Hi Matt I saw that you attended and met up with your steemians at the Philly meet and greet. That is such a stellar move, to get out in the city and be the embodiment of steem and the success it can bring for those that are current members and those that have just signed up as newbies to the platform. That kind of experience and word of mouth is what it very well may take to get the lid off of what I feel is one the best kept tech secrets today, that being steem/steemit/bitshares. I am quite happy that my first witness vote on steemit was not like votes I had cast in other elections, where I had to plug my nose and pray for the best, lol. I plug you to as many newbies as I can as a very solid witness vote, and tell them the importance of that vote and that it needs to be done to retain top tier talent and give them "golden handcuffs" to continue their great work here on the steemit platform!