WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE !

Welcome to #Steemit @Jeffsjungle! So cool you've made it here as it means when I don't get hear about your amazing adventures in the real world I can still keep up to date through the virtual one!
#teamsouthafrica

Great to find a couple more Capetonians on Steemit. Looks like you're doing important work and yes, maybe crypto can trigger solutions to our environmental challenges!

Welcome to the Steem World!
I have recently made an orientation video that will help you in your journey here - and will hopefully answer all the questions that took me months to figure out.

I will also use the tag : @originalworks for this post, this will summon a robot that, if you wrote this original article, will give you an additional upvote. :)

Hello and welcome! It does look like you've been living an adventure. Have you ever had any close calls with wild animals? I am sure you have tons of material and posting ideas from your travel over so many years.

Those posts would do well on here I suspect. Just make sure you engage with people in replies to other posts and network in other ways to help yourself get some more followers and exposure in the beginning.

Webpages

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

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.)

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.

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

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.

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

Welcome to Steemit! Like you I am new to this community. As a high school teacher and a total nerd for Geography and travel, I must say how cool the lifestyle you are living looks. All the best to you!

Sure, give me an adventure and I'll ride it.

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life.

"I am a photographer, wildlife guide, trainer and conservationist, and have spent all of my working life in various African countries doing various things like walking across deserts, moving animals from Hunting areas into National parks, guiding celebrities on walking safaris all with the goal of preserving any small part of the wild world I live in."

I am jealous I am sitting in front of a computer in rainy damp UK writing and testing Ethereum & Solidity Smart Contracts and working on an ICO and dealing with contractors who promise xyz on fiverr and then disappear.

Good luck

Nick

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Welcome to Steemit.
Great Job....Great Adventure.

Awesome post! I invite you to visit our blog and and enjoy our content! :)

Wellcome and don't forget to Follow me @deviaananda

Welcome, have a great time on the blockchain. You can place 5 tags for people to read your feed. Good luck!

#WILD west
#love it
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