Hello friend-bee folks!

📢WE HAVE A WINNER!📢

The prize of 5 Hive goes to @elementm, for her thought and conversation provoking entry by a landslide of votes!

View the contest post and her entry at the top of the comments on the contest announcement and entries post.

For that matter if you love Hive, you're gonna have a blast reading all of the entries made as comments on the original post linked above, and hopefully you'll continue the comment conversations with the entrants, already in progress on them with some of your own feedback and thoughts.

It's really some very fun and brain-engaging stuff!

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Here is a little secret I was keeping about this contest...

This contest was to use AI to write what I called an "impromptu prompt". I wanted folks to approach the AI tool of their choosing and ask it to generate a marketing message or advertisement designed to be put out on social media sites to entice new folks to notice and take interest in Hive.

I got some stellar entries from some great folks!

And now to disclose my intent in full, I created this contest, not to arrive at the perfect ad for Hive, but rather the whole thing was a thought experiment and was a subtle jab at expensive marketing proposals that don't seem to have produced much in the way of tangible results.

To clarify, By results I mean, benefits to the community in the form of reduced attrition of users and/or an influx of new users, growth of the size of the community overall, growth of the value of the Hive cryptocurrency or even just some fresh technical gray matter being attracted here to help continue our existence by contributing to the advancement of the technologies and dApps that keep us humming here in the hive.

Bottom line, In my opinion, which in this case may also be a matter of fact, it should be true that any kind of marketing effort or cost should bring widespread awareness of something, and produce tangible growth and measurable or visible results.

With that said, some of these entries were really great. The path and thought process people entering applied to defining how to market Hive and the results they got from AI in turn, were actually quite informative on a number of levels and we all had a fine time discussing those in the contest post/entry comments.

Congratulations to our winner @elementum and a special nod to all the bees who tried to create a buzz for hive with their entries. Honorable mentions to them all, listed here in order of their entry comments, as I scroll down the post to retrieve them:

@sugarfix
@ironshield
@bitcoinman
@sgt-dan
@wesphilbin
@littlescribe
@bulliontools

Thank you all for your thought provoking entries and the continued passion you all exhibited in your approaches to this challenge.

I encourage everyone who sees this, who cares about Hive, who cares about how Hive is marketed and who cares about how we, the bees of the Hive community can spread our life building Pollen throughout the world beyond our bee's nest here.

You will find that sometimes we approach it as if we are seeking others like ourselves. That's a natural paradigm, of course.

But you will also see how @elementm took a different approach than even I imagined myself in my own example entry guidelines for the game.

She didn't ask AI to find others like herself, she, in what I consider a stroke of pure genius, asked AI to define the appropriate demographic to target AND to "sell" it to them.

Did not see that coming. And I'm sure it's that kind of thinking about problem solving that handed her this hands down landslide victory.

Good job everyone. Now we know a little more about what we could be doing and saying to the folks we come into contact with out there as we buzz and flit around the internet, to spread a little pollen and bring other new-bees back to our beloved HIVE!

Thanks for playing :)
@SirCork
@PolleNation witness partner