Starting in 45 minutes this week's State of the Steem Forum #6 will be another extended edition.
Steemit Inc Executive Chairman Ned Scott and Managing Director Elizabeth Powell will be coming along for discussion and questions in the first hour. They will be joined by Steemit Inc developer Michael Vandeberg 
and Dan 
.
The State of the Steem Forum proper will then begin around 9pm UTC and run until midnight.
The Forum will this week cover communities, content creation, curation and retention.
The Forum will take place on the MSP Waves Discord channel between 8pm and 12am UTC.
After this forum the remaining forum will be...
- Forum 7 (07 February) : SteemCommerce, shopping with steem
To make the numbers manageable we will be inviting certain community leaders, DApp/App owners, developers and witnesses etc to participate as speaking guests.
Everyone is welcome and encouraged to join in the discussion through the live chat on the PAL/MSP Discord channel during the forums.
I am keen to make the discussions as inclusive as possible so if anyone would like to come on air for any of the particular forums please do message me in Discord (Pennsif#9921) and we will do our best to include you.
Forum 6 (Thursday 31 January) : Communities...
For this Thursday's forum we already have a keen bunch of steemians coming along to speak. If anyone else with a passion for communities, content creation, curation and retention would like to come on please message me.
- part of the @Helpie witness team
- founder of
- developer of @Partiko
- witness, leading member of The Alliance
- member of the
organising team
- expert in AI-enhanced curation and founder of Steeve app
- leading member of the Israeli Steem community
- leading member of Canna-Curate
- witness, developer of the KURE community platform
- witness
- member of Canna-Curate & developer of HashKings
- developer of Stratos and it community facility
- co-founder of Oracle-D and Promo-Steem
- - tecnologist, futurist and leading steem blogger
- witness, developer of SteemOcean.com & creator of
A number of other prominent steemians may be in the Discord audience chat including 
I should be joined by 
If you have any questions you would like to ask or if you would like to come on to speak please message me on Discord (Pennsif#9921) or Steem.Chat (Pennsif).
The five State of Steem Forums held so far have been well received.
The first was an 'overview' forum with 19 witnesses and community leaders giving their view on the current State of Steem including 
The recording of the forum is available if you missed it...
The second forum focussed on Steem Technology and covered topics such as nodes, RocksDB, SMTs, RC Delegation Pools, Account creation. It also explored the decision making mechanisms to move development forward as Steemit Inc pulls back.
The speakers on that forum included 
The recording of the forum is available...
Forum #3 covered DApps, Apps and Developments. Topics discussed included business plans, delegations and marketing.
The people who spoke on the forum were 
The recording is available in case you missed it...
Forum #4 covered Steem Economics. Topics discussed included steem inflation, attracting investors, revenue streams, advertising. Steemit Inc CEO Ned Scott also made a special guest appearance.
The people who spoke on the forum were 
The recording is available in case you missed it...
Last week's Forum #5 covered Marketing, PR and Onboarding.
The people who spoke on the forum were 
The recording is available in case you missed it...
The forum was preceded by an hour of discussion and questions with Steemit Inc Executive Chair Ned Scott and newly appointed Managing Director Elizabeth Powell.
The recording is available in case you missed it...
SOS Daily News
To provide a quick and easy reference source of all the latest posts and information about what is going on on Steem I am producing the SOS Daily News. This is the latest edition ...
Where to find the forums & how to listen in
The forums will air on MSP Waves Radio on Thursdays from 8pm to 11pm UTC.
If you need to convert UTC time to your local time visit World Time Buddy
You will be able to listen through the PAL Discord server, via mspwaves.com, Vimm.TV or on Twitch at twitch.tv/mspwaves.
To join in with the chat during the forums please join the PAL/MSP Discord server.
