
A little over a week ago, I published 10 FREE killer WordPress themes in 2009 as my entry into Daniel Scocco’s Group Writing Project at Daily Blog Tips. As it turns out, Daniel ended up posting the 90 entries he received for “the best” of 2009.
After reading each of the excerpts and going to almost all of them directly, below is my best of the best. And trust me when I say I’ve never been to any of these blogs until today. They may not be from the most well-known blogs but I chose them because they were well-written and at least one of the following: entertaining, educational, or inspiring.
21 Lessons I Learned In 2009 That Gave Me The Greatest Return On My Investment – As many of you already know, I’m a big fan of learning lessons. Sheila’s list includes basics like set goals and have a plan, but I really liked her humility when she also listed things like ask for help and get a mentor.
Five ways the Internet made me a happier grandma in 2009 – Most of my family is local so using technology to stay in touch with loved ones isn’t really something that’s in the front of my brain. Lisa gives me a good reminder that not everyone is as fortunate as I am and explains how she leverages the internet to keep up with her grandson.
50 Inspiring People of 2009 – A wonderful list of people who all did something special in the past year. Stacey’s well thought-out collection triggered some of the best “feel good” news stories for me personally.
I know, I only picked a handful because most articles were just so-so. I must have looked through the list nearly 5-6 more times trying to squeeze another great article or two out but they’re just not there IMO.
In fact, about a third of the 90 entries were outright terrible; they are poorly-written, filled with typos, lack creativity, and utterly pointless. One of the reasons to participate was to take an opportunity to create a ‘pillar’ article, not just to get a free link. If these articles are really some of these authors’ best, I don’t want to see their everyday stuff!
So kudos to the bloggers who took this project seriously. Hopefully they’ll get a boost in traffic and make a few new friends in the process.
If you haven’t seen the project submissions yet, when you get a chance, take a look at the entire 2009 review list yourself. Which articles do you like?
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Thank you, This is really a compliment coming from you.
Sheila
You’re welcome. Great articles should get more publicity don’t you think?
Thank you so much! It’s very kind of you to include me in your top three. I appreciate it!
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You definitely earned it. It was a very refreshing read compared with many of the others that were submitted.
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That’s a nice roundup of articles. Your entry wasn’t so bad either.
Thanks for the compliment! I was actually surprised it was the only theme submission.
I haven’t get the chance to check the articles will go right way to that page.. IMO reading such kind of articles is always inspiring and help us to lead in a right way..
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Some of those are decent. Like I said, I liked the three articles I listed here the most.
Great Gabe. I hope each blogger will put their full heart in each of their writing in future.
Sadly, I see more poorly written articles than good ones. The articles submitted to Daily Blog Tips are no different.
Yeah, that’s why i said in future.

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reading them one by one right away….
thanks for the find mate 

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Even though I’ve said it several times already, many of the articles weren’t good. But the good thing is that I was able to find a few new blogs and thoroughly enjoyed a handful of their articles.
Woo… Such a long list. Will take my time to go through them.

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It won’t take you that long. When you go to some of the sites, you’ll quickly realize that some barely even warrant a skimming.
What I say! I have to thank you for sharing this. I just rushing to read “50 Inspiring People of 2009″.
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I think you’ll enjoy it. I just re-read it again this morning.
Well! The list is amazing. Most of them unknown to me but all of them really inspiring people but I love the guy who take first spot. Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger is really someone we all should follow. We have to try our best to save human life and make this world a place where we don’t need to bold ‘Live and let live’.
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Some of those people on the list most likely only made the news in the US. Nonetheless, still noteworthy!
Kudos to you Gabe for actually taking that time to pick the best in your eyes.

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Come to think of it, I’m a little surprised someone of Daniels caliber would allow garbage work.

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Part of why he hosts this project is because it generates a lot of traffic on his site so I don’t blame him.
Unless the article is incredibly offensive, I guess Daniel is simply allowing bloggers to leverage his site as a platform — sort of a place of expression (and self-promotion).
Thanks for the share dude., I have stumbled it here : http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/AeCxRu/freebloghelp.com/the-best-reviews-of-2009-in-review/
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Thanks for the stumble!
That is good list in your eyes and newbie bloggers need more time to practice and practice makes perfect then poor written articles can be improved in the future if that bloggers want to improved not like to improved

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I don’t mind bloggers honing their skills; I do it with every post!
My problem with many of the ones submitted to the project is that they seemed more like a lazy effort just to get some traffic.
Gabe, you never cease to amaze me. Where to you find time to do all that you do and still post awesome stuff on your blog (and make techie type changes, i.e. theme changes – which I think is really good btw). Wasn’t aware of the project … will have to keep it in mind for the coming year, in the meantime will heist myself on over to the posts and read them. No doubt some good new thoughts and an introduction to new bloggers (new to me).
best………….valentina
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It’s easy, all I have to do is sacrifice sleep!
Though things might change a bit when my third child comes in April.
A third in April! Congratulations. But then what will change … you will be sleepless
best……….valentina
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Since I’m at about 4-5 hours as it is, I thinking that’s about as low as I can handle. So at some point, something will suffer but I just don’t know what yet. Maybe I’ll have to cut out the video games.
OK…. They say that Napoleon operated on 4 – 5 hrs, but he had a very stressful job, you know fighting wars and then living in exile instead of putting his head on the block.
best…………valentina
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Nice list, I will quickly go through. Thanks for listing them

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Great round up buddy. Looks like I have enough stuff to keep me occupied for next couple of hours at least

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