So, utopian social media is ready to meet the world! The SteEMPOWER revolution is ready.
Apologies for being the old fart who plays devil's advocate and suggests otherwise.
Here is the post with well over a thousand endorsements: Steemit Marketing
Well done to the herd.
The self-congratulations being passed about are premature.
Here's why:
I, like everyone, am new to Steemit but I am not new to social media - there are structural faults. See this: Functionality Fails
Rather than anyone being grown up about the situation my post was pulled from the platform and I was accused of being belligerent, see this: Responses and Accusations
Why not get your ducks in a row so that you maximise value rather than go off half cocked? Do you, the early adopters really think that people are going to put up with this kind of stuff? There are 112,000 registered accounts. Great! How many are properly active?
I wrote a piece which outlines a few failings: Business start ups and it is down to us. For a post about a business it received a lot of attention!
Ned and Dan still have work to do if they want to realise the potential of this platform.
I might well get shot at for this comment but having managed a reasonably big public company and having worked in digital marketing, I can see enthusiasm insisting that the sun has risen at a false dawn. I am a fan of Steemit and am posting on 100% Steempower option BUT ... don't minimise the opportunity. The tech guys have got a lot of work to do.