When I started Blazing Minds it was just a way for me to blog my thoughts etc. But since then the blog has really grown up, it’s now an avenue for Guest Bloggers bringing their wisdom to those that are reading the blog on a daily basis.

So now after over 500 posts, nearly 4,000 comments and several [intlink id="guest-bloggers" type="page"]Guest Bloggers[/intlink] posting on the blog, Blazing Minds has really got to a point where it is something that has done better than I originally hoped for, those that are writing constructive comments have certainly helped and since starting the blog I would like to think my blogging has improved, though I do keep to my style, if I didn’t then it just wouldn’t be me

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It’s just so surprising how quick the weeks seem to fly by these days, it only seem like yesterday that I was sitting here and grabbing all the information to make last weeks Weekly Round Up and yet here I am again with a collection of blog posts I’ve enjoyed reading, my top commentators, most read posts and more..

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Welcome to another interview in my new series, 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: First of all thank you for the great and awesome opportunity to introduce myself to your readers. Hello everyone, my name is Salman. I am from Hyderabad – India. I am a student come part-time blogger. I love blogging, making money online, gaining and sharing knowledge. Take a look at my blog Blogging Tips.

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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

So your blog site or hosting provider suffers an outage that lasts more than a few hours. What do you do to make sure your blogging time is as efficient as possible so that you can hit the ground running when your site comes back up?

In my case because my outage was caused by a Denial of Service attack that spanned several days I didn’t want to deliberately promote or encourage people to visit my sites, as this would cause them to hit page cannot be displayed, or time out errors from my blogs having outages. CommentLuv couldn’t contact my blogs to even display the latest feed article due to the outage, so it made commenting and leaving backlinks something that wouldn’t have been as productive.

Instead I turned to focusing on writing articles, using good old fashioned Textpad and just writing and writing, with the intention to just queue all the articles when my blogs came back online. I also used the time to publish a few haiku’s on associated content and write a guest article for some other sites. The bottom line is, even when your site is unavailable you can use the time to still be productive for your site.

Here are some top things you can do to still be productive with your site while under an outage (besides just writing as many articles as possible to queue for later).

• Network and build influence on [intlink id="109" type="category"]Twitter[/intlink] by taking some time to friend people in like categories, be interactive and promote other peoples articles instead of your own for a little while.

• Repeat the above with any other Social Network like BlogCatalog, Plurk, Friendster, Digg, BlogEngage…etc.

• Read up on some of the latest articles submitted to BlogEngage or Twittley, and tweet, vote and promote those articles if you found them good and interesting.

• Tune some of your browser bookmarks or build a new favorites list of blogs you visit often and can easily access and visit by opening all links in the same folder.

What are some of your tips on being productive for your blog, when your blog is down or inaccessible?

-Dragon Blogger

Yet again it’s time for this weeks Saturday Six and this week topic was chosen by myself and there is only one question with six answers..

1. Six Blogging Tips that every blogger should know?
   

There we go, one question with six answers for you to have fun with…

Ok, that’s it, thanks for taking part and I’m looking forward to everyone’s answers. Don’t forget to hit the “Tweet” button in the SexyBookMarks to ReTweet this weeks Saturday Six.

Anyone using Twitter can be part of the process by tweeting me a topic, I will then pick one randomly and the chosen topic will be used and the tweeter will have a DoFollow link to their website or blog as a thank you.

If you would like to nominate a topic then simply tweet me @RemBeatZ with your nominated topic and the hash tag #Sat6

Also if you take part in the Saturday Six you can join the Saturday Six Twub.. And don’t forget to vote for me at my interview at BlogInterviewer.

Yes it’s that time of the week for another in 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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