It has been announced on the Official Blog Engage Blog that it has closed its registrations and is now only allowing invited members, this was bound to happen as the community has grown since it started.

Blog Engage is one of the best sites to get your blog seen, commented on and generally improve you experience in the blogosphere, its members get to submit their article for other to view and vote on and then you can also do the same vote on new articles, comment on them at Blog Engage and on the actually blog.

So do you like the sound of BlogEngage?

If your answer is yes then you need to join, there are two ways to become a member of BlogEngage.

• Join the Blog Forums and request an invitation by posting.
• Know a friend on the inside. All members have the opportunity to send you an invitation.

I’ve been a member of BlogEngage since August 2009 and have found some great blogs to read and met new friends along the way, so it’s a brilliant blogging community, one of which I highly recommend.

So what are you waiting for

I’ve been a member of BlogEngage since August last year and out of all the websites that I visit to find blogs to read or useful information it’s one of the sites that always has me coming back time and time again.

What makes BlogEngage so appealing to me is the diversity of the article that are listed, you can find article on music, art and design, blogging tips, celebrities, technology, employment, web design and much, much more.

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Welcome to another in my series of Blogger Interviews, as mentioned before, each week I will be interviewing a fellow blogger who has kindly answered my blogging questions, so let’s get on with it…

Q: Please tell my readers a little something about yourself?
A: My name is Ileane and I am from Philly. I’ve lived here all my life and I love the city. I work for a publisher of technical books and journals where I’m very involved with the Academic Outreach program. It gives me the opportunity to communicate with educators, librarians and college students. One of the most exciting parts of my job is visiting college campuses and attending educational conferences.

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Continuing my series of weekly updates from the Blazing Minds blog where I list blog posts I’ve enjoyed reading as well as some of the stats for the week, such as the top 5 referring websites that have graciously sent me some traffic over the week.

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A lot of you reading my blog will of noticed that I have a vote for BlogEngage, this is a fantastic website that has a great amount of bloggers and interesting posts to read and vote on.

I going to take this opportunity to thank all the users on BlogEngage that have voted for my various posts that I have submitted to BlogEngage and a special big thanks to those that have helped my top voted posts there also. Read the rest of this entry »

Now I’ve been blogging on Blazing Minds for over a year now, though I had a bit of a slow start and didn’t usually get that many comments back and my earlier blog posts where somewhat short and far between, over the past year my blogging has improved, so I would like to take the opportunity to give some blogging tips to you all on what I’ve personally learned.

1. Write informative blog posts.
   Even if they are just about what you did in the day, show that whatever you did you have a bit of knowledge about it.
2. Write as you!
   When you typing out your blog post, type it out as if you are talking to someone and write as you would talk with all you little quirks that you would normally have when talking to someone.
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Now recently on the advice from ExtremeJohn on his post about StumbleUpon I decided to join, downloaded the handy FireFox plugin and set on my merry way of Stumbling on sites, blogs etc that I was visiting and enjoying!

Then lo and behold the other day I had an email informing me that my account had been suspended, banned from Stumbleupon, don’t ask me why, I’ve no idea, I was clicking the “Thumbs Up”  in the Toolbar of sites I like, not doing anything wrong there surely!

I even sent StumbleUpon a message via their feedback option, as mentioned in their email, but nothing, no response at all! So if this is the way that they treat users, then as far as I’m concerned then they do indeed suck big time, I have surfed today and found several bloggers that have had similar problems, my advice to anyone wanting to use StumbleUpon is DON’T, use BlogEngage instead, where you get a response when needed, not just ignored

There you go, rant over!