Life on the Blockchain. A Beginner's Guide to Steemit: a Cryptocurrency empowered social media platform

in witness •  7 years ago  (edited)

As part of my witness mission to increase the user base of Steemit and help onboard minnows I've put together a PPT presentation. I hope that over the coming weeks and months I can use this to talk to professors and college students about Steemit. The goal is to define what Steemit it, present what the problems are with other approaches, show how Steemit solves them, and give a little product demonstration. I do this stuff professionally, so I'm have high hopes it will go over well.

The appraoch

  1. Create an email template
  2. Email some profs in New England ask if I can speak to their class about Steemit. English, journalism, economics, and computer science are all high on my list of courses to target.
  3. Go drive there or do a webex to show them this deck, answer questions, and hopefully onboard some college peeps.
  4. Additionally, use my youtube audience to put this out there as a screencast for folks not in college that may want to learn about this platform and this community.

Actually I have 300k airline miles from work... I could travel to do this on a roadshow if need be.

Your role

If you're reading this please give some constructive feedback on the slides as you see them. I think I'm a little light on dropping hate towards reddit and

The Deck

Intro Slide

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Definition slide

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Added a picture of the lego blocks to help share some of what the block chain is

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Describe key differences between static websites and blogs

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Talk about digital currencies as tokens that represent real value

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Currencies come in two general forms. Inflationary and deflationary.

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The FED prints an insane amount of money every year, so the value that you hold goes down

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Cryptocurrencies have small amounts of inflation, but relative to Government Fiat it's practically nothing. So, as more goods, services, and people use a given currency the amount you need to use to buy something goes down!!!

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The major competitors to Steemit are Facebook, Reddit, and Youtube

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Facebook sucks

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Reddit sucks now

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Youtube sucks

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So, what is Steemit and how can it fix the problems?

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These tokens have real value. You can trade them like stocks on exchanges!

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1 BTC is worth more than an oz of gold, and now worth $2500 USD!!!

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Let's talk user experience. This is my blog

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Top part describes me as a blogger

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The system tracks reputation so that users have a sense of how involved you are

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You can figure out quickly your reach, number of posts you have made, and how many people you choose to follow <h3

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Like sharing in Facebook, you can resteem other people's work and help get them exposure for content you like

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Posts earn Steem, through upvotes, you can track the number of comments, if you've resteemed it and who authored it

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Here's my wallet, over time posting, upvoting, and commenting you can earn a decent amount of Steem

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If your post trends you can literally earn thousands!

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What are you waiting for? Join steemit today!

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nice job, I like the not paid! notation for Facebook. I think this will be a real game changer when people see how all that time on social media can translate to $$.

Alright! Glad you like it!

Hey Aggroed Let me tell you. This post has inspired me, to meet as many steem members as possible. So many great people here, all with similar ideology, pouring our ideas in to a cummunity that can change the world forever. I'll take bitcoin and deflation thanks :)

Impressive work!

Thanks!

Thank you! I cant wait to view this!(I live in the woods with no wifi so I have to wait a bit). I saw the "reddit sucks now" subtitle and had to resteem. Theres so much hate on reddit and facebook its freaking toxic. I dont need that in my life! FULL STEEM AHEAD!

Toxic is putting it mildly, those places are troll galore, absolute rubbish.

If you have more reasons to dislike reddit lemme know.

Heres my biggest actually: theres a serious OP and the top response is a pun followed by 9 pages of more puns and "moms spaghetti". I dont have time for it and Id really like to see serious responses only.

this is great idea!
this is what we need! but in High schools before they become debt slaves!
This post got past me without seeing it glad you linked it!
you are awesome! going to have to make a martyr out of you!
namaste

Hey @aggroed, great idea to attract the youth at university. I did the same with some students last week and a few will sign in and I will promote.

I like the part with the other networks and that you post for free (not paid) or even better your post are the fuel for their grow.

Make the stuff from your blog with bigger picture of what you Highlight and maybe show some other blogs from students and from strange people who get some value from blogging.

Put the slides on slideshare, so everybody may use the deck.

Greetz from Germany and Belgium

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

That's good advice. Thanks for a critical eye! Earned yourself a follow!

As a speaker I always try to see my speech with the eye of the audiance. This helps me to create a nice presentation and a good flow of words

Very professional layout everything u need to now to join #steemit #freedom #cryptocurrency

Glad you like it!

yes if u like to see my project follow me and u will see some of my projects i like to do cheers :) #technology #steemit

Looks awesome! 👍
I wonder if you could throw in some community or relationship aspects to it. Your post just before this one is a great example of how this can be an uplifting place. I am sure with the length of time you have been here that you have some impactful stories and friendships that would never have happened without Steemit.

Good thought.

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

I like it, but from a none technical perspective and doesn't change anything, a better graphics could be used, make it look slick!

Good job and keep going :D
Resteemd

Well done!

I think you should do an extra slide or two focusing on valuable content and community. Maybe you can show some of your favorite posts. What kept me here wasn't the money or the prospect of making it (god knows I wouldn't put so much time into writing if it were for a bunch of assholes with just the prospect of maybe, potentially making more with it in the future). What I love about here is the amount of people who are idealistic, principled and also realistic, and they want to connect with others, make friends, and collaborate. I think you will get more people coming in with the right attitude if you focus more on this aspect. Who knows what you will bring in if you only focus on the "paid" aspect.

And you are likely to piss some people off (maybe even some professors) with such a blunt critique on the big names in social media. Good! I would talk more about how they profit off sharing our data (though it seems steemit is letting them profit off our data here too as well :-/)

Thoughtful commentary. I'll keep this in mind for round 2.

Great post...informative....

Done my fair share of powerpoint presentations, this was a great idea. It makes understanding steemit so much easier for the layman without having to read many pages!

No for Facebook

Love it- Bit is over 2600 now..... I would modify the competition slides.... those services dont suck..... Its better to prove why Steemit is better than to undercut other tech.

Nice post upvoted and follow you @aggroed

Thanks a ton!

Liberty Intensifies!

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This is excellent, a great way to get the message out.

Thanks! it's time to wake UP. It's our contents. We deserved to get paid.

Thanks to Steemit!

On #3 with the lego blocks you could rotate the blocks and/or label them? So people would understand where things go in the order of the creation of blockchain simplified. I usually see it in a web form.

Nice job!

I don't know how I missed this 4 days ago. I manically screen everything coming through. I'll make a revision after feedback window closes and start reaching out to schools. I'm actually considering hiring a business development rep to help me set up some meetings...

Glad you know you're on board, and it's lovely to have visit my wall. Here, have some tea :)

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Dig it, there are a few formatting things you want to double check like < h > tags.

Also. You mention "fake news" on the social media sites as a negative. How does steemit prevent "fake news" especially since it's uncensored?

Fake News is news that's censored under a rediculous banner. You can get censored for being an asshat on steemit, but usually not for your political opinions.

Fair enough, it's tough when you can't hear the lecture to go with the slides.

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