A Life Changing Evolution in Steemit Interaction: A Must Read for All Steemit Users [Contest is now LIVE!]

in #steemit7 years ago (edited)

Do you have projects that have been put on the backburner and could use some help bringing them to fruition?

Do you like to travel cheaply and have a skill to offer?

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Greetings fellow Steemit users,

Steemit is revolutionary in so many ways and will be in so many more that are yet to come. We have been given a way to decentralize the world and take the power from huge corporations, whose practices have harmed the world and our communities within it.

When we think about online-to-personal global connections, some shady practices of AirB&B might come to mind and other sites like wwoof, helpx and workaway charge a fee to connect on a human level.

Steemit can replace those platforms, make human connection the priority over profit and be the hub to bring Steemit users together, essentially eliminating borders.

What's better than a one page profile with a few paragraphs describing one's self?


The entirety of their Steemit Blog of course.



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A simple question in the front-porch on the HomesteadersOnline Discord server sparked an idea, which has motivated two Steemit users, @coyoteom and @notconvinced to find a solution.

The conversation read as follows:

@notconvinced:
Good morning everyone. I am surprised there is not a section for Natural Building. Is anyone building any strawbale, cob or hempcrete buildings this year?
@coyoteom:
we are looking to build a cob oven and incorporate Cobb or earthcrete into our bathhouse
@notconvinced:
I would be interested in such an event. I have built with cob and plan on earning a few certifications in the field and the last three years I have used workaway to travel and help others build naturally to learn organically. I would prefer to use steemit to find projects though.
@coyoteom:
I love the idea of being able to travel with knowledge of natural building to help folks get closer to nature and a humane lifestyle. Lots of things are tossed that are so usable, people just need help creating! A steemit map of people looking for help on projects in return for housing or meals would be awesome


The idea was born and the search for a solution was on. After contacting @martibis, the creator of SteemitWorldMap, we were informed this use was not only acceptable to him, but the available search function already allowed the map to provide the necessary functions.


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  • Are you a property owner with a few projects planned, but don't have the funds to pay for a professional? Maybe you just need a few helping hands to make your dream project happen?
  • Do you dread weeding the garden or have quite a few things around the homestead that have been neglected, simply because you don't have the time?

  • Would you love to mentor others in your way of life and want to learn or teach a new language with Steemit users from another country?

  • Or maybe you have an extra room or couch and would like to offer them to a fellow traveler?

  • How about that empty shed that could be converted into a Tiny Home to rent or house a helper?



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  • Are you a traveler that would rather get to know other similar minded people, instead of getting lost in a popular tourist destination?

  • Are you taking a year off from school to travel the world?

  • Do you have a skill that you would love to trade for room and board while traveling?

  • Do you want to learn a new skill, but your local educational facility doesn't offer a class for it?


The Solution

Steemit is full of talented travelers with skills ranging from coding, website design, to farming, auto repair and even skilled carpenters. Why not trade those assets for mutual benefit and better yet, make a new friend.

This will naturally pull Steemit together into a tighter knit community and create a more organic way to build your reputation. Plus, just think of all the new posts created as collaborations, not just single authors, which is currently the norm. I cannot think of a better direction for Steemit to grow in.


The proud and honorable Steemit user @martibis has built a complimentary platform called SteemitWorldMap, which is literally putting Steemit and it's users "on the map".

We are proposing a way for it to connect Steemit users in real life as well.

This map has so many uses with it's current search function that the only thing needed to bring Steemit users face to face, is the creation of a few community tags. I hope this idea can motivate a few updates, which could add a few more search points, like active dates, as well.

In order to utilize this map along with our platform idea, our hosting Steemit users need simply go to http://steemitworldmap.com, click the code button at the bottom, tap your location on the map and paste the provided link at the bottom of your post.

Both hosts and travelers would create a post using a template similar to the examples below, with the host linking it to their location on the map. The post should use the specified platform tags so it can be seen and shared among our many diverse communities.

(See the end of this post for exciting surprise details on which tags will be used!)

Finish your promo post by sharing it in the specified platform rooms in the HomesteadersOnline Discord. These rooms are soon to be created specifically for this program, and will be named after the 'steemified' tags. This will allow for easy integration and straightforward communication between users.



Example post template for Hosts:

Catchy and Specific Title

Short Bio About
The Residents
The Land
The Work
The Timeline

Type of Help Needed
None needed, will Teach
Cleaning
Specific Skills needed
Project Assistance

What will you offer in return?
A room and meals?
A place to camp and meals?
What diets can you accommodate?
Hours Expected (24 hr/per week is average)
Skills or Experiences to be Shared

What does your location offer?
Hiking
Swimming
Museums/ Libraries
Cultural Experiences
Etc.

Some Standard Rules About
Cigarettes
Marijuana/ Alcohol Use
Pets
Social Expectations

Example post template for Helpers:

Catchy and Specific Title

Short Bio About
Yourself
Reasons for Traveling
How would You like to Help
Locations Visiting and Dates Available

What skills do you possess?
Past Experience
Able to Follow Directions
Language Fluency/ Comprehension
Childcare
Web Design
Manual Labor

Skills You Would Like to Learn
Animal Husbandry
Carpentry
Language
Farming

Accommodations Requests
Room Inside
Tent Outside
Other

Extra Details
Allergies
Required Diet
Non/Smoker
Traveling with Pet or Companion



Travel and living don't need to be expensive undertakings.
Let's decentralize the way we interact.





So what's the best way to stimulate the brains of our Steemit community to choose some steemed-out tags and a great platform name for these posts?

What's that I hear rising from the depths of the steem-sea?

Could it be.... a contest?? With a 4, 8, or even 16 SBD Reward?!?

Check out our collaboritive creativity contest announcement here. Comment on the contest post to submit your very own entry for the perfect pair of Steemified Community Tags and the Name Itself of this revolutionary new platform.




This post is a collaboration between @coyoteom and @notconvinced

GIF created by @notconvinced from source
Graphic dividers used with permissions by @kristyglas

1st and 4th photos are property of @notconvinced, 2nd and 3rd are property of @coyoteom

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Wow. I mean WO-OW! This is it, @coyoteom! What an idea, and what way to make it happen using Steemit. Boom, resteemed, and what a resteem it is! Perfect for the first one in months. Thank you!
Having just returned from an amazing construction experience (albeit organized through friends, and not over an on-line platform) and weeks before the next one, I'm super excited to explore Steemit World Map.

It's nice to see likeminded people seeing the same potential here. Thank you for the great comment and resteem and I hope you participate in the naming contest, which will be posted in the next day or two from my blog.

I am excited for this too! I came out of my first build a couple years ago now and that feeling you're having now came right up when I first heard about this project.

See you on the map!
Ps: will you have some photos of your build anytime soon? I'm curious to hear (or see) what it was.

Hehehehe, the build was nothing special, really, only a massive wall. As for pics and posts, check out my latest entry (posted about an hour ago). It's the last installment of what I called my "Mazunte series" and it puts the wall into context. Some of the posts deal with tires, other with the place, the theater group, and other things. You'll see... Hope it's not too hard to navigate around them.

Aha cool, just made the connection with your name and the tire wall! Sorry it took a while...

Cool you have more photos! I have to go to sleep but I can still look a little while longer!

You would have found this post too huh!?

Stumbled across, I'd say... But more than anything it's a right place, right time thing. A week ago, while pounding tires in Oaxaca, chances would have been close to zero... unless someone sent me the link directly.

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Your post has been featured in this week's earth-centered curation @the-hearth.

Thanks for writing such fantastic and inspiring content!

This makes me think of wwoofing but better. Great work!

Yes, yes, yes! A fee-free steemit combo pack of wwoofing, workaway, couchsurfing, helpx etc. etc.

I'm stoked to get to use this platform for attending workshops and skillshare homesteads around the globe. Even helping tutor english in trade for some native language skills before travelling the countries we plan on visiting.

The opportunities abound!

Also any kind of resource and service sharing could find a platform on steemit.
Carsharing, tool sharing, getting a lift to places, by car,sailboat, spaceship 😎
Meeting steemians in foreign places and getting local currency from them in exchange for Steem or SBD.
Steemit as a platform for mutual aid.

Steemit is such a versatile and incredible community, dare I say society! We can pretty much form an online world where we all support each other and interact with clarity and trust knowing that the support will come back around via our engagement with the community.

We hope you'll join our contest (to be announced tomorrow) to help create some effective names to the platform and the pair of community tags! @likedeeler, @canadianrenegade

I agree, the possibilities are endless.👍

Oh my... this is an amazing concept (on top of thread subject!) Skip the bank for local currency! Help a fellow steemian in return.

I am excited about this a lot!

It is very cool to see these kind of projects pop up! And it's amazing the map can be of help for this!

Looking forward to see the posts from hosts show up, this is a very cool initiative and I hope it brings more travelers together around the globe!

Thank you for stopping by and your blessing, my friend!

wowwwww !!!! can i just say whole-heartedly FUCK YES?!!!!

following!!! you get a 100% upvote and a resteem for this (went from $3.29 to $3.85)

thank you for your work in this awesome community
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Thank you...I didn’t make it but I did google steem and grafteful dead to find it!

Eitherway, I like it!

Thanks so much for the support! Stay tuned for the contest announcement tomorrow and help us get creative with naming this great program✨⚡

Will do! Thanks again for being you!

You may, my friend! Lol

Super exciting isnt it!?!!

Yes it is and I have been helping people just like this platform promotes the last 3 years, but it's been hard to find people that truly need the help. I hope this makes that search easier.

Upvote for the Steem Your Face!!

This is the next level in interaction on Steemit. How many more ways can we create to connect the world?

When you bring great minds together the possibilities are infinite and all should be as simple as this.

A perfect platform is where each interaction is voluntary with few or no strings attached. This one gives you that control. No fee's, no membership or seperate log in required. Easy- Peasy!

It's voluntaryism at its best.

Yes! Plus as a youthful female, I often felt really put off by the messages I would receive on sites like couch-surfing, so being able to see people's entire interactive timeline through the blockchain can really up the safety and community engagement.

I'm really excited about using this platform for me and my honey's future travels through India, South America and hopefully Canada too!

As a gal with a degree in linguistics, I think it would be an incredible way to teach and learn languages as well. Pretty much free learning environments, plus the posts that can come from these community interactions would be like the most supreme meet-ups! We could even organize big projects like helping people rebuild homes and start permaculture projects.

So Many Incredible Possibilities!

You're opening up a can of worms (good worms in this case!), the possibiloties are endless!

And it really is looking like you hit on something that is absolutely needed. A lot of steemians already commenting!

how cool is this?!?!?! I am so looking forward to watching this develop!! Looks like a great relationship formed, once again - Steemit has fostered new ideas and perfect connections to fuel growth! awesome @notconvinced!!!! :)

Thank you so much, my friend! I knew you would appreciate a platform such as this. I know your vacation was a blast and you'll probably need a few days to recover. I am super happy your whole family was able to make the Cruise. Welcome home.

So true.. a few days at least hehehe and yes! The whole family!!!! (Talk of the next "reunion" has already begun hehehe)
Thanks for the welcome home!!! (I love those words for so many reasons hehehe)

Totally agree with Steemit having fueled old ideas back to the surface or bringing about new ideas. So many things I had on the back burner are coming back to life at the moment. I've been saying that ever since I got on this blockchain!

Thanks Steemit!

The way this platform works is simplicity almost at its best. This is how I prefer it.

Every step is simple and voluntary, while requiring no interaction in between. It is completely autonomous and needs no one behind the scenes. No leaders and no followers, just user's.

oh my gosh. If you get this off and running and people flock and interact without any gentle prodding... i shall sit at your feet and learn, O Jedi Master.

hehehehehe i wish I could run a treasure hunt and award prizes without needing to do any work behind the scenes!!! LOLOLOL but then... that would be impossible hahahaha. (unless youhave ideas?!?!?!?! if so!!! please telll meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee) hahaha

I will be sure to let you know if I am hit with an epiphany.

I do know that the photocontests channel uses a bot that automates some of the same thing you are doing, like collecting upvotes and comments on relevent posts.

heheheh sounds good to me! i wait with bated breath for epiphanies ;)

i'm dying to give my name to the contest...... where be yer post announcing it??? hehehe

In two hours...tick tock...lol

aghhhhhh he knows i don't like to wait. why did he do that. lol

wait!!!! WAIT. mark today's date down on a calendar!!!! you just committed to a time! LOLOL

Awesome, @coyoteom and @notconvinced. I'm glad I ran into you both the other day.

I am really stocked for this platform to take off. I have been busy all weekend and haven't been on the Discord channel for Homesteaders Online till just now! But I am still in for helping in some way. I like this linking up of people that will happen through it.

Heads up for the North East USA... we will be posting for help in the near future for sure (Mostly will be teaching Natural Building)

Thanks again you guys and thanks to @martibis for creating the map we can use too!

I'm no big fish but Re-steeming this. See you on the contest thread

Thank you my friend, every little bit helps. Make sure to look out for announcement of the naming contest tomorrow afternoon. I am glad you were able to stop by.😀

Will do, for sure. I have some ideas already for some names!

Thanks again for having contacted me about this.

fantastic and inspiring friends! love that you've done the groundwork on this idea to stimulate all of us! wowza! this is fantastic... i wonder if there could also be a page that resteems all of the offerings/lookers. @the-hearth could certainly help with this and filter ones that come across our path! ... love the idea. as someone who has learned a huge chunk of wisdom about farming, gardening, natural building, etc from traveling, wwoofing, etc, I LOVE SEEING THIS ON THE BLOCKCHAIN! woooo! Resteemed.

We do plan on creating one or a couple of spin-off channels for that very reason. We need the names first and are going to post a contest tomorrow to do just that.

I know right, this is so great! Ideas a strong here. It feels like I have met so many more "doers" on steemit than I have out and about!

Curating these posts and filtering is a good idea. Perhaps it could be somehow split into different areas of the world somehow... oh yeah, the map!

Nice, resteemed too!

Yes thanks for the engagement and hearth-work @mountainjewel.
We have talked about creating a curation account for the platform, named after the platform. I think it would definitely serve well to have it be a bit of a community curation effort where users can send in lists of different types of these collaborative creative efforts (or wishes to be) to be shared on the account.

The curation page would help make it easy for followers sort through what help is needed in different areas, allowing things like creative gatherings or workshop announcements to use the same community-search tags as the homestead help posts. Reflectively , it would allow people looking to volunteer on farms etc then could still use the same tag as people looking for a place to sleep in their travels!

That's why we would love engagement with the naming contest (to be announced tomorrow, 3/19!).

Making a single curated platform with two tags instead of many allows more opportunity for them to become trending and would get all of steemit much more involved in this helpful community aspect.

yes ! great ideas you two.. definitely putting some excellent thought into this :) thanks! <3

interesting concept in a time where money is scarce and sustainability vs. overpopulation will probably make it so in most parts of the world a human won't be worth its weight in soil by the end of the century (according to the numbers before that) ... allowe me to offer a resteem to my humble audience and a smallvote.jpeg allthough its a bit troublesome votes over 90% aint worth half a cent anymore today ... but as these things go up and down that might be a matter of waiting (or not ...) its still the niche network for niche people if you weed out the bots and marketeers though and im sure the CEO cant really say he's getting poor from it ...

sig :

viewed, voted, commented, and re-steemed ...

i am not a bot and i only have one account ... and im not half as bad a lunatic as it might appear but i need to hide from the normals or they come to pick my brains

anyone follows me i'll follow back within a few days

if you have complaints please check the link(where did that link go), or else just do that content dictator thing you do i no longer care ... a resteem is a resteem, atm to 355 people, thats 355 chances to have it re-resteemed,
Free speech is either absolutely free or it is not at all. It was meant to be free for everybody : how can anyone grow up in a nanny state?
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(im thinking on putting up a post i can use as a link for the sig holding all my profiles, putting this in every time gets lengthy and somewhat of an aesthetic layout mess.)

good luck with the project i'll mark it in my firebook

I fully believe that the future of our world is not in competitive business but in cooperative community engagement.
hank you for the resteem @rudyardcatling! We hope you will take part in our naming contest so we can get a lot of creative minds in on this collaborative effort. Cheers!

I don't understand what you are trying to convey.

i get that a lot :)

but i hope the vote helps

It does my friend, thank you.