RE: WHY I AM INVESTING IN STEEM & POWERING UP! (video)
Hi @benleemusic. I'm an indy journo from New Zealand. I reached out to Karl Kippenberger, Tom Larkin and Shihad as a whole and pointed them towards your Steemit posts. I think Shihad and every artist that Tom manages should be setting up Steemit accounts ASAP. Almost the entire indy media sphere is now on this platform thanks to my and others efforts this week (you can read more about this on my blog if interested) and its clear to me that Steemit offers probably the single greatest opportunity to support indy musicians of anything else I can think of. I do believe Steemit is the Facebook killer and that Steem dollars will go up exponentially in price in the coming years. However I also recognise that some people like me, struggle to pay the rent every month and just need an income source and Steemit provides that too. Being an Aussie, I assume you probably know Tom and co already. Wanted to let you know I'd reached out to them, so you can reach the other way. They would be a fabulous addition to Steemit.
Thanks,
Suz
Hi Suz! So exciting isnt it? Im not sure if I know the Shihad guys personally but Im sure we arent too many degrees apart through the Aus/NZ music world. Id love to a video interview with you around the theme of the future of journalism and Steemit if youre up for it. Lets keep spreading the word! x
Oh, totally! It'd be my pleasure. You can come chat to us (and get your work upvoted & resteemed) on a Steemit-support Discord server I've set up, here: https://discord.gg/YPxZeZR
So far we've recruited Lee Camp from Redacted Tonight, Elizabeth Lea Vos from Disobedient Media, Caitlin Johnstone (very popular Aussie independent journalist), Martyn Bradbury from The Daily Blog (one of the biggest news blogsites in NZ), it looks like Jimmy Dore is on his way as well, the Keiser Report was already here, and a host of other indy media people have reached out to me too and are on their way. Very exciting stuff. We are collectively advocating to our audiences to start up Steemit accounts and helping them to do so.
Shihad are wonderful people, I've been supporting them for 25 years and they've always been wonderful to me, in particular Karl (their bassist) and Tom (who lives in Aussie and has an artist management company, works with a ton of Aussie artists) and it seems like Steemit could be a really huge solution for both struggling and established musicians so I'd love to work with you on spreading the word and let's push this to the world!
I assume you've already checked me out but if not, here is my intro post
Talk soon,
Suz