Successful #1 India Steemit Accelerator and Steem Cryptocurrency Meetup 2017!

in #steemit7 years ago (edited)

I've been working on starting Steemit Accelerators and meetups across India ever since I got back from SteemFest 2016 and have been raving about this platform and promoting it ever since I got onboard. However, for the longest time it wasn't possible due to various reasons. But yesterday, (11th June, 2017) I was able to kick-start it off with a great weekend session in my city of Mangalore, India.


Surrounded by lush green trees it's a relatively old but well maintained conference location in my city

The event was held at Sahodaya, a conference centre in my city and invitations were sent to about 25 people.


Mangalorean rains!

The city has been experiencing a major downpour since the wee hours of Sunday morning and a few travelling to the event from outskirts of the city had to cancel at the last minute. However, we had a total headcount of 14 attendees including myself. I planned for an hour but the program went for about 2hrs and 40 minutes.

Dear Steemians! This event was fully funded with your support on my previous blogs!

I want to educate people on using Steemit and following is a quick coverage of the event as it went down.


Steemit Coaching 1-O-1


We started off with a round of introductions. It helped that we had a diverse range of people in the group and pretty much everyone was internet-savvy. From professional bloggers, photographers, IT engineers to college students; it was a great mix! It felt great learning how the Indian youth find Steemit a fascinating new experience!


@karthikrao talking about his experience writing on steemit


@andreanoronha spoke about her love for crafts and will be sharing them on Steemit


@wandereronwheels is a young Mechanical engineering student who loves making moto-vlogs and travel logs


Aneesha (16) is one of my youngest friends. A picture of this lil' local celeb and India's youngest female surfer talking about her personal achievements during her introduction!

After introducing the platform I went about teaching everyone how to create an account and everyone came up with suggestions to help Aneesha create @surferanee during the presentation.

I discussed the following in some detail and after 5-10 minutes we had a QnA to clear the concepts. It was pretty detailed but here's a summary.

  1. Account creation and importance of introductions for non-anon users.
  2. How to create a post, add images and selecting rewards.
  3. What are upvotes, downvotes and basics as compared to old social media Facebook.
  4. Where does the 'money' come from?
  5. Strategies for gaining followers, importance of commenting.
  6. Dos an Dont's on Steemit including use of copyrighted materials.
  7. Steemit.Chat and best ways to use the platform.
  8. How to network with others on Steemit and Steemit.Chat
  9. For existing members I also showed them how to use Steemd and SteemDB.
  10. How the wallet page works and transfering Steem/SBD.
  11. Using Mobile App @esteem and attending @steemfest global conference!
  12. How to use Blocktrades.us and Shapeshift.io for quick exchanges and crypto trading platforms such as Poloniex & Bittrex.
  13. Many other aspects of Steemit were discussed!


Explain users acquainted in trading of stocks and advanced users amongst the group on how to buy/sell Steem on the exchange.

It was an interactive session and the audience asked over a hundred questions which I answered to the best of my knowledge of Steemit. The session ended as I explained how to get INR from your rewards on Steemit and a general discussion on Bitcoin, altcoins, crypto market cap and future possibilities.

Special thanks to my friends who assisted me in this event @varunpinto (photos) @droidsid (systems) and @wolfpack-raj (Press Release)


It was great listening to the questions. People loved the idea of a Steemit Accelerator that introduced them to our incredible platform with easy to understand concepts.

Steemit has the incredible potential to make dreams come true. I'm doing my part to help others achieve theirs through using this amazing platform!


OK! So we had some fun waiting for the rains to stop!


I swear by The Book of Steemit that I shall stop using old social media!


A friend caught this shadowy figure in the act! - It's dynamic splint for my hand which assists me with everyday tasks.


Because friends are awesome!


Any Wolverine fans in da house?


@droidsid checking votes on his blog using @good-karma's @esteem app. Posting/Voting on the go!


@speedracer asking you get on Steemit Now!


Local businessman @srinidhi thinks Steemit is Love!

I hope to answer these questions in my following posts so stay tuned

  1. Why India is an important and untapped market for Steemit?
  2. My Ideas & Agenda for promoting Steemit in India
  3. How Steemit could revolutionise the growth of Crypto market in India
  4. Future India Steemit Accelerator Locations!

Thank you for your attention and support!


If you like my work, please share my posts and follow my blog to support me. You may also continue reading my recent posts which might interest you:

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Hey all.. I was lucky and glad to be part of the first Steemit meeting here in the beautiful city of Mangalore, India.

I met some really great people with really awesome experiences. I am so happy and thankful that my dear friend @firepower introduced me to the Steemit community.

The session was very informative and helpful as it cleared a lot of doubts that I had. @firepower was really good at conducting the whole session and answering all our doubts.

It was a lot of fun since most of us already knew each other and we had a good time at the meet.

Thanks again for everything @firepower :)
Hope to see you and everyone else again soon

Hi Andy. Glad to make it to this platform. Looking forward to make more steem power :D

i am from korea, i want to make some friends in india

Welcome to Steemit Sanjay! So glad to see you here. I wish you all the best :)

Thank you Andy :) Looking forward to some good action out here

Hi :) I'm sure you'll make plenty of Indian friends here :)

Thank you 😊
Happy to be here

@firepower,
You guys should live stream the next meet up I would love to attend via video chat! Along with many other people, I am sure would love to attend a well organized educational presentation as you have done.
Best,
Isaac

Nice to see you on Steemit @andreanoronha. Im looking forward to @firepower next Steemit session in Bangalore where i would be introducing all my biker friends to Steemit.

I hope i can be there too 😊

Thank you 😊

Welcome Aboard, Fellow Indian! Hope you have a great time in here. Followed.

Thanks a lot :) followed back :)

@andreanoronha thanks for the great feedback! Glad you enjoyed it! :)

Was my pleasure :)

So glad to read this.

Welcome to Steemit! :)

So happy to read your story @andreanoronha. You are not only learning from one of the best in India but one of the best in the world. May good thing are to come as you are in good hands!
Best,
Isaac

Yea :)
Thank you so much :)
@firepower really is great as a guide and a friend :)

Hi Andi and @Firepoer

I think this is a fantastic article. I am a new bee in Steemit and I was looking for someone who started it in india. I think you just started to exploring things with your friends but we can take it to the bigger platform and can schedule it in other cities as well to make people more aware of the new social media technology, unlike Facebook.

Your efforts are definitely appreciated. I seen the pics of manglore and rain.. Its definately a beautiful place. Must have to visit once!

Welcome to Steemit :) if I'm correct, there will be a meeting in bangalore soon. @firepower will be conducting more meetings across India if possible. You can contact him for more details.

it is impressive.

Wonderful to read about this event and get to know the Indian Community. Welcome!
Awesome @firepower!!!

Thank you :)

welcome to steemit

Thank you 😊

Is it possible to HACK STRRMIT????

I'm sure that it is extremely difficult.

Bye Bye Facebook ! Hello Steemit !!!

Whoa ! what an event that was !!! Perfect way to kickstart my Steemit Experience .

A Big Thank you to @firepower ( My biker buddy since ages ) for hosting the event and being an amazing resource person to enlighten us Noobs :)

Glad to be part of an exclusive club of Steemers here in Mangalore !
Such a wonderful bunch of people , totally loved meeting such fun and energetic people .

A Month ago when @firepower Introduced me to Steemit , i wasn't so impressed.
But , after attending this session ( & seeing the wallet of @Firepower lol ) i'm convinced .

Looking forward to many more experiences like this , and i Guess its time to save up some dough to attend the International Steemfest this year !

And also a Big thank you to my fellow steemers @droidsid @andreanoronha @wolfpack-raj @varunpinto for attending and making the event a super success !!!
Cheers :)

See you around Folks !

Welcome to Steemit :)
I was waiting for you to say something about the wallets 😂
I hope you have an amazing experience here :)

Haha! I had the same feeling. It literally cracked me up reading the part regarding wallets.

Thank you @andreanoronha !!!
It was a Pleasure meeting you :)
Looking forward to many more interactions on steemit .

& Yes, Meghan's Wallet is eye candy to me .

Waiting for your introduction post on steemit @srinidhi :D

Hey There !

I'm here too. Glad to see you on this platform.

looking forward to make more steeems!!:D

Cheers

Thanks for the awesome feedback dude! :)

@firepower Great work brother really proud of you. I believe Steem can change lives across India. Hope you are well.

Thank you @thejohalfiles! I certainly believe that Steem crypto and Steemit can make a huge positive impact on lives across the globe. It has a huge potential in India. I'm trying to make a difference as years ago I struggled and taught myself what it takes to achieve anything. Now a decade later of pursuing my goals and achieving many of them I think I am in a position to be able to help other people achieve theirs.

Steemit I hope is that revolution that many people have dreamt of. I hope to take to this platform to the masses in our motherland. I know you've migrated to a better but I know that somewhere in your heart you feel for the people here and know this platform will add great value to people's lives here and it's great to see you supporting work from many authors from India. This platform has the potential to uplift millions of lives and even provide a basic minimum income of sorts.

I will be conducting future Steemit Accelerators in other cities. The next one is Bangalore and then others from there as the community grows.

Thank you for following my work. Please stay tuned as I will also have other interesting content of value coming up and your support will help me continue all of my current initiatives. Thank you for your attention and continued support!

These are very exciting times brother we are lucky to be here indeed, I will be looking forward to reading/hearing more @firepower. Take care

@thejohalfiles Hey brother, see you doing well ^^ I just wanted to ask. Are there any tips on getting cur. rewards or its all the same if you have low SP.
Much love <3
-Goldie

The earlier you find a post that you think will do well, the more you will earn. Look for good content that will bring value to the network that others will also upvote. If you are the first to find good content you will earn the most. With that said it is not always about earning the most. In some cases you may want to vote last to give others a chance or various other reasons. You should experiment and find your own system that works for you. I recommend you use the site www.steemnow.com to monitor your mining stats if you are going to get heavy into the curation side of things.

@firepower this is AWESOME. A few of us in New York have also been trying to execute a similar program here and I would love to pick your brain at some point!

Surely! I'd be happy to be of some help! Feel free to ping me on Steemit.Chat if you think I could be of some assistance. Would love to attend one of these meetups in NYC someday! This was more of an accelerator/quick starter than a meetup itself but I'll have a meetup to view progress of everyone who made it to this event soon! :)

I definitely will soon (I think the chat is down right now) to discuss potential strategies for on-boarding and community techniques.

Definitely come to New York!

Yeah it's down for some on-going maintenance. Let's chat soon! :) I hope to make it there in 2018 if not sooner.

I saw your posts before before didn't check it out and had no Idea you are from my motherland. Good to see your designation and I am proud you are an Indian. Following you. Jai hind. Cheers!!!!!!

That's great! Thank you! :)

Wow. You did a great job. Thats what we all need to be doing to develop steemit. Will be following you and learning from your footstep. I'm very happy i came accross this thread

Thank you so much! Ive been working hard to build the steemit community and the efforts are showing. :)

Wow! You are ahead of many Western countries. So glad to see blogs such as this. Much love and support from Montenegro, Europe.

Thank you so much @freedomnation! :)

Good work!

thank you @carface and @mirage! :)

good job guys , by understanding how the steemit platform works , we've gotta make it even bigger ,promotions and meet ups like this is the best options for now i guesss. And yet keep posting folks!

That must've been amazing! Mini Steemfest right there. Great to see more and more meetups. I recently heard that there is also one in Spain(?), if I recall correctly.

It's great to see how a simple social media platform like Steemit can unite strangers. I don't see that happening often within Facebook groups, for example.

Every time I see these things, I get happy and motivated to be more and more invested into the platform. This is genuinely great, I haven't met a single bad person who is active on here. Rock on, Steemit!

By the way, you're rocking that beard.

Yeah it was great! I'm glad that we met and then had a great time together thanks to this platform as well as old school fb haha! Thanks Shannon! :)

Thank you @Firepower for introducing me to this wonderful platform. Over the past few months I've been loitering around social media sites for various freelance digital marketing work. Thanks to you, I have now found a better bigger platform to make ends meet.

I've always loved travelling and meeting new people. I believe this is the perfect platform now for me to interact and travel.

Hoping to make it to Steemfest 2017 !

Cheers!

Thank you for the detailed comment bro! :)