Hi Phil, I'm Erik. I am going to be reaching out to all the Socal Steemit users I can find and try to get everyone organized to support each other on Steemit. We are doing this by creating a community account, @socalsteemit. I am also involved with the @steemit-jp account in Tokyo where I live part time.
https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@socalsteemit/introducing-the-so-cal-steemit-users-community-account
Just an FYI. Cheers!