Yes! We have successfully trained and subscribed the first 15 persons to the Steemit Platform.
On Tuesday the 31st of August 2018, Steemit Literacy Center of The Greens organized and trained as well as subscribed 15 persons to Steemit.
Facilitated by Mr. Green (Founder/Executive Director of The Greens and Coordinator of the Steemit Literacy Center) the training started at 10:30AM with self introduction of the participants during which they shared their motives and enthusiasm to learn how to blog and get paid.
Self introductions was followed by a 30 minutes presentation on Crytocurrency during which Mr. Green explained the origin, history, purpose and types of crytocurrencies. This was followed by a brief question and answer session and then a 5 minutes break.
After the break, we then dived into the business of the day "Steemit" and for two hours we discussed about what steemit is, how to create a steemit account, how to write on steemit, how to post, upvote, comment, and resteem posts, tagging, managing your steemit wallet and the importance of never losing your steemit password.
We also had interesting discussion on the importance of creativity and originality in writing and talked about how to gain followers and get good upvotes for your posts.
In all, we agreed that to be a good steemian, you must be creative and original with your content and you must have the passion for writing (write because you are passionate about sharing your story and not because you want to make money). If you write because you like writing, then you will make enough money on steemit.
These are the words of Mr. Green
"If you want to be a successful steemian your must know your purpose of being on steemit because knowing why you are on steemit will greatly assist you to know what to write about. Besides purpose you must have passion for your purpose and passion for writing. With purpose and passion, you will always know what to write and what you'll write will always be great and these two will stop you from plagiarism. You purpose and passion will also assist you to find the perfect communities to belong to that can assist you to grow as well as guide you to find steemians who share thesame vision like you. They will guide you to find appropriate content to read and comment as well as connect with people who share similar ideas like yours hence greatly assist you to build a strong network and community that can easily make you become a very successful and wealthy steemian. Being nice, reading, upvoting, resteeming and commenting other steemians posts that are of interest to you is a strong assert to become a successful steemian."
The two hours interactive training ended with a question and answer session and it was resolved that the newly trained steemians should create their steemit accounts immediately, which they did. We are certain to have 15 new steemians join the Steemit family in the days ahead and these trainees were also added to the Abakwa Steemit Community WhatsApp Group.
It was then concluded that more Steemit training sessions will be organized to better assist the new steemians to know how to use the different steemit apps and channels such as Steem Chat, Steem Auto, etc.
The journey to train and subscribe 100 new steemians has just begun and we shall publish the list of our newly trained steemians in the days ahead, so that you all can support them.
