State of the Sndbox is a weekly newsletter that provides the latest in Sndbox activities, projects, and provides the best resources in creative empowerment for the Steemit community. To get up-to-date on all of our development throughout the week, be sure to follow us @sndbox. This SoTS was guest authored by our very own @luvabi!

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This Week in the Sndbox

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Happy Pi Day everyone! Welcome to the 33rd State of the Sndbox newsletter! This past week, we tried to help you digest this disruptive technology we call the steemit platform by showing you a rough draft of our illustrated flash cards. We put a spotlight on @blockmountain, a community of artists that aims to launch their first blockchain based music album. We also dug deeper into "what being an artist means" through curation by @paolobeneforti.

For a more thorough breakdown of what our members have been up to, be sure to go through our weekly Sndbox Selections of the Week post that we publish each Monday.

Illustrated Flash Cards - Top 10 Questions about Steemit

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How many questions do you answer before you finally convince someone to get on board the steemit platform? These FAQ flash cards have questions you have chosen for us and we plan to make answering these questions for newbies and prospective users a whole lot of fun for everyone! The tenth question is a wild card where we asked you to enter your suggestions through the comments. These questions stood out:

"How many times can I post and upvote in a day?"

"If it's decentralized, why flagging?"

"What is the difference between steemit and other social media platforms?"

Explore and Discover Art with @paolobeneforti

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Steemit is changing the rules about what being an artist means as said by @paolobeneforti by creating an avenue for artists to be rewarded for great content!

Whether it be surrealism by @gric, ironic creativity by @reinhard-schmid, dark fantasy by @twirble, post expressionism by @elewarne, or eerie digital paintings by @tomek.biniek.art, we applaud these great artists for their amazing talent and colorful self expression.

Project Spotlight: Blockchain Powered Music album by @blockmountain

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We put a well-deserved spotlight on @blockmountain community by @djlethalskillz, @playitforward, and @scuzzy who aim to create a unified album of Steemit musicians, with art created by Steemit artists, all in collaboration to make their first community project a resounding reality.

The Block Mountain album is a steem-powered album that will propel the @blockmountain community into a continuously growing and immensely diversified range of artistry -- creating links between the steemit blockchain and its external communities.

STEEMPH communities - Growth and Strength as an archipelago

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Since its launch in August 2017, the @steemph community has focused on building the Filipino Steemit Blogging Community through positivity and empowerment.

The initial challenge when @steemph was envisioned was that the Philippines is a vast archipelago separated by islands and bodies of water. Uniting communities across regions in this sense has been a drive to a more decentralized approach while uniting under one goal and one @steemph community.

The mission of Charity and Camaraderie on the Blockchain has since then grown exponentially with numbers from 30 to more than 200 in each hub, through the help of excellent community leaders in different hubs all over the Philippine archipelago and the world.

Through this exceptional leadership exhibited by @steemph hub leaders, we bring you these community meetups this March and April:

March 10 - Cavite Meet-Up Caravan
March 26 - Steemph.Antipolofest
March 17 - Philippine School of Interior Design (PSID) fundraiser in Valkyrie
March 31 - @steemph.negros meet up and orientation
April 4 - Homesteading Brigade in Samal, Davao
April 6 - Davao Stop for Meet-Up Caravan

Earn from loving your data, the early blockchain revolution.

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In this information age where explosion of data is monetized by corporations unbeknownst to social media consumers like us, the Steem blockchain is changing the status quo by decentralizing that monetization. Leveraging an attention economy to mine data for marketing, advertising and sales, we need to wake up and smell the Steem dollars, and take the ownership and monetization of the data we put out, even if it is just a picture of our cats and dogs.

We quoted Justin Beieber with our advice to love yourself, love the content you put out, and love the content you digest as you partake in the attention economy. Very soon, gears will turn and churn out a paradigm shift on how we put value onto our data through cryptocurrency and the blockchain, eliminating the middle men on this monetization and helping us get the rewards we deserve.

The State of Crypto Creativity in 2018

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The Creative Crypto - @creativecrypto - is all about getting more creatives of all disciplines involved in the revolution of blockchain technology. We believe that this is a new raw tool for professionals to apply to and empower their work, and it doesn’t require high technological know-how to access. So before we even officially launch the online magazine and bring you some significant highlights of creative work with cryptocurrencies and blockchain, here are the main things you need to know in an exclusive report for our early subscribers. Check out the post here! (Illustrations by @zsolt.vidak.)

Guest Author @luvabi

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A warm thanks to @sndbox's SoTS guest author; @luvabi. Abi is a member of Sndbox's first Cohort. She's an Information Technology Consultant in the Philippines, and proud Mom of two. She blogs about community events and activities she does with her little ones. A special thank you for sharing more about community development and incubation in the Philippines. It's amazing to learn about the growth of the Steem community there and how impactful the meetup culture is! [Guest Authors receive 20% of the SBD rewards, and an opportunity to showcase projects developing within the incubator / broader Steemit community.]

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New to Steem? Explore our resource and tutorial posts, below:

Blockchain	Basics	Markdown	Basics-2	Wallet

Payouts	Witnesses	NoNo's	Curation	Reputation

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