The Steemian Magazine - a Monthly but Kicking Off with the Best of 2016-2017
Welcome to The Steemian Magazine
This is a monthly publication with the very best articles available to our editorial team. The e-Magazine will be published on steemit but is directed primarily for off the steemit.com platform and onto other platforms.
The Publication will be slickly produced with a ‘Turn the Page Format’, clickable links to access different categories of content, editorial to explain steemit.com, editorial to explain the Blockchain and the steemit interaction. It will also include some advertising/advertorial.
DESIGN:
We are using the latest in e-Magazine design capabilities. The use of this technology also allows for great functionality.
We are planning on making the magazine fully downloadable such that it can be enjoyed off-line as well as on-line.
Much as The Steemian is a promotional tool for steemit.com, it is being put together with the central belief that it should be able to stand on its own two feet as a publication which people will enjoy reading and will want to subscribe to. Clearly, subscriptions are one of the core metrics. There will be metrics analysis built in to the publication.
CONTENT:
Content is where you come in – everyone!
We have an Editorial Team which is waiting for your suggestions. So, what are the most memorable posts from the past twelve months?
Editorial Team:
@thecryptofiend, @shadowspub, @denmarkguy and @uwelang
I am incredibly grateful to each of these fine steemians for their willingness to support this project.
So … What was it about a post that made you think “WOW!”
We want those post links and we want them NOW!
Please feel free to suggest your own posts. We welcome that. Keep it sensible is all we would ask! We are hoping to receive something in the region of 500-600 suggested posts. We have to filter that down to about 45-50.
As well as the standard post/article content we hope that you will provide us with material for a photography Gallery and an Art Gallery; maybe a music session too if we can work it in.
PLEASE SEND ALL POST SUGGESTIONS TO THIS EMAIL ADDRESS:
and put the post category as the subject of the email. This is a dedicated email address so just the category please. If you have posts you wish to submit from more than one category, please send a separate email for each category.
Multiple posts in one category in one email are fine.
Because there is so much to do in formatting this Magazine, we need a little help from you.
Attach to your email a ‘Word’ document in which you have copied and pasted the entire post. (No comments or footer, or funky signatures (!), just the body of the post). Time taken – 20 seconds.
Complete this form (time taken: 2-4 minutes, depending on describing the post):
Please try to do all of this form filling in Arial 12 pt. No italics/bold.
Types of Posts/Articles
The selection of posts will purposefully avoid any contentious subjects such as ‘Pizzagate’; religious animosity; any NSFW; etc.
At the same time, we do not want to present a bland view of steemit.com – there is no point in promoting something which we are not!
Volunteers
We need some volunteers who would be happy to be on stand-by should there be anyone who is having trouble, completing the form and sending us the information we need.
Please simply respond to this post to notify us of your willingness to volunteer or email us at [email protected]
LAUNCH (FIRST EDITION)
The launch of The Steemian is planned to coincide with the first anniversary of the opening of the steemit.com platform (April 29th 2017) and will include the best articles from the first twelve months, hence a bumper First Edition.
The First Edition will comprise about 50 articles, two Galleries: Art and Photography plus about 8 editorials and advertorial pieces. We hope to include a music section as well.
It will also include various ways of engaging our readership such as a quiz, a puzzle and such mental exercises.
DISTRIBUTION
The vision is that, as much as this will be a ‘Steemit’ Production, it will be designed and content profiled towards non-steemians.
It will be a publication which all steemians will be proud to send to their friends, family and social media contacts.
It is also intended to get the publication into such outlets as Amazon, eBay, and the like.
PRODUCTION
The latest e-Magazine technology will be employed. Clickable links will open article ‘in situ’. Another click will scroll the article up back to the previous click.
The navigation of the Magazine is currently being enhanced through the generosity of @rigaronib who is developing unique icons for the navigation buttons.
Follow @ebryans for Content:
Very cool. I am very happy to support this although my time is becoming more limited as the year progresses. I suspect given the amount of talented and helpful people on here there will be many volunteers to help. The hardest part is likely going to be deciding which content to include given how much great material there is from the last year or so of content.
I very much understand and I know that you do keep an eye out as best you can - I lioke knowing that if you see something awry, you will bring it up - as I said before, a mentor - like a Chairman!
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Thank you @steemtrail - your support is very appreciated. In these times of rewards being a little lower than the base of a budgie cage ... we must eep pressing forwards. Have a great weekend.
very nice announcement post @ebryans and honoured to be part of the project.
Honoured that you feel sufficiently confident to join this small but exciting team!! Some time we should just get a bit of an update - I worry that I do things and then seventeen things later, I assume that you are all across things - a very bad habit! Thanks for stopping by and commenting.
well, the joys of leadership. Sometimes you just have to stride out and then remember to catch everyone up LOL
Cool!
Thank you @riskdebonair, get those memorable posts rolling in - [email protected]
Hi @thesteemian, I just stopped back to let you know your post was one of my favourite reads and I included it in my Steemit Ramble. You can read what I wrote about your post here.
Very excited to be part of this initiative! Tracking down and featuring some the best "wow!" content created by the community will also have the potential to share with the world the best of what we do here!
Exactly, thank you my friend, looking forward to developing some ideas in The Hub!
This is a very cool initiative.
You have some big names on board already, and any of their posts would surely be a good fit for this.
I'll be looking forward to reading the first edition.
Thank you @trevor.george, we are excited about it though we could have done without the structural reforms to the platform going on this month! Please dig out your favourites, we need to be receiving these 'best posts' from the past 12 months.
Thanks for including me - I am flattered to be part of this team!
Have you considered translating it into other languages?
Or maybe open the publication for sections in Spanish, German, Chinese, etc ...
This is a very good point you make - thank you.
The functionality is supposed to be within the production software of the magazine, though I have yet to test it out.
Do you have experience in multi-lingual productions on the web?
I am always wary of online translations - they are notoriously ... weak!