The Steem News @ 12 August 2021 - Steem Sri Lanka hits 200K SP !

Steem Sri Lanka has reached the milestone of 200,000 SP in its community curation account.

PLAY STEEM developer @etainclub is launching a new Steem DApp called AVLE.

Today's Steem News also includes news and updates about a PromoSteem Virtual Conference, Draft Crearte Workshops, SteemFoods Charity, SDG Teams, Photos, Pictures & Copyright, and more contests...

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1. Steem Sri Lanka reaches 200K SP

Steem Sri Lanka's community account @steem-sri.lanka has now reached 200,000 Steem Power.

This is especially impressive considering the account was set up just 14 months ago and the community only has around 2,000 Subscribers and 100 active posters...

• 200, 000 SP Achieved | | 10% to SL Charity

Congratulations to the Steem Sri Lanka team @randulakoralage, @damithudaya, @sandu and @sandupi.

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2. AVLE - a new Steem DApp

PLAY STEEM developer @etainclub is launching a new Steem DApp called AVLE - And Value Life Everyday.

The DApp is being built using Flutter, and more details are coming soon...

• [AVLE] And Value Life Everyday - A New STEEM DApp

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3. PromoSteem Virtual Conference - 13 August

Ghana Country Rep @njaywan is running a virtual conference on the topic 'Know Your Long Term Goals on the Steemit Ecosystem'.

The conference will be on Zoom, starting at 10am UTC / 11am GMT, and everyone is welcome...

• JOIN OUR 3RD VIRTUAL CONFERENCE TOMORROW - 11:00 GMT : THEME "KNOW YOUR LONG TERM GOALS ON THE STEEMIT ECOSYSTEM"

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4. Draft Crearte Workshops

Draft Crearte have five new workshops coming up across a range of topics - Crochet (@crochetstore20), Terrariums (@gensequini), Italian Meringue (@veronicaparente), MDF Box Decoration (@mariangeltp) and Home Barista (@daniellozada).

The workshops are taking place 12 - 18 August on Draft Crearte's Discord server.

They are free to join but you must register to attend...

• ArtWorkshop - Week 03 | Register for actives (5) workshops: Crochet - Terrariums - Italian Meringue - Decoration - Home Barista

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5. SteemFoods Charity Update

The SF-Charity run by @alikoc07 and the SteemFoods team has posted its latest 10 Day Report.

The charity project has so far distributed food to 24 families and medicine to 6 families with the help of donations from community members.

The countries covered by the donations include Bangladesh, Cameroon, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines and Venezuela...

• SF-Charity 10-Day Report | Food Donation for 24 Families - Medicine Donation for 6 Families | Total :74 SBD Support

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@sf-charity reports today that it has now started supporting families in Turkey...

• SteemFoods Food Donation #9 | Food Donation Starts for Three Families from Turkey

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6. SDG Teams

In the Scouts Community @karianaporras is calling for interested people to form teams to work on challenges in line with the United Nations' 17 Sustainable Development Goals.

Teams should consist of between 5 and 10 people, and ideally live in the same area...

• "Convocatoria para equipos de ODS" by karianaporras

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For more about the SDGs visit...

• https://sdgs.un.org/goals

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7. Photos, Pictures & Copyright

In the Steem-BRU Community Country Rep and legal expert @antorv has published a comprehensive lesson on the rules of copyright and use of photographs and pictures on Steem...

• Lecture on Copyright. What photos and pictures can I use on Steem?

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8. Contests

In Steem-BRU @olesia and @soulwind continue their long running 'Kids of the World' contest.

There is 30 STEEM in prizes and the contest runs until 18 August...

• Contest "Kids of the world" | Announcement of the winners of week #16 and the beginning of week #17

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The Best of India Community asks in its latest contest 'What can you do with 20 STEEM?'.

There is 30 STEEM in the prize pool...

• Best Of India Contest | What can you do with 20 STEEM | 30 STEEM in Prize pool | Open for everyone

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Steem Cameroon hosts @thegreens' latest Green Deeds contest. This time the theme is 'How polluted is your community'.

The contest runs until 15 August...

• Green Deeds Vol. 06 Contest | How polluted is your community, city or country?

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KEY DATA [ from CoinMarketCap ]

STEEM price	US$ 0.52	12 Aug '21 4.38pm UTC
STEEM price	0.00001192 BTC	12 Aug '21 4.38pm UTC
CoinMarketCap Ranking	#179	12 Aug '21 4.38pm UTC
SBD price	US$ 7.41	12 Aug '21 4.38pm UTC
Alexa rank (steemit.com)	#5,208	12 Aug '21 4.38pm UTC
Unique visitors (steemit.com)	542,292 / day	12 Aug '21 4.38pm UTC
Page views (steemit.com)	2,548,772 / day	12 Aug '21 4.38pm UTC

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This is #389 (12 Aug '21) of this daily news service.

Steem News is sponsored by @stephenkendal.

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