MY STEEM STORY - By @detlev
MY STEEM STORY
Everyone has a story – and all our stories have something in common… we all started from nothing and knew nothing. People want to hear stories. They want to hear OUR stories — they want to know who we are, where we are from, what we are doing, who and what we love, what we have learnt and where we are going. People also want us to hear their story! Being a part of the Steem network is an individual journey for every single one of us and through this initiative we will share our stories not only with all who are already here – hopefully inspiring, guiding and informing them… but doing the same for everyone else in the world too. Through our stories we will prick the curiosity of those who have not yet arrived and illuminate and widen the already open doors to our one in a million blockchain.
We invite and encourage each and every one of you to participate and share your stories too! You can find the "how to" details at the end of this post.
MY STEEM STORY - BY @DETLEV
Where my Steem Journey began
Back in 2017, I was sitting with a guy at the CeBIT tradeshow in Hannover, Germany and he said
@detlev you have to join steem, this is cool!
Luckily, we did a picture from that meeting and as I'm a bit visual orientated, this story will get some more pics.
Lounging at CeBIT - @uwelang and @detlev
So, some days later I did my Introduceyourself post and there you may read about me.
I spend already some years in social media and networks like TSU.co or Empire-Avenue, where you express yourself by posts and other activities. There was as well Google Plus and Twitter where have a few connections since many years. So another blogging platform was an interesting idea.
My initial challenges & how I overcame them
As I'm a writer and consultant, the blogging part was easy. The tech-guy in me had a lot fun on the blockchain stuff but OMG - this was not easy to understand at the first time. But with a bit of database know how and after a lot of reading, chatting and more reading the steem stuff got way more clear and logical.
My Steem blockchain knowledge
As I just said, I love learning new things and find my way of using this. We all have to stay with "Life long learning" and therefore you can spend some time with steem.
Learning is king
It is my idea, to do more on steem as I really enjoy that "being a free speech heaven" concept.
As one of my outcomes from learning, I started the #BeerSaturday challenge way back in 2017.
Join the latest week 141 here https://steemit.com/hive-187719/@detlev/beersaturday-week-141
With this activity I like to help people with some prizes to create more valuable content while as well having some fun. Writing about BEER - the third most drunken liquid on earth -
I accidentally created a worldwide community of BeerLovers which now has as well a real community here on steem at https://steemit.com/trending/hive-187719
Giving back the learnings
Since this community is so awesome, I decided to give back a lot of my learnings and even more - a lot of the fun to that community. With this in mind, they got me on the stage at SteemFest 2 in Lisbon, where I was talking about the #BeerSaturday challenge and the idea behind all this. As the people liked it, we did a pub crawl the evening after the speech which was due an idea of @arcange - another damn cool steemian - and ended up with 30 to 50 people drinking themself through the Saturday night and a bunch of very nice pubs in Lisbon.
More shared knowledge
The steem community loved this and we did the same at SteemFest 3 in Krakow and as well at SteemFest 4 in Bangkok where I have to send a big pack of Love to @roelandp who is doing all this.
We do the same knowledge sharing with all the #SteemMeetupAachen events that we host in Aachen where the exchange of knowledge compared with some good food and a few beer.
The last invitation to the #SteemMeetupAachen 8 is here https://steemit.com/meetup/@detlev/steemmeetupaachen8-join-a-huge-european-group
We love GooglyEyes 👀
There is a lovely challenge ongoing, where I joined a few time. Today my friend @brittandjosie remind me to add this challenge here, as I was a lucky winner for a few times. It is so much fun to stick this eyes on whatever and create a face.
Here is one of my last one with the title "👀 #GooglyEyes 📷 meet Brad Bit by @detlev 👀" from 2019.
Steem Training
You never know where you end up, whenever you start something you like. As I like to explain things on stage and all the Steem stuff, the German Blockchain Institute was calling and asked me to do a #SteemTraining in Stuttgart Germany. So, I couldn't resist and started to collect a lot of infos into a huge powerpoint, as they like to have thin running for aroun 3 hours.
To make a long story short, here are the first two videos from this evening in January 2020 Steem Training ONE - Das erste Video mit Intro und 3Speak and another one with Steem Training TWO mit TravelFeed und mehr Steem Infos.
If you like to have more Trainings like this in Germany or somewhere else, just connect with me and we will work something out. Means I like to help you with me slides or even show up at you place.
My Steem favourites
Let's split this into a few sections.
Steem software
Sure, I love to work with SteemPeak as this is so much more intuitive and even more powerful to work with. All the templates and snippets and tools and and and - you have to give it a try. But there is more, I as well love the SteemWorld where you see so much statistics from your account.
Beneath this the different games like #steemcity #splinterlands and the upcomming #BEERpong are my favs
Steemians
Oh, damn - this should be a long long list and I have no clue where to start.
Sure there are Steemians like #buzzbeergeek @aggroed @oracle-d @solarwarrior @jeanpi1908 @rollie1212 @arcange @martibis @elizacheng and many many more from the #BeerSaturday and #SteemMeetupAachen and the #SteemFest
My golden nugget advice
Like in real life and as seen on my beloved island "Caye Caulker" in Belize.
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Steem is not a "Get rich quick" system as it is all about the people you meet and interact with.
Start your communication with anybody you may meet here. Someone with a cool post, a critical information, a nice picture or one from the wonderful #powerhousecreatives
My Steem hood & its peeps
@louis88
@pundito
@mammasitta
@liznomadsoul
@beerlover (my alter ego)
To Conclude…
This is a more picture driven – My Steem Story! - from @detlev
Hope you enjoyed it and hope we meet one time!And to keep the fun going, and as per the general instructions below… I am tagging the following five people to join in too! (but if you are reading this without being tagged… you are also welcome to take part… just check out the instructions below!)
ok here goes…
@buzzbeergeek
@mammasitta
@louis88
@steevc
@elizacheng
ALL THE PHC MEMBERS PARTICIPATING IN THIS INITIATIVE HAVE SET 50% OF THEIR POST REWARDS TO @STEEM.DAO
HOW TO JOIN IN:
GENERAL INSTRUCTION:
Create a post titled: “My Steem Story – By @your.user.name”
The first three tags in order are to be as follows:
#hive-114105
#powerhousecreatives
#mysteemstoryONLY make use of the cover image provided in this post.
Keep the same formatting and placement (intro, footer
instructions etc.)Replace the personal photo with one of your own.
Tag 5 people to join in on the initiative.
Share your post to twitter.
Share your twitter link and Steem post link in the comments of @jaynie’s “Steem Story” post.
POST INSTRUCTION:
Write a post which shares and gives adequate response to the following headings:
• Where my Steem Journey began
(How you first discovered Steem and your very first thoughts and impressions “as you landed”.)
• My initial challenges & how I overcame them
(Share a bit about the difficulties you faced at the beginning, whether it was navigation, post creation, engagement – whatever – how you resolved them and how differently you feel about it now)
• My Steem blockchain knowledge
(Give a little bit of background on your blockchain knowledge when you began your Steem journey versus now.)
• My Steem favourites
(What are the things you do mostly on the blockchain – is it blogging, vlogging? What front ends do you like to make use of and what content genre’s do you generally focus on?)
• My golden nugget advice
(What advice would you offer to those that are unfamiliar or new to this space)
• My Steem hood & its peeps
(Share a little about the communities you belong to, discord servers you frequent and perhaps a handful of the awesome people you follow)
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Wow! This takes time to read but flying over some chapters I can feel your passion for our community and this since the first day I met you here and also in person. I respect and value our friendship! Keep going! I had to slow down for a while but never gone 🌺⭕️💜
Yeah, I have days where I don't do anything as my job needs all the attention.
But most important for me - I only do some posts, whenever I really "like" to do something. And most of the time, this is a great way to "de-focus" from all the work topics.
Alles klaro! Es gibt ja auch so viele platforms und manchmal all too much 😂☺️
Agreed! There is a lot of passion in this one! Loved it!
Ah that's why we have BEER tokens and Beer Saturday! ❤❤❤
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and soon BEERpong and the BEERbank
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Hehe you love your alter ego. Weirdddd
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Awesome to read your journey, yes many have come from a variety of platforms where we all met years ago, learning this platform was a challenge to find the right flow.
You found !BEER it is one of the fun loving places to share, wish I remembered to photography more often. Heat down here does not give me time to think before 'glugging' that delicious liquid down after a hot day. Oh you will see me again soon.
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Fun is most important for me and with this, it drives my activities....
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Happy to read all this, very good maid post. I give my upvote 😋👌🤗 I was like read it.
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It's been quite a journey for all of us. You have done more Steemfests than me, but I'm happy we managed to meet up elsewhere. It's cool that some of the old Tsu gang are still around. I still have not met @uwelang in person. I may do one of these posts soon.
Me too... Still have yet to meet @uwelang in person yet...
Time really flies... It's been more than one year now since three of us met...
Really hope we will be meeting up again in the future... 😀
I hope so too. We shall have to see what future Steem events there will be. Hope all is good with you.
Did you saw that somebody is doing a new TSU??
I did, but is it just the name being re-used? I think Steem has the right sort of idea and hope it can continue as I don't really want to have to start all over again.
same thinking here. But I will do a check on that whenever I have the time
Would be awesome if you did :) (unless you already have haha!) I am still busy reading through them all...
Thanks for the mention and the tag... To follow the guidelines for this challenge, it will be easier if I write with my laptop... And not on phone...
It's been really awesome to have you and many many more in my Steem Journey...
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You are more than welcome....
... love to read your story.
Awesome that you managed to jump on board, thank you! I am looking forward to sitting down and reading as many of the entries as I can tomorrow. It is going to take some time - as we are hitting about 80 submissions already haha!
Yeah, it took me a while on this Saturday morning at the kitchen table.
Thanks for the idea and all the great people.
I am sure it did!!! And it is my pleasure. Really thrilled to see how much everyone is enjoying it!
Hello dear friend, i loved the #mysteemstory and i want to say i love You vibe and energy. You are the steemitbeerking and with the steemtraining and the steemitmeetups in Aachen very appreciated. True that this isnt a get rich quick sceame. But you forgot one important thing......... You are mister googly cause you won many times.
Thank you for being a steem friend and hope to see you soon, and why not apply at the bus stop in powerhousecreatives?
Britt
Ohhh, yes - let me grab one of mine and add it to the post....
great idea dear @brittandjosie and a little job for this evening
done and a !BEER for your idea
I agree @brittandjosie! This one was filled with a LOT of passion! Loved it!
99 bottles of beers on the wall
99 bottles of beers on the wall
take one down pass it around
98 bottles of beers on the wall .....
...98 bottles of beers on the wall
take one down pass it around
97 bottles of beers on the wall .....
Great story, @detlev! Wow, I had no idea your beer project had been going since 2017. That is very cool, and you have built a fabulous community that spans the entire globe. Thanks for all your contributions to Steem and helping to keep it fun!
You had quite a journey here! I liked your beer contest and I think I had participated once or twice. As for the googly eyes, I remember seeing that photo with the sandwich on my feed. Memorable!
You are so welcome to join the #BeerSaturday again as we are growing the challenge with some more prizes and big votes.
Very glad you joined. What an incredible Steem story. You have done a lot more around here than most. Give us a chance to catch up ;)
I do this with and for the fun. And yes, I like networking with people.
Lol thats what alm the super influencers say...we know youball do it for the feeling of absolute power. 🍻🍻🍻
Loved reading your visual STEEM story - and I love Caye Caulker as well! I took this in Feb 2017 - and would love to go back again.
I've been there ages ago in early 90ties as there where not much development. But I will never for get this and plan to go there with my kids again
So great to see you sharing your story @detlev, thanks. 🙏
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Thanks and a !BEER for you....
What an absolutely fantastic contribution to our initiative @detlev!!! Thank you so much for this! You really have had a fascinating and very fruitful Steem journey! As for your #beersaturday challenge... I cannot imagine why anybody wouldnt love it haha!!!
...and yes... @arcange IS a damn cool Steemian!
Thank you for sharing your story with all of us!
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