#burnsteem25 - Leveraging the Community Curator Team as a Curation Opportunity
Dear steemians...!
The growth of steemit users is closely related to promotional efforts carried out by all elements, both individuals, Country Representatives, the Community and the Community Curator Team. However, the quantity of new users continues to grow every day but has not been able to take advantage of the opportunity to get adequate curation support.
This is an important lesson for me as a Steem For BetterLife Community Admin and is a Community Curator Team that has been selected 5 times in a row in the Community Curator Team application (steemcurator05) with the main themes Financial and Technology. I see in particular that the Steem for Better Life Community members have not maximized the curation potential obtained either through the Community Curator Team, or the Engagement Challenge which has been released in several communities that have been nominated for Steemitblog.
| Why? |
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This question keeps popping up in my mind, I keep asking "why did this happen?", Is the update information lacking? or do not understand the nature of the curation opportunities from the two aspects above.
After observing several direct interviews with users, one of them is @amryksr. He gave the reason that the support factor is an indicator in releasing posts, and he is used to writing free stories so that he doesn't fall into the category of posts that are worth curating.
On the other hand, I also interviewed several other users regarding this matter, they generally have the same paradigm towards the use of curation from the two programs formed by steemitblog.
The conclusion is that they do not understand the nature of curation so that they do not produce creative ideas according to their interests and fields that are usually cultivated on the steemit platform.
| How to Take Advantage of Curation Opportunities |
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Curation opportunities are wide open for steemians who have the required criteria, either by the Community Curator Team or the Community organizing the Steem Engagement Challenge. Currently steemitblog has released the latest update regarding the Community Curation Team with Themes "Steemit Update [ June 30th, 2022 ] : Community Curators for July".
From the announcement made by steemitblog about Community Curator Teams for July 2022, there are 6 main themes that can be used as opportunities to get support.
- Arts: In this theme steemian can develop their posts in several tags, such as: arts, crafts, photography, music, poetry, creative writing. The six tags can be selected according to the interests and backgrounds of the steemians so that they get support from them if they meet the criteria made by the community Curator Team, in general the conditions are free from plagiarism, steemexclusive, joined in a club, actively giving upvotes based on CSI voting.
- Finance & Technology: In this theme, the curation system is the same as in other themes, but users must pay attention to the suitability of tagging with the content released, for example: finance, business, crypto, science, technology, computing. The six tags can be written and developed, I see that this theme has quite a large curation opportunity, considering that during the curation period I was in, we had difficulty finding suitable content, even though the curation potential is quite large. Utilizing business tagging, for example, users can review business potential, and other activities that are classified as business. You don't have to write scientific articles about business if you don't have the knowledge, so you are prone to plagiarism.
- Lifestyle: health, fitness, sport, leisure, food, travel. This theme also has a low percentage, even though if we look at the sub-themes that deserve to be curated, the coverage is very wide, for example by reviewing restaurants, making cooking tutorials, sharing health tips in simple language.
- My Life : the Diary Game, My Town in Ten Pics, acts of kindness, charity. The my life theme is one of the most popular themes by users because it is related to lifestyle and in general users focus more on The diary game, while other sub-themes are often neglected.
- Steem Growth: Steem promotion, marketing, development, contests. Doing a steem promo by inviting new users to register as a steemian can be classified into the form of a steem promo, and then participating in regular contests organized by communities or individuals.
- Learn with Steem: courses, tutorials, lessons. This theme is more focused on learning, users can write anything related to learning such as other general tips/tutorials.
Now the decision is in the hands of the users, how to develop and utilize the potential of curation through the Community Curation Team by producing educative, informative content without ignoring the Plagiarism free aspect, joining clubs and actively interacting with other users either through comments or mutual support in the form of curation.
For new users, the thing that needs to be done is to immediately verify yourself on the Newcomers Community by completing several Achievements, ranging from Achievement 1 to Review. There the Greeter Team will verify each achievement. After getting the achievement 1 verification label, the user can choose a community that is relevant to the user's interests, so that they can release other public posts while waiting for Achievement verification.
As a Steem For Better Life Community Admin, I hope that all community members can take advantage of this opportunity as capital to increase account strength so that they can become independent users.