Welcome to Steem, Michael! Hope you will find lots of exciting things here and make new friends... I know Steem can get overwhelming for a beginner. If you ever get stuck, please let me know! If you intend to publish creative posts, make sure you use creativecoin tag. This way you will start earning CCC (creative coin crypto). Other tags for general use so far are palnet and neoxian. There are many other communities with their tokenized tags you can check them out at https://steempeak.com while clicking on "Tribes"