Hey, @pennsif,

I'm glad I came across your article. How are you doing?

There are features of the Steemit platform that I am sad to say Steemit, Inc., does a woefully poor job of promoting.

First and foremost, as you already know, Steemit is a fast, frictionless, and free facilitator for transferring money globally. Yes, the gateways to fiat at both ends need improvement, but the reality of the ability to transfer value freely and easily is outstanding. And your insight about targeting charity and community users brings that reality into an immediate, local, readily available, non-spoofable focus as a medium of exchange and savings for charitable and community projects.

Second, and hardly ever spoken of, is Steemit's amazing value as an archive of one's thought in writing. Where else can you find a reliable and free store for your information and your authorship? I expect my descendants to be able to see what this crazy old coot had on his mind for generations to come. I would also think that your charitable and community organizations would highly value blockchain storage of membership rolls, meeting minutes, project newsletters, and etc. ad infinitum.

Finally--and this one should be shouted from the housetops--Steemit is potentially an incredible information resource for any sort of knowledge base. It's present most woeful lack is a missing index structure. As presently implemented in a linear sequence of chronological posts, access to and even awareness of the huge existing body of information is woefully lacking. This is of course something that I am attempting to create a prototype of with My Steemit Library. I've only begun dabbling with some tools that I hope will one day make the creation and maintenance of such libraries a more automatic process.

This last point, stated another way, is this:

Everyone should be queuing up to join Steemit as readers, as thirsty consumers of knowledge. The "write for pay" inducement should--and in many cases this is already true--be a magnet for content creators of the highest quality. Consequently, readers ought to be signing up and subscribing to authors and groups that write on whatever topics of personal interest a reader may care to peruse. Almost like having free access to an "expert system," because Steemit provides the back-channel of comments where readers can question and interact with experts on almost any topic.

Well, now I've gone and written an article (and I may turn this into one), but those are a few of the compelling use cases that I see which I would like to see "the powers that be" make a bigger deal of. Thanks for stimulating my response.

Cheers,

- @creatr

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