Hello everyone,
I have almost completed my 2.5 month trial period, only one more week to go. Contributing to DXdao has made the last two months fly by with an intensity that has made it feel like it could easily have been six months! It has been a thrilling experience and I have enjoyed it immensely. I would like to thank the many contributors that I have had the opportunity to work with during this time. I am humbled by the extent of your expertise and I truly appreciate the sharing of your knowledge and experience that has guided me during this time and helped me get situated.
I have reviewed my trial period with Keenan and I am excited to say that I will be continuing my contribution to DXdao. I am also super excited to say that this will now be in a full-time capacity, now that I have negotiated an early departure from my employer.
Thank you all once again and as always I welcome any feedback, notes or criticism.
Role:
Social Media and Community Growth Contributor
Time frame:
2 Month Period - 05.04.2022 - 30.05.2022 (40 hours/week)
Reflection on goals and responsibilities:
What I think I did well in relation to my goals:
1. Gradually took over existing operations/campaigns to fall within my scope of abilities and responsibilities.
I think that I have taken on many duties that fell within what I judged to be my scope of abilities and responsibilities. I even took on tasks that I was completely uncertain of at the outset, and even though the end product underwent many edits and changes, the experience provided valuable learning opportunities. I am happy with my contribution and progress here and think that this will greatly improve over time.
2. Gained a solid understanding of the core message of the DXdao brand and of the individual product brands.
It has been a pleasure to see how decentralized DXdao is and how committed the community is to keeping it that way. I am internalizing the term “Decentralized Maximalists” and feel that it sums up the core message of DXdao. I find this message permeates every facet of DXdao and there is a constant push for all things DXdao in this general direction.
Learning how to communicate as “DXdao” has also been an interesting experience and the different nuances for all of the different situations and products is also becoming clearer. Progress has been good and I will continue to focus on learning the terminology, as well as how and why things are phrased and presented a certain way. There is still plenty to learn and internalize here, but progress is satisfactory.
3. Got to know the key contributors and their areas of expertise in DXdao.
I have managed to introduce myself to a good many contributors, but realize there are still many I have yet to meet. I will continue to reach out and introduce myself until I have met everyone. Now that my commitment will be full time, I will have more flexibility and time to devote to this. I feel comfortable with my progress so far, because getting to know someone, especially from a distance, takes more time and a different approach. I have also come to see that even though all contributors have core competencies, they wear many hats in DXdao.
I am looking forward to meeting my fellow contributors in Amsterdam.
What I think I did well in relation to my responsibilities:
1. Twitter Focus in accordance with:
- The Social Highlights Program
I think that my focus on producing quality tweets and threads was successful. I had help and guidance from Keenan, Chris and Nathan who assisted in wording and context. The Social Highlights Program is made up of more than just this and will be addressed later.
- The application of the 1:10 post to engagement ratio
Learning the 1:10 post to engagement ratio is moving along well, and the activity of the accounts has been vibrant.
2. Social Engagement
Explore DXdao history and future to assist in developing an ongoing content generating strategy to add to DXdocs and other mediums deemed acceptable by DXdao.
While I would have liked to explore more of DXdao, I was able to assist in content generation and ended up writing two articles for Medium, as well as two for DAOtalk.
3. Settling myself within Discord.
This started off slow, but picked up speed during Keenan’s absence and I am now able to arrange the weekly community calls (with the instructions provided by Keenan) and navigate the different areas of discord comfortably.
What I think needs improvement:
I chalk a lot of what needs improvement down to a lack of time. With my full time job during the day I found there was little time to find a window between doing what needed to be done and finding time for growth. Now that I will have the full day at my disposal, I will most certainly devote more time to shoring up these competencies:
1. Twitter Focus in accordance with:
- The Social Highlights Program
As previously stated, this program has much more to offer than just quality tweets and I will focus on addressing more of this program now that I am onboard full time.
2. DXproduct knowledge:
While my learning of the different products and facets of DXdao has been intensive and ongoing, and I certainly know a lot more, I personally wanted to achieve more in this area. This is very important to me and I plan to make it a priority.
3. Social Engagement
- Identify and analyze competitors and complimentary organizations and their communication strategies on both Twitter and Discord (ongoing).
I had started to do this within the first few days of contributing, but activity picked up pretty quickly after that and the daily requirements of things that needed covering took over. Being part time gave me no window to find time to spend on this.
- Help increase awareness of DXdao and its products, as well as drive social engagement with the relevant DXdao Twitter accounts through consistent and possibly even daily activity.
While I think I have been engaged in assisting with increasing awareness of the DXdao brand by being active on Twitter, I want to have a better understanding of the DXdao ecosystem and continue to interact with it, in order to engage in a more full time, constructive and consistent manner on Twitter and Discord.
4. Growth Marketing
- Analyze data and track metrics of tweets to determine what is working and what is not and to optimize tweets according to target audience.
While I glanced at metrics and basic numbers from time to time, I did not engage in much analysis. I aim to devote more time to this in the future.
5. Communications
- Assist with ideating and executing campaigns across owned media channels, as well as other platforms, as my awareness and knowledge grows.
This goal was a little ambitious with my limited awareness and knowledge. Until my DXdao knowledge increases this will have to be in slow motion and my contribution will be mainly in execution in collaboration with more experienced contributors. There is a lot more “listening and learning” to be done here.
Therefore,
Based on the assessment of my achievements, capabilities and what needs improvement, I think a reasonable course of action would be to leave my goal and responsibilities largely the same. There is still a large unexplored portion of the stated goals and responsibilities that I will now be able to tackle more completely as more time is available to me.
Goals:
- Improve my knowledge and understanding of DXdao and its different products and services.
- Continue clarifying existing operations/campaigns that fall within my scope of abilities and responsibilities and take them on as my “own”.
- Get to know the remaining key contributors that I have not yet met.
Responsibilities:
Continue to focus on Twitter and the interaction of DXdao within the Twittersphere.
- The Social Highlights Program.
There is still a large portion of this that has been left unexplored and I plan to devote more time to this.
- The application of the 1:10 post to engagement ratio.
Social Engagement:
- Identify and analyze competitors, complimentary organizations and their communication strategies on Twitter and Discord (ongoing.
- Help increase awareness of DXdao and its products, drive social engagement with the relevant DXdao Twitter accounts through consistent and possibly even daily activity.
- Explore DXdao history and future to assist in developing an ongoing content generating strategy to add to DXdocs and other mediums deemed acceptable by DXdao.
Growth Marketing:
- Analyze data and track metrics of tweets to determine what is working and what is not and to optimize tweets according to target audience.
Communications:
- Assist with ideating and executing campaigns across owned and other media channels as my awareness and knowledge grows.
Previous proposal:
25.01.2022 - 04.04.2022: 2.5 month Trial period
Compensation:
This compensation proposal is being submitted in accordance with the current DXdao Worker Guidelines and the current DXdao Pay Structure
As previously stated, I believe my past experience places me within all the levels from 1-4, primarily 3 & 4. I will be continuing my contribution at level 3 for this worker proposal.
In my first worker proposal I conveyed the following:
“I will only be submitting my proposal for payment at the end of this working period. This is due to ongoing actions on my side regarding legal compliance with receiving payment in crypto. Until everything is set up, I cannot receive payment. It should all be completed by the end of March.”
It is taking slightly longer than expected, but there is a soft date set for Monday 04.04.2022. Then it should be a few days after that and everything will be set up for me to start receiving payment. At that time, I will submit a request for payment for the first month of this proposal as well as for the full 2.5 month trial period.
Experience Level: 3
TOTALS:
Month one.
- $5,000 (xDai)
- $3,000 (DXD)
- 0.1667% (REP)
Month two.
- $5,000 (xDai)
- $3,000 (DXD)
- 0.1667% (REP)
The full 2 month period.
- $10,000 (xDai)
- $6,000 (DXD) to be paid in a vesting contract continuously for three years with a one year cliff when the work agreement finishes. The vesting contract would be created and funded in the future after 30.05.2022 and use 05.04.2022 as the starting date of the vesting.
- 0.3334% (REP) - to be requested at the end of this proposal
You’re a great example for DAO communities onboarding new members in the space, showing initiative and determination, eager to learn and humble. Nothing is impossible.