#minnowuprising | #needleworkmonday Progress Report 15 July 2018

This report looks at progress to build the wealth of 22 accounts posting under the #needleworkmonday tag as part of the July #minnowuprising campaign initiated by Hive account@taskmaster4450. This post set the baseline for reviewing progress.

Building Collective Wealth: Progress Report

Factor	15.08.18	01.07.2018	+/- Change
Steem Power	9,930	9,731	199
SBD	1,175	1,107	68
Steem	194	164	30

Table showing growth over first 15 days of #minnowuprising.

Voting - The One Thing You Can Do!

Steemauto.com
Some accounts have automated regular votes after last week's results about improved rewards from curation. Remember to set the time for your autovote to at least fifteen minutes after the post was published - none of the rewards before this time go to the person voting. I usually place my votes at somewhere between 25-30 minutes.

Finding People To Vote For
You can try the #followfriday tag where Steemians post recommended people to follow; Hive account@mrscwin has done some interesting posts having a look at who is following her; Hive account@whatsup wrote a post inviting people to introduce and support each other - have a look through the comments to find people who interest you and add a comment yourself.

Checking Out Other People
If you want to know a bit more about how other accounts behave before you start giving them your precious votes, have a look at their account on steemworld.org. Is their voting power sitting at 100% for days on end? How many votes are they using a week (for accounts under 500SP you're looking for about 70 votes in the past seven days)? Are they only voting for a small number of accounts? How often do they post?

Other Ways to Build Your Account

Steem Basic Income
Steem Basic Income is a social experiment to bring a basic income to as many Steemians as possible. For each share, you sponsor another Steemian and both of you receive an upvote from on your posts. To join, or to add another share, transfer 1 STEEM from your wallet to Hive account@steembasicincome and add the username of the person you would like to sponsor in the memo field.

No STEEM? Or several Steemians you would like to sponsor? If you have some SBD in your wallet you can buy some STEEM. You can find out more about Steem Basic Income in the FAQs post.

The are also many contests where you can have a chance to win Steem Basic Income shares - follow Hive account@steembasicincome to get regular news about contests. (Hive account@phoenixwren also runs regular contests with SBI shares as the prize - here's this week's contest about your favourite things).

Power Up
If you have STEEM or SBD sitting in your wallet, you can use them to buy more Steem Power (Steem Power provides you with more earning power through your votes - STEEM and SBD are just sitting there not doing very much for you). Remember to keep a little STEEM and SBD in the kitty if there are other things you would like to do like buying SBI shares or Hive account@dustsweeper service or treating yourself to an extra vote on your post.

Using Hive account@treeplanter and Hive account@isotonic Services
Both of these services support community projects: you can support them (and treat yourself) by buying an extra vote for one of your posts. Check each account to see how much SBD you need to transfer and the size of the vote you get back - Hive account@treeplanter offers 1.6 return on your contribution (if you pay 10 cents, the vote will be worth 16 cents); Hive account@isotonic varies according to how much voting power it has. For 10 cents, I have found votes to vary between 14 cents and 24 cents. You will need to check whether this is worthwhile for you.

Other Ways to Check How You are Doing

Redfish Power UP League and Wall of Fame
The aim of the Challenge is to grow your account to 500SP - find out more in this post.

Engagement and Curation Leagues
Follow Hive account@abh12345 to get regular updates about the leagues. This is last week's post. I'll add the latest one when it is published. Here is this week's Curation and Engagement Leagues.

Flagging Spam

Some people (me included) have had random flags from small accounts with low reputation. This is a known problem that you can read about in this post from Hive account@guiltyparties.

Meanwhile ...

I have started knitting this lovely cropped cardigan in Rowan's Big Wool (picture to follow).

I've done away with the fancy cable panel and decided to do double moss stitch instead of single. It's taken me overnight to decode the cryptic instructions for the neck shaping!