Visibility, promotion, **awareness** are very important aspects for all projects. In this post, I am inviting **marketers** who are on (or wish to join) steem, to learn more about **Open Source** Projects and to help bring those closer to the world!


*Contents*
- [1.] Short introduction about steem 
- [2.] Short introduction about Utopian
- [3.] Who can contribute to Utopian
- [4.] Categories currently in Utopian
- [5.] About Visibility Category
- - [5.1]How can someone contribute 
- - [5.2] Which are the projects that someone can promote
- - [5.3] Prerequisites 
- - [5.4] Guidelines 
- - [5.5.] How are users rewarded
- - [5.6.] Tags
- [6.] TL;DR Version
- [7.] More Questions 
- [8.] Ways to support Utopian 
- [9.] Sources 


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### [1] What is Steem?

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Steem<sup>[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steem)</sup> is a blockchain that was created in March 2016.  Shortly after it run online, the first application that was built to use the blockchain, was steemit.com<sup>[2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steemit)</sup>. A blogging and social networking platform, the first of the many platforms that followed in the next years.

There are many applications that use steem blockchain<sup>[3](https://steemapps.com/)</sup> and [Utopian Colony](https://colony.utopian.io/) is one of them.

### [2] What is Utopian?
Utopian.io platform uses the steem blockchain to reward users who contribute to open source projects<sup>[4](https://hackernoon.com/could-utopian-io-become-the-ultimate-funding-solution-for-open-source-projects-c516bb0e5a09)</sup>.

Utopian was founded in September 2017 and "In a little over a year, Utopian was able to facilitate over 70,000 contributions to over 9,000 repositories and embrace a community of more than 5,000 contributors."<sup>[5](https://medium.com/@utopian_io/a-glimpse-of-utopians-story-from-the-founder-and-ceo-6f1c10aea422)

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### [3] Who can contribute to Utopian?

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Any digital professional, videographers, content creators, developers, translators, marketers, graphic designers and more,  will surely find something that can inspire them.

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### [4] What are the categories that someone can contribute?

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There are a number of different categories to contribute. 
You can find more details [here](https://join.utopian.io/)
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🔷 Suggestions
🔷 Development
🔷 Bug Hunting
🔷 Translations
🔷 Graphics
🔷 Analysis
🔷 Visibility
🔷 Documentation
🔷 Tutorials
🔷 Video Tutorials
🔷 Copywriting 
🔷 Blog

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### [5] About the Visibility Category - What is it?

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<center>![utopianvisibility.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmbQAvN8u7VLNNZpWQm9hK8F8uQTxNq7oUvuEG8CzjPvQE/utopianvisibility.jpg)</center>

**Visibility Category** is the place where marketers and digital professionals can contribute to open source projects, in order to promote them and be rewarded for their actions. 

<center>![](https://i.imgur.com/4kBWoQc.png)</center>
<center>[source](https://join.utopian.io/)</center>

> Marketing efforts can also be rewarded through Utopian. Tell the community what you have done to promote an Open Source Project

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#### [5.1.]  Ways of Contributing to the Category

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✔ If you have a Facebook page or twitter account, you can promote [whitelisted open source projects](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1S7ayFTEy5CBMyeJvFRgq5JUjlqZxFjWAWhhrBL0GC60/edit#gid=0) via promoted/paid posts.
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✔ If you have social media accounts with more than 10.000 followers, you can write about open source projects and promote them to your followers.
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✔ Paid search engine and display ads placement
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✔ Contribute to a task-request 
*How will you know if a task-request is published? Follow @utopian-io, @utopian.tasks or join the [discord](https://discord.gg/h52nFrV) to be in the know!*

If you would like to contribute or have any questions feel free to contact me directly at discord katerinaramm#7862 or on [facebook](https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=876468415833984&ref=br_rs) - [twitter](https://twitter.com/katerinaramm1)

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#### [5.2.] Which are the projects that someone can contribute? 

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✔ The Whitelisted Open Source Projects, that you can see [here](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1S7ayFTEy5CBMyeJvFRgq5JUjlqZxFjWAWhhrBL0GC60/edit#gid=0) are the ones that digital marketers can **currently** promote without having a prior written consent. 

✔ Alternatively, when a Project Owner posts a task request, you can contact them, discuss the aspects, goals, details and then you can proceed to the execution of the digital campaign. 

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##### <center>If you are an open project owner and would like your project in the whitelisted list, please contact us on [discord](https://discord.gg/h52nFrV) and check out [here](https://steemit.com/utopian-io/@katerinaramm/how-to-create-a-task-request-for-the-visibility-category-utopian-io) useful information about creating a task request.</center>

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#### [5.3] Are there any prerequisites to contribute? 

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**Steem Account** 
You should have a steem account, in order to post about your contribution. 


**Measurable Results**
This way, you will be able to know the project's strengths, identify the audience who would be interested in it and thus you will be able to know, plan and execute a campaign with measurable outcome. 

**Personal Experience** *Optional but necessary*
If you are a marketer, you should know that in order to promote something, it is important that you have a good knowledge & personal experience for it.  

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#### [5.4.] Guidelines 

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**General Guidelines** Guidelines are in place to ensure integrity and quality of submissions. Please take some time to read [here](https://join.utopian.io/guidelines/) the General Guidelines that apply for all the category submissions

**Category Guidelines** The submitted campaigns should perform with a minimal total **reach of at least 10,000 unique users**  and **CTR (click-through rate)**  of over **1.5%** on Twitter and **1%** on Facebook (unless otherwise specified by the project owner in the Task Request).

To be considered for potential reward, submissions should include valid and verifiable proof of the visibility activities undertaken including:

- An overview of the goals, bidding strategy, details and choice of target audience, reasoning of said choice, as well as results of the campaign.
- Ad copy and graphics used in the campaign.
- Downloadable reports (when available) pertaining the activity.
- Screenshots of the promotional activity from the platform used.
- Links to promoted content, landing page and (when applicable) a link to the ad itself.

Please click [here](https://join.utopian.io/guidelines/) and then click "Contributions" > "Visibility" to see all the category guidelines 

**Visibility Template** You can click [here](https://github.com/utopian-io/editor-templates/blob/master/social) to see a main outline of how your submission should be post. 

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#### [5.5.] How are users  rewarded?

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After the user has published a post, a Utopian moderator will be evaluating and reviewing the post, according to the guidelines and as per a predefined set of questions. Utopian will reward the post as per the score of the moderator.

*<sup>Attention. A Utopian upvote is never guaranteed</sup>* 

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#### [5.6.] Which tags should someone use?

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The first tag to use is the **utopian-io** and the second tag to use is **social** 
You can also use the project's name as tag an anything else you believe is appropriate (up to 5 tags in total)

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### [6] TL;DR<sub>6</sub></sup> Version

Utopian is a platform that helps & rewards users who contribute to open source projects! There are many categories that someone can contribute to (development, graphics, visibility). 

In order to contribute, the users need to have a steem account, devote sometime to learn more about the specific project(s), read the guidelines and publish a post on steem following the corresponding template. 

Visibility is a category where marketers can help projects being promoted with paid ads or to their social media channels (assuming they have more than 10,000 followers) 

Check the [Whitelisted](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1S7ayFTEy5CBMyeJvFRgq5JUjlqZxFjWAWhhrBL0GC60/edit#gid=0) projects, maybe you are already using some. So, why not tell your followers about the projects?

Follow the guidelines, create a promotion, monitor, measure and showcase the results, reach, conversion and .. let us know about it!

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### [7] I have more questions, how do I contact Utopian?

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Join our [Discord](https://discord.gg/h52nFrV)

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### [8] How can someone support Utopian?

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At the moment someone could support via the following ways:

- Donating at the [indiegogo](https://igg.me/at/utopian) campaign using a credit card (any amount corresponds to a specific reward/badge)

- Donate -steem or other cryptocurrency- via [fundition campaign](https://fundition.io/#!/@utopian-io/xoodt2ued) - you can see a short tutorial by me [here](https://steemit.com/utopian-io/@katerinaramm/are-you-ready-to-contribute-to-utopian-colony)

- Follow the [Utopian Trail](https://steemit.com/utopian-io/@utopian-io/utopian-is-now-enabling-you-to-benefit-more-by-supporting-open-source-projects), where you can maximize your curation rewards 

- <a href='https://steemconnect.com/sign/account-witness-vote?witness=utopian-io&approve=1'>Vote for Utopian Witness!</a>

- You can also follow Utopian on [facebook](https://www.facebook.com/utopian.io),  [twitter](https://twitter.com/utopian_io), [steem](@utopian-io)

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Of course everybody is free to contribute or join the community on [Discord](http://discord.utopian.io/) for more information!

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### [9] Sources and further reading 

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steem

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steem#cite_note-:0-20

[3] https://steemapps.com/

[4] https://hackernoon.com/could-utopian-io-become-the-ultimate-funding-solution-for-open-source-projects-c516bb0e5a09

[5 ]https://medium.com/@utopian_io/a-glimpse-of-utopians-story-from-the-founder-and-ceo-6f1c10aea422 

[6] [TL;DR](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Too_long;_didn%27t_read) = *short for "too long; didn't read", is Internet slang to say that some text being replied to has been ignored because of its length. In slang it can also stand for "Too lazy; didn't read". It is also used as a signifier for a summary of an online post or news article.*

[7] Utopian Colony: https://colony.utopian.io/

[8] Utopian on Medium:https://medium.com/@utopian_io

[9] Utopian on Steem: https://steemit.com/@utopian-io

[10] Utopian Tasks on Steem: https://steemit.com/@utopian.tasks