Hello fellow Steemers!
I may have heard about Steem only 2 days ago... and I may have started Steem one day ago, but there is one objective/thing (or whatever you want to call it) that has stuck out to me. Steem is small and growing very fast, however, I'm not sure if key words from our blogs showing up on random Google searches are enough.
So, I thought to myself while driving work, what can we as a community do to grow Steem? AND, not just a 1 time add 5 thousand members kind of thing... but something we can continuously do to help Steem grow.
My answer: First Saturday
What is that?
Well, I got the name from something done by the Ingress community. (Search Ingress/ It's the original "Geeks and Nerds in public" game created by Niantic... and much better than Pokémon Go.) The local community in the game gathers together on the first Saturday of every month for a competitive event. They send the info out for the event on Google Plus, invite people via Chat In-Game and a Google+ community, and simply work together as a group of people to create an event where they can play a game and look weird in public together.
(Pictured above is an Ingress Anomaly event)
What did I get from this? Well, the name for starters, "First Saturday." However, I also figured that the community is responsible for most of the growth of the community. (Well, now Pokémon Go is, but that is irrelevant) The community in Ingress is great, and they invite people to play and to play together.
My idea for Steem is for us to start a community-wide event called "First Saturday," where each one of us (successfully) invites a friend or colleague to join Steem and makes a small blog post about it. We tell the community who our friend is, maybe share a picture or story, and simply show others that we are participating. (And of course, we do this on the First Saturday of every month.)
If we inspire other Steemers to grow the community, and work hard to do so ourselves, than Steem will grow rapidly and successfully. I may just be a naïve 18 year old student, or I may be speaking from the experience of growing up on gaming and social media communities, and that experience may be worth something.
Let me know what you think.
-Ryan
