Guest Thinkers — February 16, 2011

Top posts of the year?

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I’m hoping that most of us bloggers will do what some folks did last December: create a top 10 (or so) list of their favorite / most important / most popular blog posts of the calendar year. I found some really great posts last year that I had missed because some bloggers did this.

I’m already thinking about what mine might be!

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