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STEEM has climbed again and is holding well above a dollar. Power Up contests offer a double win. Today's Steem News also includes news and updates about Minnow Mentorships, Promo Steem, Project Affable, the Steem Sri Lanka Charity, Four Ways to Grow Steem, some useful guides and how-to's, and many more contests... --- ---

1. STEEM holding up over $1

The STEEM price moved up over $1 over the last couple of days. It peaked at over $1.40 before settling back around $1.20. * https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/steem/ Coincidentally in the last couple of days Steemit.com has climbed back into the top 20,000 sites worldwide again according to the Alexa.com rankings... * https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/steemit.com --- ---

2. Power Up Contests

The more we all power up our STEEM the more the STEEM price should go - especially if we buy STEEM on exchanges as well. The SPUD4STEEM event run @kiwiscanfly encourages everyone once a month to power up, now in between times there are several power up contests including one from @irawandedy with 60 STEEM in prizes and another from @nahidhasan23 with 10 STEEM on offer... * [**STEEM Investing Contest Edition 1**](https://steemit.com/hive-103393/@irawandedy/steem-investing-contest-edition-1) * [**Contest: Power Up and earn Steem Week 2 | 10 Steem prize pool**](https://steemit.com/hive-138339/@nahidhasan23/or-contest-power-up-and-earn-steem-week-2-or-10-steem-prize-pool-or) @vipnata also has an 'I Buy STEEM' contest with a 30 STEEM prize pot... * [**NEW CONTEST! "I BUY STEEM" (Competition announcement)**](https://steemit.com/contest/@vipnata/new-contest-i-buy-steem-competition-announcement) --- ---

3. Let's Make Minnows : Minnow Mentorships Available

If you are a newcomer and getting to your first 500 SP seems like a distant dream, long time Steemian @pennsif is offering help and guidance under a new 'Let's Make Minnows' project. @Pennsif is offering 'Minnow Mentorships' to 10 people who would like support to fast-track to 500 SP... * [**LET'S MAKE MINNOWS : 10 Minnow Mentorships Available**](https://steemit.com/steem/@pennsif/let-s-make-minnows-10-minnow-mentorships-available) --- ---

4. Promo Steem Proliferating

Promo Steem activities are springing up all around the world. @stephenkendal is sponsoring T-shirts for @bangmimi's youth project in Indonesia... * [**I am pleased to announce the third 100 Steem T-Shirt Sponsorship this time supporting bangmimi to help in The Youth Steem Community Project reaching out and promoting Steem to a Youth Community in Indonesia**](https://steemit.com/promo-steem/@stephenkendal/i-am-pleased-to-announce-the-third-100-steem-t-shirt-sponsorship-this-time-supporting-bangmimi-to-help-in-the-youth-steem) @pojan has been providing food parcels and promoting Steem to recycling workers at the Alue Liem city waste dump also in Indonesia. This is part of his wider Steem for SDG's sustainability project... * [**Spread Love, From STEEM to Keepers of the Earth - STEEM for SDGs**](https://steemit.com/hive-153176/@pojan/spread-love-from-steem-to-keepers-of-the-earth-steem-for-sdgs-promosteem) --- @mcsamm has been expanding @whitestallion's Campus Connect project to universities and colleges in Ghana... * [**Introducing Steem Campus Connect, Ghana. Engaging and reaching students with steem in Universities & Colleges in Ghana**](https://steemit.com/hive-153176/@mcsamm/introducing-steem-campus-connect-ghana-engaging-and-reaching-students-with-steem-in-universities-and-colleges-in-ghana) --- @juichi has been helping newcomers and promoting Steem in a Catholic Church in Japan... * [**Promoting Steemit in A Church | Our Meet-Up And Helping Newcomers In Japan**](https://steemit.com/hive-153176/@juichi/promoting-steemit-in-a-church-or-first-japan-meet-up-and-helping-newcomers) --- @linlada639 has been holding video meetings with @pichat and @nessie2645 to plan Promo-Steem activities to rebuild the Steem community in Thailand... * [**Promo Steem : Steemit VDO Call Meeting Planning Grow Up**](https://steemit.com/hive-153176/@linlada639/promo-steem-steemit-vdo-call-meeting-planning-grow-up) --- ---

5. Project Affable Expands

@sapwood has been working with developers @neerajkr03 and @starlord28 to automate and scale-up Project Affable to encourage engagement on posts. The prize pool for May is a massive 385 STEEM... * [**Project Affable presents Engagement League for May' 2021- Total Prize Pool- (325+60) STEEM**](https://steemit.com/contest/@affable/project-affable-presents-engagement-league-for-may-2021-total-prize-pool-325-60-steem) --- ---

6. Steem Sri Lanka Charity Phase II

@sl-charity has announced the second phase of its aid distribution project. Because of Covid-19 and the lockdown this phase is being reworked to avoid physical visits. Over 1000 STEEM will be provided for house repairs, emergency medical assistance and Covid-19 testing... * [**Announcing SL-Charity Phase II**](https://steemit.com/hive-133716/@sl-charity/announcing-sl-charity-phase-ii) @damithudaya has provided details of the house renovation project... * [**SL-Charity Phase II | House Renovation Project | 50% for SL Charity**](https://steemit.com/hive-133716/@damithudaya/sl-charity-phase-ii-or-house-renovation-project-or-50-for-sl-charity) --- ---

7. Four Ways to Grow Steem

Long time Steemian @jondoe has put forward some ideas and suggestions that he believes would give a major boost to Steem. These include an internal market for STEEM/TRX, a STEEM Defi ecosystem, Justin Sun posting on Steemit.com first and and STEEM being listed on JustSwap... * [**Some changes I think would be hugely beneficial for Steemit.com and STEEM**](https://steemit.com/steem/@jondoe/some-changes-i-think-would-be-hugely-beneficial-for-steemit-com-and-steem) --- ---

8. Guides & How To's

@steem-ghana has posted a useful guide on how to use tags effectively on Steemit... * [**TUTORIALS ON EFFECTIVE USE OF TAGS ON STEEMIT BLOCKCHAIN AS A STEEMAIN**](https://steemit.com/hive-187593/@steem-ghana/tutorials-on-effective-use-of-tags-on-steemit-blockchain-as-a-steemain) Scout Communty Leader @fjjrg has put out some guidance on how to use @steemchiller's Steemorld.org... * [**¿Para qué sirve el Steem World?**](https://steemit.com/hive-181136/@fjjrg/para-que-sirve-el-steem-world) --- ---

9. Contests, Contests, Contests...

**As an offshoot of Steem News @pennsif now publishes a daily listing of the 'soon to close' contests on Steem...** * [**WIN WITH STEEM : Contests closing in the next two days @ 9 May 2021 - $1550 to be won**](https://steemit.com/winwithsteem/@pennsif/win-with-steem-contests-closing-in-the-next-two-days-9-may-2021-usd1550-to-be-won) --- @habercitr who runs the Steemit Contest Club Community has produced a compilation of current contests on Steem... * [**Active Competitions / Steemit Contest Club Community (06.05.2021)**](https://steemit.com/hive-189521/@habercitr/active-competitions-steemit-activity-club-community-habercitr-06-05-2021) --- ---

KEY DATA [ from CoinMarketCap ]

STEEM price	US$ 1.19	9 May '21 4.08am UTC
STEEM price	0.00002028 BTC	9 May '21 4.08am UTC
CoinMarketCap Ranking	#140	9 May '21 4.08am UTC
SBD price	US$ 7.58	9 May '21 4.08am UTC
Alexa rank (steemit.com)	#19,838	9 May '21 4.08am UTC
Unique visitors (steemit.com)	192,267 / day	9 May '21 4.08am UTC
Page views (steemit.com)	615,255 / day	9 May '21 4.08am UTC

--- --- This is #349 (8 May '21) of this daily news service. --- --- [ graphics & images by @pennsif ]