Community Curation Application by TeamMalaysia for June

I would like to firstly introduce the vibrant community here in Malaysia and would like to try and apply for the possibility of being the Community curator specifically to curate the vibrant STEEM community here in Malaysia.
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About TeamMalaysia

Since 2017 when I first joined STEEM, there were so few options on how to post to the Steem blockchain, not only that, it was really hard to even get your account created. Even with that, I still managed to run my first event talking about STEEM and a lot of people were interested however only a few managed to get their accounts and continued their journey together with me as **Teammalaysia** community here.

This was my first ever meetup which I did here in Malaysia .. i remembered I did a demo post during my presentation https://steemit.com/steemit/@bitrocker2020/welcoming-new-steemians-from-malaysia

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Realizing that STEEM is not just a "blogging" platform, however, that it would only be successful if its a community. Therefore that's why this fueled my drive to grow this into something larger. So I began speaking about STEEM wherever I went ...

And as it started to gain traction, the community just grew and grew and I made many many friends during my journey.

Most of my talks were at a diverse crowd of tech and non-tech. I've even talked about steem at women entrepreneurs event and also numerous blockchain events

I also did talk about steem to musicians and artists asking them to come on board and share their artistry here within the community.

One of my highlights was organizing Borneo Blockchain Summit where we got huge support from the community to run it as we had key government officials to come and attend and actually listen about what Blockchain technology and of course about STEEM as well. The event was a success with 250 attendees !

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Of course this entire event was organized by me and the help of the community with support of members here in the STEEM community as well, where our posts were upvoted, some liquid steem was donated and all liquid payouts were used to minimize our expenses for the event. We were lucky to also be able to invite the Deputy Minister of Education to be able to give the keynote address.

Here is a recap of that event

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Some of our other activities was to address the chinese speaking communities where we organized specific events just to introduce STEEM to the community. Since my fluency in Mandarin not great, other community members came and helped out.

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Almost all our events are Free and I am lucky enough to gain support from the Steem community to support our posts and enable me to travel around the country to talk about this blockchain. We even made it to the papers a few times.

and also crypto blogs ..

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SO Why Am I Still Here ?

I am still here is because I just love this community and steem has been beneficial for everyone not in a sense of only earning some crypto, however also a way to share something, be it a thought, an activity or even something as simple as your kid's drawing or your cooking. Its a space that gives us the freedom to be ourselves.

I remember sharing about my burned pizza on steem once as my kid got pretty sad cuz he so wanted to eat pizza

Here was one of the comment which came after I posted it

I hope the newly signed up individuals from whichever community are also able to experience steem as how we have so that we would be able to grow as a community to make it even larger than just a blockchain.

Summary

With Covid-19 taking a toll on almost everyone here in Malaysia, and also the economic crisis and also a chaotic environment in the political scene here. I would like to support content creators here in TeamMalaysia community by encouraging them to share their thoughts and keep them motivated in consistently creating content and to also use this platform as an outlet to connect and communicate and also get rewarded as it does help these individuals in many ways.

Cheers and this is my application and have a great day !