Hey Mackenzie, great to meet you and Thanks for sharing what you have so far. I'm on my second day here and figured it was time to meet peeps in spirituality, meditation, healing, star seed etc mode here in Steemit. ;)  

Looking forward to all that's to come and Welcome back.

That is a wonderful mission statement :) welcome to Steemit friend!

Welcome! A fellow oils person and holistic journeyer! Welcome to this great community!

Allow me to introduce mahself my name is HOV mack to the kenzi a genie with a smile worth more then a lamborgini

Welcome to Steemit! I am a fellow front range resider here in Colorado, happy to see more locals joining our ranks :)

Where will the community center be? I would love to get involved once you open your doors.

happy you are here! I look forward to getting to know you more through your posts and see you soon in Aca!

OUTSTANDING intro post! I feel you on not life getting in the way of posting on steemit. I have been WAY too busy. I am glad we both finally found the time to post, and also that Ginger and I have found another cool person in Portland to kick it with. I totally support everything you are doing. Great work on the post and in life. Peace.

Hello and welcome to Steemit! Yes, a lot of what you wrote resonates with me.  

To me we are electrical beings in meat sacks, and we are already immortal and all connected because of it.  My primary passion in life is furthering individual liberty, but of course we need to cooperate and work together too.  Having yourself surrounded by friends, Liberty Professionals as I like to call us, definitely helps as well. It just needs to be done voluntarily.  

Thanks for sharing what you have so far, and I look forward to reading more of your content in the future.

![Liberty_Professionals---divider---steemit---teal.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmSHqvQkvVZNzKUZpi15wedqKyN1tQJcVGnScsTSkxkcFG/Liberty_Professionals---divider---steemit---teal.png)

### Webpages

There are a ton of other webpages to help you with Steemit.  Here are some of the best for beginners:

https://steemian.info/signup-faq (This site is by @drakos and has a ton of good information for new users to help them get started.)

https://steemd.com/  (This site is used to keep track of your voting power and other stats.  You do not want to run out of voting power, and you only get so much per day.  I keep my voting power around 80% for example.  Also use it to look at the coding for other people's posts.  If you see a formatting trick they use, you'll see the code for that trick within the post details on steemd.)

https://steem.makerwannabe.com/  (This site will tell you who follows you, who unfollows you, and who mutes you.  It is great for meeting new people too.  I regularly check it to see who has followed me to see if I should follow them back.)

https://steemit.chat/  (This site is the official chat webpage for Steemit.  There are Discord channels too, but I usually stick to the official site.  Come in to network and meet new friends.  You can directly message people there too, so it makes it easier to communicate with your closest friends.)

http://steemtools.com/  (This site is a comprehensive list of valuable tools.)

### Bots

There are a lot of bots on Steemit.  Some are useful and good, and others are not.  If you see a cookie cutter reply, especially to your intro post, it is almost certainly a bot.  Check the account's reputation.  If it is low, I would recommend just ignoring them.  Everything is public on Steemit, so you can go look at an account's comments and replies.  Are they all the same? It's a bot.

There's one good bot worth mentioning for new users.  It is called GINAbot, and you can use it to keep track of things the makerwannabe site above cannot easily do.  For example, GINAbot will tell you when a key phrase is used, when you or someone else is mentioned by account name, or even if someone deletes a comment.  The bot is extremely powerful and free.  Simply add the following Discord server:

https://discord.gg/x9Empcm

When you connect to it, it will ask you to register and verify your account with a .0001 SBD or STEEM transfer.  Then you will get a direct message from the bot with a private link to your configuration page.  Go there to setup your options.  The entire process takes 5 minutes, and it will be up and running.  You can tweak the settings as you go too.  I highly recommend people use it for networking purposes.

I have mine set to look for phrases like "residential security" and "private investigator" as two examples.  Then I never miss out on content related to those, and it makes going there to engage in those conversations much easier.  Without GINAbot, I would never have had the opportunity either!  Check it out, and ask if you have any questions.

### Sourcing and Adding Photos

Adding photos to your account as a new Steemian may be confusing at first too.  The easiest way it to click to "Submit a Story."  Once in there, use the built in Steemit tool to upload an image from your computer.  Below the posting window, you will see "Insert images by dragging & dropping, pasting from the clipboard, or by selecting them." Click on the blue text.  Once the image is uploaded, you can copy and paste the link into your account settings.

Here's a link to a Google Document I made to help with the coding:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NlAoGnP8q7ZAxGsEnvza-qotUGkoaae4SwXdubAhi2g/edit?usp=sharing

### Graphics, Badges, Signature Blocks, and Banners

There are many skilled and talented graphic artists on Steemit.  One of them is a close friend, @grow-pro.  He designed my signature gif, badges, divider lines, business cards, and more.  You can check out his work further on your own.  If you are looking for a graphic artist to help improve your posting images and formatting, he offers low cost services here on Steemit.  Look him up!

### Account Verification

Verifying your identity is very important because it will get you more support and people will trust you more.  The best way to verify is to link back to your Steemit account by using another public social media account.  

For example, I share my Steemit posts on my @finnianGC Twitter account.  Another way would be to add your Steemit information to your Facebook account.  Some people will even post a video of themselves writing out their account information since that cannot be Photoshopped.  

The more famous a person is and the more valuable their content is, the more important it is that they verify.

### Security

Do not use your owner key to log into Steemit.com to post.  Use your private posting key instead.  Keep your owner key offline as much as possible, and only use it when you must.  

Per the advice given by Arcanage, you should only use your owner key to:

1. Recover your account.
2. Change the other keys.
3. Give a present to your children a few minutes before dying.

There have been some scams in the past.  If you click a link to a site that prompts you to log into it, be extra careful.  Double and triple check the address to make sure it is really steemit.com.  A recent scam was using "lsteemit" as the domain name, and people were entering their owner keys to log into it.  That allowed the scammers to take those user's accounts, empty the money from them, and then ruin their reputation by using the newly hacked accounts to further the scam.

If you find or suspect a scam, please report it in the #steemitabuse channel on steemit.chat.

### Don't Lose Your Content

Make sure you are copying and pasting your post content often as you write it, and put the data into another document to avoid losing it.  I'll copy and paste my content into a Google document as just one example.  Some people use Markup editors to do the same.

Definitely keep a backup copy right before you post it too, for some people have come back the next day to see half or the entire post missing even though the day before it displayed correctly.  Make sure you copy and backup your long replies as well, for they can vanish immediately after clicking to post them.

### Engagement and Authored Posts

In the beginning, unless you purchase some Steem Power, your account will be extremely limited in bandwidth.  You can see the bandwidth you have on the steemd.com site.  Since you only have limited amounts, it is best to use your bandwidth to engage others instead of authoring long and detailed posts.  Once you have more SP in your account and more followers, then I recommend people start authoring more.  Never stop engaging other people though through replies.  It is the best way to gain followers and build your network with quality people.

![Liberty_Professionals---divider---steemit---teal.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmSHqvQkvVZNzKUZpi15wedqKyN1tQJcVGnScsTSkxkcFG/Liberty_Professionals---divider---steemit---teal.png)

Again, welcome!  If you have any questions about getting started, look me up on the chat site or reply to this post.

I love your pledge!

Welcome on Steemit, @mwolfe13! I think you have the right mindset to succeed on Steemit and make it your home and find great friends! Good luck :)

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¡Hola! @mwolfe13 Welcome to steemit and what a lovely mission you and your group have. Keep steeming and enjoy. There are plenty of amazing people in this community :)

Hey there fellow Portlander, beautiful Wolf Woman, I'm Oatmeal Joey, and I love your photos,and I love yoga, and I was born in Forest Grove and lived in PDX and went to Free Geek Computers and I love howling for healing and natural remedies and you seem to be very cool and fun. Welcome amd please take care, girl.

Hey hey, you're really here :-P

So happy to see you stepping onto the scene, and excited to see what you bring to the world of Steemit!

Great introduction; I resteemed it for ya :-)

welcome! i look forward to reading your articles!

Hi dear you got me at your first post. Will definitely follow you! Welcome!

welcome to the community! i just joined myself. i'll be posting a lot of travel insight if you'd like to follow me. i'll start by following you! love the vibes from your post!

thank you for joining steemit , i hope you'll enjoy the adventure

Welcome to steemit :) If you have any question just click to Follow on my profile and ask :)

Welcome to Steemit! :) I am new to Steemit as well, it really felt like this community is worth joining so happy you joined as well! Thank you for this positive post, I liked it a lot!

Wish you all the best!

Community seems great over here so

You did a very positive post, thank you for it, love to see such nice people, steemit is rly good for the heart compared to all other toxic mainstream networks. Have a nice day, enjoy your stay!

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