IMPORTANT NOTICE
The Silver Bloggers are a bunch of "crazy wise", life-loving bloggers who have "nothing" to do with precious metals.... however, you never know!
With quite a bit of life experience, we have now begun exploring all these new technologies around blockchains. In our early years, the "only" use we had for a chain was to lock the bicycle...
Today, in our Silver Bloggers' Community, we bring together young at heart like-minded humans and 'old souls' who are still connected to their inner child. It's not really about counting years. Though, to be a Silver Blogger you have to be a pre-millennial, most of us are from the famous Generation X.
The silver threads, besides the love of sharing our "wisdom," are:
- an interest in learning more about blockchains, crypto,
- asking lots of "dumb" questions
- a compulsion to write about our life experiences - as a "library" for our children and our children's children
- musings and memories of the life we have lived - the happy ones and the sad ones, the long ones and the short ones
- planning for life after work - from leisure and travel to second (or third...) careers
- hobbies that can supplement income and what keeps "non-"working people busy
Hello and ...
...welcome, dear reader! It's a pleasure to have you over to check out what the Silver Bloggers have to offer. Our doors are open 24/7 - so when ever you feel, you're always welcomed in our hive-iverse.
After some years of traveling through unending constellations, we thought it a good idea to put the basics of "What being a Silver Blogger is All About" into one place. That way you do not need to reinvent the wheel and go the long way round to meet "wise and mature" Hiveans. :smirk:
Please - take this guide as a collection of information and links to all the "what to do's" as you may only start finding your way around the Hive. It's not ment to read in one go.... choose whatever point you wonder about, and with an easy click on the menu links go there as many times it may needs to "get the message".
It's written to answer some of the why's about blogging and regularly engaging. Learn about the awesome support you can get if you decide to stay to the end. Not forgetting the most important thing we are all looking for here... To Have Fun Together !
The in-blog-linking works only on the Peakd interface, for now. To use it there, just overwrite the domain name part in the address bar of your browser with peakd.com ! |
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STARTERS
MAIN COURSES
DESSERTS
STARTERS
Subscribing
How to subscribe to the Silver Bloggers' community is easy... just go to @hive-106316 and click the subscribe button. Done!
But why would you subscribe?
- Because it's about silver? Ummm... wrong.
- Because this is the jive thing to do lately? Errr... no-no.
- Because you want us to curate your post to Content-Curators? It's good to have dreams...
- Because you want the up-votes on your blog? Nope, wrong again.
- Because you want to share the others' life experiences and yours with them, and have a mature exchange? Yes, that's us...
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Following "Mother"
Most of us call @hive-106316 our mother account. Assuming you are a subscribed Silver Blogger (and even if you're not), please follow our "Mother". That way you're sure to get all the infos, updates, challenges, curation posts - as well as brilliant subscriber posts that we re-blog, because they'll appear automatically in your feed.
It's easy, here's how..:
Go to @hive-106316 and check the steps in these two pictures:
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Picking your Silver Name
Just for fun, we started offering everyone the chance to choose a silvery name and become a proactive member of the community. All you need to do, is to cheerfully, enthusiastically and, if you can, wittily, participate and every now and then write a post in our community.
Speaking of the silver name: it shows in the list of community subscribers (on PeakD) next to your username. Picking a Silver Name shows that you are a member of our community and it is not connected to your personal Hive username. Most importantly, it doesn't overwrite or change anything and nada.... it's just showing that you like to have fun!
For the How2 get your personal silvery member name... just click this colored text!
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MAIN COURSES
Blogging
Over the last years, blogging has become the in thing to do... sharing your ideas on whatever subject you feel like. Being able to monetize your content in many different ways, you can become your own boss. We think that crypto-blogging on a blockchain is on the way to becoming a standard.
This means there won't be a centralized entity deciding if you are eligible for some income. On Hive, the readers and writers interact directly with each other, supporting with crypto votes. As more and more join and like (up-vote) your original content, your crypto earnings can become an income.
Don't forget that, realistically, the blockchains and Web 3.0 are still in baby slippers... but just the fact that we're working together on the future of a decentralized version of the internet, keeps most of us here. Some of us write everyday, while others rarely share an opinion. Each to their own.
Come on over and join in on the future with us?
If you really are interested in sharing your wisdom on the internet, our community is here to help everyone. A place you can enjoy mature engagement and communication, so we can all get the best out of crypto social blogging.
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Proactive Interaction
Reading the Silver Members' Blogs
What else would a community be for, if not for members to read and support each other. We may be a niche community, but still it's the place to start meeting and greeting people in the Hive. It's a place we can build up our "family" and grow bigger, together.
Please, Comment and Vote - on the blogs just read
Engagement is the most important way we get to know each other. Showing like-minded members that you are there and interested in what they do. A vote earns you and them, crypto, but since the votes on a post do not show if someone has read the post, a comment is always the best way to let an author know that you did.
Following our Community Trail
There are other ways you can support members of the community if you can't get to everyone, and that's by following the community voting trail. You can do this using https://hive.vote by loggin in via the hivesigner page. Then go to "curation trail" and add hive-106316.
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Challenges
BOM - Blog Of the Month
It began with BoW (blog of the week)... but a topic once a week was just a bit much for all of us. So in January 2022 we changed to our Blog of the Month - BoM...
The winners curation posts to the topics we had:
- Silver Threads among the Gold
- Embracing Silver
- If you could go back in time and change one thing in your life, what would it be?
- What's with your name?
- That one childhood memory that lives with you
- Memories of things dear to the heart
- My dream retirement destination
- Has the pandemic changed your future plans?
- Thirty years: three things that shaped my life
- My happiest memory
- Halloween Memories
- Tell us something about yourself that sounds like a lie, but it's actually the truth
- Looking back to look forward: How will your New Year 2022 party plan shape up against your 1992 New Year's celebration?
- Bucket List: 2022 goals
- Love - After all is what makes the world go round, not so?
- Why I'm a Silver Blogger?
- Sandwich Memories
- Celebrations
- Recycling
- Things, or memories, from (y)our youth that today's youth will not understand or have seen
- Musical Memories - one song for each decade - at least four - of your life
- Where were you when...?
- Travel Back to Make that Change
- Lesson from the School of Life
- New Years' resolutions 2023: What happened??
- March Madness
- Education
- BOM is back!
Silver Prompt - Our recipe for coping with Writer's Block
Because we want to keep our Silver Bloggers active, the team comes up with initiatives other than BoM to encourage subscribers to post in the community. We also know that deciding what to write about can be hard. Writer's block is a thing, so sometimes we come up with a writing prompt.
How to join a Silver Prompt
- Write something on or around the topic
- Write 100% original content of at least 300 words
- Post in the Silver Bloggers Community and use #SilverPrompts as the first tag
- Have fun
Our eyes Curation over Prizes
Although there are no prizes for this initiative - depending on how things unfold, that could change...or not - there is a bonus (more below). And a selection of these blogs is always included in a special #SilverPrompts curation post.
The Bonus
Your blogs may be selected and recommended to the OCD team for additional support. Plus: Other Silver Bloggers and Hiveans get to know us all a little better.
Our Silver Prompt Picks so far:
Pop over and have a look at the awesome Silver Bloggers creations around these...
- Silver Prompt 1: Cryptocurrencies and retirement
- Hobbies, crafts and retirement
- Scents memories
- Photo memories
- Creepy Stories
- Silverlions working the LEO Threads
- Silver Bloggers Dreemport Collab #1
- Silver Bloggers Dreemport Collab #2
- Silver Bloggers Dreemport Collab #3
- I Want To
- Things that Make You Smile
Memoir Monday
And not to forget, there was this awesome Initiative by our Silverblogger Advisor Silver Scribe Eric Vance Walton... where he was posting a question every Monday for 52 weeks, prompting anyone who wants to join in to write their own blockchain-based memoir for future generations to read!
To not overwhelm this post with all the links, you may check a lot of excellent posts under the #memoirmonday tag, or go and read all his prompts directly, with a search on peakd.
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DESSERTS
Silver Pin
On the Peakd.com interface, one of the doors into the Hiveiverse, there is a way to create a badge. We did exactly that: as a token of appreciation for our proactive members. If the @badge-106316 account follows you, you have the potential to wear that Pin on your profile page... All you have to do is to follow it back and the badge icon will appear. Just like that!
What this pin does
- It shows that the account is a proactive Hive user and a member of the Silver Bloggers's community
- Clicking on it takes you to the badge's account feed
- In this account feed, you can find all the posts of the Silver Badge holders (All means all... not just the silver ones!)
What this pin CAN'T do
- Cook your dinner...
- Write a post for you...
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Curation
Curation is a word that crops up all the time on Hive. The dictonary tells us this:
This is what the Silver Bloggers Team does with #bom, #silverprompts and the #silverbloggeroftheweek. It's what we all do when we...
Upvote & Reblog
But that's not all, the reason that our mother account reblogs (as far as possible) subscribers posts that jive with the community focus means that you get more eyes on your posts. We believe that results in more votes and engagement which is the foundation of crypto social.
It's why, in addition to this, we also publish the Silver Bloggers Community "Smorgasbord" which is a selection of stand out contributions to the community.
- Smorgasbord August 2021
- Smorgasbord September 2021
- Smorgasbord February 2022
- Smorgasbord May 2022
- Smorgasbord June 2022
- Smorgasbord 03 July 2022
- Smorgasbord 18 July 2022
- Smorgasbord August 2022
- Smorgasbord September 2022
- Smorgasbord October 2022
- Smorgasbord December 2022
- Smorgasboard January 2023
- Smorgasboard February 2023
- Smorgasboard March 2023
- Smorgasboard September 2023
- Smorgasboard December 2023
- Smorgasbord - Special Edition - 3rd Anniversary
- Smorgasbord - 1st Edition 2025
- Smorgasbord - 2nd Edition 2025
- Smorgasbord - 3rd Edition 2025
- Smorgasbord - 4th Edition 2025
- Smorgasbord - 5th Edition 2025
- Smorgasbord - 6th Edition 2025
- Smorgasbord - 7th Edition 2025
- Smorgasbord - 8th Edition 2025
- Smorgasbord - 9th Edition 2025
- Smorgasbord - 10th Edition 2025
- Smorgasbord - 11th Edition 2025
- Smorgasbord - 12th Edition 2025
-Smorgasbord - 13th Edition 2025 - Smorgasbord - Special Edition 2025 - SB Chronicles Prompt #1
- Smorgasbord - Special Edition 2025 - SB Chronicles Prompt #2
- Smorgasbord - Special Edition 2025 - SB Chronicles Prompt #3
Source of Background Image - GerAlt on Pixabay / "Twisted" with GIMP
Our Community Curation into OCD
Earlier it was mentioned that we recommend outstanding contributions to OCD. When we do this, we believe the creators - you - deserve greater rewards, more than our account can give. Our relationship with Original Content Developers allows us to do that for as long as we are part of their programme - its a win-win.
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Support
The Coffee Corner
In many of our blogs you're invited to our community's coffee corner, which is on Discord. What a name for a place to unite? Ha, kids hein?!
There is nothing to be afraid of. It's easier to join Discord, than to leave Fakebook behind, especially, when you are already handling a Hive account with all its keys and security stuff... And easy to join: just check out our other How2 blog Unity with Discord which shows you the way.
Over there we can chat about everything without using our RC (resource credits). It's the place to ask - and answer - questions you may have about Hive and/or discord.
MORE Links to help you around the Hive
Since Hive is a Web 3 blockchain, when you start, there is a lot of stuff to get to know and understand. For some idea of the what's what and the how's how, check out the following links, which give help and good advice...
- The Newbies Guide Account on Hive - by newbies-guide
- Ultimate Hive HTML Post Formatting Guide - by yaziris
- 3 things Newbies should do in their first week on Hive - by livinguktaiwan
- No Votes, No Attention - Thinking of Giving up? - by slobberchops
- A "How2" on exchanging HBD to Swap.Hive on tribaldex - by mondoshawan
- Why and How People Abuse and Plagiarise - by hivewatchers
- ListNerds: Getting Started Guide - Silverbloggers Request - by therneau
- How to get Hive notifications - Meet Friday Bot - by fionasfavourites
- Drawing HBD and converting it to FIAT - by fionasfavourites and lizelle
- Ten Tips to help you make progress - by consciouscat
- Hacked? How to check and change your vesting route - by themarkymark
- New Interface for the Internal Market - by mahdiyari
- Hive Post Downloader - Notable Win Win ! - by thekittygirl
- Understanding Hive Keys - by alex-rourke
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Okee dokee, that's almost it for now...
Hopefully you have found all the information you where looking for. If you have questions or suggestions, we would love to hear them. For that, please leave a comment here or in our coffee-corner and we'll get back to you as soon as possible...
A huge THANK YOU to all and everyone who gives their free time to our community. Especially to the writers of the awesome blogs mentioned in this menu. Without you all it wouldn't be the same for sure. Thanks for being awesome, to every single one of you!
Have an excellent day!
Never Ending Story - As things develop in communities and the blockchain chain, we will keep updating and reviewing this menu as needed. |
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Come and join our Silver Bloggers community 
...here on Hive and in our Coffee-Corner on discord!
Thank you for your awesome sauce!
Tipping or delegating is a way to show that you appreciate the work . It works even after a contribution has gone through the seven days of voting, and thus the opportunity for gracious "giving" is over. Another plus - that way no one can ‘steal’ your given support, not even the often ego-selfish pointless Down-Voters. We thank you for all the support you give, anywhere !
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