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RE: 5 Reasons Steemgigs Could Disrupt Fiverr
Excellently written and very powerful article @stellabelle; it's brilliant to see your perspective on this from both sides.
It's also fantastic for #steemgigs, and Steemit.com, to have someone with your reach and standing in the community championing this initiative and partnering with @surpassinggoogle!
I recently created a similarly positioned post - highlighting some of the huge benefits of #steemgigs.
The post also included a #steemgig; that is still available if anyone is interested in it
I can't wait to see further adoption of #steemgigs and the disruption of Fiverr.
what we really need is an organizational plan moving forward. It's hard to find the steemgigs due to the nature of this blog. When communities get here, we will be able to form a better grouping, with it all easy to figure out who is offering what gig. It will need a programming mind to really bring us to the next level....
Very true.
Well there are plenty of them / us on the platform and willing to help ;)
and we will need your help, as this is a community driven thing......we are working together, and each person brings the skills necessary to make it successful. it sounds like you're passionate about this idea.....if you're wanting to contribute let me know. I have several jobs right now (too many to list actually) but I felt so strongly that I could make a difference in this area because I'm a freelancer, employer, and a person who wants people to have more freedom in their lives. Ideally, I'd like to focus on creating a new gig economy that actually works.....the trick is, Steemit has way different rules, that are more tribe-oriented. It's a new paradigm that people don't understand well.
If you look at tribes, some in the past, the most alpha tribe leaders, the ones with the most power were the ones who gave the tribe the most meat. So if a hunter was really good, he shared his spoils with his tribe. This is the opposite paradigm of the corporate elite centralized authority model. Steemit is much more similar to the older tribe model, that relied on the gift economy, aligning with those who are givers. This is the part of the system that people need to be educated about. It's a shift in consciousness that is required for maximum success.
As I was raised in Alaska, I am familiar with a particular feature of tribal economies that may be highly applicable to Steemit, and @steemgig.
It is the potluck. The wealth of the tribe is owned by the chief. When this wealth becomes burdensome (when wealth is measured in fish, that doesn't take long) the chief holds a potluck where that wealth is delivered to the tribe as a feast.
The status of chiefs (reputation) is based on the recipients of this largesse, and creates a dependence on the goodwill of the tribe for chiefs.
Potlucks as transmitted to rural Americans tend to be more egalitarian, and to be less useful in terms of economic redistribution of wealth, as the attendees bring food to the event to share.
This doesn't make them less useful, and may be a more realistic analogy, and more applicable to @steemgig.
Hoped that perhaps this might be useful to you in your efforts, at least conceptually.
Thanks for posting links to @steemgig earlier. As you pointed out, despite my nascent interest, it is not entirely obvious to new users how to connect with particular individuals.
I find this of particular interest as I have been thinking a lot about tribes recently. I believe it is more natural for humans to want to belong to a tribe than say to a corporation. Tribes make us feel whole, like we matter and belong to something that will protect us. Corporations make us feel like a plastic refilliable lighter. Corporations don't care if we live or die, but tribes do. They rely on our gifts, and our complex relational webs. They are organic, while the corporation is inorganic. i grew up with potlucks......interesting history, thank you.
Wow, I never thought of it that way, but it makes a lot of sense - there's definitely a lot less trampling over one another to get to the top (dog-eat-dog); like there is in corporate environments.
After 10 years of software development for some of the largest companies in the world, I decided to try contracting / freelance work for a bit. Bitcoin / Ethereum / Blockchain was the real catalyst for me; that made me see that the winds of change were blowing - and in a direction that suited me personally.
I'm definitely interested in helping out where I can.
ok great. I am in the same boat. I worked for the corporate world as an artist and I can tell you it's pure exploitation. I had to make a decision: save my arms/wrists or continue working as a production artist. I chose to quit, but I never figured out to turn dreams into reality until i found steemit. And if you think of it, Dan Larimer, who invented the Graphene technology plus all the digital wallets, and Ned they both gifted us with these tools. It's up to us to form new alliances, with a new paradigm and make this successful. it's waiting for us, and everyone else.
yes, so many programmers! I love it because even though I taught myself to do some coding back in the day, I don't like it too much.....my skills are more artistic, so it's a match made in heaven with so many nerds here!
ok another thing I'll be doing is compiling all the steemgigs that have not filled yet, and to educate people both within steem and outside of what the gigs entail. This will be a weekly summary that is produced in a slick format.
This is sweetness or should i say greatness!
i'll read up on your gig and include it in the weekly publication. I'll do this on twitter, using Moments too, so people can find out about them