Welcome Mike to HIVE you are here !!!!
Cool you came and that you are playing splinterlands aswell.
Its interesting and great that you put your story into a blog and left it here on the blockchain, so welcome, welcome to the Hive movement and blockchain. Your first blog is up and on the chain, hope you feel relieved, and not afraid of what is coming your way in the comments.
We know it can be daunting and frightening because all is new.
If you want to read some history this is a blog https://peakd.com/hive-198524/@hivepeople/hive-for-noobs-hive-198524 about it.
But for now the new beginning, you will have fun blogging and vlogging I promise. But in the beginning it’s hard and all is new and maybe you need help. We have amazing people here and a help discord if you need it. I love blogging, and was a newcomer once aswell so i know the feeling. The biggest and best advice is always be carefull with all your passwords, Never give those up !! I speak from experience !
What always will help you build your new hive account, and profile on here, is establishing relationships and the best way to build them is to comment on other people's posts, there are so many topics here, and there will always be one that is of interest to you but also be interested in them, by reading and upvoting. This will draw them to your own account aswell, where they will discover a little more about you and relationships take off from there, and comments and votes will be the next step. When you have a twitter account you van visit #hivelift for more information.
I use Peakd to post to Hive but Ecency is also a possibility. It’s a website, mobile and desktop application that improves your experience on Hive. If you are interested for Android download : https://android.ecency.com, for iOS: https://ios.ecency.com, for desktop: https://desktop.ecency.com apps that helps you to connect, and that’s what we do here !
You can also earn to promote and boost your content. Again If you are interested https://ecency.com just some extra information in this early start of your journey here! Last hive.blog is an option too. They work well and let me know if you have difficulty.
There are a lot of communities to blog in, besides your own account. Go to the main page of your account and see who you want to subcribe to.
Good luck with with hive experience and I Will See you around and may you find here what you are looking for. Just remember that all good things come in good time and never giving up is THE key to the big succes on the Blockchain.
Also you could join the the Terminal discord. Or visit @heyhaveyamet for more new arrivals, newbies exposure in the beginning is very important, and you can always learn from others.
Let me know if this was helpfull or if you need more help, or better see you in Discord
the Terminal.
Here is the invite its free,
Greeting from the Netherlands
@ Brittandjosie
Good luck to you as the new arrival, may hive become your new life !
Thank you @brittandjosie, some really helpful stuff there.
I'm hoping to start with some simple posts when I get the chance, but who knows where it could go.
I'm using Peakd on the desktop, but I have the Ecency mobile app installed on my phone. It's great to have the choice of these different interfaces to the same backend, blockchain, data structure.
I've been trying to understand some of the others as well, LeoFinance, Splintertalk, etc. They seem to be specialised places to post on certain topics that will also earn you some of there token. I'm guessing that's in addition to the Hive you would normally earn? PIZZA and POB seem interesting as well, hopefully I will get round to working them out too.
I will jump into the Discord when I can as the questions will just keep coming and it sounds like a great place to get some answers and chat to people.
Big thanks again for the friendly welcome 😁