This week's State of the Steem Forum #5 will be an extended edition.
Steemit Inc CEO Ned Scott is returning for a second week.
Ned will be talking and answering questions for the first hour. Among the subjects of discussion he will be giving a bit more on the back story and forward vision for the recently announced Steem Alliance.
The State of the Steem Forum proper will then begin at 9pm UTC and run until midnight.
The Forum will this week cover Marketing, PR and Onboarding.
The list of speakers already signed up is below. If you would like to take part as well please contact me on Discord (Pennsif#9921).
The Forum will take place on the MSP Waves Discord channel between 8pm and 12am UTC.
After this forum the remaining forums are...
Forum 6 (31 January) : Communities, content creation, curation, retention
Forum 7 (07 February) : SteemCommerce, shopping with steem
All are on Thursdays 8pm - 11pm UTC/UK on MSP Waves.
To make the numbers manageable we will be inviting certain DApp/App owners, developers, community leaders and witnesses etc to participate as speaking guests.
Everyone is welcome and encouraged to join in the discussion through the live chat on the PAL/MSP Discord channel during the forums.
I am keen to make the discussions as inclusive as possible so if anyone would like to come on air for any of the particular forums please do message me in Discord (Pennsif#9921) and we will do our best to include you.
Forum 5 (Thursday 24 January) : Marketing, Onboarding, PR
For this Thursday's forum we already have a keen bunch of steemians coming along to speak. If anyone else with a passion for marketing, PR and onboarding would like to come on please message me.
- witness and co-founder of @SteemOnboarding
- founder of
- co-founder of @SteemOnboarding
- developer of @Partiko
- founder of SteemSavvy
- witness and founder / developer of @Actifit
- witness
- co-founder of The Writers Block
- co-founder of Oracle-D and Promo-Steem
- long-time steemian
- witness, developer of SteemOcean.com & creator of
- long-time steemian
A number of other prominent steemians may be in the Discord audience chat including 
I will be joined by 
If you have any questions you would like to ask or if you would like to come on to speak please message me on Discord (Pennsif#9921) or Steem.Chat (Pennsif).
The four State of Steem Forums held so far have been well received. Each has had up to 150 people attending.
The first was an 'overview' forum with 19 witnesses and community leaders giving their view on the current State of Steem including 
The recording of the forum is available if you missed it...
The second forum focussed on Steem Technology and covered topics such as nodes, RocksDB, SMTs, RC Delegation Pools, Account creation. It also explored the decision making mechanisms to move development forward as Steemit Inc pulls back.
The speakers on that forum included 
The recording of the forum is available...
Forum #3 covered DApps, Apps and Developments. Topics discussed included business plans, delegations and marketing.
The people who spoke on the forum were 
The recording is available in case you missed it...
Last week's Forum #4 covered Steem Economics. Topics discussed included steem inflation, attracting investors, revenue streams, advertising. Steemit Inc CEO Ned Scott also made a special guest appearance.
The people who spoke on the forum were 
The recording is available in case you missed it...
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Where to find the forums & how to listen in
The forums will air on MSP Waves Radio on Thursdays from 8pm to 11pm UTC.
If you need to convert UTC time to your local time visit World Time Buddy
You will be able to listen through the PAL Discord server, via mspwaves.com, Vimm.TV or on Twitch at twitch.tv/mspwaves.
To join in with the chat during the forums please join the PAL/MSP Discord server.
