TheDashGuy
Well-known member
Evening Folks,
So first and foremost, get ready for a wall of text like you've never seen before on this forum. And get ready to read until your eyes explode because this idea is just too juicy to skim IMO.
So where to begin?
A while back @Tao started pushing his Dash Nation campaign, and I didn't think too much of it, but after months of watching him stick to it, I can see the vast potential in this campaign. I'm not saying anyone needs to "belong" to the Dash Nation or anything as some intend to make it out to be, but more so a way to tell others that you wear the Dash badge with honor and would go out of your way to actually support Dash, and support the financial revolution we all so desperately need. With that all being said, I've made a few complaints in the past, quite a few times, about how common Dash users aren't exactly "involved" in the day-to-day routine that some of us are involved in.
This has nagged me since my first days of supporting Dash and I just can't seem to let it go. Some people seem to think it's just that our community is so quiet, so "laid back" and so "professional", and for a while I accepted that notion and tried to mozy along and do my thing. Now mind you, I have been around Bitcoin since early 2010, I have seen the hype trains, the pump n dumps & the Mt. Gox's of crypto, I have seen many businesses go belly up, get hacked and watched the general reaction to all of these things, and the entire time this was happening, I have been taking it all in, and seeing where it's headed.
After years of being an avid Bitcoin & Litecoin supporter, I moved into Dash December 2015 and let me tell you one thing I know for a fact: Dash has THE most out of touch communities than any other top 5 crypto, and it's a turn off to everyone. We have too many "bagholders" and not enough "enthusiasts" and we need to fix it.
Q: So how do we fix "the lazy bagholders" you say?
A: We fix it by taking the "concept behind why Tao thought up Dash Nation" and I say this like I did, on purpose so we can get the main point out of this, which is not "dividing the Dash community further" as some have mentioned, but actually to empower anyone from that 15 year old kid who stumbled on Dash on Reddit, to the 55 year old financial investor, to "actually get involved", almost as if this was a REAL financial revolution. (sarcasm intended)
Q: What do you mean? How do we empower random people to support and push Dash?
A: Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach him to fish and feed him for a lifetime.
Meaning: We need to supply the "how-to" guides, the handholding processes, the tools, the webpages, the content aggregators, the social media training, the dash training, Dash media kits, social media content examples/usables, elevator pitches for every single vertical Dash would be needed in, and so and and so forth.
Q: How do you plan to deliver all of this wonderful content to "new users?" What "tools will be provided"?
A: Not going to bore everyone while attempting to paint a picture about what I wan't to do, but the just of it is going to be: digg.com + berniesanders.com + google branding strategy + decentralized freedom + Dash Nation ideals = DashNation.com/teams/socialmedia or Dashnation.com/teams/developers (each would be a decentralized team/group of volunteers of the community who check into that website every so often and help us push whatever content is there.
Q: Why is our current setup good enough? Aren't the Dash forums enough?
A: We need an upgraded setup because our main problem is the lack of effort put into onboarding newbies from the FIAT world to the Dash World or Bitcoin to Dash and so on, we have very little roadmaps for these people, let alone the social media army needed to spread a project such as this as fast as it needs to spread... The Dash forums just don't provide what we need to organize, thus we should create the tools we need. I believe a guerrilla marketing campaign operating like a grassroots political campaign with awesome content aggregator + campaign platform website would greatly relive the onboarding stress for new users, and empower them AND current/old Dash enthusiasts to get on board with the day-to-day operations of Dash, without actually needing approval from anyone, and nothing more than a Twitter or Instagram account.
Anyways, i could go on and on and on about this idea of mine, but I wouldn't have thought it up without @Tao pushing DashNation so often, so thanks for the inspiration @tao!
I didn't come here for feedback as much as I did to get my ideas on paper, and share them with the community, I will be building this platform out regardless of what I'm asked or told I can or cannot do, so lets just make that clear right now.
I am going to do my best to build a campaign that actually encourages people to get involved and do anything and everything they would like to do so. I hope you guys can all join in and help out and give me some good ideas, but please refrain from trying to de-rail this thread as I want it to be focused on "building out decentralized community run team of Dash supporters" and nothing more, we aren't here to discuss whether you like the idea or not, just ways to build this out as massive and as quickly as possible, lots of content will be needed to educate people on how to help out, as well as how to use social media, we can extrapolate this concept from DashNation |Social Media to |Developers, |POS Solutions, |Hardware Team or whatever
Also, will be making every single "department' their own avatars and signatures as an effort to get people a little bit excited about "Joining DashNation" (Just to be clear anyone is free to join/ affiliate with Dash Nation as its just a concept about 'getting involved' and we love everyone!)
Thanks for reading this through! Sorry I can't help but run off into tangents.... working on it.
Anyways, here comes the tags.
@TaoOfSatoshi @AndyDark @Solarminer @oaxaca @eduffield @fernando @naruby @Proteus @elishagh1 @InTheWoods @Joshua @hobbskevin @lisacheng @GreyGhost @Macrochip @babygiraffe @ericsammons @fulltimegeek (come back bro!) @itscrazybro @orangecycle @Raptor73
Keep tagging people for me, I'm curious to see what a large majority of the Dash ecoystem thinks of such an endeavor..
TLDR: Help me fix Dash on-boarding on community participation, via DashNation & a few other marketing/website ideas.
edit: Logo ideas
edit2: Sketch of possible HTML skeleton of the site. (Digg.com + BernieSanders.com + Grassroots focused content)
So first and foremost, get ready for a wall of text like you've never seen before on this forum. And get ready to read until your eyes explode because this idea is just too juicy to skim IMO.
So where to begin?
A while back @Tao started pushing his Dash Nation campaign, and I didn't think too much of it, but after months of watching him stick to it, I can see the vast potential in this campaign. I'm not saying anyone needs to "belong" to the Dash Nation or anything as some intend to make it out to be, but more so a way to tell others that you wear the Dash badge with honor and would go out of your way to actually support Dash, and support the financial revolution we all so desperately need. With that all being said, I've made a few complaints in the past, quite a few times, about how common Dash users aren't exactly "involved" in the day-to-day routine that some of us are involved in.
This has nagged me since my first days of supporting Dash and I just can't seem to let it go. Some people seem to think it's just that our community is so quiet, so "laid back" and so "professional", and for a while I accepted that notion and tried to mozy along and do my thing. Now mind you, I have been around Bitcoin since early 2010, I have seen the hype trains, the pump n dumps & the Mt. Gox's of crypto, I have seen many businesses go belly up, get hacked and watched the general reaction to all of these things, and the entire time this was happening, I have been taking it all in, and seeing where it's headed.
After years of being an avid Bitcoin & Litecoin supporter, I moved into Dash December 2015 and let me tell you one thing I know for a fact: Dash has THE most out of touch communities than any other top 5 crypto, and it's a turn off to everyone. We have too many "bagholders" and not enough "enthusiasts" and we need to fix it.
Q: So how do we fix "the lazy bagholders" you say?
A: We fix it by taking the "concept behind why Tao thought up Dash Nation" and I say this like I did, on purpose so we can get the main point out of this, which is not "dividing the Dash community further" as some have mentioned, but actually to empower anyone from that 15 year old kid who stumbled on Dash on Reddit, to the 55 year old financial investor, to "actually get involved", almost as if this was a REAL financial revolution. (sarcasm intended)
Q: What do you mean? How do we empower random people to support and push Dash?
A: Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach him to fish and feed him for a lifetime.
Meaning: We need to supply the "how-to" guides, the handholding processes, the tools, the webpages, the content aggregators, the social media training, the dash training, Dash media kits, social media content examples/usables, elevator pitches for every single vertical Dash would be needed in, and so and and so forth.
Q: How do you plan to deliver all of this wonderful content to "new users?" What "tools will be provided"?
A: Not going to bore everyone while attempting to paint a picture about what I wan't to do, but the just of it is going to be: digg.com + berniesanders.com + google branding strategy + decentralized freedom + Dash Nation ideals = DashNation.com/teams/socialmedia or Dashnation.com/teams/developers (each would be a decentralized team/group of volunteers of the community who check into that website every so often and help us push whatever content is there.
Q: Why is our current setup good enough? Aren't the Dash forums enough?
A: We need an upgraded setup because our main problem is the lack of effort put into onboarding newbies from the FIAT world to the Dash World or Bitcoin to Dash and so on, we have very little roadmaps for these people, let alone the social media army needed to spread a project such as this as fast as it needs to spread... The Dash forums just don't provide what we need to organize, thus we should create the tools we need. I believe a guerrilla marketing campaign operating like a grassroots political campaign with awesome content aggregator + campaign platform website would greatly relive the onboarding stress for new users, and empower them AND current/old Dash enthusiasts to get on board with the day-to-day operations of Dash, without actually needing approval from anyone, and nothing more than a Twitter or Instagram account.
Anyways, i could go on and on and on about this idea of mine, but I wouldn't have thought it up without @Tao pushing DashNation so often, so thanks for the inspiration @tao!
I didn't come here for feedback as much as I did to get my ideas on paper, and share them with the community, I will be building this platform out regardless of what I'm asked or told I can or cannot do, so lets just make that clear right now.
I am going to do my best to build a campaign that actually encourages people to get involved and do anything and everything they would like to do so. I hope you guys can all join in and help out and give me some good ideas, but please refrain from trying to de-rail this thread as I want it to be focused on "building out decentralized community run team of Dash supporters" and nothing more, we aren't here to discuss whether you like the idea or not, just ways to build this out as massive and as quickly as possible, lots of content will be needed to educate people on how to help out, as well as how to use social media, we can extrapolate this concept from DashNation |Social Media to |Developers, |POS Solutions, |Hardware Team or whatever
Also, will be making every single "department' their own avatars and signatures as an effort to get people a little bit excited about "Joining DashNation" (Just to be clear anyone is free to join/ affiliate with Dash Nation as its just a concept about 'getting involved' and we love everyone!)
Thanks for reading this through! Sorry I can't help but run off into tangents.... working on it.
Anyways, here comes the tags.
@TaoOfSatoshi @AndyDark @Solarminer @oaxaca @eduffield @fernando @naruby @Proteus @elishagh1 @InTheWoods @Joshua @hobbskevin @lisacheng @GreyGhost @Macrochip @babygiraffe @ericsammons @fulltimegeek (come back bro!) @itscrazybro @orangecycle @Raptor73
Keep tagging people for me, I'm curious to see what a large majority of the Dash ecoystem thinks of such an endeavor..
TLDR: Help me fix Dash on-boarding on community participation, via DashNation & a few other marketing/website ideas.
edit: Logo ideas
edit2: Sketch of possible HTML skeleton of the site. (Digg.com + BernieSanders.com + Grassroots focused content)
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