Hey Steemit Family!! What was YOUR 1st blog post you authored on here, and WHY? | E.13 | Post it!! | Community Engagement Series.

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My 1st ever blog post & the FUN / Liberty based backstory is here for you below.

It was on Bushcraft / Self Reliance & Off Grid life and interests for me. It was posted on Sept. 23, 2016, about 6 weeks after I signed up LOL.

I did not feel comfortable here, everything was so new, I did not know how to format ANYTHING, and I was feeling my way out around this new place, so yes, I relate to new people -- and remember that DAILY in my posts, series I run, and replies.

That's the TLDR version, if you want the longer story, keep reading or just skip to the comments and let us know here your first blog and why you posted it!


And I want to see your first one that you authored on here, and WHY you chose that topic!


Some of my Backstory for you:

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As I just mentioned above in brief, I was not comfortable MAKING a blog post with everyone on here knowing blogging, formatting, making their posts look pretty, I basically joined Steemit the first week of August 2016 -- August is my birthday month so I will always remember that. I believe it might have been August 7th, as some others have now posted their milestones and official "Steemit joining anniversary" dates and I was named in some of them - showing August 7th.

I spent the first weeks here reading and commenting on posts.

A LOT.



I have always said I am not a blogger.... I am just a guy that blogs.

-- And there is a big difference.

I kind of fell into this due to my pursuit of Liberty.

Crypto/Bitcoin/CryptoCurrency/Blockchain is all a part of that journey.

I've always been an activist type person and like helping people, and informing them of things going on in the world that affects them.

I guess all my public activism for years as such, the run for City Council to actually challenge the corrupt establishment and help people.... led me to the research, speeches in public forums, publishing of videos over the years on these things, along with running my Real Estate business, and constantly posting on Social Media like Fascistbook etc - to try and make a difference for humanity.

It eventually over the years led me into the Off Grid / Bushcraft / Outdoors community as I had always had an interest in it, am a bit of a hippy by most standards with my daily beliefs and practices in life for the world around me, the environment, and using sustainable / best practices in my life and belief systems.


My first post ever @Steemit post - the main picture/graphic - and link to it in late Sept. / 2017:

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https://steemit.com/offgrid/@barrydutton/what-s-bushcraft-anyways-those-outdoorsy-self-reliant-off-grid-people

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Why did I pick this topic?

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Because I want to live a more self reliant lifestyle. I do not believe everyone should be forced to remain connected to the Matrix and the Grid by the government by force, manufactured and uninformed consent, and coercion if they don't want to be.

I desire to lead a simpler life than we are conditioned daily by media and the agencies to think we need.

Being able to live simply yet well, is something attainable

Primitive skills of self reliance are completely being lost for homesteading / off grid life if you wish to live that way and be connected to the simple, more primitive life and forced to remain connected... to The Grid.



How did my idea for this new series come about?

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I was talking a lot one day around March of 2016 with the wordsmith @dwinblood who is a very sharp and engaged guy about some of this.

As usual, when I am online or offline, my mind continues to work on ideas to build community, try different things, and I came up with this idea later to do this

"get to know your neighbour" series...

LOL.

It also serves as a regular reminder / library for people to use to find their FIRST POST which is always special. Some of the series I do, like the STEEMIT NEEDS series - also serves this purpose.

An archive you can always come back to, or someone else can, to find something in particular.


E.2 of this series was posted a long time ago!!! March of 2017 - nearly 5 mths ago, I have quite a few things I work on and they get buried at times, oopsy. (:

https://steemit.com/steemit/@barrydutton/hey-steemit-what-was-your-1st-blog-post-you-authored-on-here-and-why-post-it-community-engagement-series-e-2

I think it is unique and functional! That's why I have come up with a few different series' that I run weekly!!!

I am excited actually to do it so I can engage more with you, as a community and resident on Steemit -- and learn more about you!


The first post you gingerly step out and do on here, as a Minnow, likely says something important about you and I want to listen to you, and learn WHY you chose that topic!

I had an hour's worth of comments typed back and forth with @dwinblood over the March 5th and 6th 2017 period.

One comment that led me to start thinking about doing this series can actually be found right here on our friend @thecryptofiend's post about a topic I focus on regularly and had talked with him on this the night before he made this post:

https://steemit.com/steemit/@thecryptofiend/would-greater-comment-voting-help-the-community#@barrydutton/re-dwinblood-re-barrydutton-re-dwinblood-re-barrydutton-re-dwinblood-re-thecryptofiend-would-greater-comment-voting-help-the-community-20170306t161827635z


ENGAGEMENT COUNTS IN ANY COMMUNITY!

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Pls. Resteem / Share the link on others pages where you feel you can and invite people. New people! Older Steemians! Everyone is welcome!

Try to engage and help others, we are SteemitFamily I always say!!

Thanks for reading, have a nice day.








If you liked this blog post - please Resteem it and share good content with others!

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Some of my recent blogs:

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https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@barrydutton/bitcoin-about-to-break-usd5k-or-usdbtc-in-canada-smashes-past-usd-6220-mark-or-usd-4980-usd-or-usd179b-crypto-market-cap-usd27b

https://steemit.com/steemitcampfire/@barrydutton/steemit-weekend-camp-fire-series-weekend-18-we-are-steemit-family-come-visit-around-the-fire-with-your-family-every-weekend

https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@barrydutton/forget-my-litecoin-post-yesterday-about-smashing-past-the-usd70-usd-new-ath-s-it-went-over-usd91-today-lol

https://steemit.com/life/@barrydutton/travel-with-barry-e-4-the-western-canada-roadtrip-continues-or-mountains-and-vancouver-area-beaches-bc-lifestyle-british

https://steemit.com/steemit/@barrydutton/facebook-wallet-fridays-show-me-yours-or-e-13-or-that-s-right-think-on-that-a-new-series-for-outreach-and-to-give-fb-the

https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@barrydutton/dan-larimer-video-interview-on-epicenter-recently-this-is-a-must-watch-listen-an-in-depth-look-chat-about-his-past-crypto-life

https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@barrydutton/bitcoin-in-canada-smashed-thru-the-usd6k-usdcad-mark-today-9-30-am-est-aug-31st-2017-for-the-1st-time-usd6115-is-the-high-today

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Please note -- I will have limited internet access for awhile -- so PLEASE do not be upset that I cannot reply right away, or to everyone. I am dealing with some changes, and will have limited time online and will be happy if I get a few blog posts up a week.


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I have only done a few and being prodded to do more by folks I respect and enjoy the interaction with has helped ;-)
https://steemit.com/introducemyself/@weetreebonsai/here-i-am
https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@weetreebonsai/fear-of-crypto
https://steemit.com/money/@weetreebonsai/time
Learning the tags and using them has been difficult at best but with my last one I think I did ok and told more of my story.
https://steemit.com/life/@weetreebonsai/energy-slowing-down-to-regain-my-strength
Thank You for prodding!

I have enjoyed seeing your name and comments.

It is good there is some prodding and that is a great reply by you today!

I am UV it for you now, as a result of it being so well done!

Is english your first language?

I am not sure. Just heading out of the house in a few mins....

I was raised with 3 languages as a first language. English/Spanish/Choctaw, words from each were intermingled, and why it was hard to relearn English.

Wow!

That's sweet!

One thing nobody should every have to apologize for or feel bad about -- is knowing other languages!

I don't know others and the fact you know spanish ( IDK what the 3rd one is LOL!)

means you know the 2nd most popular language in the whole world, that is great!!

The battle for me is still English, it is a hard language to have to relearn. Choctaw is part of my american indian culture.

I personally think you are doing perfectly awesome!

TY for LMK back about the last dialect/language there!

Thanks for commenting!!!

it was 3 months back , i have to scroll down my blog :)
upvoted ,,its good idea

LOL, I know many of us feel the same, I will wait for you!

(:

My first one was nothing special but the one I did today talks about Steemit and it's future. A video to bring more community discussion.
https://steemit.com/video/@bitdollar/why-i-think-steemit-will-be-the-next-wave-of-social-media-and-technology-vlog-on-censorship-experimenting-on-steemit-ideas-for#comments

My first post:

https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@bashadow/hello-already-found-somethings-now-saying-hi

I wanted and needed to know about the posting environment here on steemit. I found the Etiquette Guide from a blog/post that @thecryptofiend did.

I used it as my introduction post so that I could get in my head wrapped around what the proper etiquette was and to let people know how I would deal with the points it brought up. I have not/nor will I post a picture of myself, like the etiquette guide advises.

@barrydutton, Here is the link to my first video https://steemit.com/nature/@katedansyng/my-companion-bird-gandolph I posted it with a friend helping me. I have since started a series of food preservation posts, and a couple others. I love the interaction with other Steemians. Thanks for asking.

Great reply!!

Thanks for the comments today!

My first post was a landscape photo for the Steemit PhotoChallenge, but I added a nature interpretation of how to read that landscape. And I identified a wild edible, pennyroyal mint, and explained how I harvested and used it. I've written a lot of posts about foraging here, since that first post.

I chose that as my first post because the PhotoChallenge gave me a topic that I knew at least someone was interested in. I think for new folks, trying to find a place to fit in is the hardest part of getting and staying involved on Steemit. Communities will help a lot, I think. And that's why I got involved in the SteemTrail initiative.

-- some good advice there, for sure, you are right!!

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Also -- see you around the

#SteemitCampfire

if you have time, the post is up now on my page, runs all weekend, every weekend!

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