SoCal Steemit Update!
Attention SoCal Steemit members we have some announcements to make!
We created SoCal Steemit back in January with the intent that it be a support community for Steemians in SoCal. And we've been trying to do that with the weekly Spotlight post, by providing the Discord server to share your posts and connect with other members, organizing meetups, and of course by upvoting the #socalsteemit posts. I've felt for awhile now that we could do more, but many varied factors have not played in our favor. But there's no time like the present. So myself (@derekrichardson) and @mariannewest have decided we want to get serious about making this the awesome group that it has the potential to be!!
We have a bunch of ideas and we'd like to share them with you all and get your input in the comments. Questions, criticisms, new ideas, whatever. We'd love to hear it. We really want all the members too feel like they can and should be involved in building the SoCal community!
So... first off we are trying to get the account a good SP delegation so we can improve our ability to support you all with the upvotes. We're not sure exactly how or from where yet, but we WILL get a delegation. If anyone has any knowledge or tips to share about good ways to get SP delegations, please leave a comment below!
Next, in addition to the weekly Spotlight we will be trying to expand the SoCal account to post everyday. And we want to do posts that get members participating as well as having members participate in writing posts!
So right now the ideas we have for posts are:
The SoCal Spotlight
Basically the Spotlight will be the same but we want to get bigger upvotes for the featured posts.SoCal Weekly Chat Recap
We are doing a voice and text chat in our Discord server every tuesday at 8pm. This post would be a recap of the chat as well as give some topics for the next weeks chat.SoCal Steemian of the week
Here we would choose a member each week and give upvotes and resteems to all their posts for the week. We'd just need a method of choosing. Maybe just a random draw from all the active members without any repeating until we get through everyone. That's my thought, but I'd love any input there.Show me your CA contest
We're considering running a contest for our members called "Show me your CA" and yup it's that simple. Just make a post about where you live, or where you like to go, or visit... or whatever or wherever is YOUR California!Secondary contest
We were also thinking about maybe doing a secondary contest. It would be easy stuff like "mystery photo - guess and win!" and these could change over time to keep things interesting. We are thinking of rewarding the winners of these contests and the "Show me your CA" contest with SBI. If you are not familiar with SBI you can learn more here and if you have any opinions about it I'd love to hear them.Guest posts
Then we thought we'd have a day to try to have guest posts from the members about whatever interests them. Anything. "guide to the best pizza in San Diego", "the history of the Rose Bowl", "secret SoCal fishing holes", "gardening in CA"... just a few random examples. Basically whatever you'd like.Meetup posts
And last but not least we will still be scheduling monthly meetups and writing meetup invite posts and meetup recap posts. And if you'd like to organize a meetup yourself, please do! Wherever it's located we'd love to help promote it and get as many people as we can to come.
Speaking of meetups...
Myself and SoCal member @steemseph were talking about the next meetup and we thought it would be fun to meetup and see his band @steelparade play at the Taco Surf in Seal Beach on friday Nov. 2nd (mark your calander!). Reservations are free and the good food and good vibes of the island music should be fun for everyone! If you are interested in going or have any questions let me know in the comments below or over in the #socal-meetups channel in our discord server where we can discuss any details. Then next week I can write an official invite post and share it with everyone.
And that's all the announcements!
We look forward to hearing from you.
SoCal Steemit Weekly Voice Chat
Every tuesday at 8pm we will be having our 'SoCal Weekly Chat' in the voice chat channel in our Discord server. So come say hi and have some fun chatting with your fellow SoCal Steemians!
Your post had been curated by the @buildawhale team and mentioned here:
https://steemit.com/curation/@buildawhale/buildawhale-curation-digest-10-12-18
Keep up the good work and original content, everyone appreciates it!
Thank you @nicnas!!
If anyone wants to meetup and see a comedy show in North Hollywood on a Sunday at 7pm, I can get them free tickets. Let me know. I perform the 28th this month.
Lets really make everyone jealous of us living in SoCal and them not.
I love the energy and ideas! I sent 10 STEEM to power them up!
Wow, thank you @kunschj!! I really appreciate that. We'll use it to help fund the contest rewards!
I like the idea of guests post. You can check out @ladiesofasia for those kind of post. Basically the ladies each takes turn to write about anything goes in different parts of Asia. You can see how they do it.
For the contest, You could either stick to one type of contest for really long or just reward the one that you select for the guest post as 'author reward'.
Also, the Steemian of the week could be more than one. I know awesome steemians like @sjennon who does her minnow support where she selects a few minnows to support for a week. I think one steemian per week is too little.
These are some of my suggestions. :D And slowly roll these out one by one so everything becomes more routined first then only roll out more stuff. Love where this is heading. Go @socalsteemit!
Awesome! Thanks so much for the input @zord189. It's very much appreciated. I will definitely look into the Steemians you mentioned and see what they are doing and how it works.
Do I feel a collaboration coming up?
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If you'd like to collaborate that would be so awesome!
Hi @sjennon! I was wondering you were still be interested in collaborating with us for our SoCal Steemian of the week? We're all set to start it this coming monday. I was thinking maybe if you could help support our Stemian of the week I could in turn help support minnows that you're sponsoring. We'd just need to trade names each week. Let me know what you think about that, or if you had something else in mind. I'm derekrichardson#5459 on discord if you'd like to contact me there. I hope to hear from you!
Seal Beach?? Finally, something in my neck of the woods! If I don't have anything that week, I'll be there!
Hi @corinneiskorean! It’s actually under the water tower in Sunset Beach just a bridge or two south of seal beach. It the Taco Surf under the water tower.
I'll be sure to get all the details from you (time, address, etc..) before I do the official invite post.
Sweet! We'll be posting about it more here soon. I think it'll be a fun one!
I LOVE the SBI payout idea. good way to reward people, and build the @socalsteemit account!
As soon as I Have 1 STEEM I will donate it to @socalsteemit to use as a SBI reward. (I recently sold all my SBD for STEEM and powered up... so it might be a little while...)
Exactly. With SBI the members and the account can profit!! Thank you @mattlovell. I really appreciate your support since the very beginning.
Glad to see you ramping up, add me to the tag list!😎
Will do!
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I appreciate the work you are doing. As far as expanding, I think it would also be good to include post from SoCal Steemians who cover anything as long as the post is high quality. In other words, my cartoons are often about things that appeal to a wide audience and not particular to SoCal. So covering a good quality post could fit in these parameters if the group decided to spotlight what its members are doing.
Thanks @joechiappetta! We appreciate your support! We're not particular about posts being SoCal specific. The account and it's trail upvote every member that uses the tag no matter what the topic or even the quality (as long as it's not spam or plagiarism) of the post may be. Then from those posts we choose 5 quality posts to highlight in the SoCal Spotlight post each week. Also within the next week or so we'll be doing a SoCal Steemian of the week to further try to highlight all our awesome members! If you have any suggestions for how we could improve please let me know! I wanna hear everyone's ideas.