Steemit Philippines Community | Application for the Communities of the Month Support Program - For the Month of November (10-23-2021)
Have a Blessed Day Everyone here in our Community!!!
A greeting to all from the Steemit Philippines Community's Admin, Moderators, and Members!!!
The Steemit Team's Communities Support Program has been extremely effective, and as a growing community, it has a significant impact on us because it encourages our members to be active. We were also very grateful to be chosen as one of the communities of the month for October who received a steemcurator01 support. This opportunity our community received really helps us not just to our member's content to be supported but to the community account itself who gains more Steem Power.
Table of Contests:
- Community Purpose
- Community Team
- Community Curation Account
- Plagiarism & Abuse
- Engagement & Commenting
- Plans & Updates
- Promotion
- Anything Else
- How does the Community Supports #club5050?
To get to know more about the Steemit Philippines Community, visit us here.
Community Purpose
Steemit is a super-legit way to augment a living in these hard-up times. We need to emphasize that the rest of the community should not rely exclusively on milking the platform, but rather should contribute significantly to its growth, popularity, and widespread acceptance.
Here are our top purposes why we built this community.
Unity
Filipinos are thought to be resilient, diligent, and willing to work together when necessary. As a result, having us all together would make us a much stronger team. We can call ourselves a FAMILY that blogs together for the common good because of the unity we all strive for, despite our many cultures.
Awareness
As we continue to share our lives through our content, we reach a stage where we want to know what's going on with each of our community members. We were able to learn from anything that everyone had to say.
Support To Become Better Each Passing Day
Whatever recognition we wish to gain from our peers, we should extend to our fellow members. We also strongly advise our community members to immerse themselves in different communities, not just Steemit Philippines, because they will eventually find their niche and be able to express what they truly enjoy with the like-minded people they will be talking with sooner or later.
Community Team
Since the inception of the Steemit Support Program, the team has been working hard to improve the community. I thank God for their assistance because without it, we would not have been able to achieve all of the accomplishments we have here in the community, and it has made a significant difference since they joined our team. Because the Philippines is divided into three regions: Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao, I have given three Moderator/Leaders and their corresponding Moderator/Greeters. All moderators can read, write, and understand English, and the most common language or dialect used in the community is Tagalog, as well as other dialects such as Visayan.
Now, to have a better understanding and more specific on what are our team's roles and responsibilities, here are the full details of it.
The new Roles and Responsibilities of our Moderators are as follows.
| MOD Username | Roles | Responsibilities |
|---|---|---|
| @loloy2020 | ADMIN | Over All Manager/Monthly Report it includes all Verified Members from Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao together with the Active and Inactive Members/Community Account Handler/Community Representative/Promotion |
| @fycee | MOD(Luzon Leader) | Weekly Update Every 1st Week of the Month it includes all Verified Members from the Luzon Region, Active and Inactive Members/Creates Contest/Check Plagiarized Content/Promotion |
| @kneelyrac | MOD(Luzon Greeter) | Help to Check Diary Game Entries and other Contests/To welcome all newcomers and encourage them to comment on all posts in the Community/Promotion. |
| @juichi | ADMIN(Visayas Leader) | Weekly Update Every 2nd Week of the Month it includes all Verified Members from the Visayas Region, Active and Inactive Members/Creates Contest/Check Plagiarized Content/Promotion |
| @me2selah | MOD(Visayas Greeter) | Help to Check Diary Game Entries and other Contests/To welcome all newcomers and encourage them to comment on all posts in the Community/Promotion. |
| @long888 | MOD(Mindanao Leader) | Weekly Update Every 3rd Week of the Month it includes all Verified Members from the Mindanao Region, Active and Inactive Members/Creates Contest/Check Plagiarized Content/Promotion |
| @jb123 | MOD(Mindanao Greeter) | Help to Check Diary Game Entries and other Contests/To welcome all newcomers and encourage them to comment on all posts in the Community/Promotion. |
Hopefully, these newly added roles and responsibilities of our Moderators will help our community to be better and continuously doing good for everyone's benefit.
As we are still a growing community, the only way we can reward or compensate our team is through upvotes to their weekly report or even to their other content shared, to their comments, as they are tasked with verifying new members and assisting me in determining whether a member's entry to a specific contest is qualified or not and their report or post will also be recommended for steemcurator01 support. Though it is not that big reward we could provide them, it is nonetheless significant assistance. I believe we all have the same objective and purpose in our community to make it better, and whatever reward they receive, I am confident they will be pleased.
Community Curation Account
The Steemit Philippines Community Curation Account is @steemitphcurator, which started the community with no SP but as time went on, with the help of some of our members who delegated some of their SP and the unwavering support from the Steemit Team who keeps upvoting some of our community's Daily Updates.
- Here are the full details of our Community Curation Account. (Owned and Delegated)
| Description | STEEM POWER |
|---|---|
| Owned | 9,669.41 SP |
| Delegated | 5,251.55 SP |
| Total SP | 14,920.96 SP |
Right now, our primary goal is to amass enough SP to keep our community afloat and assist our members. To help us accomplish this, we ask that our members delegate their SP to our community curation account. In exchange, they will receive a monthly reward, with our delegators receiving 80% of the curation award and power up receiving the remaining 20%. Another alternative is to participate in the #SPUD4STEEM campaign, which we have done for the past six months on the first of every month, winning fourth place in our first participation and fifth place in our second, and accumulating enough SP to power up with the Steemit Team's help.
Another way we have applied now in the community is to gain more Steem liquid to power up is by setting up our community curation account as a 20% benefactor to any contests and even the usual content shared by our members which are really effective as it was also applied in some existing communities all around Steemit platform.
The Steemit team has played a significant part in the development of our community from its inception, and we would not be where we are now without their assistance. A large portion of the rewards we earned from all of the daily updates, which are mostly supported by steemcurator01. More or less 90% of the total Steem liquid we could accumulate every month were used to power up the community curation account, and the remaining Steem liquid was used to reward and sustain the ongoing contest we have in the community right now, which is the Diary Game contest and the Photography contest, and some promotional related contests.
As an admin, @loloy2020 has all the access to the keys together and decided to upvote and support our member's content shared in the community, while the other moderators have access to the Private Positing Key on as they were also tasks to do some updates and can handle contests through the community account.
Currently, the Voting CSI of @steemitphcurator is as follows (Source: Steemworld.com):
| Voting CSI | 23.1 ( 0.00 % self, 155 upvotes, 72 accounts, last 7d ) |
|---|
As far as we could, we have read and checked all our member's posts and upvoted all of them. We have also visited and considered giving some upvotes to those who have used the official tag #steemitphilippines, and I have also visited other communities to give some upvotes.
Plagiarism & Abuse
This month of October, we finally received a steemcurator01 support from Steemit Team, it is also our responsibility as a team to make the community better and one issue we primarily going to address is this Plagiarism and Abuse.
The first step we took was to create a verification process that will prevent our members from creating dummy accounts, and so far, this verification process has proven and tested to be quite beneficial to our community since it allows us to get to know our members better. Our Moderator/Leaders in each region were tasked with verifying them and labeling them with the region to which they belong.
One of our Moderator/Leader @fycee, have years of experience being a fraud analyst in a top International Financial Institution, have developed a way to detect a fraudulent transaction by meeting some guidelines to put a red flag on an account. Therefore, simple things like checking photos if they were stolen would be really easy.
To end up plagiarism and abuse in our community, the best thing we could do is to explain to them that Plagiarism is a form of robbery or stealing and indeed a fraudulent activity. Imagine you will be generating an income even though it would only range from a penny to a few amounts of Dollars or any other currencies available. Stealing cents is such a shame. Thus stealing huge amounts will make a person a law-breaker. Integrity should always be instilled in any community being built and we will always comply with that.
Explain to every member that plagiarism we should need to ask ourselves this question first before we proceed to be on Steem or any other platform:
I guess we all know the answer, so why would we do it?
The ways we could do to know plagiarized content:
If a photo is looking so good to be true then it's time to wear this detective hat and start to investigate.
Our moderators @fycee have some ways to know if a photo is stolen or not by checking the metadata of a photo and comparing it to the previous photos that they have shared before. That is the first thing I am doing. The rest should be undisclosed.
While @juichi is tasked to check for all the content's write-ups if it is original content or just taken from other sources using this Plagiarism Checker Tool. Based on our record, he had already reported one user who shared plagiarized content and is already reported to the @endplagiarism account and maybe already taken action on it.
We've also discovered someone who pretend to be someone who were confirmed Identity Theft.
- Here are some of the reported members/users who shared plagiarized content and Identity Theft.
- The other moderators were also assigned to other tasks that will help the community end up plagiarism and abuse.
Engagement & Commenting
Engagements and comments are crucial in developing a stronger community since they allow all members to get to know one another while also functioning as a communication tool. Aside from the Moderator/Leader in each region, our moderators' responsibilities include the Moderator/Greeter, whose primary responsibility is to greet and comment on each of our members' postings, helping us to establish a community discourse. We'll make sure that all contributed content is commented on, and we'll participate in certain interactions.
It is unavoidable for everyone in a community like Steemit to connect with one another. We must build our own network, a group of committed people who will help each other in whatever way possible if we are to prosper and live. It gives us a sense of security and belonging to be surrounded by wonderful people.
To form great connections and solid ties with other Steemians, we must interact and be active. This is something that each of us should know and understand, as well as something that we should practice or do without someone telling us or urging us to do so.
Although we believe that starting a comment contest would be beneficial, we believe that engagements and comments should be done on our own or as an important part of our day-to-day contacts.
These principles are being instilled in the minds of #steemitphilippines members. We encourage them to comment on as many other people's posts as possible, as well as #steemians from other communities.
We must keep in mind that posting an article every now and then and then doing nothing will not improve our stay on this platform.
We must investigate, interact, read, and, as much as possible, express our own perspectives on the subject.
This is merely socializing, and by interacting we reap the benefits. Social engagement is unquestionably beneficial to our brain, and it could somehow lighten our mood. Consequently painting a smile on our face and eventually making some other faces smile.
Steemit Philippines is now also encouraging our fellow community members to join other acknowledged communities by Steemit to spark a harmonious relationship within the ecosystem.
The best examples are our own community admins themselves.
- @fycee who has just graduated from a redfishish support program by Steem-SEA Sponsored by @xxxxx
- @me2selah who has just been acknowledged by Steem-foods as their top influencer.
These are just the best examples and proof that Steemit Philippines encompasses the mission of the Steemit platform itself.
Plans & Updates
Now that the community has a team who will help to build a better community, there are lots of plants and updates we could do now and in the future. Here we will state some of it and we pray to God that all of this will fulfill in the future.
An update to one of our plan contests here in the community. We thank God for we have successfully launched our Promotional contest which is the Video Promotional Campaign and now the Steemit Promotion Through Livelihood Branding.
We have also started one of our plans mentioned, the charity works which launched a few weeks ago with our first beneficiary.
See the complete details here:
Ongoing plans and updates:
- The first thing that sprang to us was to acquire enough SP before the end of the year, and I'm hoping that we'll be able to reach at least 20,000 SP or more this year. As of this writing, we have 14,920.98 SP, with 9,669.43 SP* coming from the community account and 5,251.56 SP coming from our members. We just have two months till the year ends, and by God's help, we may be able to accomplish this.
- Create more contests with the help of our moderators to make our members more active and even those who are not active will encourage to be active again. As of the moment, we have three main contests we have run in the community which will happen alternate. Every first week and third week will be all about The Diary Game Contest, and every second week and the fourth week will be showcasing the creativity and originality of our members through Photography Contest. We've also run a video contest for promotion purposes, and a lot of contests are coming soon.
- We have a plan in mind to have our own t-shirts with the Steemit Philippines Community printed in them as it was also one way of promoting Steemit outside the platform.
- To create more Social Media platform account as a form of our promotions.
- Plans to initiate more promotional contests to encourage our members to invite outside Steemit.
With regards to our updates, I have shared daily updates and posted it always in the community and mostly the updates were all about the existing contests we have and planned to have a weekly update to what are the most important updates that happened within the week.
As of now, the Steemit Philippines has no roadmap to follow but it is now on our plan to have it. If we talk about our long-term plan, I could say that our long-term plan is to make this community better and be a good place for all Filipinos all over the world to join as it is our passion to help and support all of them.
Promotion
Targeting selected audiences each time could also gather members and form their own team from the niche they have, as our moderator/leader @fycee did.
Here is one of our moderator's Invitation posts to join Steemit. @Fycee is inviting co-workers from the BPO Industry (Call Center). It is the most effective way to promote.
In connection to The Steemit Promotion, The Steemit Philippines has two other social media account. We have the Steemit Philippines Facebook page and the Steemit Philippines Twitter account. In this way, we can post our chosen top picks post, promote our contests, and other important announcements happening within our community.
Official Facebook Page: Steemit Philippines Community Bloggers Group
Official Twitter Account: Steemit Philippines Community| Username: @steemitPhCom
As our way of promoting the Steemit and our community, "The Steemit Philippines", we initiated a video contest to convey more Filipinos to join this platform and let not this pandemic become a hindrance to its spread. Also, our members do easily share those video entries on their different social media account. The videos can be both expressed in English and local dialects since the Philippines is an archipelago with different local languages.
Here are the questions that they are to answer as content to their entries:
- How will you introduce Steemit?
- How to make a Steemit account?
- How to log in to Steemit?
- What is your experience in Steemit?
- How did you use your income in Steemit?
- How easy it is to become a Steemian?
- What are the articles that can be posted in Steemit?
- How long you've been in Steemit?
- Introduce Steemit Philippines to your audience.
Here are the links to the complete information about the competition.
These contestants are from different professions, teachers, students, housewives, call center agents, either old and new users of the platform. This is a shred of evidence that Steemit is for everyone.
We've mentioned last month that we will again initiate a promotional contest that relates to livelihood which we think is a big help this time of the pandemic.
Here are the full details of the new promotional contest.
| Description | Content/Post |
|---|---|
| Contest Post | https://steemit.com/hive-169461/@steemitphcurator/steemit-philippines-community-contest-steemit-promotion-through-livelihood-branding-10-11-2020 |
And here are some of the entries submitted.
We hope that our said Steemit Promotion presentation is enough to qualify for the Steemit Team support.
Anything Else
Our Community is still a small community but since the beginning, we have given our best as a team to make the community better than before. The steemcurator01 support program we receive here in the community really had a big impact as it allows our members to be rewarded for their posts shared in the community. Based on our observation, before the community received the steemcurator01 support from Steemit Team, our active members ranges only from 50-65 members each day but it definitely changed, from 50-65 members per day, our active members now will range from more than 100 members per day.
As a growing community, it is a big privilege to choose and will receive support for this month from the Steemit Team.
How does the Community Supports #club5050?
The newest project initiated by the Steemit team, the #club5050 which encourages every Steemians to be committed to powering up at least 50% of the total earning we accumulate. Through this, we will gain enough Steem Power and influence in the platform and will strengthen the entire Steem ecosystem.
- How do we encourage them?
We have our full support for this initiative introduced by Steemit Team. We have introduced the project to our members using our community curation account and from our admin who introduced also our own #club5050 badge to those who qualified and lastly, we will also be monitoring the growth of each member in the community.
Have a Blessed and Great Day to All our Beloved Members!!!
If we look at the Steemit Team's recent post about the application for the communities of the month, we can see that they've officially introduced their newest initiative to encourage every community and individual to be self-sufficient by building enough Steem Power (SP) in their respective accounts, which will also help to build and strengthen the entire Steem ecosystem...Click here for more details
Mabuhay Filipinos! The highlight of this post is focused on the recent initiative of the Steemit Team which is about the #club5050 tag. For those who have not known it yet, please refer to this link for complete information. We also decided to have an exclusive #club5050-philippines tag so that we can easily check those individuals who committed to this...Click here for more details
A Blessed day to all our Beloved Members here in our Community!!!
As the administrator and founder of the Steemit Philippines Community, one of my goals is to see all of our members grow based on their Steem Power, and now that we have the support of the Steemit Team and the help of steemcurator01, we have a better chance of doing so. As a result, I always encourage all of our members to submit high-quality content in order to increase their chances of being chosen as one of the top 5 posts of the day,...Click here for more details
We are now prioritizing to our top posts of the day those who were committed to #club5050 and some of them were already recognized. We can see some of them in the links below.
With these guidelines we have set for the community, we are all confident that we would be strong and compliant with all the rules that will be set by the Platform Leaders from then on.
We foster, love, care, support, and happiness to other members' triumphs.
And from us, admins and moderators, there should be no competition and NOT count the things we have done but work together as one and stick to very first purpose.... U N I T Y !
Go go go #steemitphilipines for the Steemit support. We always here to support our very own community.
Mabuhay ang Steemit Philippines!! ❤
I am glad to see how our community progress.
Thank you very much ate sa support.
Very well said, this is such a very comprehensive post showcasing all the important points that definitely give us an edge over the other communities around for the Community Support Program.
Let us continue to soar high and by achieving things let us remain humble and should bear in mind that helping our members or empowering them will reflect how effective we are as leaders.
More power #steemitphilippines!
Thank you very much sa tanang support bro long. God Bless!
You're welcome and thank you for leading #steemitphilippines, efficiently and effectively!
Very well-said.
All of us admins and moderators are consistently innovating ideas on how to make all members including us to be engaging at all times. Through this, the platform will naturally shine amongst any other platforms with the same use-case. Thus, mass-adoption is the answer to all this.
I am not only glad, hence, super proud to be on this awesome community.
Thank you so much for the recognition given to us this whole month of October. We are now vying for this coming month's support.
Steemit-Philippines Leader/Moderator - Luzon.
@Fycee
You've done a good job, keep it up!
Congratulations to the admins and moderators of Steemit Philippines, your leadership made the community grow and become successful.
God bless the community #steemitphilippines. So happy how it grows quickly and so productive.
Thank you for mentioning me @steemitphcurator
I am happy that I am a member of this community
. Thank you for the updates. 👏
Mabuhay steemit Philippines.
The #steemitphilippines community is stronger because because admins and moderators all lead with examples..we sincerely thank you for the tremendous effort of guiding and helping the Filipinos.😊
I hope🙏🏻 you'll be successful with every endeavour that you will take on.
...SALAMAT KAAYO🇵🇭
It's overwhelming to know such progress of our community! Congratulations to all and to our pro-active team of moderators with our mentor @loloy2020. Mabuhay!
Thank you sa support ate.
Well discussed! This makes me so proud.