Team Australia Mentor Project : Call For Mentors

Our Mentor Project launched this week and it looks like it might take us a little while to bed down our processes. That’s OK because I always expected that we will figure out what works and what doesn’t as we go, so we are on track! We have had a new recruitment post put up by the ever-vigilant Hive account@choogirl and with that we have a slightly lower intake of 11 new members this week. So far we haven’t paired them all up with Mentors but I don’t think it’s due to a lack of interest.

If you have a look at the recruitment post HERE you will see that the first comment is my reply calling for Mentors. I think initially my comment was a bit late and a bit low on the page so it might have been missed by many of the people who had initially expressed interest in mentoring. As of right now we’ve paired up 6 of those new members with mentors, so it’s a positive start – now we just need to build a bit of momentum!

If you missed the initial call for Mentors, please revisit the recruitment post and reply to my comment so that we can pair you up. This project is a great opportunity for experienced Steemians to help give something back and take a pro-active role in building up the #teamaustralia community so every contribution helps and is appreciated.

Also, if you can help to spread the word and remind our experienced Steemians that we are trying to build up a Mentoring Project to benefit new team members, that would also be appreciated. I think that other community groups might be interested in trying something similar if we can develop a model that works and lead by example. As a reminder, all that we are asking from Mentors is that they commit to supporting Mentees as follows :-

1. Add them to your Following list
2. Commit to Vote for their posts
3. Comment on their posts to foster some engagement
4. Be there to provide some advice (if it’s wanted)

Beyond these basics, it is up to individuals to figure out the best way to help new members get up to speed with the STEEM platform. A few ideas about things Mentors might be able to help with if they feel inclined and are comfortable with the knowledge :-

• Introduction to Discord and the #teamaustralia channel
• Introduction to the Minnow Support Project
• Introduction to other communities with similar interests
• Assistance with post promotion, such as via upvote or resteem bots
• Assistance with Curation and other services like Steem Voter
• Assistance with using the Internal Market for STEEM DOLLAR conversions

These are just a few ideas and there are probably lots of different ways to help new members so I’m open to other suggestions if people want to help me expand this list of ideas for the next update. We’re all learning here and this is a new initiative so I hope that we can work together to make it a success. I don’t have all of the answers, but if we put our heads together I’m confident that we can figure this out.