#thealliance is one big happy family, and it is our duty to uphold our standard as quality curators and creators. Keeping that in mind as you read the rest of this, do remember that it is the engagement that makes us great and thrive as a community. Don't know who your family members are? This profile follows only core (the first family) members and it's affiliates, see if you're keen on them. @syndicates (the 3 new families) follows all of our extended family members and supporters, be sure to stop in and see about them. Our strength is only as powerful as the community in its combined efforts to support each other. We're doing awesome, keep the consistency coming! Huge shoutout to those that are taking steps toward helping us grow faster by delegating SP or contributing some of their hard earned SBD/STEEM to @thealliance or any of our other support accounts. You know who you are :)

Friendly reminder that every Sunday, we are having 'meetings' and would like people to attend. We will start at roughly 11 a.m. EST this time and go until whenever. The purpose is to familiarize yourself more with your fellow allies and go over any changes or suggestions people may have. We're a family, and want you all to participate in the growth and steady flow of Allied activity and really just get to know each other.

I would like to personally give a special thanks to a couple of accounts that have been supporting our fantastic allies along with us. Those accounts are: Share The Steem Love - @stsl (ran by @bmj) and Tye Dye Firepower - @tyedyefirepower (ran by @armshippie). Why? Because they don't have to support any of you. They CHOOSE to and as such, should be given at least a pat on the back and thank you. So from @thealliance, I say, thank you for being supportive of our family, we really appreciate it!

Momentum is steady and growth continues in the @syndicates. Please be aware for the people that want to join #thealliance, this is where you need to go. Click one of those links up there to join our discord channel to be considered. It is required that you write an application post that entails three things; where you heard about us, why you want to join us and what you believe you can contribute as an ally. What we are built upon is the family unity and ENGAGEMENT that having small unique groups entails. You are still an ally by becoming syndicated, and are still welcome to join the main hub once you have been accepted. We're getting more selective, and if you need help becoming a good quality contributor to the platform, we can assist you there as well.

As the vast majority of you all are well aware of, @thealliance & @syndicates both run a featured member series. This is to highlight particular members of #thealliance that have been putting in the time to support other members and have been consistent in their work and engagement on Steemit. This week, our fantastic core member is @edthecanadian, do stop in and show him the respect he has earned and deserves!

#thealliance tag is very useful to keep track of allied posts and give credit where credit is due. I'm sure there are some great posts from our family that didn't use our tag, but since this is @thealliance... These next few posts were chosen based on the value they have provided to Steemit users in reference to the platform as a whole. Thank you for writing them!

This next group of posts are ones that are just enjoyable to read for anyone and should be 'noted'. Just really great quality posts that we here at #thealliance love to see. Please enjoy the ones we have selected here and give them a pat on the back!

In this next section is a selection of posts that are astounding to just look at. Eye candy for the brain's visual delight. It is a group of top-notch pictures and artwork by members using our tag in their post. We hope you gain the same awe struck sensation as our eyes did upon seeing them.

It would appear we have a good handful of poets in our family's wings, so I would like to start spotlighting them in their own section. Please enjoy the various forms of poetry like sonnets, haikus, free-verse poems and just beautiful reflections of the heart, mind and soul portrayed by the written word.

Now typically, in this particular curation corner, you would find the 'Lost & Found'. All of these posts have gotten skimmed right over without a second glance. I know we go through so many posts, it's hard to keep up, but, it is imperative we support **ALL** of our family members. These are posts from people that support you too, so please, let's all make them feel more appreciated as they 'Steem On' with us and @gniksivart presents 'Buried Treasures'.

So, over the week, we've been discussing a good way to implement more engagement in a fun way. We have come up with a new game of tag. There will be no special 'tag' or 'category'. The winner will get a vote purchased from @sneaky-ninja by @enginewitty for their most recent post. If @sneaky-ninja has already visited, another upvote bot will be chosen. The rules are:

Thank you for taking the time to read this everyone. I do hope people visit the articles and profiles and see about our family. Any questions anyone may have about anything or contests you want to promote, feel free to post those in the comments as well.

Everybody loves seeing this big galoot NOM NOM NOMMING on your posts. With the advent @thealliance's support profile, he has now been given training instructions to become a curator. If you would like to follow his trail and earn curation rewards by following him around, tap the pretty gif! NOM NOM NOM!!!