Leadership changes at Steemit Inc are the main story today.
Ned Scott has been named as Executive Chairman, and Elizabeth Powell has been appointed as Managing Director.
Planning for the Steem Alliance election meeting on Sunday is continuing.
A new Steem social media app for China, WhereIn, has been launched.
Steemit Inc Leadership Changes
Major changes in the leadership positions of Steemit Inc were announced yesterday.
The Board of Steemit Inc has named Ned Scott as Executive Chairman, and Elizabeth Powell as Managing Director, effective immediately.
On the appointment Executive Chairman Ned Scott said...
"This is the perfect time for Elizabeth to become Managing Director and help move the company forward with the speed required to capitalize on the opportunities in front of us. She has an incredible ability to inspire, energize and connect with the team, and will share those same values with the Steemit community. Elizabeth’s vision and execution track record is exactly what Steemit needs as we enter our next chapter."
Elizabeth joined Steemit Inc in May 2018 as Head of Communications & Advocacy.
She is from Texas and since graduating in journalism from Texas A&M University has had a varied and successful 20+ year career in marketing and advertising across a range of different industry sectors.
The new MD describes her role...
We recently published our updated [Mission, Vision and Values](https://steemit.com/about.html), as well as its roadmap focusing on increasing ad revenues, protecting STEEM assets’ value and cost reductions. My job is to execute the roadmap.
Elizabeth will be appearing along with Ned on the State of Steem Forum this Thursday at 8pm UTC on MSP Waves...
She will also be on the Rambling Radio Witness Chat hosted by 
Hive account@shadowspub on Wednesday at 5pm UTC.
The Steem Alliance - Election Meeting - Sunday 27 January
There will be a formal election meeting for the Steem Alliance Working Group members this coming Sunday. The meeting wil be held in the Steem Alliance Discord server at 1pm EST / 6pm UTC.
Full details are in this post...
WhereIn - a new lifestyle social media platform for China
A new Steem-based social media app called WhereIn is being developed to target the Chinese market.
WhereIn is available at http://www.wherein.io/ ...
(change on previous day in brackets // n/c = no change)
| Steem price |
US$ 0.416 |
2019-01-23 05:26am UTC |
| SBD price |
US$ 0.966 |
2019-01-23 05:26am UTC |
| Market Cap |
US$ 127,568,329 |
2019-01-23 05:26am UTC |
| CoinMarketCap Ranking |
#39 (+2) |
2019-01-23 05:26am UTC |
| No. of Whales |
37 (+1) |
2019-01-21 |
| No. of Orcas |
319 (+1) |
2019-01-21 |
| No. of Dolphins |
1977 (n/c) |
2019-01-21 |
| No. of Minnows |
9107 (+3) |
2019-01-21 |
| Alexa rank (steemit.com) |
#4177 (-8) |
2019-01-22 08:53pm UTC |
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Hive account@penguinpablo for more statistics.
NEWS FROM STEEMIT INC
Hive account@steemitblog - Steemit, Inc. Leadership Changes
Hive account@elipowell - Meet Steemit, Inc.’s New Managing Director
Hive account@ned - The Guiding Mission, Vision and Values of Steemit, Inc
NEWS FROM THE STEEM ALLIANCE
Hive account@steemalliance - Update To Townhall Elections | What Exactly Is A "Working Group" And How Do We Nominate?
Hive account@steemalliance - Steem Alliance Working Group | Community Town Hall Elections Jan. 27th 1pm EST
Hive account@steemalliance - Final Dev Slack Transcript | New Open To The Public Home For Steem Alliance Group
Hive account@steemalliance / 
Hive account@krnel - Helping the Steem Alliance Get Started
Hive account@steemalliance / 
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Hive account@ro-witness - @ro-witness Witness Update - Disclaimer on HF
#86 Hive account@krnel - Helping the Steem Alliance Get Started
#92 
Hive account@bitrocker2020 - How to talk about about STEEM
#131 
Hive account@dsound / 
Hive account@prc - DSound Community Update: Get ready for DSound Love Machine!
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NEWS FROM KEY PLAYERS & INFLUENCERS
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Hive account@lordbutterfly - Bithumb has resumed STEEM transfers today
Hive account@midlet - Doodle + Thoughts on @steemalliance
Hive account@organduo - It's really difficult for me get whale's attention
Hive account@riverflows - Why Steemit is a 'Real' Social Media (Posting about Steemit on Medium!)
Hive account@sisygoboom - How We Get Listed On Wirex Card
Hive account@steemmatt - Dear Everyone - We Are NOT Fish, We Are STEEMIANS - It's Time To STOP Superficially Labeling And Judging Ourselves/Others Within A Fabricated Social Order
Hive account@surfermarly - The Truth About Communication Costs And Why Too Much Talk May Kill A Business
Hive account@tarazkp - Interface subscription and monetized metrics
Hive account@taskmaster4450 - Steemit: Showing Why We Need To Get Rid Of Private Companies
Hive account@taskmaster4450 - @actifit Doing It's Part To Decentralize
Hive account@tcpolymath - Some thoughts on starting a nonprofit
Hive account@theycallmedan - 10k STEEM Delegation Poll
Hive account@theycallmedan - You Are 1% Of 1% Of 1%
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APRIL 2019
Hive account@steemcampuk / 
Hive account@lloyddavis - SteemCampUK 2 is coming to Leicester
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Hive account@shanibeer - SteemCampUK - Leicester
MAY 2019
Hive account@dtube.forum - Q & A - Your Questions & Our Answers about DTube Forum
DECEMBER 2019
Hive account@steemfiesta - SteemFIESTA 2019 - The First Five Days of DECEMBER - Summer in the South!
NEWS FROM DAPPS, APPS & DEVS
Hive account@actifit / Hive account@taskmaster4450 - @actifit Doing It's Part To Decentralize
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Hive account@sirwinchester - APPICS Update | Introducing Talented Users | Join the Testnet!
Hive account@dsound / Hive account@prc - DSound Community Update: Get ready for DSound Love Machine!
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Hive account@wherein - WhereIn - A Steem-based lifestyle social media platform
If you want to check on progress of development on Steem, check out the GitHub here...
- https://github.com/steemit/steem/branches
If you want to check on the current list of full API Nodes witness Hive account@holger80 provides this via 
Hive account@fullnodeupdate...
MEDIA COVERAGE OF STEEM & STEEMIT INC
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This is #51 (22 Jan '19) of this daily news service.
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