As the title of states "A collective Effort" is a cry to all steemians and would be/potential steemians to rally round this great invention, an idea born by Ned scott and Dan Larimer as it is no longer a project, it is now an established master-pieces created in the the year 2016 by these two exceptional young men..
This brainchild has gone through hard times, through the 🔥 and has come as pure gold.
Most critics predicted that it wont last long, as matter of fact, some critic's went as far as calling it a network Ponzi scheme, they went as far as asking we're is "steemians getting its money from" and that eventually it will go through financial crises and its money will run out, but three years down the line steemit is still waxing strong .
This genius is still growing stronger like Stealth, and spreading like virus, the resourcesfullnes of its founders and those behind the back office and application developers such as 
Quotes
Where the need of the world and your talent cross,there lies your vocation
Aristotle
Worthy of note are those who contributed immensely into this platform the "witness" such as 
But the story is not complete without a few mentions 
But most importantly kudos to all steemians who stood by steemit through thick and thin,as a matter of fact we have all seen copy- cats trying to mimick
duplicate, duplication, reprint, facsimile, photocopy, carbon copy, carbon, mimeograph, this great platform if ours, they went as far as to reproduce steemit white-paper and its modus- operandi,but of course, there is a big difference between an original and a photocopy.
Well it's good when you are used as a yard stick success,measurement and standard.Steemit has gone to impact life's positively,I am a witness to a scenario that played out some months ago , a steemians needed funds to pay his rent and he was out of job long story short his pay out was used in paying his rent,I can recount many success stories to you were many a steemians have benefited from this platform.
This article is written to motivate each and everyone of us in this new year,we should double our effort and make steemit greater than what it is today and this can be achieved by contributing positively such as writing and postings educative and qualitative article s .investing in steemit,trading, exchange, commenting,likes, upselling steemit on all social media etc no effort is too small and trust me when I say that these same critics will begin to double speak from both sides of thier mouths
And you'll begin to hear uhmmm!!!!....... well well ( stutters) it seem things have changed, uhmmm.!!!......... well .... well..... it's actually a success.
Some will go as far as saying they never said what they said on print media, Well........... then we shall seat and act like non is the wiser .
This my new year message to all steemians thank you.