[Approved] NEARWEEK Guild August 2021 Report

[JPALHUMAIDAN]

August was a great month for NEARWEEK here are the details:

• Published NEARWEEK Editions 17, 18, 19 and 20 which featured +250 crowdsourced news: https://nearweek.com/
• Published first Medium article: First step in the NEARWEEK DAO journey | by NEARWEEK | NEARWEEK | Medium
• Moved news link submission and payout to Sputnik.DAO.v2: https://v2.sputnik.fund/?transactionHashes=9pT5tkdjM4KoaJMzkY6kfjnnePTRYZBjjKQcKTCDdSr1#/news.sputnik-dao.near
• Received more than 200 news submissions (payout proposals) from 16th Aug - 31 Aug
• Paid out +150 $NEAR via Sputnik.DAO.v2.
• Submitted MetaBUIDL Hackathon challenge - NEARWEEK Curation Bot: Airtable - Live Challenges for near.org/metabuidl
• Started designing new NEARWEEK layout for both Web and Newsletter to increase readability.
• Started using graphic content to display user activity and growth.
• Started initial talks with @iotachan on setting up NEARWEEK in Chinese.
• Held development meetings with several NEAR officials: @juliebissinger , @jake , @JMaenen, Agatha, @shreyas and @ross.
• Held meetings with Swagger DAO, INC4 and Rhino Guild.
• Hired SoME responsible who will run NEARWEEK Twitter and execute strategy.
• Started executing Twitter content plan to grow impressions and engagement. Experimenting with a weekly recap video format via OWS: x.com
• Started first Twitter campaign #ExploretheNEARverse with AwesomeNEAR and PARAS to drive awareness of the NEAR Ecosystem: Explore the NEARverse with NEARWEEK | by NEARWEEK | NEARWEEK | Medium
• Had initial talk with NIA @chronear on strategy and initiatives for increasing Twitter engagement, community and subscriber # .

[SanketN81]

Nice Work…Loving the Newsletters

[chronear]

Keep up the good work @JPALHUMAIDAN, looking forward to the collaboration… September is going to be the start of a solid NIA x NW partnership!

[cryptocredit]

Hi @JPALHUMAIDAN thanks for a great monthly report on NEARWEEK activities. Looks like you are building out nicely Great team effort!

I notice you have posted a payout proposal for 250N to the Marketing Vertical DAO which links to this post. Could you add more details on the explore the NEARverse campaign and how the funds will be used? Thanks

[JPALHUMAIDAN]

Thx!

Yes, the funds have actually already been spent (was taken from another budget) in the following way:
Part 1) 100N give-away (x.com)
Part 2) Was paid for by AwesomeNEAR (x.com)
Part 3) 75N to @Samtoshi_F_Baby for artwork + 40N to Swagger designer + 35N for high quality poster print (x.com)

So far this campaign has got:

• 87,295 impressions
• 10,992 engagements
• 1239 likes
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Please let me know if you need any further information

[Samtoshi_F_Baby]

Great campaign! Created a lot of engagement for our ecosystem; the people LOVE those NFTs

[cryptocredit]

@JPALHUMAIDAN Well done guys!

All looks good to me @David_NEAR @jcpacion @satojandro

[David_NEAR]

Agree!

I NEARWEEK!

[David_NEAR]

Can we please keep funding denominated in USD (unless awards were given out in NEAR of course) for future proposals?

Awesome stuff guys, as always

Thanks!

[JPALHUMAIDAN]

Thanks guys!

Will do going forward! This campaign was fully operated using $NEAR.

[chloe]

should the target of this proposal be “news.sputnik-dao.near”?

[JPALHUMAIDAN]

The news.sputnik-dao.near is solely used for paying for news contributions.

The target should be nearweek.near as this is the main stakeholder and delegates all funds to the projects that NEARWEEK is involved with / running.

[chloe]

tyvm for the clarification <3