SEC S15W6: "Meeting With the Steem4Nigeria Community Management"

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Since my joining Steemit in January, 2023, I have observed that one of the major things that make the steemit platform to be special and unique are the communities. These communities are created by individuals, a group of persons or by the steemit management itself. These communities have made the steemit platform to be unique in a way that makes it organized, displaying different ideas and activities.

One of such communities is the @steem4nigeria. Before now I only knew that Steem4Nigeria community is a community in the steem platform that represent the interest of Nigerians. This contest has made me to learn new things and even though I was not there from the inception of the community, I will still share my thoughts. Read through as I share my knowledge in this contest by answering the given questions.

How well do you know about the community @steem4nigeria? How did you get to know the community? What do you know the community for?

According to my personal research, Steem4Nigeria was created 2 years ago by 6 selfless steemians who thought about having a community that will represent the interest of Nigerians in it entirety. When I joined Steemit last year, my friend who registered me encouraged me to join Steem4Nigeria and should be frequent in posting and taking parts in contests organized in the Community. Indeed, my friend was not wrong, after joining the community, I received several supports from the community in every posts I made.

Steem4Nigeria is known for these exceptional and unique qualities:

• Openness and diversity as it houses and supports steemians from other countries across the world.

• Mind provoking contests to engage and support its members: I can remember some special weekly contests that the community used to organized such as: Steem4Nigeria Accelerator Contest. Each time I participated in this contest, I used to receive good supports and rewards from the community management. There was another contest that @ngoenyi used to organized for newbies in the community. These contests really helped me to grow back then as a newbie.

• The community is known for its unwavering supports to her members. Every time a member makes some special posts, like Dairy games or any creative posts that is out of contests, the community will always vote and reward such posts to support and grow the member. I have personally witness all these things, I have mentioned.

These sterling qualities are highly commendable and appreciated.

So far, has the management of this community been doing what you expected?

Yes! the management of this community has done beyond my expectations and I wish to encourage them to do more. supporting its members posts by upvoting their posts with reasonable rewards. Organizing contests to engage and promotes her members. Creating activities to make the newbies grow and and stay active in the community. Being inclusive by receiving and supporting the members from other countries to enlarge is bounds. These are all lofty heights and commendable.

Do you have any recommendations, suggestions, or ideas for the steem4nigeria community on how best to grow the community to the next level? If NO, highlight our strengths & how to consolidate them.

I know they have done their best in managing the community well. They have been fair in using the communities resources to support every member. The booming support they have is used fairly. Members from other countries benefits from it too.

I expect them to keep up the good work.

The Moderators are working hard to ensure the community's performance is one of the bests. They make sure that plagiarism is completely discouraged in the community and ensure quality posts are rewarded appropriately. I believe if they can maintain these qualities, the community will continue to grow beyond this level.

I will suggest that such contests as: Steem4Nigeria Accelerator Contest. should not be completely ignored even when there is Steemit Engagement Challenge (SEC). Contests to encourage and support newbies should also be introduced and maintained.

I also will suggests that physical meetings should be organized either once or twice in a year in the form of a conference or convention where all steemians in the country could move to a particular state taking turns to go round the country. Such events will help to increase the popularity of steem. Also I will suggests that the management emphasized that members in their locality should be having physical meetings as this will strengthen community growth.

Lastly, I think contests to promote and showcase our cultural heritage should be organised as well. The community should come up with a charity plan to reach out to challenging members who may be going through some hard times, like sickness, difficult situation, disabled etc. These will go a long way to increase our popularity and encourage members to remain active.

How can you show appreciation and support for these good works done by the steem4nigeria community and her management in the steemit platform

Firstly, I show appreciation by saying a special thank you to the management of this great community. I would have love to support the community through delegation of steem power but I have only 70+ steem power which is not even up to 100 steem power. I lost my steem last year while trying to sell it to purchase a phone so I could stay active in the platform. I just got a job this January, 2024 that made me to be able to fix my laptop and purchase a modem to be able to become active again after staying away for 7months due to lack of andriod phone and bad laptop. I hope to delegate steem power to the community once I am able to have up to 200 steem power.

Secondly, I support the community by talking to and helping my new colleagues in the office to join steem. Even though all efforts to sign up three new members last week proved abortive.

Lastly, I will be supporting the community by setting 10% beneficiary of my posts rewards to the community starting from this post. 10% to @steem4nigeria.

In conclusion, steem4nigeria is one of my best and favourite communities, I will encourage new members to join this community and stay active. I hope to serve this community in a leadership position in the future if given the opportunity.

I invite my friends @bela90, @wkaeupkitty and @patjewell to join me in this contest.