Hi Steve,
Thanks for the heads up! I'm very new to this, so I appreciate the support.
I've just submitted a verification and I've also fixed my Twitter link on my site -- thanks for spotting that! What are the usual next steps here now that I've sent that request?
Hello Douglas.
We received your verification application.
We cannot find the verification in your Linkedin profile though.
To confirm your authorship of the content, could you please mention the word "Hive" somewhere in your Linkedin profile?
You can remove this mention, once we confirm the authorship.
Thank you.
Hey!
Thanks for explaining the process; I've added a mention in my LinkedIn Profile to Hive, with a link to my bio page. Hope that's sufficient!
Thank you.
We have spotted it.
It has been verified now:
https://hivewatchers.com/verifications?utf8=%E2%9C%93&verification%5Busername_search%5D=dougdigital
Douglas Adams! Cool name :)
The verification is to head off Hivewatchers thinking you are dodgy. The Twitter link still seems broken from a couple of places on your site. You linked to your LinkedIn, but I don't see a mention of your Hive profile there. There needs to be a link back or at least a mention to prove you control that profile.
Now it's up to you to market yourself as you see fit. An introductory post with the #introduceyourself tag is fairly standard. Spamming comments is not a good idea, but commenting on people with similar interests can pay off. Hive is a bit different, so have a look around to see what others are doing. Big rewards can be hard to get, but the community is fairly small.
I delegated a little so you can be active. This is needed to keep your resource credits up.
Thanks again for the support, Steve! And the name is both a blessing and a curse.
The site is updated now and I've dropped a link to Hive in my LinkedIn summary so fingers crossed!
Thanks for flagging the #IntroduceYourself Tag -- I'll be taking a dive into this. I'm excited to join the community and see what people are sharing.
No problem. I know it can be confusing to start with and I don't want people to be put off.