We should, in general, start encouraging debate and discussion over a give subject of our distilled 'winners', rather than simply posting and advertising that the post itself exists.
-I think this is great, it is a way to give the community more dynamics and make it more fun and interesting. We in STEM-Spanish formed debates or virtual meetings every week but due to the problems of steem during the last months this has been lost and it has cost me a lot to recover it, since people show little interest due to the low price of the currency.
Could we look for a way to get your attention? ... I believe that the economic incentive is always a way, but currently we do not have the resources to do so, maybe we can get more delegations or large accounts that can join our voting path and so publications can increase their value ... it is a way to encourage ... but it has not been easy for us to get support after the march of utopian. :(
Another idea that I have always had in mind is to conduct an interview with each member of our community and thus give it more prominence. This type of interview must be audiovisual and we can upload it to youtube or dtube, if they are people who speak Spanish we can create subtitles for the video ... as well as the scientific podcast on our discord server we can record them and then create excellent material audiovisual.
steemSTEM is one of the oldest projects in steem and has become a community that has given recognition to large users on the platform, those users who started publishing with our label and were getting recognition and were part of other excellent projects such as for example @freedrika, @mcfarhat, @svemirac to mention any of them. Then you can say that it is one of the most known and respected projects and that currently does not have much support but I am sure that soon more people will come to be interested in this project and contribute their grain of sand.
The economic incentive does not even count IMO. This is not how one builds a strong community. Of course, having more support is always good (and big news may be coming soon), but money should never be the motivation #1. We want to onboard people who are happy to share their passion with others, and for that, we need user's engagement (and retention).
I will think about it. We started with interviews of the team, and stopped there (I think everyone got his/her interview but me ;) ).
I agree that money should not matter, but unfortunately due to this low price of currency this activity has decreased a lot, that is why seeking social media promotion is a good idea and continue promoting good STEM content. But my idea of giving more prominence to common users who publish weeks after week is an excellent idea. Podcasts are a fundamental piece for this, which will motivate them much more and, therefore, this may be the beginning of new ideas that will emerge over time.
On Steem, activity is inherently connected with money. However, I believe our 'core' users do not care much about that aspect. At least, I am hopefully correct :)
@lemouth I didn't interview either =P
But really, if we're going to do YouTube versions of interviews, there should be at least some kind of following on youtube first. A youtube account would need to be fostered into something people would want to actually know about these people. And as much as I'm perfectly willing to take part in that or podcasts, my... well, my voice is boring and I'm clearly not comfortable in my own skin, so I'm hardly an Alex Jones when it comes to presentation! I'm the last person we'd want leading such a thing.
Anyway, I was also going to say what lemouth said. It's very apparent that the vast majority of people do not enjoy blogging. This is why short-form sites like twitter, instagram etc flourish, because people don't want to put the time in to writing or reading. That's the inherent flaw in depending on money incentive. It's helpful for people trying to pay the bills, but its a false following. We only want that minority (which, globally, is still many millions) who have a maintained passion regardless of incentives. That's why @steempress is such a sound idea, targeting the core industry of bloggers out there
@mobbs and @lemouth Of course, we must have a YouTube account and promote on all social networks and our Steem accounts. And when I refer to the interviews, it's not just about the Steemstem board of directors, I mean the recognized users of our community who don't belong to the board of directors and give them the prominence that they feel loved and motivated. And so each user within the Steem ecosystem knows each author more closely.
I have my audiovisual editing team as you can see in the reports in Spanish and I can put them at your disposal, of course, the only disadvantage is that they do not speak English, in that case I would have to be one of you to designate a moderator and we will edit audiovisual content