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And so it happened that I found myself in two teaching units for students of the Bachelor course "Online Marketing". In the morning the full-time students were scheduled, in the afternoon those who are studying in parallel to their job.
Those studying units not only helped me personally, but also brought me some experiences that could be of interest for everyone around here, should they ever talk to "outsiders" about Steem(it). That is why I would like to share this experiences with you guys.
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If you leave your own small crypto-environment or your community on the STEEM network, you quickly realize that the term "blockchain" is not as widespread as we sometimes (want to) believe. This is even true when there are 15 young people sitting in front of you, who are online in some form or another almost every hour. We are not even talking about knowledge of real applications based on blockchain technology.
And so we spent part of the time demonstrating some applications built on blockchain technology using practical examples. The following group work then also was about this topic - the students had to think of possible applications for a previously selected company.
Besides the implementation of various loyalty and evaluation programs, these fictitious scenarios often also made use of the possibility of using blockchain to bring transparency into the development and origin of products.
I found one of the afternoon groups particularly brave - but also 100% right in my opinion! They said that for their small company there was no useful case for implementing a blockchain. Completely left aside whether there really are no use cases for this company, I found it very important that it was also shown that the blockchain is of course not an "universal-genius" and does not automatically make everything better.
However we brought up that you don't necessarily have to do something with Blockchain yourself in order to take advantage of this technology. Sometimes it is enough to just play along and get so much free attention - a very good example for me is the Hotel Schani in Vienna, which is often mentioned due to the acceptance of BTC. Funnily enough, I found it in a well-known investment magazine just one day after the trip to the university:
... Steemit in particular
Of course we also tried to talk a little bit about STEEM(it) - at least partly it is a modern social network and is therefore per se interesting for people who deal with online marketing.
Last week Bernd (
Why does it take so long to register? I exlained the students the problems that would arise if one could create multiple accounts supported by a delegation without the control of Steemit.Inc - bot armies that send each other pennies in order to "earn" money would be the result.
In my opinion, the explanation was well understood by the students, but the long registration process certainly slowed down the interest of some of them.
Until Steemit makes significant improvements here, I would recommend that you have an alternative way to create an account if you recommend STEEM to people. So you are free from this annoying initial hurdle and can start right away ;)Can you upvote yourself in a circle and earn money like that? It is probably in human nature to test systems for the possibility of exploitation. Here I have explained that this is of course possible, but is not necessarily tolerated if you just give yourself money - and that there is also downvoting, also known as "flagging".
Where does the money come from? The standard question. However, with the statement that the generated STEEMs (among others) are distributed on the basis of the votes and that these STEEMs have a price due to demand that investors are prepared to pay, all of them seemed satisfied.
I'm not a blogger! For people who don't create any content and don't have enough capital to be interested in STEEM from an investor's point of view, the whole thing may not seem interesting. However the fact that one can also get rewards for intercation under content and curation of good articles, provided, as expected, some more interest.
These were the few points that we talked about directly in relation to STEEM. In the afternoon I also told a little bit about how I would have used Steemit at the beginning of my studies, when stupid theoretical learning was still the order of the day. Last but not least a cool Austrian mental coach, 
Last Wednesday we met the stundents again at the office building where
After that
After Eisenstadt is before Hagenberg
The talk at the university Eisenstadt probally was not the last one - The next stop could be the University of Applied Sciences Hagenberg - a university known for it's innovatious potential.
Haderer already was there in behalf of and talked a little bit about SteemitThe end
It was a very cool experience to talk a little bit about these things with young and interested people who are still outside the whole crypto and blockchain world. In this way you definitely gain valuable insights that you just don't see or would not have anymore when you are "inside the circle".
On the other hand, I also think it was very interesting for the students - at least they had really cool ideas for group work. And who knows - maybe you will soon see some of these students on Steem(it).
Overall a very cool experience, for which I am very grateful Bernd (
I hope it was also interesting for you to read about this day and I would be happy if you would share your experiences regarding. "steem(it) talk with outsiders."
Kind regards,
Martin
P.S.:
If you have some time left, take a look at this video of a TED-Talk, which was shown in the courses and I think it is interesting for everyone - would it really be desirable if we were all leaders?
P.P.S.:
If you still have time, try to HODL the Coin a little bit:
This post is a translation (+ a little extra stuff) from my own orginal article I published in German language around a week ago!