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RE: Why I delegated 10,000 SP to steemSTEM and why I hope that you will do the same
Because things like this I love that I voted for you as a witness!
@Steemstem is a really important project and I hope it will get more exposure and more funding.
How are they getting new authors to Steemit? what are they doing in order to reach the people who have knowledge on this niche?
My technique... When I make a nice post related to a subject that could interest one of my scientist friends or an ex collaborator, I email the link and ask my friend for feedback. I do not talk about Steemit, just send the link. For sure he or she notices the nice little number with the $ sign at the end of the post, triggering his interest...
I did this with my post on clathrate stars. my friend was intrigued by the site, he is a research director in French public research with strong entries to grand equipment (ESRF, LURE, ILL etc...) ... always good to have someone like this on board, so I hope he will look into it (and maybe his team ;-)). On my side, I will definitely introduce him to Steemit and SteemSTEM.
Ohhhhh smart! That is pretty sneaky. I really like that technique ^^
I will have to think about that. Maybe just advertising my blog and wait for the backfire would do better in terms of user attraction ;)
We talk with each other. For instance, I am advertising steemSTEM and STEEM a lot within my work, though colleagues. People are still reluctant to join for various (sometimes good) reasons, but once in a while, one person is coming. I am confident that in the future, they will massively join. I am nevertheless a patient person :)
Thank you @lemouth for the explanation. You're doing great work.
If scientists hear about a platform where they can talk about their work and earn more than minimum wage on it? Word of mouth alone will bring many on. Visiting the LHC with steem tags everywhere will spark interest. And since the science community is interconnected, everyone can bring their friend on.
Most journals you pay for the right to publish. Here you are paid. Being a welcoming and supportive community like steemSTEM means the users come on their own, one small nudge to tell them it exists is mostly enough.
I like to say particle physics is an exception here. All our major journals are open access (our community is actually paying for that). I wrote about it in the past but I can't find the post right now (maybe it was a comment to some post).
Got it.
thanks!
We provide the financial means for good science content creators to proudly share their work on the site. In the past, when I showed something I did here, people would comment..."there? Look around at the garbage that passes for science there..." Then they wouldn't take another look. That doesn't happen anymore, thanks to the work by the steemSTEM project we don't have that visibility issue. The content that trends here is vastly improved, people aren't afraid to produce work here because good material is valuable. Good material can get noticed.
So while the project isn't actively going out and grabbing new authors (yet) we are bringing people here, as people are bringing others they know (I get messages about friends of community members intro posts pretty regularly) so what we are doing IS working. You can see it in the growth of authors supported.
@justtryme90 alright, I got it now. I'm going to try and get new people that fit the steemSTEM project. I have a couple of ideas in mind.
There are a lot of students Facebook Pages in Israel and some pages + groups that fit the niches - Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
And I know almost every FB page owner on Facebook Israel. ( some of these specific niches not all of them, but I'm 100% sure they know who are the rest owners )
I can chat with the owners and introduce them to Steem in general and steemSTEM in particular and maybe they'll post about it on their FB page. and maybe I'll purchase 1 or more page on these niches, I'm looking for pages to purchase anyway.
I'll update.
That would be great :)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but if payouts are high regardless of total viewers, then aren't current authors without whale-sized shares of steem incentivized to not tell anyone about steemit, because they view new authors as potential competitors for the reward pool? This is not only applicable to steemstem, but I can see how it can potentially stymie the growth of steemit if others view it this way and act accordingly.
I am not so sure, as a growth in the platform may be associated with a growth in the value of STEEM as well. I think there is not that feeling of competition within steemstem. At least I haven't felt it so far.