SteemIt Lane Review!
With the creation of my account 2 months ago I started as Steem was on a rise back in November, shortly after I arrived Steem went down as low as $0.10 and back up to around $0.20 or maybe just a bit over. Well, inside my first month I went from 50 SteemPower up to just over 500. This month I did a few less posts and most have been 50/50 posts not 100% power up. I did that because I was wanting to have extra Steem and SBD in order to start working on setting up different kinds of contests.
I did a contest, had lots of fun, but I have noticed that it was probably the wrong timing for the contest as December seems a slow month here on SteemIt.
Being new to the world of blogging I really had no idea of what I was getting involved in. I set out on a journey to learn. So far things I have learned are
About the same time I started here I also set up a computer to share storage space on the Storj network.
I moved up to a reputation of 61, I started using the badges as you will see at the end of my posts.
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On 11/15/2016 I received 197 votes on a post, so far that has been the most votes on any post. On 11/10/2016 I made Author: $19.67 SBD most made on a single post so far.
In https://steemit.com/achievements/@smysullivan/first-month-steemit-update you can find my numbers from the first month if you wish to see my progress.
Inside the last month on change that has been big is the inclusion of NSFW tag, as well as a filter. One improvement to the filter I would make is to add the name of the post author, as some like 
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Here is a chart of the numbers:
| Topic | Last Month | This Month | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Followers | 153 | 232 | +79 |
| Posts | 664 | 1532 | +868 |
| Following | 526 | 736 | +210 |
| SteemPower | 594.120 | 1009.128 | +415.008 |
| Steem | 2.431 | 37.991 | +35.56 |
| SBD | $0.292 | $2.82 | +$2.528 |
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Here is a chart of the numbers:
| Topic | Last Month | This Month | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| REP | 58.1 | 61.2 | +3.1 |
| Post Count | 660 | 1520 | +860 |
| Posting | 447745 | 901165 | +453420 |
| Curation | 1206 | 4210 | +3004 |
| Value | $99 | $165 | +66 |
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Last month I needed 2,132(b)illion REP to the next level. I am also over 2M Vests now as well.
Conclusion
This has been a rather productive 2 months, and I have been having lots of fun both creating new content and reading others posts. Looking forward to the New Year and all the new people I will meet this year.
The street name was created here. The calendar source is listed above. All account images I took from screen shots. The calendar I adjusted in paint.
Thanks to SteemVerify.com and 
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