First, I would like to thank everyone that contributed to last week's writing contest. There were a lot of good entries not to mention that I have grown close to many of you so choosing the winners was hard. Eventually, I had to resort to choosing the entries with the most upvotes. and the winners are:
First place: 
Second place: 
Third place: 
The winners have all received their whaleshares. Enjoy, they were definitely earned.
This week's contest
This week I want to focus on building the steemit community. I am busy building more tools for use with the steem blockchain and building our community and want to see what you guys can do too. With that in mind, this week the topic for the writing contest is what you can do to benefit the steemit community. This can be anything from developers building tools to bringing new users to the platform to anything else you think would benefit the community. The choice is yours. Just write a post about it and post it in the comments. The rewards will be the same as last week: 500 for first place, 300 for second place and 100 for third place. Good luck and happy steeming!
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