One our core motto on #steemgigs is connecting steemians in need to steemians indeed. Accomplishing this now, is way easier than when we first started because we now have a growing community of more than 300 steemgiggers. It has not been easy in reality but another motto is: We are too lazy to quit!
Ultimately, doing things manually has not been easy. Also, not yet being able to incentivize steemians, who keep believing in #steemgigs, by at least supporting them on their #steemgigs posts, makes it even harder. Being that steemgigs hasn't generated enough steempower yet, it has not been so impactful in its effort to give support to steemgiggers and to steemians who have been passionately footing the cause.
However, we have tried to resteem posts and have posts automatically tweeted on the official steemgigs twitter account. When possible, we have managed to give out SBDs to support SteemGigs-Inspired initiatives and contests that are inspiring.
Though things have been slow, the amazing thing is that the vision is great, as broad as can be and we have really made amazing community impact as well as real world impact.
Nothing as pleasant as seeing steemians, even newbies starting out to build dreams and bringing their entire vision onto the steem blockchain, mostly because they found it is possible, upon finding #steemgigs.
Too, steemgiggers have been selfless. They know that at times, where they aren't capable of offering help financially, they can offer their expertise. Nothing as pleasant as reading the chats on the Dev-Request channel on the steemgigs community and seeing steemians, even newbies looking to bring a vision, that they never thought was possible, to life and the selfless developers willing to hear requests out.
Ultimately, nothing as sweet has being part of history or of another person's accomplished dreams, courtesy of our expertise.
Everyone has something to offer!
An entire steem library has been built and dedicated to steem, courtesy of @drpuffnstuff's resilience and this is something we at 
The most powerful thing though, from all this journey is our steemgigs community!
Nothing like having a community where you know everyone's expertise. Nothing as powerful as knowing the true wealth and depth of your community. This is where we stand out!
We now have & know almost 1 person in every industry or niche who is an expert and a steemian. This is our pride!
The question now is, "what are we doing with this power?".
For now we are simply using this power to amplify the voice of others. We don't have steempower yet, however, we have community power and we simply want to serve as testimony, that community power, is power as well, especially if we move in one voice.
More recently,
There is more room for endeavors like this for 
There is no doubt that Bitshares DEX is a valuable asset and as it doesn't have a solid blogging platform, steemit can easily become its voice as well.
Bitshares is practically a sister blockchain to steem, created by 
This being the case,
For instance, with the probable bitcoin split on August 1, an easy go-to exchange should be 
This is something we can adjust simply by amplifying the efforts of
On the side, we will be adding initiatives that will spur creation of content, to explain the Bitshares DEX, using the amazing expertise of our steemgigs community.
Talks are in place to make this seamless and there will be updates to this effect in the coming weeks.
In the meantime, we will like to use this post to recount some of the open "#steemgigs" still requiring servicing with bounties offerable by
1. Still has around 18 hours before post pays out:
2. Still has more than 6 days left before post payout:
- [BeyondBit Bounties] BitShares Open Source Hangout #31 Needs CrowdSourced Intro/Outro! Rewards Worth 600SBD!
- [BeyondBit Bounties] Give BeyondBitcoin Whaletank Hangout #217 CrowdSourced Intro/Outro -- Contest Rewards Worth 600+SBD!
Above are 3 posts, each containing its own hangout soundcloud recording. All that is required to do to participate in each of the 3 steemgigs above is simple.
You simply need do an INTRO and OUTRO, then insert the soundcloud recording found on each of the posts above, in between the INTRO & OUTRO, then add some edits to put in the right attribution as required according to the posts above and upload to www.youtube.com. Then do a steemit post about it! Basically, you will be submitting 3 entries, if you are participating in all three.
Note: You always add #steemgigs as one your tags, so we can resteem it too!
Find sample winning entries from previous contests here!
Other ways to earn whaleshares token is simple. Simply join one of the BeyondBitcoin hangouts as a participating audience or take your community and projects on to the hangouts.
Here are upcoming such #beyondbitcoin hangouts & dates:
- [Beyondbitcoin RSVP] Whaletank Hangout #2178- 8/04/17 - (Over 1000 Steem in Awards!)
- BitShares Hangout #32 - 2017-08-04 - OpenSource Agenda [WhaleShare/Beyondbit Payouts Powered by SP!]
Instructions for how to join in:
1. Set up Mumble as seen in this video:
video credit to: mumble
2. Use the parameters below to sign in:
For IOS users, use this to set up Mumble:
Every steemgigger and steemian; this is an avenue to practice your expertise. Win or no-win, you would have practiced your expertise and played your role as a steemian indeed, while earning from your blogposts as you will eventually have to participate, with a full blown post like is the case with a #steemgigs.
Don't forget to document your eventual experience as well after the contests end, in testimonial #steemgigs.
For questions about #steemgigs, simply join the SteemGigs community and look for 
For questions about Whaleshares, join the Whaleshares Community!