Hi and welcome. I've up-voted you introductory post and hopefully getting you sytarted on your way. You'll probably be getting greetings from people and bots wishing you well and offering tips and links to things. I am a real person and have been on the site for about a month I'm also still figuring it out. It's been interesting and confusing and a little addictive all at the same time. One of the best way to learn Steemit is to read the https://steemit.com/welcome section and move on to the faqs. https://steemit.com/faq.html There's a lot to learn but there's a lot of info out there to help support you.

After you mostly understand how it works get active and start creating and posting content. Most people start with images and little blurbs to describe them. Find an image from a trip you've taken, or from your work or of a hobby and tell why it's interesting to you.

You'll also discover Steemit users are very geographically and culturally diverse. For that reason things that might be interesting to you don't resonate the same with someone else. However there are still lot of things that are universal like food, beautiful landscapes, cute animals and cryptocurrency. But it's best to focus on things you know and are interesting to you. Gradually you'll see what people respond too as well.

I realize that I've only been on the site 4 weeks and am still learning my own way so I will keep my advice as simple as possible. You might consider this," the newbies guide to being a newbie…or a minnow."

Your immediate goal is to grow your followers, and grow your ranking and grow your Steem Power. You do this by posting, commenting on others peoples posts and thanking or commenting back when people respond to you and getting up-votes for your efforts.

First step to grow followers, is by commenting and saying nice things people will respond and often follow you. It's kind of a courtesy to support each other. And it's everyone's goal to grow. When they follow you, your posts appear on their feeds and vice versa. Up-voting and commenting from your feed help support your little community.

Next you'll want to grow your ranking. You automatically start with a score of 25 and based on positive or negative feedback go up or down from there. You do this primarily by getting vote, by posting good original content and making smart comments, people will up-vote for you. If they really like what you've written they will resteem your post so it will appear on their blog and end up on everyone's feeds who are following them. As a strategy some people seem to resteem more than they generate their own content.

Lastly you want to grow your steem power. Quite simply you grow power based on feedback which is scored in a currency generated value. The more powerful you become the move valuable your votes become and those votes earn others monetary value for their work. The higher your reputation and voting power the more valuable a friend you become.

And maybe that’s the fourth goal for many, power and monetary gain. Others might also be looking to express themselves. Another place to visit and learn about is https://steemd.com/. This site provides a dashboard showing you your voting weight, voting power and reputation score with an extra 1/10th register.

This is already way longer than I had intended so I will leave it here. I am Hive account@shauntaemonte.

I'm attaching a couple links to my posts. If you follow, up-vote or resteem my content I'll do the same and we'll support each other.

https://steemit.com/sportsphotography/@shauntaemonte/evan-strong-adaptive-action-sports-athlete

https://steemit.com/life/@shauntaemonte/daily-steemit-purpose-finding-actual-animal-house

https://steemit.com/goldenhourphotography/@shauntaemonte/being-in-the-moment

https://steemit.com/goldenhourphotography/@shauntaemonte/goldener-moment

https://steemit.com/life/@shauntaemonte/north-carolina-burger-joint-offering-tarantula-topped-burger

https://steemit.com/life/@shauntaemonte/a-real-bayou-betty-page

Bye.