Thanks for the info about Minnowsupport and PAL - very helpful! Congratulations on your million - don't spend it all in one place. I enjoyed your post about facing your fears. I am going through something very similar. I am trying to do 1 thing that scares me every day. Singing in front of people would be terrifying to me - I'll put that on my list...for later.
It looks like you're doing amazing already after two weeks. Well done!
We Minnows have to stick together
Hey @clemdane, no problem at all, it was my pleasure to do what I can to get the information out there :)
I feel fortunate to have come across it when I first got here and believe it's a great place for people to get started! I love the community-ness of it- always bringing people together :)
To be honest, I am still feeling whoozy in my stomach from that one! I think it's a fear you have to keep facing to get over completely ;)
Keep me updated on your experience fear-facing, I would love to hear about it!
Happy to hear we're in this together fellow minnow :)
Have a wonderful day!
XO,
@heart-to-heart
I will keep you updated!
I like the picture.
But, I don't want to eat the whale.... I want to rob it. lol
Good point. Maybe we can just "digest" its SteemPower!
Lol maybe try being friends with it, it might share with you?
But part of the goal of Steemit is to get rid of gatekeepers. You shouldn't have to adapt to the early investors on the platform. You should be able to create great content and have your audience find you. In the same way that Youtube got video producers out of the way between a creator and their audience, Steemit needs to get Whales out of the way so creators can connect directly with their audience.
Essentially, even if all the Whales were to hate a post, it should still have the ability to be successful based on a rabid audience of fans. That is not the case today, the Whales and Dolphins are still tastemakers vs activating the long-tail.
XO,
I think you should check out @minnowsupport because they are trying to band the minnows together so that their content is able to be seen! I'm new on here and I don't have any whales around that I'm aware of... just a great group of minnows who all try to support one another! If you need help getting started, let me know :) @heart-to-heart
Thanks for the suggestion @heart-to-heart. I'm actually a big fan of MSP. Been a greeter and 100SP delegator for a while now.
Oh that's awesome to hear :) See you over there!
Cool @clemdane, nice reply and like your picture. May I ask how did you do that, embedding the pictures in the text? I don't see any tool or icon to do that. Many thanks in advance.
Oh it didn't take any special talent, more of an accident how it came out. I just write for a while and then I think of a keyword that it would be cool to have a picture for. Then I go look for a picture from the internet (I try to find copyright free but sometimes I just grab something.) I save it to my desktop.
Then when I'm composing a post where it says "Insert images by dragging & dropping, pasting from the clipboard, or by selecting them" I click on the hyperlinked "selecting them" and attach the right photo. The Steemit photo link will appear after what I wrote.
To see how it's going to look you scroll down to the preview screen and you can see how the photo interacts with the text. I haven't made that much effort to get it to look perfect. Just if I notice a few words wrapping around the photo awkwardly in a way that makes it hard to read I usually edit the text down so that the photo comes at a more natural break in the text. You can experiment with leaving a blank line between the text and the photo or not - look down at the preview window and you can see how it looks with and without the space.
That's basically it. There are people who embed their photos so perfectly it looks like a magazine. I just eyeball it ;-)
Nice one, thank you for the info and moving forward. Now I found a program to make cool collages and much more; IPICCI, Check it out and have fun.
Very cool - will go check it out!
You just drag it into the text box from your files @frankhappa :)
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there you go, it worked