Applications are closing soon for Season 20 of the Engagement Challenge.
Witness @joviansummer has been the subject of the latest Showcase Interview.
Today's Steem News also includes Developer Updates, Developer Delegation Day, PUSS.Coin, Steem for Bangladesh, World of Sports, Meetup Calendar, and Contest Corner...
1. Engagement Challenge Season 20 - Closing Soon
Steemit Inc is inviting applications for Season 20 of the Engagement Challenge.
It's all change this time with individual Challengers taking the place of communities to run the challenges.
Teaching Teams are being given a second chance.
There are also no restrictions on Steem Power, Reputation, nationality, language or community affiliations for applicants.
The closing date for applications is 11:59 pm UTC, on Tuesday 27 August 2024...
For the Challengers there have been over 30 applications so far...
For the Teaching Teams there have been around 20 applications so far...
2. Showcase Interview
@ubongudofot continues with his Showcase interviews, this time talking with South Korean Steem witness @joviansummer.
@joviansummer runs the @jswit witness, the @jsup voting service, and the Steem.NFT project...
Pennsif the Witness
After almost 2000 days on Steem I decided it was time to take my contribution to the platform to the next level.
I have therefore set up as a Steem witness... @pennsif.witness
If anyone would like to support what I already do, and what I am planning to do, by giving one of their 30 witness votes to @pennsif.witness I would be hugely grateful.
You can read my full witness announcement here...
@pennsif.witness is now at #19. Thank you to everyone who has voted to help get to this position.
3. Developer Updates
Witness @justyy is adding Account Recovery warnings to his steemyy.com toolset to help detect compromised accounts...
Witness developer @etainclub is continuing work on his Steem payment system, SoodalPay...
@hardphotographer has made some further changes to his Telegram SteemBot adding Russian, Hindi and Spanish language facilities...
@remlaps is proposing a Developer Delegation Day to support developers...
4. Community Watch
The Amar Bangla Blog Community have launched their own meme coin - PUSS...
Community founder @ripon0630 is hosting an online meeting to celebrate the 2 year anniversary of Steem for Bangladesh...
@httr4life, along with Mod @philhughes, are running new community for sports enthusiasts - World of Sports.
The community is hosting a number of contests including a weekly sports writing contest...
5. Meetup Calendar
After a successful Meetup in Venezuela on Saturday, there is now a new event planned in a different part of the country for 26 October.
That Meetup will take place in Aragua and is being organised by @mile16, @adriacabrera and @anasuleidy.
8 September - Indonesia
Official Report: Meeting Result for Global Meetup on August 21st, 2024
Update daftar peserta Meet-Up Global Indonesia, 8 September 2024
5 & 6 October - South Korea
2 November - Venezuela
30 November - Nigeria
If anyone knows of any other Meetups being planned anywhere in the world please post in the Comments.
6. Contest Corner
@disconnect continues to publish his comprehensive daily list of current contests on Steem.
There are 109 contests in the latest list with over 650 STEEM in prizes...
@ady-was-here is running a contest with a 50 STEEM prize pool to make a pitch to invite people to join Steem...
@harferri is running a contest on the positive impact of meetups...
KEY DATA [ from CoinMarketCap ]
| STEEM price | US$ 0.18 | 26 Aug '24 6.09pm |
| CoinMarketCap Ranking | #392 | 26 Aug '24 6.09pm |
| SBD price | US$ 2.59 | 26 Aug '24 6.09pm |
| Unique visitors (steemit.com) | 134,634 / day | 26 Aug '24 6.09pm |
| Page views (steemit.com) | 205,962 / day | 26 Aug '24 6.09pm |
This is #542 (26 Aug '24) of this news service.
[ graphics by @pennsif ]
Thank you for the mentions, @pennsif! These help more than you will ever know.
(side note: not sure if by design, but the link under the section you mention the #SteemitDailyJackpot directs to a "50 STEEM Contest Alert" in Xpilar).
I love to hear about the meetups. I'm blown away by the desire to further build communities and expand friendships/relations in those selected regions of the world. Here in America, everybody is so divided by politics that no one is interested in online community development anymore. They only want to argue and point fingers at who's to blame these days, which is sad.
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Hopefully the Steem presence in the US will be able to grow again and maybe get big enough to hold a meetup there again as there used to be in the early days.
(and thank you for spotting the mislink)
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Es una alegría enorme aparecer en tu sesión de noticias 😃 estamos trabajando desde ya en nuestro nuevo evento y esperando a muchos usuarios que se están sumando a la iniciativa .
Los mantendremos informados de los preparativos .
No sabía dónde la mueva moneda, fue bueno venir a leer noticias .
Los desafíos están cargados de muchas postulaciones, también hice la mia apoyando los cambios en steemit .
Saludos éxitos y bendiciones amigo 😊
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Hope the event planning goes well.
Let me know of any updates.
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Ok ya mi compañero subió una actualización con unas modificaciones y el lugar donde será el evento .
https://steemit.com/hive-113376/@adriancabrera/iniciamos-los-preparativos-para-el-meet-up-aragua-2024
Esperamos ahora reunir algo de dinero para hacer el pedido de las franelas y comida, queremos atender bien a los usuarios debido a que muchos viajarán desde lejos, aunque estamos esperando poder cubrir parte del transporte .
Gracias por tu apoyo amigo nos hace hace feliz que contamos con ustedes para seguir dejando en alto el nombre de steemit 🥰
Meet up Aragua activo!
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Thank you for this.
I have added the new post and the new date.
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Hi friend, this is the Spanish translation:
Noticias de Steem @ 26 de agosto de 2024- Desafío de participación: cierre pronto
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Thank you for the Spanish translation of Steem News.
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Thanks for the Steem News update. Here is the Indonesian translation:
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Thank you for the Indonesian translation of Steem News.
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You're welcome, we're happy to do it
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Here is the Bengali Translation of Steem News..
স্টিম নিউজ @ 26 আগস্ট 2024: এনগেজমেন্ট চ্যালেঞ্জ - আবেদনের সময়সীমা শেষ হতে চলেছে।
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Thank you for the Bengali translation of Steem News.
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Here is the Urdu Translation of Steem News
دی سٹیم نیوز 26 اگست 2024: انگیجمنٹ کا چیلنج - جلد ہی بند ہو رہا ہے
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Here is the Hindi translated version
स्टीम समाचार @ 26 अगस्त 2024 : एंगेजमेंट चैलेंज - जल्द ही समाप्त होने वाला है
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Thank you for the Hindi translation of Steem News.
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Hola amigo 😃
Es una maravilla que estén ocurriendo tantos eventos al mismo tiempo, eso hará que las personas fortalezcan lazos con Steem y progresivamente crezca la comunidad. Estoy preparando mi postulación para el equipo docente, y también añadí una idea para certificados otorgados a los participantes (utilizando el id de transacciones, creo que de esa forma podemos estimular la participación en los curso, vale la pena probarlo)
Saludos!
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Good luck with the Teaching Team application.
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gracias amigo 🐥
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Hello! Thank you for covering our updates. We have been working on this update for a long time. Now we have entered the 3.0 stage, which will also have many interesting updates.
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Your project looks like it is progressing well.
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Thank you. We are trying very hard!
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Thanks for posting the current platform update. Nice to know.
personal opinion;
Respect the current updated Engagement Season 20 rules. This is a good initiative. And it will bring out the talent in the members. Teachers or individuals will gain more experience.
But what about so many communities? Communities will not be as magnificent as before. The posts will become personality. But I liked the community based engagements. By doing this, the community would get benefits. Community admins benefited from better monitoring of the community. It was promoted.
But of course respect all the current updates. Everyone will be fine.
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I believe most communities lack engagement if it comes to admins and mods the hosts! and members are only a number.
Moderator reports are rarely read and if something should be edited it is ignored (on to the next posts!).
To my opinion the strength of a community is one topic/a clear face and engagement. If this is the case people will see it as their home, return and promote it. Who knows they also like to delegate SP or post without contests.
How does that sound?
If a community is only started for the benefit of the owner/admins there is something seriously wrong.
@solperez @liasteem
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There is logic in your words. Since I was not a moderator in any engagement community. So no experience. And now I had this curiosity to take up community based engagement. But agree with what you said, let's look at 20 seasons. Let's see what happens.
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We see it soon enough!
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is there a community built on personal gain? if so, then the community key will never be shared with others, and if others betray the Community? who will be blamed? who will build the community?
sometimes what we see is not what it really is and sometimes what is actually seen is not the real fact...
how can someone steal from the community? in fact, he came and went and never came back... what do you think about compensation?
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Communities are always built on personal gain. The idea to start one alreasy is. I have takes and I started it for me to find my stories back so yes, this is my personal gain.
There are plenty easily sharing keys just like sicks, the car, books, and cookies. Why? Again personal gain. We share for 1001 reasons from making our own life easier, to delegating, counting on a friend, help if we need it, loyakty and whatever comes to mind.
We rarely see the truth since it is coloured by who we are which is the reason why one truth doesn't exist.
It's the same if it comes to friendship, betrayal, faith our defination mixed with life experiences are who we are and how we "see" (experience) the world around us.
It is a good question if one can steal from a community or an account. That counts for a hacker as well. Who is to blame if you are robbed? The criminal or you, the city, the hiuseowner, the bank? Most likely the "victim" is. If something goes wrong we can only blame us because we did not pay attention or...
Ifvin a group everyone takes the blame. It happened to me not too long ago (about 1 week or a bit more) and indeed this was anout trust and till today I cannot say much has changed (see the book entry in freewriters). So now I stay from a distance and do only the what us necessary since it's not my club and not my responsibility and I refuse to take the fall for someone else. I don't have keys and I volunteer. Ww never had the discussion about getting paid before I started.
Back to the community can one steal if he has the key? It depends on the situation.
Once my grandmother told me to go to the shop and bring her a garden tool. My grandparents owned it. As a 4-5 year old I walked the long road to get the tool. It was extremely busy and my grandmother waited and no one noticed me so after long waiting I decided to search for it. I took it and went home.
My grandmother became angry because she said I did not tell I took it and therefore stole it. Did I? How can I steal something that belongs to my family and therefore to me? 🤔
Compensation is a descent thing to do but of course it depends on many factors. If I work daily should the one who shows up 3 hours in 14 days time be compensated in the same way as I?
Is a comoensation needed if we volunteer or is it a descent thing to do?
Since months I try to find the owners of abandoned communities. I am interested in them because I posted in it. I like to take them over and am willing to pay for it although it is nothing. Still, I believe that if I find the owner and he says I can have the keys I would compensate for it. Why? Because he once invested in it and I like to have prove it is mine.
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Mine and his.
Two very different things, but teamwork in a community also cannot be ignored, they are willing to spend their time and thoughts even though the benefits return to their personal.
If the community can be taken over as you said, then they did build it for personal gain. However, what about the team? I believe that sharing can lighten a job. I believe in teamwork, but it is very unfortunate if a job is ultimately only exploited because of someone's fear of getting results and that is natural.
There is nothing wrong with compensation, but it is not right if compensation is given every time (minutes and seconds) of the work. But as you said, it all depends on the conditions and situations.
I have also given a community if someone can manage it well and make it grow into an independent community. If there are people who work hard and sincerely at something, then what other value can we give other than the word "great". Someone like that will not be abandoned, especially if she is our own grandmother. For me, the Community cannot be traded, this is an idea, creation, innovation and self-integrity in building the steem ecosystem. Even though it is small, a community deserves to be appreciated. Like those who always write the same segments. They are just trying to perform, they just need a little push and support from us. How we see things is very important. It is about trust, we should not betray our own team even if we have the opportunity to do so.
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Delegaré y publicaré. Te confieso que en estos momentos estoy un poco atareada con compromisos offline. Mi hermana-mamá está un poco aquejada de salud y debo cuidarla. Aún así trataré de mantenerme activa por acá.
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Haz lo que tengas que hacer. Sin prisas, sin preocupaciones. Le deseo buena salud y fuerza a usted.
🍀♥️
I am not sure which @solperez you are on Telegram 🤔
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It will be interesting to see how the new format of the Engagement Challenge progresses.
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Yes, we will see what the result of season 20 will be? How much benefit? Otherwise I hope it will be better if you discuss this matter.
Many thanks for replying to the comment.
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"Hola Steemians! 🌟 We're getting excited for the Meet-up Aragua 2024! 😊 @adriancabrera iniciamos los preparativos para el evento más esperado del año. 🎉 ¿Estás listo para conectarte con la comunidad Steem? 🔗 ¡Vota por nuestro testigo xpilar.witness en https://steemitwallet.com/~witnesses y ayudemos a crecer juntos! 💪"
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