What should I blog about?
Can you guide me on what I should be blogging about?
Ok, full disclosure, this is not my first #introduceyourself post. I’m tagging this one again for 3 reasons:
- I didn’t post a verification photo to prove who I am before. (see above, check!)
- I can’t edit my original post now (I didn’t realise these things had an expiry date!). You can see that post here.
- I forgot to ask you guys for guidance on what I should be blogging about! This is the main purpose of this post today.
I love how Steemit is community driven and focuses on rewarding great content. I’d like to contribute to that where I can, but the last thing I want to do is spam you with posts of no interest or value. Therefore, I would really appreciate your feedback on what you would want to read/learn about going forward.
There are a few areas that I have interests and experience in which I have outlined below for context.
Me with fellow co-founder Sir Ray Avery
The Entrepreneur
I am the founder and CEO of a company called Jupl. This is my third business venture. The other two failed and provided valuable learning experiences! We have been going for 5 years now, we have 20 staff in 2 countries and are valued at over $20M to date (dictated by private equity rounds).
I have raised millions of dollars in capital funding including major strategic investors such as our national carrier and a global health insurance company.
I have taken technology products to market through blue-chip channel partners and I have grown a team from 0 to 20, talented and strong minded individuals.
I continually get asked to advise budding entrepreneurs of tech start-ups, so this might be an area where I could add a lot of value on Steemit.
Me with one of my heros, Bix Wier
The Crypto Enthusiast
For about a year now I’ve been learning about, and investing in, Bitcoin and ‘Altcoins’. Firstly, I truly believe that cryptocurrencies offer a viable alternative to the existing banking system. This is what led me to exploring Bitcoin in the first place. I also believe that blockchain is a game changing technology much like the internet and the printing press.
I’ve experienced ICO investing, HODLing and trading. Overall I’ve done pretty well at all of them. However, let’s face it, a monkey could have done well investing and trading in crypto last year! 😃
Given my technical background I’ve really delved into the technical side of blockchain and cryptocurrencies (I’m an electrical engineer, majoring in Digital Signal Processing and Telecommunications). I understand master-nodes, proof-of-work, proof-of-stake, centralised and decentralised exchanges, hardware wallets etc.
I doubt I would add much value advising on trading except to share my experiences to date. However, I could potentially add value on the technical support side and certainly on the ICO investing side given my entrepreneurial background.
The ‘Libertarian’
I don’t really like labelling myself or others but I guess this is the best way to describe my stance on social and political issues (we all have a bias!). No doubt I will want to weigh in on Steemit posts/discussions on such matters!
In fact it wasn’t until I attended Anarchapulco this year that I really discovered the Steemit community.
Terry Brock did a great job MC’ing that event and it’s thanks to him that I got involved with Steemit. In fact, he kindly gave me this post template 👍
For those interested I would highly recommend looking into the Fund Your Freedom course hosted by Terry and his partner Gina Carr.
https://steemit.com/@terrybrock
https://steemit.com/@ginacarr
I also feel like I should give a shout out to Jerry Banfield as I have found his videos on Steemit very educational.
I guess I could share my experiences on Steemit but the real tips are probably best left to Jerry, Terry and Gina 😉
My boys cruising in Fiji
The Family Guy
Of course, I’m also married with 2 young children and have interests from food, to travel, to sports.
No doubt I’ll throw in the odd post on my day-to-day life especially on topics I feel strongly about, such as this one relating to my son’s supposed ADHD!
Where should I focus?
Based on the above, I would really appreciate it if you guys could provide feedback on what you would like to find out about more. Even a simple comment stating a topic per those below would be great. You may even get an upvote 😉
- Business/Entrepreneurship
- Crytpo/Technical/Trading
- Political and Social Commentary
- Day-to-Day Life
Thanks again and I look forward to carrying on the discussion.
Take care,
Alan
Alan Brannigan
Husband, Father, CEO, Entrepreneur, Tech-Geek, Crypto Enthusiast,
Believer in Freedom and Liberty
Email: [email protected]
Steemit - @nalabra
A simple reply would be " the thing you love the most". If you produce contents on demand , you will probably end up not enjoying the steemit. Thats my thought. Welcome to steemit again
Good advice, thanks
welcome to steemit community
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Blog about Bigfoot hunting. I just know he's out there somewhere.
anything you want!
#introduceyourself/#introducemyself
The “introduceyourself/introducemyself” tag is for creating one introductory post that tells us about you. Users are encouraged to use this tag exclusively for that, and not to reuse it.
Understood @spaminator. I did explain in this post why I was reusing the tag, but you are right. I will refrain from using it again. Thanks
I see no problem in using any tag here. I got flagged big time after I used it when I completed 50 days here. good luck and enjoy your time here....
I was recently discussing these bots on a post by @timcliff
@nalabra @sidsun
You have every right to use the tags as you wish. However, some bots base their automated welcome messages based on the tag, so using it many times results in those autobots reposting a lot of redundant welcomes to the blockchain. So they punish you for that.
Due to the pressure of witnesses plea to reduce blockchain bloat to keep prices affordable for backup witnesses, many people are on a mission to stop spammers.
The welcomes are generally considered a good thing to make people feel pseudo-welcomed, since welcoming everyone 1 by 1 would involve real people actually having to exert effort to say hello- and few want to do that. In general, most of the introductory posts are firstcomers: so the general consensus is the needs of the bots serving the many outweigh the actual right of the few real humans.
The name of that bot is scary but it has no authority beyond it's rep and stake. Once you have exceeded both, its downvotes cannot effect your rep (unless it calls upon a bigger bully to flag you — which probably will happen if you continue to use the tag.)
The bot is not right. Whom is "out of order" here, technically, is the bot. It is spamming YOU. You did not spam the tag by reintroducing yourself. But it has the best intentions. And it's better for the whole— maybe. Maybe.
I personally only think it should bother phishing accounts and sock accounts, and mass created accounts...but those never use this tag. :-)
Obviously, if you do actually misuse the tagging feature repeatedly (for instance, using the Cat tag to sell a book about sunrises) that would be spam. Unless the book had a picture of cats on it, then the government won't bother you.
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Have a great time on Steemit. And I'm soooooo sorry that this bot has stained your reintroduction.
:(
the alternative is to promote a new tag called Anniversary or something similar. U really want to share your experiences as someone who has been here for two months or 100 days or whatever. those posts will be much more productive even for new comers. As members here, it's good to talk about our experience every now and then. Introduceyourself is also another way of meeting new people, however I prefer having a tag for bloggers who've used this space for a while. not sure how to go about creating one...or popularising a tag that can be used more...
A tag only remains trending when it has 50 or more (usually) weekly ongoing postings in a rotation — it seems. I will write about the possibility of everyone adopting such a tag. I have a few in mind as well.
Even many popular tags would vanish if there were no current posts for every day within them.
true. but yes we need something other than Introduceyourself. Lot of users use the hate button if u post there..not just bots. The holier than thou people. Moral policing at its worst...lol
Well-intentioned people, many of whom I adore, and protecting their long term investments for everyone's sake — but yes, some very passive aggressive. Lol.
I see what kind of vision they want to a degree, basically facebook that shares all the money equally, like a monetized democratic socialist website. And I'm not judging, but I'm not sure they realize that's not what they signed up for here and that they are effectively imposing and projecting.
I was recently in a dialog about how spam bots go around telling people not to spam, and not to use bots. LOL
thanks @sidsun I'm still learning the 'rules' here
Good luck! lol It took me over 90 days before I just happened to read someone mention the .02 earnings threshold. I wasted over 1000 upvotes. :( Congrats on a very successful post. I still haven't even broken $70 in earnings for a whole week. lol
I followed both of you handsome gentlemen
@nalabra @mysearchisover
While my blog is nobodies cup of tea, if you like Emotional Rants and HipHop, I'm a click away lololol....
p.s. same 0.2 thing happenned to me lol
Community
Plagiarism, Spam, and Abuse
Unrelated is, of course, subjective. And there is no single authority or agreement on this. Although there are many self-appointed authorities enforcing their (often conflicting) ideas of unrelated. Good luck.
Thank you for sharing this @omitaylor
Welcome to steemit @nalabra
Thanks @harithavani I'm happy to be here!
Blog about being a Libertarian! Followed!~
Thanks @skycornish
I am sure you have a goal to achieve so focus on it and work for it.I know you will achieve it.
Welcome bro ! I'm new here too. I guess we are just hanging there before we figure it out. Cheers :)