Mentoring is crucial in all aspects of life! On Steemit, with so much to learn and so much to gain it's essential! Let's briefly look at 4 different ways to give and receive help. Please keep in mind that there are many "how to" articles on Steemit.com itself and every member has the responsibility of doing lots of learning on their own.

Like any willing student @airmatti is taking notes during our mentoring session! What a great guy!

The other day  a fairly new Steemer @airmatti came to visit me to get some help with Steeming! He's very nice, an interesting guy and a talented artist. Although I'm about 30 years older than him we have a lot in common and we're becoming good friends! Please check out his site @airmatti

1.) Mentoring In Person

We had a great time discussing Steemit and I was able to show him some of the "tricks of the trade" that I've learned over this past year! This was the first time that I've mentored someone in person and there are huge advantages to showing someone things in a practical way!

Here Is Some Of What We Discussed

• He had posted this example of his work that morning from home: Kids animals #2: Little Red Panda taking a nap and we decided to edit it a bit on my computer. I showed him how to send me the html code so that we could work on my nice big Mac! We added a nice footer with his logo and I showed him how to use the built in editor to change font sizes, and add links and bullet points. 
• We also discussed adding a few facts about the subject of his art rather than simply posting a picture of it. He added some info to make things more interesting and now that he knows better how things work he'll fly!
• Next I showed him some of the artists on Steemit that he could follow and interact with and since I have a good rapport with them I asked a few, by means of steemit.chat if they could have a look at his post!
• We then examined busy.org and beta.chainbb.com so that he could see other interface options! He already knew about e steem.
• I was also able to answer any and all questions about Steem, Steempower, SBD, curating, building a brand and the value of commenting among other things! What a great session!

I'm looking forward to seeing some incredible things form @airmatti in the future!

2.) Mentoring Via Video Conference

I've only had the chance to do this once. It was with @fistaganos and it was a wonderful experience to speak to a Steemer in Nigeria while sitting in my office in Switzerland! Try it and I'm sure that you'll love it! Below you can read about the experience. 

The Old Dog Reports: In Africa, Steemit is Changing One Life At A Time. Meet @fisteganos

I'd definitely recommend this type of interaction!

3.) Mentoring On steemit.chat

From time to time I get a pm in steemit.chat with a request for mentoring. If I can, I'm willing to help out. That was the case last week with @steemlifestyle. We don't know each other but he reached out to me. Here's a bit of our conversation.

It was great communicating with, helping and getting to know @steemlifestye He's doing great so check him out!

4.) Mentoring By Leaving Comments On Posts!

Below you can see the post of one of our younger members, 13 year old @nba05. He is the son of another Steemer that I was able to help a bit @mathworksheets. Notice the comment that I made on his post and then if you're interested take a look at how much better @nba05 is doing now!

Why not follow @nba05. We need to support our young members and perhaps you could give him some tips too!

Sometimes after communicating with someone on their post I invite them into steemit.chat to do some more private mentoring!

Remember: If We're Going To Succeed We need To Do It Together!

I hope that you enjoyed this article about four ways to mentor!

Until next time,

@kus-knee (The Old Dog)

Remember, I reward the best comment(s) on each of my posts with my "The Old Dog is Throwing You a Bone" program! So please re-steem and follow so that we can spread the wealth!