quick link | read about it on medium

At times i get confused as to where to post, I’ve got so many options at my disposal. Just recently I've been posting everything here at steemit to be part of the community but also because i want to engage with other users, read some of your great posts and just generally know that I'm contributing to something bigger - that being said I'm missing out on some of the other platforms that i know and i love. I don't want to cross post across those platforms however, i think something gets lost in translation when you do that. I want to be true to the platform I'm writing on.

wordpress brings me google juice

See the one reason i love posting on wordpress is that they seo features are awesome that it brings me a little bit of adsense revenue in, ok so it's probably not anywhere near what steem is - just something that I've always known i guess. It's a habit I'm still having trouble getting out of, maybe i need to come up with some way to actually plug in different steem accounts that popular the wordpress blog with the steemit posts. Maybe that's how i get the value out of the adsense traffic as well to those blogs? Hmm. Suggestions in the chat please!

i love medium

I mean apart from the fact that they bought my me.dm domain to effectively 'go away' the actual blogging platform is super rad, it's free and it's got a great editor and linking system, the discovery is rad too, in fact it's got a bunch of features that make it really stand out and combined with the twitter baked in features make it a great system for native amplification, something that could be happening here on steemit if they just deployed one thing. ..

STEEM SHOULD ADD HIGHLIGHTING

It should be fairly straight forward to do but it's a highly powerful promotional tool and i think it could do two things for steem and outside audience engagement on the existing social (anti?) social networks the majority use - don't get me wrong, this is not about bringing over the masses of twitter or facebook here. I don't actually want that. I just want us to be able to drive more coverage and traffic to the platform. This is a series of quick wins.

• help users promote steem post across twitter/facebook accounts (easy)
• Cross pollinate posts by having the ability to add them to draft posts (harder)

I'm thinking it should be fairly easy to deploy on the front end because it's not something that really needs to store anything in the block chain as such, sure it might need some storage, database work to make happen and that might be bigger than the scope of what the steemit team already do to keep things going but i just wanted to sound it out there.

I've made a little video below about highlighting in medium and why i love it so much and how powerful a feature it is, what it allows you to do easily, annotating things that really resonate with you that you can then share out to social networks, it even builds a picture of the text, highlights that section and displays that to other people if they are following you when you read it.

so many ways to amplify

I have ideas like this all the time, i guess that's the byproduct of being a brand advocate for a mobile phone hardware company for four years and being out at events hearing how other brand advocates do their amplification, what they use as a funnel and what tools make the job easier.

Steemit already has a very concentrated user base of very active users, in fact in recent months people are posting more, commenting more so it's already happening that the amplification curve is growing, for me it's about sustaining that by giving users the ability to cross post to existing networks they are part of, just some fairly simple ui/ux tweets can make that happen. We already have a method of sharing the posts, highlighting could bring users another easy tool to rapidly share in an all new way.

TRUST AND AUTHENTICATION. .

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