The Steem News @ 16 April 2024 : Steem Video Contest Closing Soon...

The Steem Video Contest with a prize pool of 49,000 SP in delegations closes in 3 days.

The Engagement Challenge enters Week 2 of Season 17 with seven new challenges.

Today's Steem News also includes news and updates about SteemPro Blogs, Ingan.Elements, Steem promotion on local radio, Steem for Indonesia, World Smile Project, PlanetWild, Fashion & Style Community, and Contests on Steem...

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1. Steem Video Contest

@xpilar has launched a contest for people to make promotional videos about Steem.

The prize pool for this contest has now risen to over 49,000 SP in delegations. The judges for the contest will be @xpilar, @stef1 and @pennsif.

The contest closes in just three days on 20 April...

• PROMOTION STEEM, MAKE YOUR OWN VIDEO ABOUT STEEM. prize pool of at least 49000 SP in delegation to the winners

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2. Steemit Engagement Challenge Season 17 - Week 2

The Week 2 Challenges for the new Season 17 of the Engagement Challenge have now been posted...

• Steemit Update [ April 15th, 2024 ] : Steemit Engagement Challenge Season 17 - Week 2

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Pennsif the Witness

After almost 2000 days on Steem I decided it was time to take my contribution to the platform to the next level.

I have therefore set up as a Steem witness... @pennsif.witness

If anyone would like to support what I already do, and what I am planning to do, by giving one of their 30 witness votes to @pennsif.witness I would be hugely grateful.

You can read my full witness announcement here...

• pennsif.witness Witness Campaign Post

@pennsif.witness is now at #18. Thank you to everyone who has voted to help get to this position.

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3. SteemPro Blogs

Developer @faisalamin has posted an update on a further enhancement to SteemPro Blogs, this time for remembering passwords...

• Remember password and more | SteemPro Blogs

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@faisalamin also continues to post regular weekly and daily reports of the usage of SteemPro...

• SteemPro Weekly Report 16-Apr-2024

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4. Ingan.Elements

Korean witness developer @etainclub continues work on his new account exchange dApp 'ingan.elements'.

Ingan.Elements is due to be launched next week...

• [ingan.elements] updates - Search elements

• Guerilla warfare against AI

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5. Steem on the Radio

On Sunday @ubongudofot went on the local radio station 90.5FM AKBC-Uyo to talk about his Steem Lighting Africa project to install PV systems in local schools.

The interview was a great success...

• Radio show at AKBC 90.5 FM- Uyo was a success!

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6. Steem for Indonesia

The recently formed Steem Hobbies community is rebranding to become Steem for Indonesia.

Community founders @klen.civil and Steem Rep @waterjoe are making this move following the power down and dissolution of the previous Steem Indonesia community...

• CHANGE OF NAME AND COMMUNITY GUIDELINES FROM STEEM HOBBIES TO STEEM FOR INDONESIA

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7. World Smile Project Food Donations

World Smile Project Manager @irawandedy has posted a final financial report for the project to donate food parcels to local orphans in North Aceh during Ramadan...

• WSP - Financial Realization Report for Food Parcel Donation in North Aceh

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8. Recommended Reads

Steem Rep @o1eh has been looking at current trends in social media and asks if 2024 could be a year of opportunity for Steem...

• Is 2024 the Year of Opportunity for Steem?

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Long time Steemian @stef1 has been raising funds on Steem for the PlanetWild eco conservation rewilding project.

The @planetwild account has now reached the target of raising £720 (2700 STEEM) to gain the status of Legend Membership...

• Steem Community is now a Planet Wild Legend member!

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Community Founder @ashkhan has posted another weekly 'Fashion Magazine' from the Fashion & Style community...

• Steem Fashion & Style "Fashion Magazine" April 2024 Week 2

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9. Contests on Steem

@disconnect continues to publish his comprehensive daily list of current contests on Steem.

There are 92 contests in the latest list with over 750 STEEM in prizes...

• Contest Alerts: Active Contest List on 16th Apr 2024

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KEY DATA [ from CoinMarketCap ]

STEEM price	US$ 0.25	17 Apr '24 0.05am
CoinMarketCap Ranking	#386	17 Apr '24 0.05am
SBD price	US$ 3.85	17 Apr '24 0.05am
Unique visitors (steemit.com)	139,713 / day	17 Apr '24 0.05am
Page views (steemit.com)	217,738 / day	17 Apr '24 0.05am

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This is #524 (16 Apr '24) of this news service.

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[ graphics by @pennsif ]