Entry for Malloryblythe's SBI Contest

in #contest6 years ago (edited)

This is my entry for the SBI contest in honour of Curie and Newbieresteemday run by @malloryblythe.

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I have chosen to write about a few communities and projects that are nice for new Steemians to be aware of, as it can be often difficult in the beginning to find support in your posting and writing on Steemit.

Communities and Projects

Information Finding Championship

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Artwork credit - @yeszuzia on steemit and suzie.now on instagram

Often as a new blogger, it can be hard to come up with ideas to write posts about. There are only so many pictures of your cat and posts about your failed attempts at juggling that you can post on Steemit before people lose interest! The Information Finding Championship (@ifc) run by @apolymask (aided by @charisma777) is a great long running contest that provides creative "hooks" that can get your creative juices running.

The format of the rounds (roughly once or twice a week) is very loose, they can run from word games and puzzles, photo treasure hunts, through to posts about "water" or "money" or Philosophy. This can give you huge freedom to just take a topic and run with the idea for a long form post.

They have an active and really friendly Discord and a supportive community, plus one of the best artwork logos on Steemit!

Their Discord can be found here: https://discord.gg/bKa5q5y
The community account is here: @ifc

Pay it Forward Curation Challenge

This is a great initiative by @thedarkhorse (assisted by @wolfhart, @lynncoyle and @energyaddict22) which is now it's 6th iteration. It is a weekly contest to find and bring new Steemians to everyone's attention. The format is that you have to scour the Steemit ocean and find 3 Steemians with less than 50 REP in a post that highlights why you thought they were worthy of attention! It is a great way to encourage us to look for people that are outside our normal sphere of interaction and to go actively in search of new bloggers. At last count there were roughly 30 entries, which means potentially 90 new discoveries!

Their discord is here: https://discord.gg/
There is no dedicated account at the moment: @thedarkhorse

Classical-music and Classical-radio

Community Logo by ivan.atman

Lastly, I would like to bring to light a small but growing community (run by @remlaps and @bengy). Classical Music is not especially well known for it's ability to be early adopters of new technology, however there is a steadily growing community of Classical Musicians and music lovers posting at the #classical-music tag. There are weekly community events for SBD share (Jokes, Guess the Music and Composer of the week) as well as a curation from the community accounts (again with SBD share). If you are interested in Classical Music (or Jazz or World music), then this is a nice community for you to join up to!

Community Tag: #classical-music
Community Accounts: @classical-radio and @classical-music
Discord: https://discord.gg/ppVmmgt

Welcome Wagon

This is my "EDIT". Sorry @dreemsteem, I had completely forgotten about the @welcomewagon when I was writing this post, and so I'm going back to fix it. @welcomewagon aims to pair up a new promising Steemian with one that has been around for a little bit with similar interests, sort of like a mentor system. They are bit less then a week old, but are already beginning with the good work!

Discord: Not yet? (When it is up, you'll have a constant stream of terrible groan jokes from @dreemsteem)
Community account: @welcomewagon (run by @dreemsteem)

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My musicoin artist page (tap on banner), come support your favourite music on the crypto-ecosystem!

One of the orchestras that I play in, specialising in Early Music. Click on the banner for the Steemit page, featuring music and various articles about music!

The classical music community at #classical-music and Discord.
Follow our community accounts @classical-music and @classical-radio.
Follow our curation trail (classical-radio) at SteemAuto
Community Logo by ivan.atman

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Thank you for highlighting the #payitforward contest!

No problem! It's a great idea!

Greatly highlihgted

Thanks for the shoutout bengy! :) It's been a pleasure having you as part of our community. And it's been great talking to you on a one on one basis as well. Though unfortunately it takes me a while to get back to the messages sometimes. I always look forward to chatting with you and reading your messages when I do get the time though. :)

Same! Although we don't agree on everything, it is nice to hear a different point of view!

PS: Was this the image that needed changing? I can't spot the difference!

Word. Agreed. But.. No it looks like it's still the same one on my screen? Did you use the new file I gave you..?

Not yet, as I wanted make sure it was the right post! I'll change it now, although I still can't for the life of me see the difference!

DONE!

It's good now! Thanks. :)

Lol, I still can't find the difference!

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