Creating a Directory of Steem Communities – Submit your Community for Listing Today
Community spirit is alive and well on STEEM, we have communities to support different niches and different locations, we have communities to support apps and we have communities to support your learning journey on steem. Communities are the backbone of STEEM. Come for the money stay for the community 😊
The Problem
Finding communities can be hard, especially if you are new here on steem. They are housed everywhere from Discord to Telegram and Facebook. This does not make it easy for newbies.
More recently we have communities arriving on @steempeak, we have @kure by @krnel and we have @tokenbb. Soon we will also have communities as developed by Steemit inc.
It has long been established that recruiting new STEEM users to communities plays its part in retention. Being able to quickly find communities that you share an interest with should be easy but right now it is not. Greeting new users and having the resource to help them find the right community quickly would be a benefit to many.
Recently I found myself telling someone to find a community search the tag# on STEEM and check the footers and banners in the posts. That’s not great advice, in fact its rather poor. I often find myself putting people in contact with communities and I am sure everyone else working with newbies and redfish do the same.
The Solution – Directory of STEEM Communities
To join all the dot, and make it easy for everyone to find communities to engage with, I am creating a directory of STEEM communities and we are open for listing.
You can submit your listing with this link http://steemcommunity.org/add-listing/
You can view the directory with this link and http://steemcommunity.org/all-listings/
You can search directory with this link http://steemcommunity.org/search-home/
Tips for Submitting a Community
This directory is fully searchable by users and by search engines. In the long description be as descriptive as possible, what services do you offer, what niche do you cater for, what type of people will we find in your community. Do you have contests, training, mentoring? How do you help people grow on steem? Is your community for new or experience steem users? Does your community focus on one Dapp? Does your community support people from a geographical location? All this sort of stuff. The more detail you add the easier it will be for people to find you.
Once you submit your community and it has been approved you can use the search feature to check your listing for keywords and you can amend your listing if need be.
Share Share Share
Please do share this post and the directory. Add it as a link/footer in your posts so people can find the communities they need. Please also share this post with any community leaders that you know and ask them to make a submission.
Who will see this directory?
This directory will be used as a resource on the STEEM training courses that I give. In the last 30 days 80 people have enrolled in this course. It's not that many, but I am set to do a big push soon 😊
This directory will also be promoted on STEEM via footers and banners in posts and some of the communities already listed are linking back to the directory as a resource for their members (you are also free to link back to the directory and help steem users find the communities they need).
Finally, there are other plans for the @steemcommunity website that will drive traffic from other sources.
Shameless Promotion
Like what we are doing? Don't forget to vote for @steemcommunity as your steem witness. You can vote for our witness using SteemConnect here: https://steemconnect.com/sign/account-witness-vote?witness=steemcommunity&approve=1
Not sure what else we do? Visit our website to find out more
Communities by steempeak is not communities by @steempeak only... it's a community system for all of STEEM. SteemPeak just happens to be the first Interface developing for it. And we're working with Steemit to get supported by hivemind servers as well. Which would make it the community system of steemit if and when that happens.
I can't wait for all that to happen :-) it will be awesome
Brilliant initiative....
@shanibeer get #needleworkmonday listed and @aalagenesis get @creativestreet listed please :-)
fantastic hope to see @shanibeer and @aalagenesis submit their communities :-)
Great initiative @paulag!
Thanks @nathen007 😊
@toofasteddie, I think @runningproject should be listed here.
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Thanks!
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great, hope to see your submission soon :-)
Done @paulag ;-)
and its now approved :-)
By when @runningproject will be listed?
sorry, I thought I pressed publish, its is done for sure now
http://steemcommunity.org/STEEMCommunityDirectory/runningproject/
thanks for sharing :-)
This is such a great initiative! Thank you so much for all the work you are doing. This will be a great help to many. I will be listing #NeedleWorkMonday very soon, hopefully over this weekend.
awesome, I look forward to your submission :-)
Thank you :)
Done! Just finished submitting @needleworkmonday :)
Oh, just left word to you but I see you're already here :) Excellent!
Thanks so much @erikah I really appreciate that ;)
Great initiative, @paulag. Not only new users, but even old users should explore viable communities to develop connection.
Hey @jaynie please submit @steemitbloggers community and then, @riverflows please submit @naturalmedicine community
:)
Already done!!! Thanks for thinking of us @@@anggreklestari 💚💚💚🙏🙏🙏
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thank you so much @annggreklestari
@paulag, a directory that requires every community to self-register (like this one does) instead of proactively identifying communities and gathering their info is extremely unlikely to be comprehensive.
I like your work and have supported some of your other great initiatives, but you're going about this all wrong. This is at least the 4th 'directory' that has been brought to me in the last month with a request to add my community. It's a waste of my time to self-register on every single 'community listing' or 'directory' that pops up.
Please tell me you have a backup plan to make sure that well-known successful communities will still be included in your directory.
you are probably right, im most likely going about this the wrong way. But in defense, this came from feedback from redfish during the make 250 new minnows event. If we had communities on steem the way hivemind intended, we wouldnt need this. But at least right now I have some where to point the 30+ new students I am getting on the training course each week.
I do hope I can grow it and I do hope it can help people, but I do also know and accept its far from perfect.
If you don´t mind me meddling @josephsavage, I find it extremeley easier for a community leader or mod to register their community in a database (no matter if they are 4 or 5 so far) rather than to have one person browse the chain and find communities, then check if they are still active, check if they have a discord, chat, place where they meet, what the community is about etc etc etc, thats at least 5 minutes per community at least 200 times (maybe even more, considering there are a lot of new communities out there with 10 members). These kind of listings depend on the community´s proactiviity and interest in being listed (And getting more attention from users browsing said lists to find a community they are interested in). IMO, its projects and communities who should be interested in getting listed here, not the other way around.
you're idea @paulag is nice or good but the problem is, if you joined community others will just ignored you. I've been in different communities but only few of them are willing to support. Maybe if you joined, they're welcome are warmth but I think that's not enough. They have wonderful conversation but we know that's not enough why are we here. We need their votes also. Forgive me but I'm just being practical in some ways. Also for me, I think joining a community is not enough that you're the only one will engage them. It should be the community also to engage some of your post to make you feel motivated. Maybe this is a selfish ambition of mine but I hope you won't misunderstood my idea.
By the way I voted steemcommunity but I don't know how to register but I will try to sign up with the link you provided.
communities are about building relationships, with relationships votes come.
Awesome initiative @paulag !
thank you very much @anttn
always a pleasure ..! and I will watch the advancement of that project !
thanks for your engagement here !
Very cool ah I wish that one day we have one front end that incorporates all these cool features and you can really enjoy a complete steem experience. A guy can dream can't he?
lol thank you so much, what a wonderful thing to say :-)