Give Them More

We recommend sharing a little extra about you, your place and what you are looking to get from your interaction. This includes things like:

House Rules and Expectations
Expectations of Helper (e.g. Health Insurance, Quiet Hours, Social Engagements, etc.)
Hobbies and Interests
Causes/ Ideals You Support
Why You Chose to be a Kin

While all of these points are simply examples of things to share in your #kin-shep post, remember that the more details and photos you provide, the more likely you will find the connections you are looking for.

Using the Tag

By using the #kin-shep tag in your post, it ensures that the @kin-shep curation account and the #shep-heard steemit users can easily find your post among the plethora of steemit blogs.

Not only will the @kin-shep account upvote (and with permission, share) the blogs it curates, we can help connect #kin-shep kin with #shep-heard community to increase mutual engagement and support.

You are free to post to the #kin-shep tag as often as you’d like.

If your situation stays consistent, definitely link back to your first #kin-shep description post so you don’t have to rehash all the nitty gritty. Simply add any new details and fresh active dates before posting!

When you use the #kin-shep tag, you are encouraged to share your post in the HomesteadersOnline Discord Room specific to the program. These rooms provide a longer-term (more than seven day) feed of the #kin-shep articles, as well as a simple way to contact the users directly through their discord account. This is an optional step, but we encourage the use of these rooms for simplicity and streamlining.

Making Your Post Extra-Visible

While the only required point of participation is using the specific tags, you are free (and encouraged) to put your post on the SteemitWorldMap created by the talented and gracious @martibis.

We encourage #kin-shep users to add their posts to the steemitworldmap as this is the stable + grounded wing of the @s-h-e-p community.

Kin of the @s-h-e-p program posting under #kin-shep are likely staying in one primary location, their home! By marking your location on the map, traveling #shep-heard users can search the map and find out if there are any steemit users in need where they are or where they are traveling. This location marking is helpful for folks looking for rooms in exchange for labor, and provides good information for precise organization of workshops and festivals.

You are also encouraged to put project progress posts from #kin-shep or #shep-heard experiences on the SteemitWorldMap. We would love to see how far the @s-h-e-p community flies!

Be sure to give support to SteemitWorldMap by following @martibis and the curation account @steemitworldmap. You may even be lucky enough to receive curation votes or features from the group of curators over at @steemitworldmap!

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How to Add Your Post to the Map

To add your #kin-shep or @s-h-e-p project post to the steemitworldmap, start by navigating to the SteemitWorldMap here.

You can add your location by first selecting code at the bottom portion of the screen.

Next find your precise location on the map, zoom in for more precision. The pin you place will generate a code which you can add to your #kin-shep post!

You should shortly have a comment on your blog by @SteemitWorldMap as confirmation that the code and pinned post location was successful. If you don’t see a comment within the next few hours, you may have encountered a problem and can retry.

How to Search the Map

From SteemitWorldMap, you can search for #shep-heard or other #kin-shep posts by clicking filter and typing in the tag you are searching for, author and date are optional. The posts with that specific tag will then appear on the map!

You can follow these pins to their particular posts, and furthermore comment on the posts which you would like to engage with. If the steemit user has provided another method of contact, feel free to contact them and get in touch with the people you would like to help support.

Remember that steemit allows comments past the week editing period, so some users may provide additional links to more recent posts in their comments. You may want to even check their main blog for more current information if you have discovered a post that is past its prime.

@S-H-E-P was put together by @notconvinced and @coyoteom and builds off of existing platforms such as @steemitworldmap created by @martibis, as well as the hosted rooms within HomesteadersOnline Discord Server.

@S-H-E-P is special in its method of bringing people together. With the only required action being appropriately tagging your post, there are no issues with entering passcodes or downloading new programs to utilize the system. You don’t even need to create a seperate profile, as your diversely detailed and personal steemit blog serves this purpose already.

Help Us Help You

Since we are a young initiative, we can use all the help you’ll give in sharing and expanding our wings’ reaches to the far edges of the steem blockchain. Posts may be slow in the startup of our program, but we hope to have a hefty amount of traffic as the project lifts off from the ground.

Help us out by engaging with the program’s accounts @s-h-e-p, @kin-shep and @shep-heard through comments, resteems + likes. Share your posts in the #kin-shep and #shep-heard tags, and spread the word of mutual non-monetary based support with your friends and family.