A little question to steemians members

Hi Steemians, 

i'm not really active yet on steemit and so... i'm what we routinely call a noobs or a newbies...

If i have already post some writing on a community project i like (https://steemit.com/@elma-landro) i'm not already proactive on steem it (like other, my time is scarce...); but it could be change...

I just discovered some steem service i just saw that:

Hive account@steemitboard (SteemitBoard.com) give at steem it users awards and I just asked me if it's usefull and how?

In the same reflexion, i see lot of another specific steem dedicated service... Does anybody see a must have service? Please, share with us your skills and uses that will be very usefull for newbies like me.

Thank in advance for who want to enlightening me, and other, with their own experience

edit: like i just saw, it's seem to be that Markdown doesn't work anymore? Where we can find some service for a better editing tools for our post?