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Bloggeries is going to look at a blog in a unique niche today, and the blog is called the Avelient Bio Pharm Blog.  This Bio Pharm Blog is run by Mariano Di Fabio and Scott Alexander, who have a wealth of experience in this industry.  Mariano blogs with over 10 years experience as a consulting professional in the Pharmaceutical industry, and he joined with his  business partner Scott to create Avelient. Avelient is a  a project-oriented, full service IT Solutions Provider, specializing in team-based service delivery for Pharmaceutical companies in New York and New Jersey and the blog is a reflection of their work.  The blog is used as a forum for readers to discuss ideas and opinions in the industry. You can see this for yourself through any of their recent bloggeries: $10,000 Health Challenge to Big Pharma, Back to Virtuality, Spurious Motivation, Drinking Other’s Prescriptions, Morphing Blood, and Professional Lab Rats.

The blog offers a clean layout and design which ordinarily would make navigation easy, however there is little blog meat on this blog making navigation cumbersome.  Bloggeries are left marginalized in black text on white background with a beige border.  In the right navigation system you will find a tag cloud, a Biopharm Books and Products menu, Directory Widgets, AdSense, Blog Calendar, Contributors Menu, and Related Groups Menu.  While I see a lot of interesting information related to the niche located on the blog, I do not see many features that the blog could use to connect with its readership. Things of this nature would include Recent Comments Menus, Categories Menu, and general blog meat.  Each bloggery is also very textual with little to no pictures associated within the bloggeries, making the blog a little to informational. In order to lessen this effect, some graphics within posts may help.

Overall I give this blog a 2.4/5 as it is a good blog just seriously lacking in several areas.  From an appearance perspective, the blog is far too texty, and while it offers a clean layout, some graphics would add to its appearance. A graphic here and there would do wonders to interst the first time reader; I couldn’t even find an image to attach for this blog review… Content wise the blog does great with well written content that the readers can connect to, however, activity is hurting this blog as well. This blog has two bloggeries from June on the main page, but nothing more recent than that since April. This kind of activity is not enough to sustain a readership and the blogger needs to get on the updates.  The blog offers a unique enough niche that it can target with more consistent content, and with a few tweaks to the navigation and organization of the blog, it could develop a healthy readership in order to see some growth and success.

-Chrissie

Bloggeries is going to look at another personal blog, and this blog is called Pinoy Dreamer.  Pinoy Dreamer is a blog that ‘started in dreams, and ended in reality’.  The blogger is a 20 year old blogger from the Philippines, and is currently working on his CPA.  He has been a writer since elementary school and has always enjoyed writing essays, sports reviews, and more.  The blogger wishes you will join him on his quest of making his dreams a reality. He has started from scratch and has not gained anything yet, but is still dreaming that his efforts will not be wasted.  He wishes you will join him and together he and his readers can make their dreams a reality.  You can see what he means by this by checking out any of his most recent bloggeries:  The after grad sentiments, Extending My Traffic Sources, PDmo#2, I’m Back, No More Monthly Hosting Bills for Me, I’ve Spent $7.15 for a New Blog, The Making of a CPA: Some Useful Tips to Consider, and How to Properly Account Your Blog’s Income Part 1: Recognizing Revenue.

The blog does have somewhat of a busy theme, and this compromises its navigation somewhat.  The blog offers a top navigation system, as well as two right marginalized navigation systems.  Bloggeries are left marginalized and are in black text on white background and the blog theme and animations almost have a comic book theme to it.  In the top navigation bar you will find links to the Home page, About, About Me, Contact Form, Free Pinoy Blog Reviews, Privacy Policy, and a Sitemap.  In the left sided navigation bar you will find some advertising and a categories menu that contains categories such as Blogging Issues, Business, Games, Humor, Internet, Lifestyle, Opinion, Politics, Religion, and more.  In the far right navigation bar you will find the blogroll, Archives Menu, and Recent Posts Menu.  Moving down you will find this blog also offers a navigation system in the footer. Here you will find quite a bit of blog meat that you may have missed such as Recent Posts, Recent Comments, Most Comments (Top Commentators), Recent Readers widget, Popular Entries, and more information about the blogger.

This blog will get a 2.6/5 for now, but I attribute this primarily to the fact that this is a fairly new blog and with some time and some tweaks this blog will do well.  From a navigation standpoint the blog is a little disorganized with so many navigation systems.  The top navigation bar offers two about pages, and one should be deleted to maintain a professional look.  In the first about page the reader is taken to a standard wordpress page and this should be deleted.  As for the about page itself, I am not quite sure what this blog is about. It appears to be a personal blog, but the blogger only writes about making dreams a reality and does not quite specify what the intention of the blog is.  The blogger needs to clarify this for his readers a little bit.  I did find more information about the blogger in the blog’s third about box, which is located in the footer of the blog. Unfortunately I did not see this until well into the review, and this may affect the blogger’s credibility with its readership if the readers can not connect fully with the blogger. Moving this will improve the visibility of the blogger as well.  The content is well written and in a strong personal voice that readers will identify with, but activity is weak with content coming in with a week or more in between bloggeries.  For such a young blog, I do recommend much more regular, if not daily, bloggeries to bring in traffic and to sustain the credibility of the blogger.  This blog however does offer a lot of potential, and with a little organization it could be a very good blog for its readership. Finally I noticed many ad spots available; you may wish to try our blog directory affiliate program.

– Chrissie

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Bloggeries is going to review a humorous personal blog today, and the blog is called Blogstress.  The blogger is affectionately known as Aunt Bloggie, among many other nicknames, and blogs out of Istanbul, Turkey when not living in Baltimore, Maryland.  Besides working at his day job, you will find him blogging at Blogstress and playing bass for the Turkish Rock Band sensation called 45 Degrees.  From first glance it appears that the blog is a question and answer blog, with questions being submitted by readers and answered by Aunt Bloggie.  Questions range on everything from Shakespeare to blogging, and you can see this all for yourself through any of the recent bloggeries:  Aunt Bloggie Versus Sententious Drivel, Aunt Bloggie Feels More Alive, Aunt Bloggie’s “Ask Aunt Bloggie” Contest Give Away, Aunt Bloggie Knows You Know She Knows, and Delete or Not Delete?

The blog is fairly new, in fact not quite a month old yet, and contains little blog meat.  While this does make the blog seem a little scarce, it makes navigation somewhat simple.  Bloggeries are left marginalized and are in black text on white background with headlines highlighted in grey, and links in bold black.  There is a right navigation system containing the Archives Menu in pull down format, Blog Directory, Blogroll, Recent Posts Menu, and a Recent Comments Menu.  Otherwise there is little contained in the blog, and bloggeries have small images of a woman working at her desk, theoretically to symbolize the image of Aunt Bloggie.  Otherwise, the blog is primarily textual.

Overall the blog gets a 2.8/5 at this point, however the blog is so new that perhaps with some time and growth the blog will improve.  The blog is containing very little blog meat and this is affecting its overall readability.  Starting off, it is very difficult even to tell what the blog is about, and thus, what it has to offer its readers. Two components would assist readers in this, a Categories Menu and an About Page. The blog currently only offers one of those elements in the About page, but the about page itself needs some work.  From the About page we learn more about the blogger himself, and less about what the blog has to offer its readership.  As such, the readers may be left questioning what the purpose or overall function of the blog is.  Most blog meat is present, but a Categories Menu would organize the blog more as well making the bloggeries more available to the readership in an organized format.  The appearance of the blog needs just a little tweaking in terms of fonts that are used, and cleaning up the appearance of the bloggeries.  Right now bloggeries are not consistent in terms of fonts used, with font sizes ranging such that some bloggeries are very difficult to read.  Also, the activity for a new blog should be much more consistent, daily if possible, in order to attract traffic, and this blog is updating every few days to a week or more in between.  The content however is very well written, but because of some of these issues, is perhaps being overlooked by its readers.  Perhaps with some tweaks here and there and some growth with time, the quality content on this blog will begin to stand out on its own.

-Chrissie

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