The deadline to apply for the October Communities of the Month program has been extended to midnight Sunday.

SPUD4STEEM is just four days away.

Today's Steem News also includes news and updates about Sponsorships on Steem, Powered Up STEEM, Steem Entrepreneur Coffee, SteemCoffeeShop, AVLE, Steem Entrepreneurs Workshop, and SteemFoods Anniversary Contest...

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1. Communities of the Month

Steemit extended the deadline to apply for the October Communities of the Month program.

Instead of applications closing on Friday evening communities now have until 11.59pm UTC on Sunday evening.

Get your community's application in now if you haven't already...

• The Communities of the Month Support Program - Applications for October [Deadline extended]

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2. SPUD4STEEM is coming soon

The next Steem Power Up event organised by @kiwiscanfly is now only four days away.

Make sure you do your best power up as there is now a record 28,500 SP in delegations for the best power uppers...

• SPUD4STEEM Four day Countdown

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3. Sponsorships on Steem

Long time Steem promoter @stephenkendal sponsors many projects on Steem (including Steem News !).

He is encouraging more accounts to take advantage of sponsorships on Steem.

100 STEEM can get a brand a whole lot of social media exposure from a dedicated team of Steem Promoters around the world...

• Encouraging more accounts to take advantage of Sponsorships on Steem for the Marketing and Promoting of their Brand around the World

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4. Powered Up STEEM continues to grow

The latest stats from @remlaps show continued growth in the amount of STEEM that is powered up.

This past week has seen another rise of about 1 million to 139,083,718 STEEM powered up, equivalent to a value of $68,397,478...

• Steem Total Value Powered Up - $68 million - September 26, 2021

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5. Steem Entrepreneur Coffee Update

@tucsond reports that the construction of the Steem Entrepreneur Coffee shop that he and his brother are building is progressing well and is now about 45% complete...

• STEEM ENTREPRENEUR COFFEE - | PROGRESS OF BUILDING CONSTRUCTION ABOUT 45% | - We Build Coffee Shop for PromoSteem and can accept Payments with Steem and SBD

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@arie.steem also reports that construction is now moving along on his SteemCoffeeShop...

• SteemCoffeeShop - Construction Activities [25-09-2021]

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6. AVLE Update

Developer @etainclub continues to post regular updates on the progress of his new AVLE dApp...

• [AVLE] Image Upload - Signing Image not working

• [AVLE] Posting Tags Validation

• [AVLE] Posting Advanced Settings - Reward, Beneficiaries

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7. Steem Entrepreneurs Workshop

The Steem Entrepreneurs Community held a workshop today for micro entrepreneurs in North Aceh and Lhokseumawe City.

The speakers were @tucsond, @subkiusman and @harferri.

Several of the attendees posted reports on the workshop including @klen.civil, @akmal1 and @fikar22...

• Output : Business Knowledge Obtained from Steem Entrepreneurs Workshop (+Gallery)

• First meeting || Business Knowledge Gained from Steem Entrepreneurs Workshop

• Attending the Output Meeting : Business Knowledge Gained from the Steem Entrepreneurs Workshop

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8. SteemFoods Anniversary Contest

The popular SteemFoods community is now 1 year old.

To celebrate the event SteemFoods is running a special Anniversary Recipe contest with 50 STEEM and a T-shirt to be won.

The contest closes tomorrow so hurry up with your entry...

• SteemFoods Contest -33-| Prepare a Special Recipe for the 1st Anniversary of the SteemFoods Community! | 50 Liquid Steem + T-Shirt

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KEY DATA [ from CoinMarketCap ]

STEEM price	US$ 0.50	26 Sep '21 6.49pm UTC
STEEM price	0.00001167 BTC	26 Sep '21 6.49pm UTC
CoinMarketCap Ranking	#189	26 Sep '21 6.49pm UTC
SBD price	US$ 6.29	26 Sep '21 6.49pm UTC
Alexa rank (steemit.com)	#3,544	26 Sep '21 6.49pm UTC
Unique visitors (steemit.com)	739,489 / day	26 Sep '21 6.49pm UTC
Page views (steemit.com)	3,919,291 / day	26 Sep '21 6.49pm UTC

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This is #405 (26 Sep '21) of this daily news service.

Steem News is sponsored by @stephenkendal.

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[ graphics & images by @pennsif & @stephenkendal ]