Team Australia Mentors : Silver Round Winner and Project Hiatus

About a month ago today I offered up a Silver STEEM Round as a raffle prize for all the participating Mentors of the project. I left the door open for any newcomers by including any new Mentor volunteers for March in the draw. Well, it’s April now so it’s time to give this thing away!

This morning I did a draw for the 8 participating Mentors on the #teamaustralia Discord (I excluded myself and Hive account@mattclarke who opted out too since he has a heap of them already) and the winner is Hive account@lordnigel who volunteered to mentor new #teamaustralia member Hive account@what-is-life back in February. Congrats to him. I’ve sent him a message on Discord and will stalk him on the Blockchain if I have to so that I can get this Silver STEEM Round off in the mail A.S.A.P. On the subject of Silver STEEM Rounds, pre-sales have just begun for the 2018 edition which you can read about HERE but more about that later for those who are interested. Yes, I will be buying some of those too.

On a more sombre note, a lot has happened in the last couple of months since this Mentoring Project was kicked off. The most notable has been the big correction across the whole Crypto market and neither STEEM, nor the #teamaustralia membership intake has been left unscathed. We went from taking in about 17 new members a week back in early February, to a situation today where we might be lucky to be picking up 1 or 2 new members a fortnight.

As a result of this I am far less concerned about new members falling through the cracks and I am re-focusing my own Volunteering effort away from on boarding and retaining new members and instead I am gearing more toward building up and strengthening existing communities. I personally believe that as the Crypto market consolidates so should we here on STEEM amongst those who are prepared to stay through the tough times. As a result of all this I am putting the Mentoring Project on Hiatus.

I would be lying if I said I wasn’t a little bit disappointed with the lack of broader community support for the project. There has been a couple of people who really have been very supportive and I continue to be very appreciative of the work of the tireless Hive account@choogirl on the recruitment front and the vision of guys like Hive account@mattclarke and Hive account@ausbitbank However I don’t feel like #teamaustralia is ready to get behind this kind of idea yet. With a big bust in the Crypto market the timing for it is wrong.

Maybe this idea will get another run down the track though. It was always a bit of an experiment to put the idea out there and sometimes you just have to try something to find out if it will work. Who knows what the future will bring. I have lost a couple of Mentees myself to inactivity, but I am still trying to provide a bit of support and engagement with the other ones I’ve taken on and I hope other Mentors will continue to do that too. But for now I will stop bugging Hive account@choogirl about those Recruitment posts….until next time!