Hi There 😊
This marks my 101st post. What do you know!!.. I have crossed the 100th mark. This is a big deal for me since my Time Management sucks and Life seems to take advantage of this!! In fact, this post was supposed to have been ready on Friday, and here we are on a Sunday morning.
One son had a Swim Meet and that means sitting at the pool in uncomfortable stadium chairs in a crowd for at least 12 hours. And then another son falls very sick, high fever and hives breaking out. D was at work so that left me to manage both sides.... (Happy Mother's Day Mummy, I can so see you doing backflips and summersaults with your angel wings... miss you.)
Took me a little over 6 months but here I am. To crossover to the 3 digit is definitely cause for celebration. And all celebrations must have music. So this weekend's FourPlay will be centered on what I've learnt and practice daily here on steemit. Since when one uses 101 it relates to an introductory course of sorts. The Theme - "My Checklist".
Content
👉🏿Content should be original, plagiarism is abhorred. Even when if it's your own from other platforms.
👉🏿Sentences should be easy to read and not too many in one paragraph.
👉🏿Markdown to massage text (bold, italics, headers) to make a point.
👉🏿Photos to make it pretty.
👉🏿Credit source pictures, videos and facts used.
👉🏿Use footers to separate parts.
👉🏿Use a personalised sign off.
I do try to get as close to Perfect as possible!!
(Song by Fairground Attraction)
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Engagement
👉🏿Surf steemit to look for authors with similar interests.
👉🏿Support authors with upvotes and genuine comments.
👉🏿Join Discord groups and make friends (OK, this is still a WIP for me as I find it too fast and for some reason this is where my"introvert" kicks in full force... working on it!!)
👉🏿Search through discord's "post promo" tabs for authors with similar interests.
👉🏿Answer every comment on my post. Visit them and check out their posts.
In a nutshell, make Friends or you are not going to survive Steemit, actually any social media platform... I guess that's why they call it social.
(Song by Amii Stewart)
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Votes
👉🏿Votes need managing and massaging.
👉🏿Monitor on steemworld.org so it doesn't drop below 80%.
👉🏿Something else I recently learnt is dust votes. If your vote value is lower than 0.03 SBD, it amounts to nada, zilch, zero, nothing!!!! So stop voting on comments unless you have 0.03 and more. Instead, to show appreciation go to commenter's wall, support a recent post so it adds up with the other upvotes. Get the technicalities from @thedarkhorse.
👉🏿Power up to SP500 for the slider to manage vote value.
It really is Money For Nothing so no need to stinge on the Powering Up. The more you give, the more you receive.
(Song by Dire Straits)
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Knocking Down Writer's Block
👉🏿Contests, contests, contests!!
👉🏿Free Write, Free Write, Free Write!
👉🏿Both of the above gets creative juices flowing. Contests can inspire content for post. FreeWrite unleashes creativity. Look for them through tags.
👉🏿Be inspired by Steemians who use the platform for charity. Either tag along or find your own cause.
In the 6 months on the platform, I have found many Steemians who are creating ways to give back to the community on and off steemit. It is very heart-warming and I am happy to be part of a community who is Kind & Generous. I am working on a contest and had hoped it would be ready by this post but...I will now get it ready by my 111st post.
(Song by Natalie Merchant)
And that's my 4 pointers for my (almost)daily posts. They said come for the rewards, stay for the community and I get it now. Looking forward to growing with the community and the next marker. Thank you to everyone who has supported me big or small. My wish for you is, as you keep swimming, you keep growing on and off steemit. XO!!
’Til we meet again over text, pics, videos, maybe even coffee - Steem On!!
