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in introduceyourself •  6 years ago 

Hi everyone! I am Lee Harding standing atop Mount Douglas in beautiful Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, but have only been here five months. I spent almost all of my life in Saskatchewan, roughly half in the Assiniboia area, four years in Caronport, and seventeen in Regina (where the marathon happened last September). I am a research fellow for the Frontier Centre for Public Policy.

I am looking forward to posting on here. I tried to start a channel on YouTube and I'm like...1000 followers before monetization?! So Cliff Power told me about Steemit, and here I am!

This channel will probably feature photography. I spent seven years on the road traveling around Saskatchewan as a fundraising agent for Canadian Taxpayers Federation, so I have no shortage of old barns, prairie scenery, and interesting stories to share. I intend to publish a photo book too, so you can get a sneak peak one post at a time right here.

Do any of you here have more than one channel? I thought I might like to have a few different channels, just on different themes.

If you live in Victoria or used to live in Saskatchewan, please give me a shout. Thanks!

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If you want to follow me elsewhere, see my website LeeHarding.ca or on Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram.

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Wellcome to Steemit.com

Hello @leeharding welcome to steemit.

Thank you :)

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Very valuable. Thank you.

Welcome to steemit, I hope you can write, blog, make vids or whatever you wanna do here telling about stuff you experience or want to share :)

That's what it's all about! Thanks @brothermic

Welcome to Steemit!

HEY @leeharding you really got spammed on your welcome to steemit. Just be patient brother you'll find your place. It does get bumpy at times. But it's fun. DUDE .......
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I want to officially welcome you to steemit @leeharding, how is Canada?You’re in the right place at the right time, these are my reasons;
• Steemit is a community built in love for humanity.
• Steemit is a social media where you can make friends that can help build you and those that you can build and support as well.
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Please relax your mind, you’re at the right place, make yourself friends of like passion.

Lastly; get ready to be rewarded when you contribute in changing our world, our lives, and our community for better through your good and quality posts.

Love from @korghawk.

Welcome to steemit. In answer to your question, yes many people have various accounts for various reasons. I myself only have one account, I can not imagine handling two different accounts myself for now. Just to busy with one.

You should keep your follow me line in your post, and if you have not yet, you may want to back link your steemit account to your other accounts. The reason being is @cheetah, it is a plagiarism bot. So if you have content that you import from one of your other sites, you may get visited by them. That is really no problem at all, as it will give a small upvote, then a human will come and visit, and investigate.

I see that Newbieresteemday, and greeterguild have already been mentioned. Good groups to help new users get acquainted with steemit. There are a lot of tools to make viewing and understanding steemit a little bit easier. One of the best tools for viewing you semi hidden steemit information is https://steemworld.org/@leeharding - that would be your page. It will alert you to when people "tag" you or "shout out" your name in a post or comment.

The photography community on steemit is a very nice group of people, there are all kinds of fun share a picture contest for just about anything.

Along with the photography groups, there is a pretty good sized group of writers, independently published and small run press publishers, and some writing their books on seemit then looking to get them published.

I am sure you will enjoy your time on steemit, if you have any questions, I do not mind trying to help, or point you to some who can help if I can not.

I would not have known these things, and I very much appreciate you sharing them with me.

Wellcome to Steemit.com

Wishing you the best of luck in this blogging world on behalf of @steemph.antipolo community. May you grow as a person as you learn to socialize online thru Steemit. We welcome you on your journey. Steem on! newborn warrior!!

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we just upvoted you

Thanks!

You have a minor misspelling in the following sentence:

I intend to publish a photo book too, so you can get a sneak peak one post at a time right here.
It should be sneak peek instead of sneak peak.

But I was on top of a mountain, so I sneaked onto the peak ;).

Welcome Lee we're a Vancouver based podcast ourselves so pretty close. Steem grows in tandem by two big things. Making and uploading great content (videos, articles, photos etc)and then curating other great content you find. The more upvotes you help projects get the more they earn and in turn the more other people will want to vote for them. So it's best to concentrate on what you're great at and then convert your earnings for the first while into power up Steem to increase the amount you can help others.

I appreciate the tips. :) I'm a pretty funny guy. If you ever want me on your podcast let me know.

Hello! I'm as new as you, let's develop together. We can achieve a lot if we act together. I followed you, and you follow me.

Can do! Thanks for saying hello.

@leeharding, A warm welcome to Steemit. This is a great community and I know you will have a great time here.

I want to invite you to join the discord channel #steemschools https://discord.gg/eTZqQvk and we will teach and support you to grow up in Steemit, to choose the right topic to attract readers, to use the right tags to get more visibility, how to make quality posts and comments on Steemit.
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I have accepted your invite. Thank you :)

Welcome to Steemit. It's really a good platform for the nurturing authors and for the people who want to share their good work with the world. You'll surely have a nice time here. Lots of good wishes and good luck to you!! :):)

Thanks Freebird!

I am so happy that you are here, leeharding! I wish you a very exciting experience here on Steemit! Life is Good

By the way, there are several groups you as a newcomer can join. They will stay with you for your journey, helping and mentoring along the way.

@greetersguild invite link https://discord.gg/AkzNSKx
@newbieresteemday invite link https://discord.gg/2ZcAxsU

Greeting @leeharding! Welcome to Steemit community!!!