Weekly update on audience-building for the [Popular STEM] community - March 5, 2023
Here is an update to our audience-building activities for the Popular STEM community during the week from February 26, 2023 through March 5, 2023.
Pixabay license from Dennis Von Dutch at source, search keyword: "Audience"
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| 1. | During the last 28 days, the Science and Technology on the Social Blockchain Facebook page put Steem posts in front of 21,615 FB accounts. |
| 2. | We continued our STEM Saturday post promotion tradition for its 41st consecutive week |
| 3. | Our 5th $30/30-day advertising campaign is continuing, so far generating 137 link clicks in ten days. |
| 4. | In the last seven days, we shared 17 posts from the Steem blockchain on the Facebook page, Science and Technology on the Social Blockchain |
A T T E N T I O N - - - M a r c h ... 5 |
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| I will now begin using AI detection tools as well as plagiarism checks before STEM Saturday post promotions or sharing on Facebook, so if anyone is using AI to generate content, please stop. If I see a pattern of any author claiming credit for AI-generated content, plagiarized content, or spun content, the account will be permanently muted in this community - perhaps without warning. |
| I don't have a problem with small amounts of AI generated content, provided that it's labeled as such - just like a quote from an external source - but the lion's share of every article needs to be authentic human content from the post's author. |
Community members: If you suspect that a post is somehow problematic, please let me know. Inauthentic content makes us all look bad. If desired, for privacy, you can send an email to [email protected]. |
If you have an English language blog and you cover Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) topics, please consider joining and contributing to the Popular STEM community.
If you are a STEM enthusiast, please consider supporting the authors in this community with resteems, follows, upvotes, engagement, and sharing their creative content on other platforms.
Introduction
Continuing our effort to become an audience-first community, and previously described in Delivering an audience for the [Popular STEM] community, we have a six-pronged effort in place to help STEM bloggers build an audience here in our community. They are:
- Sharing posts on the Facebook page, Science and Technology on the Social Blockchain
- Facebook advertising campaigns
- Weekly STEM Saturday post promotion.
- Automatic post pinning for authors who burn rewards through post promotion or burning of beneficiary rewards (Visibility as a service [VAAS]).
- Incentives for resteeming posts from our community (proof of resteem) or sharing them on Facebook (proof of share).
- Using "PS🔥" through "PS🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥" badges/labels to recognize and highlight author accounts in the community who burn more than one STEEM (or the equivalent amount in SBD).
Any/all of these programs are subject to change or discontinuation at any time without notice.
Click through to Delivering an audience for the [Popular STEM] community for more information about any of those initiatives.
The purpose of today's update is to report back on some of those initiatives during the week.
Facebook post sharing
This week we shared 17 posts on Facebook. The picture to the right shows the top-9 sorted by "Reach". The top post was by me, and the second was by @tanveer741, so a 25% beneficiary setting has been applied to this post for tanveer741. Here are links to the top-6 posts.
- Ideas on cosmology, consciousness, and philosophy from Roger Penrose - a Nobel Prize winning physicist by @remlaps.
- ChatGPT can’t be given author credit, says top academic publisher by @tanveer741.
- There is more life in the deep of the Ocean than we ever know by @tanveer741.
- Zoologists put GPS tags on possums and raccoons to find invasive pythons by @sarahjay1.
- A fragment of asteroid 2023 CX1 was found in France by @sarahjay1.
- Lasers fired at the earth? by @jorgebgt.
If you are a STEM enthusiast, please consider following these authors and supporting their content!
Facebook advertising
Our 5th $30/30-day advertising campaign is continuing for the post, Where humans and dolphins cooperate for mutual survival. In its first 10 days, the post has reached 10,560 Facebook accounts and generated 137 link clicks at a cost of $0.07 per click.
Finally, both of the posts from our last two 30-day advertising buys remain in the "Featured" section of the Science and Technology on the Social Blockchain Facebook page.
STEM Saturday post promotion
For the 41st STEM Saturday post, we promoted posts by @genx-miner, @jorgebgt, @o1eh, @sarahjay1, @tanveer741, and @truth2.
Proof of resteem / Proof of share
@steemit.contest participated in the "proof of resteem" initiative with this comment.
The opportunity is renewed here. 25% of this post's beneficiary rewards have been set to @penny4thoughts for distribution to accounts that resteem articles from the Popular STEM community or share them from the Science and Technology on the Social Blockchain Facebook page.
Recapping from Delivering an audience for the [Popular STEM] community, here's how to be eligible:
Proof of Resteem
- Find a Popular STEM post that you think would interest your followers. (It can be before or after payout time)
- Resteem that post (not this one)
- Post a reply to this post with a link to the post that you resteemed, a screencap of the resteem on your blog, and a sentence or two describing the reason why you thought the post would interest your followers.
- Note that the replies must be posted at least 1 day before this post's payout time.
Proof of Share
- Go to the Science and Technology on the Social Blockchain FB page and find a post that you think would interest your followers. (It can be before or after payout time)
- Share that post (not this one).
- Post a reply to this post with a link to the post that you shared, a screencap of the share on your Facebook timeline, and a sentence or two describing the reason why you thought the post would interest your followers.
- Note that the replies must be posted at least 1 day before this post's payout time.
I invite other curators to monitor these comments in order to add to the incentive for audience-growth.
Label for burning STEEM
No new badges were applied for burning tokens this week.
Here's the label/badge system that will be applied to recognize authors for burning STEEM (or the equivalent amount of SBD):
| Badge | Burn amount |
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| PS🔥 | 0.001-2.999 STEEM burned |
| PS🔥🔥 | 3-5.999 STEEM burned |
| PS🔥🔥🔥 | 6-11.999 STEEM burned |
| PS🔥🔥🔥🔥 | 12-24.999 STEEM burned |
| PS🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 | >25 STEEM burned |
( PS stands for "Popular STEM" )
Note that I don't yet have any way to monitor/track this easily, so authors need to let me know when they are eligible for a badge, and I'll be able to verify it.
Automatic post-pinning
@genx-miner and @o1eh both had posts automatically pinned by mod-bot because of their participation in the #burnsteem25 campaign. Also, all promoted posts from STEM Saturday were eligible for automatic pinning from mod-bot.
Conclusion
If you are a STEM enthusiast and you'd like to help build a more vibrant STEM community on the Steem blockchain, then please join our community, Like our Facebook page, and help us build our audience. If you are a STEM blogger, and you want to build an audience for your blog, then we want to help. Please contribute your content here.
As a community, we succeed or we fail together, so let's get to work building our STEM topical audience!
Note that any and all of these initiatives are subject to change or discontinuation without notice at any time.
Thank you for your time and attention.
Steve Palmer is an IT professional with three decades of professional experience in data communications and information systems. He holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics, a master's degree in computer science, and a master's degree in information systems and technology management. He has been awarded 3 US patents.
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This week I was touched by an article about babies. Here I will probably tell her a few words. Babies are so cute when they sleep) and mom can give her baby a really healthy sleep with her rocking!
https://steemit.com/hive-109160/@tanveer741/5-minutes-of-walking-helps-crying-babies-sleep-according-to-research
5 minutes of walking helps crying babies sleep, according to research
I read it with great pleasure. It was right that they promoted this particular post.
Man, you will have to be very attentive, nowadays technology provides many forms of help, well some people take the help of AI , GPT Chat and others, my opinion about it, it's fine as long as it helps, but if they do everything for us, then we will be entities walking around the world, it would be absurd to lose my way of analyzing, thinking, writing, reasoning and leaving it in their hands, but you know that there are very pernicious people and they have no problem leaving even brain in the hands of an AI
@remlaps hope you are doing good in life , I also want to learn how to check with AI detection. As I am currently using plagiarism check to check the uniques but I don't have AI tool, can you guide me in that regard so that I can check for AI also.
Apart from that thank you so much for the mention. One last question why we are not appling for booming support.
Hi, thanks for the reply.
For now, I'll be using 2 or more of the links that are listed here with random/arbitrary subsections from the posts. The technology is changing rapidly, so I guess that might change frequently as tools change. We'll see. I also still have to get a feel for how to interpret the results. At this point I don't know them well enough to recommend any particular one for you.
There are a few reasons. I think these are the main ones:
In short, successful bloggers on other platforms succeed by putting their time and effort into building their audience by producing and promoting content that people actually want to read. I think we can do that here, too - especially if we all pitch in and do it together as a community.
There are many users who are dedicated to seeking rewards instead of quality, they just copy and paste until they are detected as plagiarists, but in reality these are not main accounts for this reason they do not mind committing plagiarism. And I agree with your points for the moments the community does not meet the requirements to opt for a booming support. If you start to check the publications, most of the images are taken from google. At least the cover of the post has to be authentic, it could be designed on canva the rest is up to the curators if you meet the requirements.