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Name: Kristan Franco
Location: General Santos City

I’m proud to announce the redesign of Soccsksargen’s leading blog, Bariles Republic. It actually looked good before, but now it looks even better! Blogger Avel Manansala of General Santos City asked Winston Almendras to do the complete makeover of the site.

The layout of the blog is akin to an online magazine, which is what Bariles Republic is all about: an e-zine of Avel’s beloved city. This blog is one of the top nominees in Janette Toral’s writing project, the Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs of 2008.

Winston based the WordPress theme on Arthemia, and introduced a number of modifications and his own design elements.

Congratulations to Avel for a very inspiring blog! And kudos to Winston for an awesome theme design!

The 2nd Mindanao Bloggers Summit will be held in General Santos City. I’m proud to report that the organizing team will be led by Avel Manansala of Bariles Republic.

In the past months, the Soccsksargen bloggers have been quite active, and have been in close contact with the MindanaoBloggers core group in Davao all this time. For this reason, we are confident in their enthusiasm and ability to host the next summit.

Watch out for more announcements regarding MBS2 right here!