Photo by Collab Media on UnsplashBlog of the Month is back, after taking a break to join the Dreemers for a super Dreemport/ Silver Bloggers Collaboration where we were given three writing prompts - Retirement, Generations, and Passive Income.
The diverse responses showed just what an eclectic group our Silver Bloggers are!
A big thank you to @dreemsteem and her team for hosting us, it's been an absolute privilege meeting and interacting with other Hivers and Dreemers.
I would encourage you to navigate to Dreemport and enter the world of Dreemers where you will be welcomed with open arms.
Growth
The Silver Bloggers Community continues to grow and now stands at over 1,7k members. We keep on getting new delegations - a big thank you as this boosts our account and in turn our voting power.
If you want to know more about how we thank our delegators, pop over and read this.
If you would also like to delegate, there's a nifty table to help you at the end of this post. Alternatively, you can do it from your wallet.
Before we get to our May theme, we especially think of our dear @fionasfavourites whose husband has been in ICU for the past 10 days. Please keep them both in your thoughts and prayers; hugs and strength to you Fiona, and healing for your man who is fighting the battle of his life.
May theme:
This month's theme -
Education
I'm not sure if I'm just talking for myself, but I believe many of us have no idea which subjects the current curriculum in primary education covers.
Unless you still have children at school, or help your grandchildren with homework.
Do they still use that word? Is it allowed?
One has to be so careful to be politically correct in this day and age, or you could find yourself in the naughty corner of a courtroom.
I imagine teachers educators are not allowed to do that to scholars learners in school these days?
So, back to this month's topic:
We want to hear about Education.
- The Future - what would be your ideal curriculum for the next generation?
AND/OR - Call back the Past - funny stories or life lessons learned.
Back to the world we live in today, Spring has sprung in the northern hemisphere, while here in South Africa, we are still basking in the sun, but the intense heat has made way for glorious balmy golden Autumn days.
To enter
How to enter your post for the Blog of the Month (#BoM) - the criteria remain the same -
- Posts must be in English and obviously centre on the week’s theme or topic.
- Prose must be a minimum of 350 words. If it’s a photo or graphic essay, the photos must be your original work and preferably with some sort of back-story to the images.
- The blog must be posted in/from our community
- The account must be a subscribed Silver Blogger
- Use #BoM - blog of the month - as your first tag.
- Share the link to your entry in the comments of this post.
Consider following the #BoM tag so that you can easily find, upvote, and comment on other contributions.
Reminders:
The updated community description is a guide to content we welcome in the Silver Bloggers' Community. Folk who post content that doesn't jive, will be encouraged to find an alternative and more comfortable space in which to play.
and
To keep things fair: the same person (account) may not win twice in succession.
In summary, the last edition's winner may enter, but the contribution, like those of the judges' panel, will not be eligible for a prize.
Deadlines and prizes
The contest closes at midnight GMT (also known as UTC) on Thursday 18 May 2023 and the winners will be announced later the following week.
The winner gets
- 50% of the liquid rewards from the post announcing the winners. His/her account will be set as a 50% beneficiary
- 10 Hive sponsored by the Silver Bloggers community
- 10 Hive that @lizelle sponsors
The runners-up win, too
Thanks to our founder Silver-Blonde Lizzie, the runners-up will also receive 5 Hive each, and thanks to our LeoThreads account, @silverlions.leo, the runners-up will each receive 10 LEO tokens.
All prizes will be sent directly to the winners' wallets.
Would you like to sponsor a prize?
If you would like to sponsor a prize, please comment on this post and tag one of the team: @lizelle, @fionasfavourites, @coquicoin or @tengolotodo or ping us in our Discord channel.
Theme suggestions
If you have topic suggestions, please tag one of the team (@lizelle, @fionasfavourites, @coquicoin, @tengolotodo) and leave them in the comments?
Themes can be anything you like within the Silver Threads preferred for this community. Content creators will, of course, make of them what they will.
Last words...no pressure
If you're not a herd animal and don't do well being pressured - by topics or deadlines, that's ok. The #bom and #silverprompts are intended to nudge and inspire. So even if you don't get your post done by the cut-off time, we will still consider it for curation (no prizes, though).
Speaking of curation, we always look forward to reading your posts, and manually curate and recommend good content for support from OCD.
The team also regularly picks quality posts and showcases them - read the most recent selection HERE - and do keep an eye open for the next Silver Prompts Selection.
Threads
Threads led to the birth of our @silverlions.leo account, so take a peek at that POST to learn what this is all about and start earning LEO and GOSH tokens.
Each weekend we have a POLL open on threads to choose the Silver Bloggers Author of the Week
where we're asked to vote for the winner, who stands to receive a hefty reward.
Your name could appear there at any time, so start voting.
If you have a problem with voting, please chat with us in our Discord channel or tag one of us in that post comments
Finally
We would love to get more eyes on this post and all community posts from - @hive-106316 - our Silver Bloggers account. This is why we make a point of reblogging your posts. Please do the same?
Please Follow and interact with @hive-106316
Assuming you're (and even if you're not) a subscribed Silver Blogger please follow our "mother account". That way you're sure not to miss any updates, challenges, curation posts as well as brilliant subscriber posts that we re-blog.
It's easy to follow the mother account: here's how...
Go to @hive-106316 and check the steps in the two pictures here:
