The Key To Steemit's Success - "Building Value Creating Communities"
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0.000 HBDThe Key To Steemit's Success - "Building Value Creating Communities"
<html> <h3>We're 'the pioneers' of this big Steemit experiment, we're scouting out ways to improve, methods of interacting and all going through a world of different emotions and journeys. We're collectively taking small steps to prepare the Steemit Decentralised Economy for mass adoption. This is as much an experiment in social psychology as it is economics.</h3> <p>This has taken a while to get my head around, I've had the bones of this article planned for the last couple weeks, initially coming from a 'How to get your voice heard on Steemit' how-to perspective. As I followed that train of thought and speculated into the future of Steemit I went on a more interesting journey...</p> <p>I'll talk about my opinion of offering value, the abundance mentality that Steemit catalyses, the creation of value 'creating' communities and what could potentially be the next step. I'll give direct examples of comments, observations on Steemit.Chat and my experience in trading forums prior to Steemit. </p> <p><strong>Overall the incentives to offer value and the methods of cooperation may paint a picture of whats to come... the 'apps' in a decentralised economy.</strong></p> <h2><strong>First off... what is value? </strong></h2> <p><strong>https://s16.postimg.org/xczs1p3ad/hand_813525_1920.jpg</strong> </p> <p>Value can be the presentation of a skill set, such as an artist or short story author, sharing a travel story to inspire, introducing yourself and your followers to Steemit - increasing adoption, helping people understand something complicated or solidifying your understanding of a topic and sharing it with others.</p> <p>This is only my interpretation, from my perspective. To answer a subjective question like 'What is Value?' there will be many answers and opinions that are completely different… </p> <blockquote><em>Value is original content</em> </blockquote> <blockquote><em>Value is putting yourself out there</em> </blockquote> <blockquote><em>Value is recognising the value in others, pushing them further and lifting them up</em> </blockquote> <blockquote><em>Value is bringing people together</em> </blockquote> <h2><strong>The process of offering value...my journey</strong></h2> <p><br></p> <p><strong>https://s10.postimg.org/okba5vdeh/frog_897419_1920.jpg</strong></p> <p>Before Steemit I began writing on trading forums, my motivation for posting there was to push myself and understand how to become a better trader, sharing and consolidating my understanding with some feedback.</p> <p>I figured if I could help someone else understand something then my own understanding would be solidified as a result. It would be a win-win. </p> <p>When I gained more experience in the markets and my writing improved ..something shifted… it was almost as if my posts began to act as signals to other traders who wanted to offer value too. I started getting private messages from some very knowledgeable and experienced traders. </p> <p>There were a couple of guys that I've ended up speaking to for years, one a veteran trader with 25+ years of experience who went on to mentor me about the process and journey of trading and another who was a few years ahead of me trading the exact same markets, with a very similar style. We went back and forth sharing relevant observations and gained hugely from the interaction. </p> <p>So the real value wasn't in the likes, wasn't completely in strengthening my independent understanding - the real value was in the interactions that happened after I put myself out there. The journey of improving and interacting with others step by step. </p> <p>It was from that point that my trading drastically improved for the better, I didn't expect anything from my posts.. only to solidify my understanding, the fact that those posts acted as signals to other traders wanting to offer value is when I really stepped my game up.</p> <h2><strong>Pushing for an abundance mentality... giving more than you expect in return...</strong></h2> <p><strong>https://s13.postimg.org/z33f80v3r/mechanics_1501859_1920.jpg</strong></p> <p>Steemit seems to catalyse individuals to share as much value as possible, more so than any other social networks I've seen online that seem to trade mainly in social validation. Relationships that took me years to develop on a trading forum were developed in a few comments on Steemit. The rewards for offering value incentivize creativity and collaboration on a level I haven't observed before.</p> <p>Instead of focusing on what a scarcity mentality is, I'd like to instead focus on the emergence of abundance mentalities on a mass scale on Steemit. However here is a definition from an <a href="http://www.success.com/article/john-c-maxwell-6-tips-to-develop-and-model-an-abundance-mindset">article </a>on scarcity vs abundance.</p> <blockquote> The Scarcity Mentality is the zero-sum paradigm of life. People with a Scarcity Mentality have a very difficult time sharing recognition and credit, power or profit—even with those who help in the production. They also have a hard time being genuinely happy for <a href="http://success.com/article/4-steps-to-stop-comparing-your-success-to-others">the success of other people</a>.</blockquote> <blockquote>The Abundance Mentality, on the other hand, flows out of a deep inner sense of personal worth or security. It is the paradigm that there is plenty out there and enough to spare for everybody. It results in the sharing of prestige, recognition, profits and decision-making. It opens possibilities, options, alternatives and creativity. </blockquote> <p>Having an abundance mentality in terms of creating value with others in my experience is about <strong>signalling</strong> that you have value to offer and <strong>you don't expect anything in return in any one interaction</strong>. You need to have an abundance mentality because in most cases you won't get much in return... in some cases however, when you interact with the right person you can both get benefit significantly more than anticipated. This is where the magic happens.</p> <p>So given that Steemit catalyses adding value and thinking from a place of abundance, let's look at a couple of examples.</p> <h3><strong>Leaving genuine, insightful comments...that signal to the original author</strong></h3> <p>https://s15.postimg.org/dq6shqxdn/Untitled_picture.png</p> <p>I greatly benefited from @andrarchy s post and decided to try and add some value in the comments section. He sent out a signal and I sent one back. We've had extensive discussions since about adding value, the Steemit economic system and tweaks to titles and posts. </p> <h3><strong>rok-sivante's paradigm shift...</strong></h3> <p>The first article I read in relation to Steemit of having an abundance vs scarcity mentality was a personal account by @rok-sivante where he argued that the mechanisms behind up-voting, instant feedback and content creation essentially <strong>provided a catalyst to developing an abundance mentality and offering value.</strong></p> <blockquote> "The more I got rewarded, my subconscious began grasping a game-changing insight: the potential to create and share <strong>value</strong> here is a <em>whole</em> different ballgame. The further this realization sunk in, the more my commitment grew to <strong>being a person of value.</strong> AND the more I backed that commitment up with <em>action</em> - writing content to really <em>make a difference </em>for those reading it, in some way or another"</blockquote> <p> <a href="https://steemit.com/steemit/@rok-sivante/how-steemit-is-rewiring-my-brain-to-become-a-better-person-a-journey-from-being-a-self-centered-scrooge-to-community-loving"><strong>How Steemit Is Rewiring My Brain To Become A Better Person </strong></a> </p> <p>It's such a subtle shift, but it's something I've felt too. When you get used to offering value in day to day life and it goes largely unnoticed... then all of a sudden you throw yourself onto Steemit where you get rewarded for it a big shift happens.</p> <p><br></p> <p>So @rok-sivante experienced a paradigm shift personally, what if we were to assume that others were feeling this shift too?</p> <p><strong>What would that mean...?</strong></p> <p><strong>What would happen when people with an abundance mentality who were looking to offer value.. interacted with each other?</strong></p> <p><strong>...even better, what would happen when entire groups of people worked collaboratively... all offering the most value they could... creating significantly more than the sum of their parts... </strong></p> <h2><strong>Developing value creating communities...</strong> </h2> <p>https://s16.postimg.org/jwt074jv9/access_933120_1920.png</p> <p>So far we've established that value can take many forms, Steemit catalyses an 'abundance' mentality and forges relationships between individuals to offer value collaboratively. The next step and where Steemit is shifting now is in value creating sub-communities on Steemit.Chat. After that we may see interactions between established groups and 'apps' that will be developed as a result of these interactions. </p> <p>There are some pretty remarkable things going on just 'below the surface'... private mentoring groups on Steemit.Chat, Project Curie, Steemcleaners, Robinhood Whale... collaborations and discussions offline in meetups with a genuine feeling of community.</p> <blockquote><strong>When you get two or more people together offering value they benefit more than the sum of the parts.</strong></blockquote> <p><br></p> <p>In order to make this brief I'd like to showcase one of these private mentoring groups.. the 'Andrarchists' created by @andrarchy.</p> <p>There isn't really any leadership, in fact it's a pretty anarchic group but it's one of the best examples of people coming together and sharing value, hints and tips to improve the presentation of their posts with much less focus on promotion.</p> <p>In fact many of the members of the group have gone on to make top trending posts consistently after the interactions and guidance of the collective group. Those same members are now 'paying it forward' with newer member's.. as @andrachy puts it in the 'pinned mission statement' </p> <blockquote> ...The most important of these tricks is to find other content-creators on your "level" and work together to improve one another's content as well as upvote it. A high tide raises all ships (that's the saying right 😃 ) </blockquote> <p>I'll break things down properly in future posts, I just want the broad idea out there.</p> <h2>In Conclusion<strong> </strong></h2> <p>Around a month ago I wrote up a two-part post on 'Digging Deeper Into Steemit' - in the <a href="https://steemit.com/steemit/@wingz/building-the-economic-system-digging-deeper-into-steem-part-2">second part</a> I talked about 'hubs' or apps developing. I can now see a path to those sub-communities developing to the point where there is significant demand to develop an app or 'sidechain' that will add value to Steemit as a whole.</p> <p>It's all about community, building something together, offering value and creating value through interacting privately and publicly. Not having your voice heard? Find others with similar interests, <strong>create a specialised group and make it happen. </strong></p> <p>We're the pioneers, we have to make it comfortable for mass adoption. Make it clear where people can offer value. If anyone has added value to you 'pay it forward'.</p> <p><strong>This is the key to Steemit's success, people coming together offering as much value they can and collaborating, creating more value... where the total value is greater than the sum of all the parts</strong>. </p> <p>If these relationships then go on to create a <strong>comfortable environment</strong> for mass adoption to take place, for 'apps' to be developed...we may just have created a virtual society founded on offering value and a truly decentralised economy.</p> <h3>It's up to us to shape this journey...</h3> </html>
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