Winners Announcement // Engagement Challenge 4 Newcomers.

Steem greetings all the way from the motherland-Cameroon to fellow Steemitians. It has been an awesome four weeks on the Steemit engagement challenge for newcomers and I will use this opportunity to thank 🤗 all newcomers whom tried to actively participate in the challenge though their best was not good enough.

The purpose of this challenge was to boost engagement among newcomers because we realised that most of them hardly even reply to comments on their posts.

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The contest was meant to build a strong bond between newcomers and oldbies on the platform via engagement. Also, that via the challenge newcomers will set achievable goals on Steemit. I believe that in every journey of life, for one to succeed you got to set achievable goals. What do I mean by “achievable goals”? Of course, you don’t just set goals for a setting sake but set goals that you work towards attaining the said goals.

Creating an account on Steemit is a start of a journey and to succeed on this journey you got to set goals. Some of which I set for myself was to reach 10,000SP in 2 years and reach a reputation of 70.

Nonetheless, setting goals means you got to work hard in order to achieve the goals and the following technicalities were of great help.

Firstly, actively posting quality content. The quality of your content should not only be limited to writing, presentation counts a lot. To make your content presentable means you got to master your markdown styles to apply to your content.

Secondly, what is the essence for you to drop a post and disappear till another day. I always say “we grow by uplifting others”. If you cannot uplift another person, then do not expect uplifting from another person. What do I mean here? You grow on Steemit by building an audience via engagement. Engaging meaningful comments and not just short sentences like “wow you had a nice day”. This is not meaningful engagement. Short and un-meaningful comments does not trigger the content creator to respond.

Thirdly, consistency counts a lot on Steemit. You need to stay consistent in your engagement and posting quality content. This way, you build an audience for your content and attract support.

For the past 4 weeks of the challenge, the number of participants ranged between 3-6 each week. This implies that newbies did not take the challenge seriously and for this reason, I will no longer continue the challenge. But will host a different general contest for everyone willing to participate.

Each week, we monitored the engagement and posts created by the participants according to the rules of the challenge. 5 tried to create content ranging between 1-4 articles in a week. Notwithstanding, only 2 among the 5 were actively engaging in meaningful conversations with other content.

The following were the rules of the engagement challenge for newcomers.

Contest Rules:

• Actively posting quality content on the steem-cameroon community.
• Engage with meaningful comments on other users content and also reply to all engaging comments on your content.
• This contest will run weekly for 4 weeks and at the end of week 4 at 00:00 UTC, the winners will be announced.
• Stay original in terms of images, plagiarism free and no use of AI.
• The minimum number of words for your content should be at least 300 words, and at least 30 words for your comments.
• Your content must be Steem exclusive, meaning you are not cross posting the same content on other platforms.
• Include the tag #sec-newbie on your comment and also on your daily posts.
• Promote your entry on any other social media platform of your choice if you have huge followers.
• Be creative and original in your ideas.
• Those with reputations above 55 are not allowed to participate.

Winners

The price will be allocated to the 2 participants who were actively engaging with other content creators and also actively posting.

• 1st Price = @jubil12 5000SP Delegation + 5 Steem
• 2nd Price = @herryxyz 3000SP Delegation + 3 Steem

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NB: The essence of the delegations is for winners to use it and curate. Therefore we will monitor in case of any inactive usage of the SP to curate, we will undelegate. The delegation will last for a month.

Regards!