Hey everybody! I’m very happy to be here on Steemit. I’m a digital media consultant and journalist living in the San Francisco Bay Area. I write about careers, entrepreneurship and business at Inc.com, Entrepreneur, Readwrite and BusinessInsider, among others.
I’m also an an investor and advisor at several Silicon Valley companies and have worked for multiple marketing agencies and startups over the years.
I started working primarily in tech in 2006. Before that I was a longtime TV and Radio news reporter in Southern California, starting in 1994.
I worked most prominently as a TV reporter for the ABC affiliate in Santa Barbara, KEYT Channel 3, from 2000 to 2005. As a general assignment reporter, I covered everything from floods and fires to festivals and city council meetings. Here is a live shot of me from back in those days:
I also worked as a Morning Show Producer, TV Video Editor and Afternoon Radio News Anchor.
I’ve always loved writing, but more specifically I enjoy bringing information to people who need it or who had not known it before. That’s what sparked my love of TV news earlier in my career, and continues to feed my interest in writing and reporting even now here on Steemit.
After moving back home to San Francisco in 2005, I started working at the different TV stations in the Bay Area, and it wasn’t long before I got a job as web editor at NBC Bay Area. Since then, I’ve done stints at Village Voice Media and Venturebeat along with the work at startups and agencies.
I love informing people about shifting technology landscapes and new startups in fields ranging from medicine and education to sales and marketing. I want to share advice on how to run businesses better. I’m here on Steemit because I want to share those stories with the community here.
One of my proudest accomplishments is my series of posts for Inc.com about entrepreneurs helping underserved communities in the U.S. and around the world. I want to do more stories like that and share them here.
Steemit feels like the perfect place to tell good stories, with its huge community of interesting people.
Thanks for having me Steemit!
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Continue doing good post.
Kind Regards,
@lytieulong
Hello, John, and Welcome to Steemit.
Steemit is essentially a publishing platform, so you've come to the right place. With the efforts of various writers and content-creators, this platform will grow to unimagined heights over the coming few years.
As a journalist, you probably do not need much advice re doing your work. Nevertheless, I'll add my generic pointers re starting out on Steemit.
Below are a few basic points of advice re posting on Steemit.
1 – Longer posts are more lucrative than short posts. If you make a post of 20–30 paragraphs, it's more likely to earn rewards.
2 – Include some photos, images or graphs, to complement the text.
3 – Make sure the text and photos are formatted properly, so that your post looks attractive and appealing.
4 – Be yourself.
5 – Be interesting and informative.
6 – Create quality content. Steemit is intended to be a platform of quality content. (You will see many insignificant posts with meager content and no quality. Most of those of posts [called “shitposts” by Steemit whale Stellabelle] will earn few rewards and soon pass into oblivion.)
7 – Get online and start curating. Read various posts, comment on those posts you find interesting, and upvote those posts. That’s the best way to attract followers.
Hope this helps for now. Good luck, and Full Steem Ahead!
welcome
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Oh yea, I have upvoted you and followed you. Many blessings from @introbot & @bycoleman
Appreciate the resources - thanks @introbot!
@jboitnott, A warm welcome to Steemit. This is a great community and I know you will have a great time here.
I'm from Nigeria and I've made a lot of friends in Steemit, and I'm glad to meet you too.
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Thank you.
Hey thanks for that! I will definitely keep the password private - thank you!
Welcome aboard @jboitnott, glad you made it to the platform, it seems you caught wind of something that I truly don't know why all of media is not diving into head first. Excellent, welcome aboard!
Thank you! I agree - this is a place that most of the media out there in the world has yet to discover. I love communities on the cutting edge and this is certainly one of them.
Welcome to Steem. Hope you enjoy it & stick around.
But...take a little (maybe quite a lot of) time to fully understand how it all works - the more you understand, the easier it'll be to find your feet - especially how the upvotes/rewards works. Test test test.
It's a great community, but you'll have to be patient if you want to get the most from it (and don't expect every post to get as many upvotes as this one, at least not to begin with - sorry).
Good luck
Totally. Thanks so much for the feedback m-ssed-t. I will definitely be reading a lot so I can understand more.
Welcome to the Steem Community @jboitnott! Great introduction post! I would love to feature it in my weekly curation blog if you don't mind!
You can check out the @MinnowSupport Project, a community of over 17,000 Steemians on Discord Chat where you can interact, chat, network, and learn with other members of the Community!
Yes I'm definitely interested. Please feature it. :)
Welcome to the Steem community!!
Thanks journey!
Welcome. We look forward to ur posts.
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