The drain of little people out the STEEM door continues, with two more saying good bye to me today. One is gone for good. The other is taking a break to focus on other things and plans to come back in a month or so.
This is not a good plan if you actually believe in STEEM, blockchain technology, and cryptocurrency as I do. Letting your blog languish at such an exciting time is a recipe for failure.
I am watching for positive signs and have seen some adjustments I like post-fork. These are changes that will help small blogs grow and succeed here and I think/hope/pray this trend will continue.
Small Curation Projects are getting more support
- In recent days and weeks some of the programs I work with have grown. This is because bigger players are delegating to them and/or voting on their trails. The upshot of this is that small blogs will get better post rewards when they use those places and tags.
From the perspective of the big accounts, it is a way to help without actually having to go read and vote for blogs with 300 sp.
####Some Smaller Blogs are Getting New and Bigger Votes
- In recent days and weeks, I and some other small blogs are getting votes from bigger blogs we have never seen before. A couple of people have even contacted me to ask if I know why they all of the sudden are getting nice votes from people they do not know.
These are bloggers who both blog in niches and do not look up much to see what STEEM is doing. Neither of them contacted me when their rewards dropped right after the fork. They just blog their work and do not look at prices or crypto news.
Now their (always awesome) posts that used to get $3-$5 rewards are now sometimes getting close to $10. They are thrilled and blogging better than before. One bumped two posts a day to three and the other is finally going to try to use one of my dApp recommendations I have given him many times.
How you can help
If you want to help in the effort to save small blogs and do not want to join trails or auto vote, trawl through these places to find pre-curated and undervalued posts. On the other hand, you can also delegate or follow trails and do just as much good with less effort on your part.
Those in bold are places I already see improvement. Thank you very much!
- @trufflepig <<< Finds 25 undervalued posts daily by an AI algorithm. Has a trail that is now growing as bigger STEEMers join in. AI is hot!
- @qurator daily posts, weekly contests, and author spotlights <<< A large group of daily bloggers. Easy to find great posts.
- @c-cubed daily posts <<< manually curated top undervalued posts of the day. Huge effort by the admins on many fronts
- @miti.blog <<< Daily Curation Project for Undervalued Deserving Content. This guy is going it alone and he is finding great posts. Excellent curating skills over here.
- @pifc weekly Pay it Forward contests <<< Finds undervalued posts by nominations. Needs sponsors and votes.
Helping newcomers
- @steevc and his @tenkminnows project <<< Helping redfish obtain over 500 SP.
- @heyhaveyamet posts <<< Finds and supports promising noobs with good intro posts.
- @steemterminal <<< Same people as above helping redfish after the intro time is complete. - @abh12345 - Curation and Engagement League Participants <<< People who know how to curate. If you are new to curation, be sure to join this place for help and inspiration.
Niche Groups
- @freewritehouse and @mariannewest <<< helping new authors learn to blog. Best place to support to improve quality in STEEM blogging.
- @steemitmamas <<< Moms on STEEM #womenincrypto is a “thing. Most crypto projects have 10% women. STEEM has 30%+. Manual curation and lots of support given to newcomers. All the other women’s groups I know of have failed. - @tasteem contests <<< International restaurant reviews of excellent quality – tough guidelines and lot of support to help people when they start.
- @homesteaderscoop <<< A community marketplace of ethical, handmade and sustainable products available for STEEM, SBD (and USD)
- @canna-curate <<< All about weed and the people who grow, smoke, cook, eat, make clothes and supplies.
- @naturalmedicine <<< All about natural ways to stay healthy and heal yourself if you are not.
Photography
- @ntopaz contests and regular feed <<< Contests for photographers great dApp. Amazing work is posted here in many genres.
- https://steempeak.com/explore/curators/@photofeed/trail <<< Trail to find undervalued photo posts.
Travel and locations
- @travelfeed <<< Awesome dApp and team for travel related posts. Great execution so far, HUGE Potential.
- @socalsteemit <<< Southern California posts on the STEEM blockchain. Excellent curation and good to promote on other social media for star quality.
- @teammalaysia <<< Biggest country group on the STEEM blockchain. Has a trail and many using the tag.
Promising dApps easy for new STEEMers to start with
- dPoll.io <<< People love to poll on Twitter. They should be doing it on STEEM instead. This dApp has a trail you can join, and is manually curated for quality control.
- dLike.io <<< People love to share links on fb. They should be doing it on STEEM instead. I am not sure how to best support this place, but they are trying hard and have quality control in place. Their token is doing well.
Support @steembasicincome with your upvotes
Many small accounts get their best upvote from SBI. Please take a look at this post from my other blog to see how you can help this program grow.
It is a very simple set up and you will help hundreds of small accounts. BIG moves here – keep going friends. The more SBI grows, the better for us all.
My post is for the #freewrite daily challenge by @mariannewest. Freewrite is a great way to post on STEEM when you do not think you have the time, or talent, or anything to say. It’s a great way to start regular posting, and I know you can do this too! Here is Marianne’s freewrite prompt post for today. Give it a try and surprise yourself.
