Using SteemGigs To Promote Bitshares & Bitshares Dex In New Ways By Amplifying The Community Efforts Of @officialfuzzy's Beyondbitcoin.

One our core motto on #steemgigs is connecting steemians in need to steemians indeed. Accomplishing this now, is way easier than when we first started because we now have a growing community of more than 300 steemgiggers. It has not been easy in reality but another motto is: We are too lazy to quit! 

Ultimately, doing things manually has not been easy. Also, not yet being able to incentivize steemians, who keep believing in #steemgigs, by at least supporting them on their #steemgigs posts, makes it even harder. Being that steemgigs hasn't generated enough steempower yet, it has not been so impactful in its effort to give support to steemgiggers and to steemians who have been passionately footing the cause. 

However, we have tried to resteem posts and have posts automatically tweeted on the official steemgigs twitter account. When possible, we have managed to give out SBDs to support SteemGigs-Inspired initiatives and contests that are inspiring.

Though things have been slow, the amazing thing is that the vision is great, as broad as can be and we have really made amazing community impact as well as real world impact. 

Nothing as pleasant as seeing steemians, even newbies starting out to build dreams and bringing their entire vision onto the steem blockchain, mostly because they found it is possible, upon finding #steemgigs. 

Too, steemgiggers have been selfless. They know that at times, where they aren't capable of offering help financially, they can offer their expertise. Nothing as pleasant as reading the chats on the Dev-Request channel on the steemgigs community and seeing steemians, even newbies looking to bring a vision, that they never thought was possible, to life and the selfless developers willing to hear requests out. 

Ultimately, nothing as sweet has being part of history or of another person's accomplished dreams, courtesy of our expertise. 

Everyone has something to offer!

An entire steem library has been built and dedicated to steem, courtesy of @drpuffnstuff's resilience and this is something we at @steemgigs celebrate or is it the charity efforts by @inphiknit, @thatsweeneyguy etc. They are helping @steemgigs by doing these powerful acts under #steemgigs and we manage to accomplish steemit growth in the process.

The most powerful thing though, from all this journey is our steemgigs community!

Nothing like having a community where you know everyone's expertise. Nothing as powerful as knowing the true wealth and depth of your community. This is where we stand out! 

We now have & know almost 1 person in every industry or niche who is an expert and a steemian. This is our pride!

The question now is, "what are we doing with this power?".

For now we are simply using this power to amplify the voice of others. We don't have steempower yet, however, we have community power and we simply want to serve as testimony, that community power, is power as well, especially if we move in one voice.

More recently, @steemgigs has been giving out bounties and rebates to help resound the effort or initiatives and projects that we believe have quality essence, in terms of benefiting steemians and not too long ago, we ran a contest for "the best whaleshares tutorial" giving out some Beyondbits token in the process.

There is more room for endeavors like this for @steemgigs and the steemgigs community, as @officialfuzzy needs more hands in running his projects, one such growing projects being the Bitshares hangout. 

There is no doubt that Bitshares DEX is a valuable asset and as it doesn't have a solid blogging platform, steemit can easily become its voice as well. 

Bitshares is practically a sister blockchain to steem, created by @dan and co-owned by @officialfuzzy. Too, most of the founding community members of bitshares formed the base for the steemit community, same as many of us are beginning to pick interest in EOS and are likely to form the core, of its members when it is full-blown. 

This being the case, @steemgigs will like to put more effort in promoting bitshares by means of our expertise. You will have notices that the Bitshares DEX is decentralized and has a special community feature build into it, that enables token creation thus, the ability to bring dreams and entire visions to life, yet it is under-utilized even by steemians. This is mostly because of the deep learning curve involved with using the exchange. 

For instance, with the probable bitcoin split on August 1, an easy go-to exchange should be @bitshares DEX, since it is decentralized and allows the control of one's keys but there very few resources on the search engines breaking these details down, for the benefit of crypto-novice steemians. 

This is something we can adjust simply by amplifying the efforts of @officialfuzzy; his weekly beyondbitcoin hangouts.

@officialfuzzy also has other interesting projects like WhaleTank, which simply gives steemians the ability to bring their enterprise to life by gaining exposure before whales and probable support, in terms of investments. This has already helped several projects come to life, the more recent ones being Hairshares by @nepd and Looking for Niche Coin (LFNCoin) by @rawbinhutt.

On the side, we will be adding initiatives that will spur creation of content, to explain the Bitshares DEX, using the amazing expertise of our steemgigs community.

Talks are in place to make this seamless and there will be updates to this effect in the coming weeks.

In the meantime, we will like to use this post to recount some of the open "#steemgigs" still requiring servicing with bounties offerable by @officialfuzzy:

1. Still has around 18 hours before post pays out: 

• [BeyondBit Bounties] Whaletank Needs CrowdSourced Intro & Outro! [Rewards Worth over 700SBD]

2. Still has more than 6 days left before post payout: 

• [BeyondBit Bounties] BitShares Open Source Hangout #31 Needs CrowdSourced Intro/Outro! Rewards Worth 600SBD! 
• [BeyondBit Bounties] Give BeyondBitcoin Whaletank Hangout #217 CrowdSourced Intro/Outro -- Contest Rewards Worth 600+SBD!

Above are 3 posts, each containing its own hangout soundcloud recording. All that is required to do to participate in each of the 3 steemgigs above is simple. 

You simply need do an INTRO and OUTRO, then insert the soundcloud recording found on each of the posts above, in between the INTRO & OUTRO, then add some edits to put in the right attribution as required according to the posts above and upload to www.youtube.com. Then do a steemit post about it! Basically, you will be submitting 3 entries, if you are participating in all three.

Note: You always add #steemgigs as one your tags, so we can resteem it too!

Find sample winning entries from previous contests here!

Other ways to earn whaleshares token is simple. Simply join one of the BeyondBitcoin hangouts as a participating audience or take your community and projects on to the hangouts.

Here are upcoming such #beyondbitcoin hangouts & dates:  

• [Beyondbitcoin RSVP] Whaletank Hangout #2178- 8/04/17 - (Over 1000 Steem in Awards!)
•  BitShares Hangout #32 - 2017-08-04 - OpenSource Agenda [WhaleShare/Beyondbit Payouts Powered by SP!]

Instructions for how to join in:

1. Set up Mumble as seen in this video: 

video credit to: mumble

2. Use the parameters below to sign in:

 Label: BeyondBitcoin
Address: 149.210.187.155
Port: 64738
Username: Enter your username
Password: w0rldCh@NG3rsUN!t3 

For IOS users, use this to set up Mumble:

 https://steemit.com/beyondbitcoin/@surpassinggoogle/this-is-how-to-join-beyondbitcoin-hangout-weekly-using-mumble-or-mumblefy-for-ios-devices-certificate-error-fix-inside 

Every steemgigger and steemian; this is an avenue to practice your expertise. Win or no-win, you would have practiced your expertise and played your role as a steemian indeed, while earning from your blogposts as you will eventually have to participate, with a full blown post like is the case with a #steemgigs. 

Don't forget to document your eventual experience as well after the contests end, in testimonial #steemgigs.

For questions about #steemgigs, simply join the SteemGigs community and look for @surpassinggoogle to tell him your expertise, so he can add your roles on the discord server for future #steemgig needs!

For questions about Whaleshares, join the Whaleshares Community!