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Tuesday, December 01, 2009

2009 Top Posts and Topics

It’s interesting at the end of the year to go back through blog posts to see what my Best of 2009 is.  I’ll also do a post similar to my post last year 2008 2009 that will look at my 12 eLearning Predictions for 2009.  But for now, let me just focus on my Best of 2009.

To create this list, I’m using eLearning Learning as described in Using Special Parameters to Create Year End Post for details on how I’ve come up with this list.  I’m including posts from December 2008.

Top 20 eLearning Technology Posts for 2009

  1. 12 eLearning Predictions for 2009
  2. Top 100 eLearning Items
  3. LinkedIn Guide for Knowledge Workers
  4. Collaboration Tools
  5. Twitter as Personal Learning and Work Tool
  6. Top 99 Workplace eLearning Blogs
  7. Twitter Conference Ideas
  8. Using SharePoint
  9. How to Download YouTube Videos
  10. eLearning Conferences 2010
  11. Tool Set 2009
  12. LMS and Social Learning
  13. Business of Learning
  14. Web Conferencing Services
  15. eLearning Costs
  16. Twitter and Webinars
  17. Remote Collaboration
  18. Share Best Practices – Patterns
  19. 100 Conversation Topics
  20. Better Memory

Other Notable Posts

  1. Rapid Learning Management Systems
  2. eLearning Strategy
  3. How long does it take to select an LMS?
  4. Discussion Forums for Knowledge Sharing at Capital City Bank
  5. eLearning Portal Integration
  6. Data Driven

Notable Topics for 2009

Work Skills and Knowledge Work

SharePoint

Long Tail

Side Note – Read Counts

I also looked at the top posts according to read counts.  What I found is that read counts are actually dominated by mostly older posts.  Here are the top 25 according to read counts:

  1. http://elearningtech.blogspot.com/2006/02/what-is-elearning-20.html
  2. http://elearningtech.blogspot.com/2006/09/rapid-elearning-tools.html
  3. http://elearningtech.blogspot.com/2008/12/how-to-download-youtube-videos.html
  4. http://elearningtech.blogspot.com/2007/11/flash-quiz-tools.html
  5. http://elearningtech.blogspot.com/2007/09/lms-satisfaction-features-and-barriers.html
  6. http://elearningtech.blogspot.com/2007/04/elearning-software.html
  7. http://elearningtech.blogspot.com/2006/03/software-simulation-elearning-w-links.html
  8. http://elearningtech.blogspot.com/2007/03/elearning-trends.html
  9. http://elearningtech.blogspot.com/2008/12/sharepoint-examples.html
  10. http://elearningtech.blogspot.com/2007/02/course-authoring-and-rapid-elearning.html
  11. http://elearningtech.blogspot.com/2007/10/video-format-comparison-flash-wmv.html
  12. http://elearningtech.blogspot.com/2009/01/12-elearning-predictions-for-2009.html
  13. http://elearningtech.blogspot.com/2008/04/100-elearning-articles-and-white-papers.html
  14. http://elearningtech.blogspot.com/2009/01/elearning-conferences.html
  15. http://elearningtech.blogspot.com/2009/09/learntrends-2009-free-online-conference.html
  16. http://elearningtech.blogspot.com/2008/12/using-sharepoint.html
  17. http://elearningtech.blogspot.com/2008/01/test-scorm-courses-with-lms.html
  18. http://elearningtech.blogspot.com/2008/09/training-method-trends.html
  19. http://elearningtech.blogspot.com/2008/12/collaboration-tools.html
  20. http://elearningtech.blogspot.com/2007/10/roi-and-metrics-in-elearning.html
  21. http://elearningtech.blogspot.com/2008/01/request-for-proposal-rfp-samples.html
  22. http://elearningtech.blogspot.com/2008/06/free-flash-quiz-tools.html
  23. http://elearningtech.blogspot.com/2009/04/top-100-elearning-items.html
  24. http://elearningtech.blogspot.com/2006/08/first-time-visitor-guide.html
  25. http://elearningtech.blogspot.com/2007/04/authoring-tools.html

The ones from the time frame shown above are already listed in the top list.

  1. http://elearningtech.blogspot.com/2008/12/how-to-download-youtube-videos.html
  2. http://elearningtech.blogspot.com/2008/12/sharepoint-examples.html
  3. http://elearningtech.blogspot.com/2009/01/12-elearning-predictions-for-2009.html
  4. http://elearningtech.blogspot.com/2009/01/elearning-conferences.html
  5. http://elearningtech.blogspot.com/2009/09/learntrends-2009-free-online-conference.html
  6. http://elearningtech.blogspot.com/2008/12/using-sharepoint.html
  7. http://elearningtech.blogspot.com/2008/12/collaboration-tools.html
  8. http://elearningtech.blogspot.com/2009/04/top-100-elearning-items.html

For some reason, December last year was a really good month for posts and page views.

2 comments:

Cindy Edwards said...

I'd love to see the number one post, "12 eLearning Predictions," revisited again in 2010. Is that in the works?

Tony Karrer said...

Cindy - I have that in the works!