May 5, 2018 I gave away 40 STEEM on Twitter using the new 
First, I want to thank 
For those unfamiliar with
Digressing to my point (I can't help but rant) — I learned a lot from the experience as well.
First to note: I made a bunch of big mistakes, blunders, and fails...lmao
I bought a green screen, and I have soft boxes. What I didn't realize I forgot to buy was new light bulbs. Doh! At the last minute, I had no lighting. So I settled on using my smartphone as a camera and microphone. Whoa. So it was like the longest selfie ever. It was a bit confusing because it lacked the bells and whistles of streaming using software. I couldn't multicast. And so I settled on "sharing" to other platforms. That worked, until I had to restart the stream several times over. By the third time, I just gave up on sharing the stream. In addition, I realized through it all that to do what I initially envisioned, I really need a better webcam anyway.
Screenshot of Cecilia gaming
I'm working on setting up something like this. This screenshot is similar to what I originally planned. Except instead of gaming, it would be tipping, music videos, and other fun stuff going on. I also didn't want to be a in a cam-box. So it's a work in progress. I didn't give myself enough time to set this up properly. I want to go this direction because the same set up can also be use for:
@scottcbusiness
@meno, 
@ausbitbank, 
@krystle, 
@pechichemena, and others
@steemitkidsSo there are many good reasons to get it together.
The event took TOO LONG (lol) — 4.5 hours vs the original 2 planned. It took 
In addition, about half-way through, my son (age 8) decides he wants my tripod and other equipment for his game. So he decided to become a surprise guest on my stream. 😂
♥️ I did manage to onboard several new users onto the platform, and several more part-way by having them claim their Steem. I will share a list soon.♥️
I played music by 
That said, I would like to set up an official music and video submission process. I'd also like to be able to afford to pay musicians something for streaming them over the air like this. Even if it's 0.01 SBD per play, there has to be a way. I just don't feel aligned (even with their permission) streaming their music without compensating them. Perhaps it's a musicians ethic thing, idk. So maybe I need to set up an SMT to go along with this whole campaign as well. I'd love to hear any feedback others might have on this subject. Perhaps in the meantime I can set up an ERC20, Wave, or Bitshare type of token? What do you think? Or maybe I could pay from post rewards? Or maybe out of pocket? Leave a comment if you have any ideas on how to further monetize this campaign so it can be scaled.
Fundraising was not an issue at all. I received generous contributions from 
What I'm thinking is, once I complete a formal reformatting of the program, I'll also take it over to a crowdfunding platform like 
I set up 2 accounts. While these accounts are not yet powerful enough to be useful at this point, the objective will be to use them to brand the event and also help keep project funds separate from my own until it's time to distribute it. I feel this is a lot more trustworthy and transparent a route — which will hopefully result in more funding to onboard with and develop / refine the campaign.
I'm very grateful for 
Lots of people ask me questions about how they can donate, how they can help, what's steemtipathon about, what's steem, etc. It's clear that I've not been concise or clear enough about all of these questions and topics. So my next step is to get down and dirty — and start writing everything down in a clear format.
As always I want to thank 
I'm just going to post this as is and go from here.
