Things You Can Do When Your Favorite Social Media Sites Go Down

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If you my read blog regularly, you know that I tend to mention Blog Engage and occasionally Blogging Wire in my posts. What you do not know is that I spend a lot of my free time on those sites, commenting, voting or working on a new blog post on my Blogging Wire account. Normally on Fridays, I spend most of the morning voting and reading new blog posts that were added. Well today that didn’t happen. When the sites went down, they went down hard and they have been out all of Friday. But Brian, the owner of the sites has been working hard to bring the sites back up. He often tweets out messages with updates and what might be the issue. Because of this, I had to re-plan my social media / blogging schedule. So I set there and tried to figure what I could to burn up my free time at work today.

First I should explain what Blog Engage and Blogging Wire is. In short, both communities are DoFollow Communties created by Brian (@bbrian017) that serves the blogging community. Blog Engage is an invite only revenue sharing blog submission site. Blogging Wire is another community by Brian, but this is a community like WordPress.com running BuddyPress. Brian set this site up for anyone wanting a free blog. He allows you do anything you want and your work is yours and the creator has 100% owner ship of their blog. This site has a better selection of themes, plugins, and revenue options he allows to use on your site. For more information, check it out.

What Can You Do When Blog Engage and Blogging Wire Goes Down?

After sitting around for a few minutes I wrote up a game plan that be could be used if Blog Engage and Blogging Wire goes down again. Of course, if you do not use Blog Engage or Blogging Wire, Why aren’t you? You can use it whenever any of your social media sites goes goes or if you get some free time in your schedule.

1. Work on your blog. There is never enough time to work on you blog, there almost always something to do. You can work on customizing your theme. You can do some spring cleaning by getting rid of any unused plugins.
2. You can research ways to secure your WordPress account.
3. If you get your maintenance work completed, you can always work on your next few posts and get them lined for the week.
4. Start researching that next big blog article that’s going to make you famous.
5. You can read and comment more on blogs. Today when I wasn’t working on my blog or working on new posts, I went through my lists of blogs I haven’t visited in a while and got caught up with some reading.
6. Get on Twitter and spend more time engaging with your followers those that you follow.
7. Visit some of your other social media sites you have been neglecting.
8. Find new social new social networks to market your sites.
9. Learn more about your niche
10. Read a good book.
11. Ready a crappy book.
12. Spend time with your friends and family
13. If you can’t find anything else to do, you could always spin around and around on your office chair until the site comes back up.

What are some your tips? I will take your tips and add them to this post. So share away.