I yak about Steem pretty much every Friday at my regular gathering for London geeks, the Tuttle Club. Often I see that someone has signed up, maybe followed me or tried upvoting a post, but mostly that's as far as it goes, they don't quite get the momentum to post.
This week was different. Maybe it's coincidental that I was bragging about the price of STEEM & SBD being so high and therefore the large number of dollars I was able to pull out this week, I don't know. But something got their attention because one new person signed up and she and two others who'd joined before got posting. So I'm now proud enough to introduce you to them and encourage you to follow their stuff.
@jedb I first met at a "Social Media Club" meeting about ten years ago - he was working in internal comms for an instance of "the man". He came along to Tuttle after that, but then took a break. He returned to my orbit a year or so ago when he went solo. As well as putting words together one after the other, he's got a data-oriented and analytical mind, a penchant for fairer politics and is a qualified dry-stone waller. He did flirt with Steemit last year, but I trust his recent return will prove longer-lasting.
@brian-condon came to Tuttle in 2008 or so, working on a project to create a "science park for the creative industries". We bonded over discussions about early co-working spaces and where they were missing out. As well as continuing to work on his project, Brian's brain shaped much of the Tuttle Consulting offer we created in 2009 and he was a leading participant in the client work we did. His project became reality early in 2010 when we opened the Centre for Creative Collaboration (C4CC). He lives on a boat and often works at sea training young people on a Tall Ship training vessel.
@bushra is an artist and designer who I met when she became a resident at C4CC, when I think she was either working on or had just completed a masters degree in "Applied Imagination" (brilliant degree name!) from Central St Martin's. I think of her work as being broadly in the fashion plus tech realm, though I'm probably doing her a disservice. She's not one of those people who just blathers about "wearables" but instead thinks hard about what the technology is really for and makes interesting experiments along the way.
I won't make any predictions about what they might write about, but I'm hoping they'll bring their unique talents to this space more often - breaking the duck of making the first post is, I know, one of the hardest things. Let's see how they feel when they start earning!
