After a lot of expectation, the 2017 roadmap was finally released yesterday, and naturally, it created a lot of excitement.
First you start receiving messages about it, then your friends start writing about it, then everybody you respect start explaining the exciting parts about it, and then before the day is over…
At first, I didn’t know wether I should post about or not, but since nobody did, I thought the community would love to see this:
For instance, one of the most immediate questions that journalists receive from their editors and producers is apparently this one:
Who else has covered that start-up or who else has featured product?
Once you start getting media attention, it becomes easier to get more.
Just a two weeks ago, Rolling Stone Australia published a story where they named steemit the Hottest Social Media of 2017.
Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures wrote an amazing post in his website when he recommended Medium to look at steem.
And yesterday, hours before the Roadmap was released, Forbes published an amazing story about steemit and the steem blockchain.
Plus, it’s always great to celebrate these wins when we get them.
More importantly, I would like to take the occasion to thank and acknowledge Roger Aitken for the fantastic article he wrote in Forbes.
Ask any writer and they’ll tell you that the most important thing about the first line is to make the reader want to get to the second line.
In that sense, Roger Aitken did an amazing job opening with “Steemit, creators of the world’s fastest growing decentralized social media platform”
I’m an average reader who has never heard of steemit and I’m already hooked.
The entire first paragraph describes the potential and ambition of steemit doing so by migrating the servers to the largest hosting provider in the world, Amazon Web Services (AWS).
The second paragraph gives a short yet concise description about the steem Blockchain. (since many people may not be familiar with STEEM)
Then follows with an eloquent description about the achievements, the great user-base, the ambitions, the goals ahead and of course a backstory of 
Oh, and this is just the beginning.
The entire article was excellent, you might not notice it at first, but it conveys a perfect mix of a savoir-faire and diligent planning (even detailing targets by quarters) and at the same time the ambition and possibilities of the steem blockchain.
Many of the important of upgrades in the roadmap explained were highlighted as well, from the new steemit Mobile Apps to the cutting-edge parallel blockchain.
This was clearly a diligent and insightful article, and I personally want to thank Roger Aitken, and I'm sure that many fellow steemians share the sentiment as well.
Without further ado, here’s a link the article in question:
Hope you read it, enjoy it, and if at all possible, share this Forbes story with your friends.
And more importantly:
