So we just started our first day on 2018 .. happy new year guys !
We look forward to this being a year full of motivation, inspiration, and success to all .. Oh and steem to go to the moon, heck way beyond ! :)
Arabsteem project
So in the last few months, I started an initiative to support and bring in more Arab speaking people into steemit. We want more Arab people to join into the platform, and contribute quality content whether in Arabic, English, or both..
The purpose? well it's a two-way street we definitely want more people to join steemit so that more people get rewarded for their hard work and quality content, but also the more people join, the more exposure steemit/steem receive, more demand, and hence price goes up.
we were all quite happy with the price growth over the last few months, I don't mind seeing steem grow to 10$, or even 100$ .. why not?!
Arab world potential
The Arab world has more than 420 million arab speakers with half of whom under 25 years old (according to wikipedia/unesco).
Steemit at the moment has very minimal infiltration into the Arab world.
Our work so far
- We had created the
project/steemit account few months back to start engaging with existing Arab speaking individuals on the platform
- We created our own discord channel for those same purposes, and to discuss how to better promote steemit. At the moment we have 88 registered members on our discord.
- We started upvoting good Arab created content. For this purpose, I had done several power ups on my own account, but also delegated around 500 SP to
- We have been helping Arab members learn what good content entails, avoiding plagiarism, adding content and image references, quoting sources, and guidelines on how to write a good post.
- We had two new members assist with our management work at the discord channel, and help out with ideas into promoting and growing arabsteem. Thank you
and
for being so helpful ! :)
- We have started issuing, 2 weeks ago, a daily curation digest for the best Arab created content (up to 5 posts per day are chosen). A big thank you to
for her support here :)
- We started our own curation trail
- We started arabsteem facebook page in the last few days to help further promote steemit into the Arab world. I plan on starting paid campaigns to promote it into the arab world as well.
How you can help
I personally have been contributing a lot of time and effort into this project because I believe this has the potential to succeed and accomplish what I highlighted above in the intro. At times it has been even keeping me from contributing too often to my personal work on steemit.
In order to help, if you find our work as exciting as we do, we are looking for ways to grow the account further, and be able to reward quality Arab contributions, and enticing more people to join and write great content. The way we see it you can help in two ways:
- Delegate Steem Power to
- Join Curation Trail: Our curation trail is setup under steemauto.com with the account name
- I said two ways, but if you can think of other ways, that would be awesome and I'd love to hear ! :)
Hoping this message reaches listening ears. You can contact us at discord or steemit.chat, my account is 
Thank you for reading through, and a big thank you for supporting in any way you find suitable! :)