State of the Sndbox - Week 33 [Steemit Flash Cards, Valuing Your Data and Crypto Creativity in 2018]

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State of the Sndbox is a weekly newsletter that provides the latest in Sndbox activities, projects, and provides the best resources in creative empowerment for the Steemit community. To get up-to-date on all of our development throughout the week, be sure to follow us @sndbox. This SoTS was guest authored by our very own @luvabi!


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This Week in the Sndbox


Happy Pi Day everyone! Welcome to the 33rd State of the Sndbox newsletter! This past week, we tried to help you digest this disruptive technology we call the steemit platform by showing you a rough draft of our illustrated flash cards. We put a spotlight on @blockmountain, a community of artists that aims to launch their first blockchain based music album. We also dug deeper into "what being an artist means" through curation by @paolobeneforti.

For a more thorough breakdown of what our members have been up to, be sure to go through our weekly Sndbox Selections of the Week post that we publish each Monday.

Illustrated Flash Cards - Top 10 Questions about Steemit


How many questions do you answer before you finally convince someone to get on board the steemit platform? These FAQ flash cards have questions you have chosen for us and we plan to make answering these questions for newbies and prospective users a whole lot of fun for everyone! The tenth question is a wild card where we asked you to enter your suggestions through the comments. These questions stood out:

"How many times can I post and upvote in a day?"
"If it's decentralized, why flagging?"
"What is the difference between steemit and other social media platforms?"


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Explore and Discover Art with @paolobeneforti


Steemit is changing the rules about what being an artist means as said by @paolobeneforti by creating an avenue for artists to be rewarded for great content!

Whether it be surrealism by @gric, ironic creativity by @reinhard-schmid, dark fantasy by @twirble, post expressionism by @elewarne, or eerie digital paintings by @tomek.biniek.art, we applaud these great artists for their amazing talent and colorful self expression.



Project Spotlight: Blockchain Powered Music album by @blockmountain


We put a well-deserved spotlight on @blockmountain community by @djlethalskillz, @playitforward, and @scuzzy who aim to create a unified album of Steemit musicians, with art created by Steemit artists, all in collaboration to make their first community project a resounding reality.

The Block Mountain album is a steem-powered album that will propel the @blockmountain community into a continuously growing and immensely diversified range of artistry -- creating links between the steemit blockchain and its external communities.

STEEMPH communities - Growth and Strength as an archipelago


Since its launch in August 2017, the @steemph community has focused on building the Filipino Steemit Blogging Community through positivity and empowerment.



The initial challenge when @steemph was envisioned was that the Philippines is a vast archipelago separated by islands and bodies of water. Uniting communities across regions in this sense has been a drive to a more decentralized approach while uniting under one goal and one @steemph community.

The mission of Charity and Camaraderie on the Blockchain has since then grown exponentially with numbers from 30 to more than 200 in each hub, through the help of excellent community leaders in different hubs all over the Philippine archipelago and the world.

Through this exceptional leadership exhibited by @steemph hub leaders, we bring you these community meetups this March and April:

March 10 - Cavite Meet-Up Caravan
March 26 - Steemph.Antipolofest
March 17 - Philippine School of Interior Design (PSID) fundraiser in Valkyrie
March 31 - @steemph.negros meet up and orientation
April 4 - Homesteading Brigade in Samal, Davao
April 6 - Davao Stop for Meet-Up Caravan

Earn from loving your data, the early blockchain revolution.


In this information age where explosion of data is monetized by corporations unbeknownst to social media consumers like us, the Steem blockchain is changing the status quo by decentralizing that monetization. Leveraging an attention economy to mine data for marketing, advertising and sales, we need to wake up and smell the Steem dollars, and take the ownership and monetization of the data we put out, even if it is just a picture of our cats and dogs.

We quoted Justin Beieber with our advice to love yourself, love the content you put out, and love the content you digest as you partake in the attention economy. Very soon, gears will turn and churn out a paradigm shift on how we put value onto our data through cryptocurrency and the blockchain, eliminating the middle men on this monetization and helping us get the rewards we deserve.



The State of Crypto Creativity in 2018


The Creative Crypto - @creativecrypto - is all about getting more creatives of all disciplines involved in the revolution of blockchain technology. We believe that this is a new raw tool for professionals to apply to and empower their work, and it doesn’t require high technological know-how to access. So before we even officially launch the online magazine and bring you some significant highlights of creative work with cryptocurrencies and blockchain, here are the main things you need to know in an exclusive report for our early subscribers. Check out the post here! (Illustrations by @zsolt.vidak.)

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Guest Author @luvabi


A warm thanks to @sndbox's SoTS guest author; @luvabi. Abi is a member of Sndbox's first Cohort. She's an Information Technology Consultant in the Philippines, and proud Mom of two. She blogs about community events and activities she does with her little ones. A special thank you for sharing more about community development and incubation in the Philippines. It's amazing to learn about the growth of the Steem community there and how impactful the meetup culture is! [Guest Authors receive 20% of the SBD rewards, and an opportunity to showcase projects developing within the incubator / broader Steemit community.]


New to Steem? Explore our resource and tutorial posts, below:

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Basics
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Witnesses
NoNo's
Curation
Reputation
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I totally forgot about pi day thanks for the reminder!

Great work @sandbox and @luvabi, awesome write up about SteemPh ♥️ Oh.. I totally forgot about Pi Day too!

I just ask you recently about this... both of you have big contribution to sandbox @bearone and @luvabi .. great job ladies..

oh, ate @bearone what is Pi Day?

Pi, denoted by the Greek letter “π”, has been part of human knowledge for millennia, but it wasn’t until 1988 that physicist Larry Shaw organized what is now recognized as the first “Pi Day” celebration at the San Francisco Exploratorium science museum. Shaw chose March 14, or 3.14 — the first three digits of pi — as Pi Day. Shaw died last year, but Pi Day is still celebrated by lovers of mathematics around the world. source

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wow! what a wonderful info

@sndbox, you guys are doing a very fantastic job towards steemit expansion, growth and development as well as helping the communities that finds themselves in the four walls of steemit. Haven read through your weekly newsletter, you guys have done noble. More grease to your elbow @sndbox.

well-written post and we're loving the snapshots (sneak-peak) of the front-end of The Creative Crypto site. We can't wait for it's Spring launch and we've signed up to the newsletter. :)

Awesome work.
Job well done to these dudes ;)

Thanks @sndbox for featuring @steemph.antipolo we are now having 4 - 5 new member a week this featuring will help a lot for us to get more attention and get more members.

I just cant diggest the whole work you guys are doing. Its too great and way too rock. Wow, i am perplexed. Thanks for all the info.
Thumbs up for all the promotion of all art works and giving every steemian an opportunity.

This community looks really interesting. Is there a discord channel associated with @sndbox or @creativecrypto ??

@steemph Reach all Filipinos around the globe. For sure you know someone who has a Filipino blood even if your not from the Philippines.

Good job keep it up dear @sndbox

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