020, a team of five persons together with @focusnow the Founder launched SteemAlive community. Our purpose of starting the community was to become the main channel through which Nigerians will get to know and join Steemit. We lived up to and beyond that expectation. We did not waste time to start creating awareness through Radio broadcasts, outdoor promotions, seminars and mentorship classes. It did not take long before these efforts started yielding fruits.

Through our promotion campaigns, we recruited so many new users. We trained them and get them the enabling environment to start-off their Steemit journey. Today, we can boast of the growth of those users. Some of them are now successfully community founders, Admins and moderators of various communities. For example @whitestallion. We have recruited and mentored many that are now academy professors and other very successful team leaders like @ijelady.

We continue to run our promotion, recruitment and mentorship campaigns till this day and hope to do more as we help the Steemit team achieve the 3R's.

Community Leadership

Below are the community Founder and moderators.

Username	Role	Club Status
@focusnow	Founder	Club75
@samuel20	Moderator	Club75
@marajah	Moderator	Club75
@chichieze	Moderator	Club5050
@ijelady	Moderator	Club5050
@caleb-marvel	Moderator	club5050

@focusnow Discord Link: focusnow#1571
@ijelady Discord Link: ijelady#2159

Community Account for curation

@steemalive is our curation account for the community. We use this account to support our member posts. We have been powering up most of our earnings to build up the account. Through percentage beneficiaries which are donation to the community account, we earn and power up to build our account. In 2022 alone, we have powered up more than 9000 Steem. Below is our account details from Steemworld

To mark our growth as pronounced, we recently achieved 9x dolphin status, just two months after we got to 8x. We are hoping to become an orca within on or before our second anniverssary.

We created a project called all4one where our members donate one post to the community weekly by setting the beneficiary 100% to @steemalive. This has been one of our fundamental way to earn and power up.

The posting key is held by some of the moderators that assist with community work such as @samuel20 and @marajah. The active and owner keys are held by @focusnow and properly backed up.

Current Policy on Engagement

Even before engagement became popular, our community have taken it serious and promoted it as an integral part of content publishing. We have launched and executed various projects whose primary aim is engagement. Currently, our engagement policy includes:

1. Nominated top 5 users must support at least one other nominee: We have educated our members and created a policy which requires that all top 5 nominees must support at least one other nominee. We drop a comment on each nominated post to that effect and moderaators ensure compliance.

2. Our 5Times7 project: This project has been running for some time now. We reward users that are able to engage with all top 5 posts for each day. It means that at the end of the week, they should have engaged with a minimum of 35 posts - 5 posts everyday times 7 days.

3. Moderators: Our moderators are checking every post and engaging with it. They check for club status, steemexclusive, and other things. They also engage meaningfully with the verified posts.

Helping Users improve their posts

Mentorship has been one of our strongest points. So we have always provided sufficient education to our members. Some of the things we do includes:

1. Weekly Classes Our weekly classes provide training on the do's and dont's or content publishing on Steemit. We are redesigning a fresh program which will kick off from June 2022.

2. Moderators recommendations: We have trained our moderators and tasked them with making corrections in any posts they notice some errors. So our moderators leave helpful comments on posts they verify and suggest our the author can improve in their next publication.

3. By Example: I and the leaders have set the standard in publishing strictly quality posts consistently. We ask our members to study our work and see how they can improve their own. This has been a great way to help our members improve the quality of their posts.

Why we must be given this Opportunity

We have done terrific work to deserve a chance in the engagement challenge for season two. Our promotion and mentorship project over the last two years have produced solid results. Almost all active Nigerians on Steemit today have had some direct or indirect assistance from SteemAlive to join the platform.

We have produced users that have achieved various levels of progress on the platform. Currently, we still remain the most populous and active community of Nigerians on Steemit. We still remain the most active in terms of promotion and support of newbies. We still remain the main entry point of newbies from this part of the world.

We have created projects such as the Steem Road Show, Food4though, 5Times7 and many others through which we keep members busy, engaged and rewarded. In the next few weeks, we will become an orca, a feat few communities on Steemit can dream of. We strongly believe that we retain enough reasons and credentials to be considered for this opportunity. It up to the team to consider and make make their choice.

Conclusion

We believe so much in the Steem Project. We hope to be selected for the season two of this engagement challenge. While we remain optimistic about our opportunity here, we will continue to fully support all Steemit projects - and indeed all our members in Steemalive community.