I know several women online who are moms and who use internet to stay updated with the right purpose of educating their children in the best way possible, but they often have to face problems due to the differences of generation and sometimes this ends up disheartening them.

Well, from now on, with the blog which I am about to review, you will have a great help in accomplishing your aim!

In fact, Connect with your Teens through Pop Culture and Technology wants to help parents to keep up with the modern society to stay connected with their teenage children.

Its owner, Jennifer, is obviously a mom of teens who is addicted to pop culture and has learnt to be tech-savvy for her jobs; she has both an MLS and a JD degrees, worked for years in the field of the internet research, especially as academic law librarian. She was also the coordinator of a conference program called "Multitasking Millennials" and had the chance to run a computer school for kids; now she is working at the Paley Center for Media in NY.

This varied background taught successfully Jennifer the right way to explore the differences occurred in offline and online media and technology during the years, analyzing the development from past to present and imagining the future, all with the steady belief that a meeting-point for teens and parents is really possible to have a better dialogue, which can generate a better understanding between the generations and obviously allows to have more serene and conscious relationships.

Jennifer creates a totally original content, using often her own experience and memories to introduce the topics of her entries. Her reader immediately realizes that she pays extreme attention to every detail of the subjects which she examines, always finding the best connections to face and solve the problems due to the change of society during the years.

Well, I am not a mom yet, but I guess that, thanks to the desire of sharing her remarkable attempts and knowledge, Jennifer offers a big opportunity to every mom to actually appear cool to her teens, like it happened for her, and to learn better how to rear her children making them feel a real emotional nearness; I even think that everybody who works close to children and who has something to do with them should read the Connect with your Teens through Pop Culture and Technology blog, because the society is changing so fast and we really need to find meeting-points between the generations to avoid to lose the best of us.

Every day you can find a new interesting post there, with several links to great resources, pictures and examples which support the fantastic job made by Jennifer.

The design is very neat, the content is clear, well-organized, divided per month and labels and offers a great list of blogs about similar and related topics; in this blog, you can also find some buttons to recommend your favourite entries and, for what I saw, I can affirm that all the Jennifer's posts are quite famous, especially on Digg.com…this shows clearly that the content is really useful!

What are you waiting for? I am sure that you are too curious to discover new great ways to connect with your teens, so visit Connect with your Teens through Pop Culture and Technology and start to look the modern society as a positive opportunity for an important and valuable meeting between generations.

Connect With Your Teens was recently given an award for being "a blog that takes entertainment and celebrity happenings and breaks it down for parents to deal with their teens."

This social media tool reviewer doesn't critique tools, but observes them objectively with the goal of helping readers make money online.

As mentioned in a recent Twitter status update, "I try out every tool. I'm not against any of them. Is it really a big deal?"

It is indeed a big deal when you're in such a big niche.

Social media and social media marketing have become buzz words over the past few years and people from tech geeks to the uber chic have come across a social media enabled tool, even if they didn't know what it was called.

Charnita's challenge in the months to come will be to differentiate her site from those of other social media enthusiasts. There are three basic ways to do this which are content, traffic and monetization.

Content is the first and best to set yourself apart in a big niche or establish yourself as the dominant player in a newer niche. Charnita writes several times per week to update readers on "Cool Tools." With a design layout that screams social media at every turn, Charnita demonstrates her credibility quickly.

Traffic peaks and valleys can often happen when relying on your own social media participation for visitors. As soon as you take a day off, your traffic suffers. A consideration may be to include some sticky content (like a regular series) or to co-host a community on one or more social networks. Either option will allow for the occasional business or leisure trip while generating growing traffic over time.

Monetization comes after both the content and qualified traffic but once both are in place, generating sustaining revenue is much easier. With spaces for sponsors and featured advertisers, Charnita may want to consider adding in-depth reviews with affiliate links - or other monetization option - to supplement the current banner icons.

With the basics laid down, Charnita is poised to become a social media tool critic on par with the best movie reviewers. Once a niche is chosen and a target market considered, it will be easy to differentiate both Charnita and the Social Web Tools blog.

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Blog Name: Social Web Tools
Blog URL: http://socialwebtools.info/
Blogger(s): Charnita
Age: 3 months
Feed: http://socialwebtools.info/feed/

Have you noticed? There has been more and more talk of women bloggers lately. Could it be because the public is finally realizing how much influence women bloggers actually have within the Blogosphere?

I think we can all agree that there has never been a lack of women bloggers on the internet. I think most women take to blogging naturally because we love to communicate. The recent awareness of women bloggers has more to do with women reaching "influencer" status.

Most top bloggers lists are based on Alexa and Technorati rankings. An influencer is usually define by how popular the site is in general and how many people are being reached. Though the way a person is gauged as a influencer can be a bit inaccurate, there a few ways you can discover the true popularity of a blogger.

I not going to get into what I believe is the best way to gauge someone's influence today but I will say this. One person may see a celebrity but another person has never heard of them. That is to say, gauging someones influence is not all together accurate in any way, shape or form because each person is "influenced" in different ways.

That being said, there are a number of lists floating around the Blogosphere that where created by people who found a way to gauge influence as best they could.

I have compiled a list of 13 "Top" lists. Some of these lists are a few years old others are only a few days old.

1. The 100 Australian Women's Blogs
2. Top 10 Women Entrepreneur Blogs
3. Top 12 Women Real Estate Bloggers - 2007 Edition
4. The Magical List of Outstanding Women Bloggers
5. My Top 10 Best Women Bloggers with Influence - Part 1 & Part 2
6. The W List: Oustanding Women Bloggers
7. 10 Most Powerful Women in Blogging
8. 100 Awesome Webmaster Blogs by and for Women - I'm on this list! # 64
9. Top 100 Personal Finance Blogs. How Do Women Rank?
10. Top 100 Female Bloggers - Updated July 7th, 2008
11. BlogHer: Who Are Your Favorite Women Bloggers
12. NxE’s Fifty Most Influential ‘Female’ Bloggers- Posted July 18th, 2008
13. 5 Top Influential Women Bloggers - Part l & Part ll

In 2006 cnet News came up with their own top 100 blogs lists. At the time only eight of bloggers on the list were women.  I think if cnet decided to compile a list today (check but couldn't find an updated list)  the count of women bloggers would be much higher.

Lists such as these are fun to read and exciting to be apart of but let's not forget what influence really is. Each blogger has the potential to become an influencer with in their own blogging community. Your influencing reach might not be as far as others but your influence still has a reach.

Women Blog. Women Influence. Women Earn! (Respect, Income and --you fill in the blank--)

For a person who has never had a weight issue until recently, Asithi has covered the topic on her 6-month old blog Small Steps to Health, due to a midday traffic accident that left her with a new set of body dynamics with which to deal.

Asithi only has 15 pounds to get back to her goal weight but with an 800-pound gorilla of a niche, she has her work cut out for her.

The diet and weight loss industry in America commanded as much as $35 billion annually in 2006, according to a CBS News report. With obesity on the rise, that figure has certainly gotten more plump and a lot of businesses want a slice of the pie.

Asithi states that she has a 'part-time blog with a full-time job' which means her online writing is more of a hobby that is only required to gain enough revenue to pay for its own hosting fee.

Despite this, she has a good chance of succeeding with monetization since she notices additional traffic when posting on certain topics. "The few posts I wrote about exercise injuries, I've actually gotten a lot of hits from that. I notice on some of the other health and fitness blogs, they really don't touch too much about that either or go into details talking about it," she said during a recent phone conversation.

It would be helpful to fuel that interest with a few keyword optimized posts that are more likely to generate even more contextual advertising revenue. For example, it may make sense to include the occasional post on the benefits of car accident insurance and how it can help during the recovery process, but Asithi's content direction will do well to avoid obvious AdSense monetization keywords about injury attorneys and claims.

With that kind of content direction and comfortable traffic levels that are currently averaging 100 unique visitors daily, her review also touches on design.

Considering her unique car accident recovery experience, Asithi may want to consider a header design that better reflects her special interest in healthy eating and weight loss. There is a lot of imagery that can reflect recovery, triumph or hard-won success and a graphic designer can custom make one for her quickly once she's able to distill and convey that unique positioning.

Her three-column layout betrays the wealth of content she's created in such a short time. The two sidebars, while great side by side (as opposed to separated by the body content), stop the visitor from quickly knowing what to do next. Testing her internal traffic flows once the Categories tag is above the scroll is in order.

Tossed onto the other side of a highway by a car doing a merge that covered multiple lanes, Asithi's blog is backed by a compelling story that should have more of an opportunity to shine: both for her personal health benefit and the further benefit of readers.

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Blog Name: Small Steps to Health
Blog URL: http://smallstepstohealth.com/
Blogger(s): Asithi
Platform: WordPress
Age: 6 months
Feed: http://smallstepstohealth.com/feed/

If writers are to blogs what chefs are to food, then LaTara Ham-Ying is a Chef de Cuisine. One of the newest blogs in her natural health communication web site network is a three-month old recipe membership site called Vegan Meal Helper.

With years of vegetarian eating under her belt, for herself and her family, she knows how to easily plan vegan meals and shares this in her blog.

So how can one enhance a network of health communication sites with a meal planning service for people on a strict vegetarian diet by blogging? LaTara was kind enough to give us a peek into her corporate kitchen.

LaTara got the idea to create a membership blog to offer simple meal planning for vegans but ran into a snag. "I couldn't afford or hire a VA to help me set up a membership site and the basic scripts are anywhere from $150 and up."

Instead, she applied a bit of do-it-yourself ingenuity to cook up a simple front end for her members and a robust backend. "Wow, I can do this for little or nothing," she quickly realized.

Front end: Members sign up via the
sales page get a password and username then login to the WordPress dashboard. "Very much like anyone who has a WordPress blog," she added.

Back end: There is limited member access to backend office thanks to a selection of WordPress plugins like these:

• BT-Active Discussions
• Member's Only
• Private Plus

When put together, she's able to offer monthly audios and tutorials along with exclusive articles on meal organization, vegan cooking and eating. The tight focus on veganism complements her web site network which focuses on natural health and living. Each site, whether it be on health communications or family living tips, promotes eating whole foods where ever possible. LaTara believes that whole foods will help her visitors take control of their health instead of their health controlling them.

When asked about her membership site's design, LaTara mentioned that she noticed one while surfing. "I was on somebody else'ssite and I liked the simplicity." When she found the original template source, she downloaded it and started to mold the simple template.

So simple, in fact, that she did the blog's header and colors herself. She admits that this site isn't a pure
do-it-yourself project, however. That's because LaTara, who is also a freelance writer and used to dealing with editing, got her design proofed by a professional graphic artist.

While this cook may be budget conscious, with the foresight to supplement her work with professional insight, she is resource rich. "I belong to a membership site for women called
MomMasterMinds.com and we have a wonderful network there of women. It's a very welcoming and secure environment. And I have Twitter where I can also connect with a lot of people. I might go on Twitter and say 'I need someone to proof my page for me.' I use social networking to find folks."

This self-proclaimed novice techie also credits social networking for her web site traffic. "It grows at a steady pace. Every month I get more visits," she added.

Monetizing your blog to make money with fruits and vegetables is possible and cooking coach, LaTara Ham-Ying has the chops to prove it.

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Blog Name: The Vegan Meal Helper
Blog URL: http://www.veganmealhelper.com/
Blogger(s): LaTara Ham-Ying, vegan cooking coach
Platform: WordPress 2.5.1
Age: 3 months
Feed: http://www.veganmealhelper.com/feed/

As one of the founding guest bloggers on HerProBlog.com, it's an honour to be a part of what is sure to be a great community of female~focused writers, executives, and artists among others.

Over the next few weeks, you will hear about the blogs I've discovered as well as blog reviews of both "probloggers" and "ambloggers."

The reviews will be nothing close to the famous Siskel & Ebert thumbs up or thumbs down. In fact, the discoveries and reviews shared with you will be constructive learning tools.

Whether you learn about a new food blog applying interesting techniques to generate revenue or of a business communications specialist blogging about family life, every post will include ready~to~implement tips that will help you with your blogging. This wide range of perspectives will help cast a new eye on your own online writing.

As a trained print journalist, writing online has proven to be a curiously puzzling exercise. From keywords to search engine optimization to social media applications, there is a lot to learn. Happily, all of it is fun and manageable with the right tools.

How do I know? While I've been "problogging" for a short month, I've been online for five years building a web site network that caters to multicultural groups in the health and beauty niche.

Consumer beauty blogs are many and while there is still plenty of room to make your mark in this niche, there's even more space for business beauty blogs. Which means that the business of beauty, especially multicultural marketing and selling, is my focus.

If you're also a beauty blogger, do share your area of expertise. Not a beauty blogger? Drop a line in the comments section as well because this area of HerProBlog.com is open to anyone interested in learning about other blogs and being the first to know the "Who~What~When~Where~Why" of new bloggers.

Sharing your passion will help me pick the reviews and discover the types of probloggers you wish to learn about!

My passion for building sustainable businesses online crosses niches. As an instructor for SiteSell Education, you can find me helping a diverse range of web site owners as they create their sites. With a

specialty in monetizing, blogging has been of interest to me for years as a method for business owners who are serious about their branding as well as their bottom line.

It's my hope that both your branding and bottom line will improve with the posts you find here in Discovery and Reviews.