Greetings needleworkers and community supporters! I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend! I want to thank everyone for the upvotes and resteems of the @needleworkmonday account. It’s been a lot fun time curating your wonderful articles! I’m looking forward to seeing more join us on Monday’s and for more supporters to come onboard as well.

As of right now I am solely running the @needleworkmonday account. This consists mainly of upvotes, resteems and curation. I had a conversation with @shanibeer and @marblely about listing out what tasks need to be done to maintain the account and then reaching out to the needlework community for volunteers to help.

Before I get into the tasks I want to say the vision I had for the #needleworkmonday initiative was to create a fun, relaxed and supportive space where we share what we love to do. It doesn’t need to be complicated or become too much work for anyone. There is an easy way to use our voting power to build our SP without creating a service that requires payment.

I personally am not comfortable with the trailvotes/autovotes because I don’t want to be responsible for anyone’s posting key. When I first joined I was told by several veterans to never give anyone access to it (there have been hacking issues, unauthorized votes etc.) On top of that it will be more work for someone to keep track of it all. Just as everyone I have other priorities to take care of and cannot be online 24/7.

Also the main focus of #needleworkmonday is needlework. The @needleworkmonday account is here to support and reward only these types of posts. We have been working hard to get our work seen and appreciated more. Many of you have taken more time to add more value to your posts by showing the steps it took to get to the outcome and it is inspiring others. I believe that getting more exposure and support will encourage everyone to continue making quality posts.

Tasks

It would be great to have at least two others onboard helping out with some of these tasks keeping in mind the guidelines listed in this post to be followed...

• Curation - This includes upvoting Monday’s posts from our get together, choosing the posts to be featured and making the featured post.

This also entails taking the account for a weekly walk upvoting needlework posts and inviting those crafters to join us (this is how our voting power will be used throughout the week). There will be a generic invite message for you to use as a template if needed.

• Resteems - Every Monday several posts from our gathering needs to be Resteemed to the account. This helps our needleworkers gain more exposure and makes their post easily accessible from the account. These resteems are a representation of who we are and what we do at #needleworkmonday!

• Maintenance - This is making sure the #needleworkmonday tag is being used relevantly and appropriately. I don’t want anyone getting comfortable with using the tag irreverently for their posts. If it is not needlework related it should not be used. I have kindly asked several people not to do so and they have complied and discontinued their use of it.

This also includes encouraging the community to support one another and not just come to drop their post and leave. I’m not saying that every post needs to be upvoted but each needleworker should shoot to visit at least 3 other needleworkers and spread some love every Monday they are posting :)

The other part of this is reminding everyone to share the process of their work. I know this may not happen every time because that’s life, we won’t always have the time or means to do so. This is however something everyone should shoot for because it adds quality to your posts and value to this community. If we are trying to inspire others to pick up a craft, how much more will they be inspired if they can actually see it come to life by seeing the steps you took to get there?...a bunch more ;)

• Discord - It would be great for our group to have it’s own Discord. Especially for those that will be working on the account together to better communicate. However, I do not have the extra time to create one but I can help if someone is willing to do so.

If we are unable to have our own there is another option for us. @steemitmamas (which I am apart of) has generously agreed to allow our needlework community to have our own space with channels within their Discord server. Setting up a Discord group does take time and you kind of have to be computer savvy. Being one of the moderators for @steemitmamas has made me realize this. We have some talented mamas here on Steemit that know their stuff and I have learned quite a bit from them.

This next one is for everyone...

If you have any Project or Challenge ideas please let me know. We will be starting these again soon but I want to hear your ideas and inspirations! We need projects and challenges that everyone would be able to participate in that are not limited to certain needle crafts. This is a challenge in itself so I would love some feedback on this please.

These are the tasks I can think of at the top of my head. Once we get on Discord we will better be able to communicate and I can give details to whomever is wanting to volunteer. Please don’t feel obligated to volunteer just because you are apart of this community, I don’t want anyone to feel pressured. It is your choice and I ask that you do so only if you are willing and able to :)

Needleworkers this is what I need from you below in the comments please:

1 . Let me know if you want to volunteer and if so which task.
2 . List below any ideas you may have for a project/challenge.
3 . Tell us below if you would be okay with sharing a Discord space with the @steemitmamas
(in the case no one is able to set us up our own)
4 . Please share any other thoughts or remarks you have :)

Having a few of us that curate and resteem will help keep voting impartial and will help get a variety of posts shining in the spotlight! Volunteers must stay on the same page about keeping the guidelines as this helps keep our quality. These things will be further discussed later.