Okay guys! Here we are with the weekend Double Episode of the Fresh Five. I did cheat a little bit, over half of the 10 selections in this list are from today, only a couple are more than 24 hours old. But there were some compelling people in here today that I had to include!
With 10 Steemians to highlight today, I am not going to be giving you a blurb about each one. I'll share the picture from their blog post and the name/link to their Intro Post. Figuring out if you want to visit them is going to be up to you. You know I am drawn into a lot of these posts from the title or the name the user has chosen, so these folks do stand out for sure.
I do have a new plan for the way forward that will allow everyone to welcome new Steemians with me and also help me a little bit with time management, so stick with me after the 10 for that update.
Let's Get to Today's 5(+5 double feature!)
I'm Melissa Mcewen, Freeland Spider Farmer, writer, leatherworker and coder.
Hi my name is johnny, a half Korean, Half Brittish 20 year old sharing my photos with the world..
Foreign policy expert joins steemit.
I draw the crypto future world chapter 1 - the steemit space highway.
Hi Steemit! Here's to Beginnings.
Who am I, and What am I doing Here?
What's Your Awkward Super-Power? (Hint: mine involves lots of !!!!)
Hellow Steemians!! Read a little bit about me
Hello steemit-world, a fresh new underwear joins the party!
My Steemit experience - Day 2 - Introducing myself
There You have it four our Double Feature edition for January 6-7!
Please join us on Discord! That's right! The Fresh Five now has our very own Discord Channel. We live on the Welcoming Committee Server, where @inquiringtimes has been generous enough to give us a channel of our very own where members of the Fresh Five can come and get to know each other, and maybe meet a few more established Steemians with similar interests. Check it out!
The Fresh Five Discord Chat!
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(https://discord.gg/z8G7q7S)
Yet another New Road Forward
So at 2:30am last night as I was struggling to sleep an idea came to me. A possible road map for the future of the Fresh Five.
I have for some time considered starting a curation trail for people to vote behind me on Steemauto, or Steemvoter. The problem I have had with that, on a personal level, is if I have people trailing my account, and I vote on something that I am going to nominate to Curie, my voting trail could accidentally put the post over the maximum payout for Curie review. That is something I do not want to do for sure! Plus you guys don't need to be voting on some of the stuff I vote on.
The point of the Fresh Five has been retention and engagement with new Steemians. The engagement part is where I think the focus needs to be moving forward. Sure, we will reward the introduction post. But should we really highlight people who may never engage with us as many have done?
I think I have a solution to both problems, and a big boost to my time commitment issues.
In the next few days, I will be creating a independent account for the Fresh Five. I will be delegating the majority of my free Steem Power to that account to give it a little bit of a vote of it's own, and more specifically, a slider.
I will set up a voting trail for this account, of which my main account will be following to give the new Steemian the added boost from my delegated power. I also invite all of you to join the curation trail if you so desire.
My job will be to find the new Steemians, give them an upvote, and comment on their post welcoming them to Steem and inviting them to the most recent engagement post from the Fresh Five account.
I have attained the services of @aussieninja, who has been following the Fresh Five pretty much from the beginning to help me out from this point. Based on the new Steemians who respond to the comment they receive from the Fresh Five Account, and come to the engagement post, he will choose a group of these folks to highlight in bi-weekly or so highlight posts that will be pretty similar to the current Fresh Five format, but is out there more as a reward for the new Steemians who engage with us instead of being granted with no effort from the new Steemian.
I think this new format will give us a good balance of rewarding new Steemians for putting together a great introduction post, as well as offering extra incentive for users who come and engage with us.
I'll be retweeting the Introduction post from the Fresh Five account soon, so be on the look out for that, and of course your follows of that account would be much appreciated.
Thank you all for the continued support. I hope that this is a iteration of the Fresh Five idea that is sustainable. We'll see how it goes. Retention and engagement, as long as we keep those ideas in the forefront, we are good to go!
Hey there everyone, I'm Martin aka uber-dragon featured in this post! I'm excited to meet you all and would like to give you the opportunity to ask me questions either replying here or in my post.
As a form of appreciation of being featured and as a little bonus I'll tell you a little something here I didn't mention in my own post. My nickname 'uber-dragon' was created after I had used the name 'dark-dragon' for a long time. I've always thought dragons were pretty cool creatures and 'dark' just seemed to sound nice with it and fit thematically. Later on I've switched to 'uber-dragon' because my former name is really popular name and is already taken in a lot of places by the time I discover them. In the end that might be a good thing though, because 'uber' kinda fits my love for both the English and German language and adds a more personal note to it.
Alrighty, hoping to hear from you!
Thanks so much for including me in the Fresh Five! I've found some new, interesting people to follow here. I think your idea of creating a focused account and encouraging engagement is a great one! I'd be happy to be involved. My best to you! :)
aww, very happy that you decided to put me on this list :)
hello followers of mikepm74 and hello to everyone else reading this!
It's great that this community is willing to help out newbies (thinking of this, where does that "plancton" and "whale" and other fish-like comparisons came from? I'm reading this words here very often..) :)
I'm a bit overwhelmed of all the possibilitys here and don't really know where to continue, after making the first step with the introduction post, but I think time and lots of readings and talkings will help :)
I will make a discord-account and join that channel, so I'm looking forward to see some of you there too :) thank you
for those who haven't already checked out my introduction: my main-addictions are psychology and many things that have to do with technologies (for example that chip on my bathroom-door that tells me if there's someone else on the toilet, while I'm still in my room - check my introduction if you want further details)
let's greet some newcomers!
Also the idea of an independent account for fresh5 is a good idea! if you and @aussieninja need any help let me know!
Thanks heaps @filotasriza! That's super nice of you! Thanks for the offer.
you are welcome! i got really addicted in fresh5 :p
It's so great! I love it and I think it's super important for the platform as a whole... it took me a little bit before someone noticed me (and it was Mike of course) and then my life on Steem was amazing! I can't wait until this new process is up and running!
i am here about 10-11 months with a 5 month period of absence. i came one month ago back and the main difference i noticed is that so many new people came in. Back then i used every day to at least welcome 2 newcomers but when i came back and tried to do that i got annoyed...
Most of the posts with the intro tag were anything else but intro :P Many people may came but most of them were abusing the whole system and then i randomly found when i suggested to a friend of mine to enter steemit the message he got from mike and fresh5. Instantly i got excited and when i have free time i try to greet most of the people in the fresh5 posts!
That's great! And now new people won't go through the same frustrations that you did because you're here to help! It's so good... I'm really excited about the future of this platform. It sounds so different to how it was even a couple of months ago.
it was different from every aspect, fewer people, price of 0,07$ few initiatives while now everything has increased and i am glad that everything is getting better, the majority of people are really good ones, i kinda had and have my doubts as i don't want to be like facebook and instagram and bring these people over but only time will tell :P
anyway we can talk for hours anything you need let me know either by steemitchat (same name) or by discord ( i just joined the fresh5 channel) and have a good day!
@mikepm74 hi i am new user of steemit.
Yeah! Super pumped for this everyone! I can't wait to meet all the new fresh faces... I've been around for 5 or 6 (or 7 or 8) weeks now and absolutely love this platform, so if you have any questions, feel free to hit me up. There is a lot to learn and I'm happy to share.
Hello to all the new people around here.. I'll come and say hello to you personally.
Cool idea, guys. I definitely think the idea of spreading the load is the way to go, especially given how many newbies are around here (myself included) -- which doesn't seem to be slowing down much. I think you'll eventually have to enlist more helpers to continue engaging discussions -- but that's a good problem to have. I'm always looking for people willing to ramble at, so I shall continue to keep an eye out for the fresh 5 posts. Big ups.
Mike. Hope you had a great Christmas and New Year. I like your idea for the new path forward. It people like yourself that give me faith in this platform.
Hey! Thanks for featuring me here! Stuff like that is really great, especially when you're new here, steemit and the kind of awry search function make it hard to find interesting people to fill your feed with the things you like and enjoy. Let's hope I can give something back to this community. :D
YES!
GREAT IDEA FOR THE NEW ACCOUNT :)
I am happy I am witnessing this grow up into it's old little slice of Steemiverse!
Thanks for the feature! Super excited to be here and sharing my photos with the community. Lots of plans in the future for more photo posts from the past and in future! Shoot me a follow and im sure you wont be disappointed :)
You are totally awesome, thank you so much for the work you do here,
You are a motivator of creativity !
Nice to see the fresh five back!