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The Steem Debates have now reached topic #3 - the Engagement Challenge. Steem Solar & Electricals had a successful launch in Uyo. Today's Steem News also includes news and updates about the @the-gorilla's DAO project, a Cameroon Training Workshop, Steem Football Promotion, Promoting Steem on Instagram, Google & LinkedIn, a Showcase Interview, and Contests on Steem... --- ---

1. Steem Debates #3 : Engagement Challenge

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Top 20 witness @pennsif has launched a series of discussion posts looking at all the areas where Steemit Inc supports the community. The topics to be considered include [the Club System](https://steemit.com/hive-127586/@pennsif/steem-debates-1-the-club-system), [Burnsteem25](https://steemit.com/hive-127586/@pennsif/steem-debates-2-burnsteem25), Engagement Challenges, Newcomers Achievements, Community Curators, Steem Reps, Booming... * [**Steem Debates : Do We Want Change?**](https://steemit.com/steem/@pennsif/steem-debates-do-we-want-change) The Debates have now moved on to the topic of **Steemit Engagement Challenge** - join in the debate and give your views in the comments... * [**Steem Debates 3 : Steemit Engagement Challenge**](https://steemit.com/hive-127586/@pennsif/steem-debates-3-steemit-engagement-challenge) --- ---

2. Steem Solar & Electricals

Solar entrepreneur @ubongudofot had a very successful opening for his new Steem Solar & Electricals business last Saturday. Many Steemians in Uyo attended the event, along with local dignitaries, business people and media. Steem Electricals is hoping to attract business from local Steemians by accepting payments for goods and services in STEEM... * [**Launch event of Steem solar & electricals business in Uyo**](https://steemit.com/steemelectric/@ubongudofot/launch-event-of-steem-solar-and-electricals-business-in-uyo) The launch of the business has got considerable local media coverage... * [**Steem solar & electricals on local newspaper**](https://steemit.com/steemelectric/@ubongudofot/steem-solar-and-electricals-on-local-newspaper) --- @ubongudofot is also continuing to raise funds for his next school PV installation project. He has 756 STEEM so far... * [**Steem Lighting Africa: Official/financial update 1 [6th June, 2024]**](https://steemit.com/steemlightingafrica/@steemelectricals/steem-lighting-africa-official-financial-update-1-6th-june-2024) --- --- ### _Pennsif the Witness_

_After almost 2000 days on Steem I decided it was time to take my contribution to the platform to the next level._ _I have therefore set up as a Steem witness... **@pennsif.witness**_ _**If anyone would like to support what I already do, and what I am planning to do, by giving one of their 30 witness votes to @pennsif.witness I would be hugely grateful.**_ _You can read my full witness announcement here..._ * [_**pennsif.witness Witness Campaign Post**_](https://steemit.com/witness/@pennsif.witness/pennsif-witness-witness-campaign-post) **@pennsif.witness is now at #18. Thank you to everyone who has voted to help get to this position.** --- ---

3. DAO Watch : The-Gorilla

@the-gorilla continues to post updates on his DAO funded protect to modernise steemit.com. He has recently been looking at improving the visual presentation of communities, and also fixing Bug #3918 on mobiles... * [**Proposal-86 : Communities Update (& Bug 3918)**](https://steemit.com/steemitdev/@the-gorilla/proposal-86-communities-update-and-bug-3918) --- ---

4. Cameroon Training Workshop

Steem Rep @chant, along with @fombae and @thegreens, are running another Steem Training Workshop on Friday 7 June. The event takes place at [Y’G Inc](https://yems.group/) in Bamenda... * [**Catch us for another Steemit Workshop Series 04 on Friday June 7th 2024**](https://steemit.com/hive-195150/@chant/catch-us-for-another-steemit-workshop-series-04-on-friday-june-7th-2024) @thegreens posted about a previous workshop... * [**Second Steemit Training with chant and fombae**](https://steemit.com/steemit/@thegreens/second-steemit-training-with-chant-and-fombae) --- ---

5. Steem Football Promotion

A village football tournament in Indonesia will be promoting Steem thanks to sponsorship from top 20 witness @xpilar. The tournament takes place on 25 June in Aceh. Local Steemian @steemadi has organised the Steem / World of Xpilar T-shirts for the event... * [**T-shirt for promo-steem at the football tournament June, 25 2024**](https://steemit.com/hive-185836/@steemadi/t-shirt-for-promo-steem-at-the-football-tournament-june-25-2024) * [**Promo-steem financial report on the football tournament June, 25 2024**](https://steemit.com/hive-185836/@steemadi/promo-steem-financial-report-on-the-football-tournament-june-25-2024) --- ---

6. Promoting Steem on Instagram, Google & LinkedIn

Steem Rep @o1eh continues his campaign to promote Steem on Instagram. Using the @steempromoution account he is running regular contests to encourage Steemians to post about Steem on Instagram... * [**Winner announcement: Why should you invest in STEEM?**](https://steemit.com/hive-185836/@steempromoution/winner-announcement-why-should-you-invest-in-steem) --- @o1eh is also just starting a Google Ad campaign to promote Steem... * [**Report as Steem Representative, 05.06.2024**](https://steemit.com/hive-166405/@o1eh/report-as-steem-representative-05-06-2024) --- Former Pakistan Country Rep @event-horizon has posted an update on her project to promote Steem on LinkedIn... * [**Update on Taking Steem to LinkedIn**](https://steemit.com/hive-185836/@event-horizon/update-on-taking-steem-to-linkedin) --- ---

7. Showcase Interview with @blessedbee

@ubongudofot continues with his Showcase interviews, this time talking with Nigerian librarian and blogger @blessedbee... * [**The Interview Showcase 99 - Exclusive Talk with A Nigerian Librarian / blogger**](https://steemit.com/hive-111300/@ubongudofot/the-interview-showcase-99-exclusive-talk-with-a-nigerian-librarian-blogger) --- ---

8. Contests on Steem

@disconnect continues to publish his comprehensive daily list of current contests on Steem. There are 113 contests in the latest list with over 700 STEEM in prizes... * [**Contest Alerts : Active Contest List on 06th June 2024**](https://steemit.com/contestalerts/@disconnect/contest-alerts-active-contest-list-on-06th-june-2024) --- ---

KEY DATA [ from CoinMarketCap ]

STEEM price	US$ 0.27	06 Jun '24 0.40am
CoinMarketCap Ranking	#427	06 Jun '24 0.40am
SBD price	US$ 3.44	06 Jun '24 0.40am
Unique visitors (steemit.com)	164,794 / day	06 Jun '24 0.40am
Page views (steemit.com)	263,088 / day	06 Jun '24 0.40am

--- --- This is #535 (06 Jun '24) of this news service. --- --- [ graphics by @pennsif ]