2008: Most Popular Posts

Blog content is highly perishable.  With this in mind, I've started to highlight the most popular posts around here on a regular basis, so new visitors can explore some older content.  And before I go any further, thank you for being a part of the community.

In 2008, the top ten posts on this blog were:

1. A List of Social Media Marketing Examples
2. Social Media Predictions 2009  
3. How to set an ego trap  
4. Thinking Through Twitter  
5. A framework for measuring social media  
6. Does social media marketing matter?  
7. Applying game mechanics to social media  
8. Social media marketing's scalability problem  
9. Three strikes for Comcast Triple Play 
10. Now's the time, the time is now  

With the exception of #9, all of the posts have been written during the second half of the year - after I changed jobs.  Many people have told me that the content has gotten better here and I don't think the timing is a coincidence.

My professional focus has changed and the reason I'm investigating social technologies has a totally different purpose than when I started blogging.  I'm not writing research focusing on marketing professionals anymore - I'm interested in changing the world of work.

By contrast, here are the top posts from 2007:

1. MyPorn: a new form of MySpace pollution emerges
2. Windorphins.com  
3. Five Things about Being Peter Kim  
4. Introducting: Top Marketer Blogs (alpha)  
5. P&G's Connect + Develop: A New Model For Innovation  
6. "I just don't get it." [i.e. Twitter]  
7. The M20: Top Marketer Blogs (beta)  
8. IBM loses employee records: is ignorance bliss?  
9. Do you get it yet? [i.e. Twitter]  
10. Verizon wireless - why don't you want my money?  

And here are the most visited in 2006, my first year of blogging. Seems even more randomly scattered.

1. MyPorn: a new form of MySpace pollution emerges
2. Loic Le Meur - A day in the life of a [super-]blogger 
3. Verizon wireless - why don't you want my money?    
4. Why Facebook $2 billion is absurd - a rough calculation  
5. My dog gets respect  
6. Forbes+LinkedIn: Social Network Is Seeing the $$$  
7. Remember "evil beaver"?
8. Recap: 2nd Annual Interactive Promotion Summit
9. Google Checkout vs. Paypal - $100 is the magic number  
10. Rethinking positioning - are Ries and Trout still relevant?

If we stick together over the next year, I hope we can explore some really big stuff.  Much bigger than credit card offers to my dog and the latest advertising campaigns.  Things that will change the way we think about work, how we relate to each other, and what it means for us personally and professionally.

Thanks!

Comments

[Peter Kim]

Thanks Max. I've learned a lot from being in contact with you and appreciate the advice you've supplied over the years.

[Peter Kim]

Thanks Eamon!

[eamon]

Peter

Just compiled "Top 100 Blog Posts on Career / Job Advice" (with Advertising, Marketing, Media & PR slant)
http://www.spotlightideas.co.uk/?p=1192

and included 2 of your posts:

- The five-tool employee
http://www.beingpeterkim.com/2008/07/the-five-tool-e.html

Now’s the time, the time is now
http://www.beingpeterkim.com/2008/07/nows-the-time-t.html

Eamon - Spotlight Ideas

[marguerite manteau-rao]

Thanks Peter, for commenting back on http://lamarguerite.wordpress.com/2008/12/27/where-are-the-women-in-the-social-media-stratosphere/

And congratulations for your change of direction. I resonate with your interest in changing the world of work. Much to do there. We have just begun to scrap the surface, with social media being only one tool in the new work toolbox. Coworking is going to be huge.

[Max Kalehoff]

Pete,
You need a comment here...Agree, you're more inspired and it reflects in your writing. And you've offered more thoughtful analysis, which is perceived of higher value (and it doesn't hurt content is often been centered on social media). But you've also removed handcuffs. You no longer are an employee of a large, top-down organization with middle management struggling with how to handle quasi-independent employee voices -- an issue a LOT of organizations are struggling with. Instead, you're now with a start-up better aligned with your interests and aspirations. Such situations are great, because energy is high, your contributions are high impact because you're literally building from the ground up, there are only like-minded people around you, and you hold the potential of equity payoff (albeit, that's the exception, not the rule). Entrepreneurial optimism is refreshing and compelling.

OK, but I still like the quirky. I happen to like hearing stories of credit card offers going to your dog. They're real anecdotes about your life and our world...or stories about your travels. Your writing voice may have matured, but be sure not to lose those gems which helped define it in the first place -- which made me think you're interesting in the first place! (But I do care little about things like the latest advertising campaigns, link-bait tag games with industry colleagues, and light comments on heavily reported news stories. I'm also not really a fan of reporting or analysis over the latest social media tool, although I'm sometimes guilty of it.)

End of 2008, thanks for becoming a stop on my daily Google Reader scan.

Stay cool.