The MBA Channel blog is part of a bigger site with the same name. The blog part is just a tab in the bigger MBA Channel. The blog, as with the whole website, is directed toward MBA students and businesspeople. While the whole site is host to several interesting articles that tackle MBA schools, business news, business events, and other related topics, the blog is fairly new. The blog is actually a share button, wherein people can put in their own business- or MBA-related articles and greetings.
What’s commendable
The MBA Channel is rife with MBA articles. The tab/button feature is a clean way to make navigation through these articles and categories fast and easy. Each tab has a drop-down menu that contains subcategories of the highlighted category tab. Browsing the MBA Channel does not only provide you with static information but also connects you with the rest of the business world. News and events all over the business world provides you with a buffet of ideas that may be incorporated into your business or education. MBA Channel even has a search engine that can pore through the site based on a particular category: articles, schools, or events.
The design is clean and professional-looking. It also features very little ads, and whatever ads are present are related to what MBA channel is all about: business and business schools. Not all articles, however, are given titles that are neither drearily formal nor uncreative. The article An Embarrassing Story sounds like it could have come from a personal blog site, but it is not. It is actually a business news article. By the time you have clicked it, you are hooked. You must be if you are into MBA schools and business yourself.
The downsides
Though MBA Channel is a great site to explore, the true blog part is still in need of more entries. Given that most of the information is already featured in the rest of the site, readers may need more readable entries as those in the MBA Channel blog.
The GMAT Club blog is a collective effort of current and past business students, GMAT (Graduate Management Admission Test) experts, and other people who are just interested in business schools and GMAT itself. The blog entries aim at helping GMAT examinees get higher scores and preparing GMAT passers for business school. Those who have gone through both processes–GMAT exam and business school applications, that is–contribute to the wealth of knowledge of the GMAT Club blog.
What the blog is all about
The GMAT Club blog is not just a random set of GMAT-related articles. The blog really intends to help those who want to score high at GMAT to get into business school. A proof of this is its user-friendliness. The articles are divided into categories. Instead of going with the diary-style monthly divisions, the GMAT Club blog makes use of a different set of links. It even has a “How to Use” inside link. This link directs the visitor to a clean page, which basically makes him or her choose his or her interest in the site. Here, the site’s resources branch out into three categories: GMAT takers, business school enrolees, and contributors.
The blog does show that what you learn at business school should be implemented. In fact, its entrepreneurial side reveals itself through the GMAT sample tests that are available for a fee. The GMAT Club also provides free tests, reviews, and other resources.
A few suggestions
Much have been said about the plentiful resources of the GMAT Club blog. It even has a GMAT score estimator. The comments that arise are generally positive. A possible improvement, however, could be selling its own recommended and reviewed books so that payment for the premium GMAT tests and the books can be done at one go.
FIND MBA BLOG is directed toward prospective and current MBA students. It features articles on various MBA programs across and outside the country. There are even interviews of MBA students and of those who are already in the world of business.
The highs
The articles in the FIND MBA BLOG are organized by categories and the months that they were written. An article can belong to more than one category. The article A Sneak Peek at Stanford’s Annual Cool Product Expo can be found under California, Media & Design and Energy & Natural Resources.
While other MBA guide blogs will focus more on different MBA schools, Find MBA BLOG provides you with the opportunity to know what actual people think of the MBA program that they are or were in. The interview articles are great additions to this MBA blog. The interviews beat out school reviews in that the person interviewed is actually experiencing or have experienced what the program and the school are like.
Other interviews provide insights on what students have to expect after they graduate. There is also an emphasis on the right values and attitudes that should accompany an MBA degree in order to succeed in business. Readers will then know whether they are in the right field or not.
Aside from the impressive interviews, Find MBA BLOG offers a book review section. Of course, the focus is still on MBA. An interactive MBA school map for Asia is also included. The map helps you find MBA schools per country in Asia.
The lows
While there are many helpful articles and interviews, the categories are less than helpful. The categories are only helpful to those who are only looking for a few articles here and there. But for those who want to use the blog extensively, it may not be as helpful. This is because place categories can include a jumble of topics whose only connection is the place. The categories are more like tags. There should be a separate set of categories to set apart events, interviews, book reviews, and maps. There should also be more maps and book reviews included.
Find College Cards is a blog that is created to provide a general guideline for college and graduate students. There are even resources for those who have just finished high school. High school graduates will know what to expect from college while being guided as to what schools they can go to, given their chosen fields.
What sets it apart
Usually, guides about college exclusively focus on college life. There would be info on apartment houses, dorm rooms, cheaper books, and the like. However, Find College Cards went further by also providing reviews of universities for the most popular fields. Of course, the top universities of the country have also been featured. High school graduates won’t only know what college living is like but will also determine the right university for them. Even those who are already in college may realize that there is a better school out there for them. Find College Cards only confirms it for them.
An interesting article that found its way into Find College Cards’ archives is Obama’s Community College Plan. Find College Cards is not restricting the college students’ and future college students’ point of view within the walls of an Ivy League school, or even within the walls of a community college for that matter, but is also expanding their thoughts toward the greater picture. Students will know how education is being regarded by the government.
The blog is easy to navigate. The articles are divided by categories and also by the months when they are written. The background design is simple.
What are the glitches
While the blog is very easy to navigate, the categories should be tweaked a little. To be specific, there is a category named “College Life,” but many of the other categories are actually aspects of college life. Some of the articles included in this category could actually also belong into the other separate categories. What I suggest is that the “College Life” category be removed from the list, and the articles placed in the specific, separate categories. For example, there are dating articles under “College Life.” They can be moved to the category named “Dating.”
F1 GMAT is basically what its name suggests, a help blog on the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT). It is directed toward students who are planning to take the GMAT. The site contains articles, blog entries, inside resources, and links that will help prepare students for the big management entrance exam.
What makes F1 GMAT different from other GMAT sites or blogs?
The blog site features not only articles that prepare you for GMAT but also features articles on the MBA culture. These articles can be found under the “Interesting Reads” section. There are also links to tips, tutorials, and techniques. The blog actually shares specific techniques such as fast multiplication. The writers of the site take the different aspects of GMAT preparation in consideration. The MBA culture articles get future GMAT examinees a taste of their future in MBA schools and beyond. If the culture presented is not that appetizing, there is a chance to back down.
The blog is really very resourceful. It includes business trends that provide insights to upcoming and current students who dream of having their own enterprise one day. F1 GMAT is actually a whole dream in a package. The dream is made more tangible by all the technical help provided. It has a directory of outside resources, articles, tutorials, and the like. Having all of them in one page of the F1 GMAT blog saves time for a GMAT reviewer. It is a whole library of GMAT resources.
Are there things to improve on?
While there are tons of helpful links within the F1 GMAT, getting to those links when you are an actual reviewer is more challenging. You can always go through everything if you want to take advantage of every bit of information. However, if you are in a rush and need just one thing, you may have a hard time looking for that topic or resource. The entries are all over the page. There may be a section on popular content and interesting reads, but you have no idea if they are all that the site has when it comes to articles. Other sections point to videos and outside links, instead of articles. Better categorizing is recommended to the site with probably, a user’s manual for serious visitors.
