There is a 20+ man strong PR team. I have not found a single item from them on my own, only what they posted here. That shows clearly that it failed.
I did however found from Boba in Germany a lots of information, which came back to me via my friends living there. He seems the only one really DOING something to promote Burst. - Thanks Boba!
This is my last post in this thread. I agree with Elmit's first part of the cited post. The PR Team has evidently failed to promote BURST in a proper way. However, that doesn't mean we haven't worked hard, did our best and put in the hours required. That we have done (more than Boba who joined rather later but who done a great job).
So why have we failed...? I think there are a numbers of reason that I'll bring up. It might not be the truth, it certainly isn't complete, but perhaps will this post start a constructive discussion of what have gone wrong, the strengths BURST indeed has and all the things achieved, so you as a collective will to find the correct way forward. And, yes, I'm pretentious.
Some of the reason according to me:he wrong
1) Bad leadership in the PR Team, mainly due to we (I) aimed way too high with bad time schedule. Too many projects were started at about the same time, with many new people joining the group. I realize that I'm highly responsible for this failure, as I for for awhile had some kind of a "leader role" regarding the PR work.
2) Lack of funding. I used to be against all forms of pre-mining and IPO/ICOs. The fact that BURST was "clean" in this respect was one important reason that I got involved in the first place. Today I think differently, although not completely the opposite. To develop a coin technically and at the same time be able to do decent promotional work does, simply, require some sort of funding. The PR team has asked for donations and ran an AT to get the means for improving our PR efforts; however positive it is in one aspect, a sad and troublesome fact is that we now have more than 20,000 registered BURST accounts while only a handful from the community have contributed in a substantial way to the funding (and ironically, the main contributers are found in the PR team).
I fully understand that not everyone can donate 1mil or 500K, but small sums like 500 or 1K BURST from like 18,000 community members is not unreasonable to ask from a miner to further develop this great project. The Team clearly haven't been able to explain the importance of funding and what "micro-payments" can achieve. To spread a single press release in a proper and efficient way costs several hundreds dollars. Hence, the Team, and I had an important role in this, have failed also here.
3) Lack of community involvement. Early on the BURST community was awesome, doing all kind of things, like creating tools and improving the infrastructure of the coin. It was an exiting time.
But things changed. Less people contributed "voluntarily" to protect their BURST investments, probably thinking someone else would do it or they just selling those "free HDD coins". It is of utterly importance that a wider part of the community gets active to be able move BURST in the desired direction.
Fortunately enough, a lot of the things that are required is mostly easy things, like building an attractive FB page, contribute with possible topics to tweet about, arrange a thunderclap, do fun stuff to get attention, working on an new and improved OP, or using your social network to try to get more devs on-board. Sure, the PR Team today is relatively large but the members are recruited for their special skills and work on quite restricted projects. BURST is nothing without the community helping each other out instead of have seemingly endless personal vendettas.
4) This very thread. A new, self-moderated thread to keep all the trash should have been created
a long time ago - with an state-of-the-art OP, easy to update. We have discussed that possibility, but not all agreed and the idea was not prioritized. But, imho, this is a key issue. 1050 pages, an outdated OP and a unfinished homepage will not attract investors. The PR Team might be the reason this never was implemented, but more importantly nothing will stop the wider community from contribute to such a cause.
5) Greed. I'll not comment much on this, as it's related to point 2) above but it's not only the everyday 2TB miner who seeks to make a buck or two who is the problem. Also some members of the PR Team have their own agendas to earn BURST in ways that does not involve trading, mining, or utilizing the developed features we have. Unfortunately the hardworking Boba is an example of this, spamming page after page with info of a pool. Stuff like that should be put in a separate thread; BCT even has a forum for pool ANNs. I'm far from a communist/socialist: I think, as the movie speech states, that greed is good. Without greed the world would stop - but the implication of greed short term must be put in relation ti the the overarching objective of making the massive potential in the BURST concept a reality. That's a just a different form of greed.
So... the PR Team failed with many things, more than are mentioned here.
But BURST does *not* consists of 15-20 people; BURST is nothing without the many thousands account holders. With a little activity from all of you, BURST could be so much more. The community members who wont see community work as an investment equal to mining also failed; more then 19,000 account holders who didn't help the core-devs, the software programmers and the PR team. Almost all of us failed.
With all this said, I still believe immensely in BURST. We have one of the most brilliant main-devs around, we have unique features already developed and in the pipeline, we have a shit-load of skilled people who does things without much attention, and we were even able to get geniuses as vbcs and the CIYAM developers involved.
But we need to realize that BURST requires more than pure technology. BURST could very well end up like betamax in the beta/vhs war, where betamax clearly were the superior technology but failed to enroll the key actors and lost.
Lastly,circumstances will prohibit me from contribute in any significant way in the future as it has for the past month. But I wont sell a single BURST; I will donate all I've to the hard-working core dev-team along with some btc and two cloud mining operation which constantly (so far...) produce btc to support the development of BURST. I never reached my goal of owning 10% of the outstanding shares, but I'm pretty close. My hope is that this funding will be sort of a new start for BURST. How the money will be spent is up to the core members of the dev-team which I have great trust in and who became true friends the last 8 or so months. However, and very important, my actions doesn't mean that BURST is saved - far from it.
BURST needs you. Your time, a bit of you money, your social network, your creativity. You can even do a simple thing as register an account at bit-x.com with the referral link in my sig, as that will increase the btc mining power and give the devs - and yourself - an opportunity to create one of the greatest coins ever. BURST needs your efforts.
At the moment I'm organizing the transfer of funds I've. As I had control over the BTC donation account, mczarnek, crowe or xizmax will publish a new address for btc donation shortly and update the homepage.
Bye.
