I’m submitting to blog peer pressure, but I do think that as the year comes to a close it’s a good opportunity to highlight some of the top posts of the blog this year just in case you’re new to the blog or you missed them.  Based on Google Analytics, comments, email responses to me, and conversations I’ve had I’m going to give you what were the most popular of my posts this year.  It’s always fascinating seeing what strikes a chord with people.Here are a few of the top posts that are more academic in nature:

1. Dark Knight and Systems Thinking – This post somehow hit the google search goldmine because it had well over a hundred hits more than anything else.  This was the post that showed me the power of using “THESIS”, the wordpress theme. (Click yellow box to your right for more info).  That had more to do with the film reference than me, but it was the most viewed post of the year by a landslide.  If you want to back to these these posts I recommend going to this post instead.
2. Marginalizing Contextualization – This generated some of the most conversation outside of the blog.  It’s one of the fun things to see streams of thought turn into engaging dialogue with more practical implications.
3. I Search Myself – A more recent post, I got a lot of response on this in various forms – comments, emails, conversations.
4. The Authentic Prophets – This was the most viewed of all the “prophets v. posers” posts and I had a lot of interaction with people after the fact on it.  Here’s a link to a post that has links to most of the rest of the prophets v. posers posts.
5. Bounty Leadership & Waterproof Paper Towels – Both of the posts sparked some enjoyable dialogue and were among the top viewed as well.
6. Shepherding at the Speed of Life – This was by far the most commented post thanks to the blogference.  It’s a long post…longer than is wise for the blog venue, but good dialogue.
7. Parable of Two Brothers – Had a lot of input on this one and had a lot of visitors show up at my blog via search on this one.

Here are a few of the top posts that had a more family or personal nature to them:

1. Morgan and Daddy “Square dance” – This brief home video I posted of me joining in to my daugher’s year end preschool celebration presentation got a lot of love.  Either that or my wife watched it over 50 times by herself.  Morgan was really into this.
2. A Source of Thankfulness – This and A Close to Perfect Night go hand in hand in terms of popularity and comments I’ve gotten.
3. Morgan Birthday Haiku’s – A memorable event this past year as well as a very popular post.
4. Alpha Male… -   Just so my son doesn’t feel left out from all the Morgan posts.  And this one of him out on the town was pretty classic too and I heard a lot about it from some of you.

This has been a fun year of blogging, though not without the usual cycles of momentum.  I was quite proud that for the most part I was able to avoid a binging and purging approach to blogging and stay consistent.Thanks for reading and/or subscribing to “Bloggin’ Beav” and double thanks to if you have both read and done some commenting here in 2009.  And I’ll say even a triple thanks to you if you actually linked to the blog and given me or certain posts your endorsement via links or inclusion on your blogrolls!For you writers out there (not necessarily bloggers), I am going to do something in 2010 that I’m going to call “Ten in 2010″.  I’m going to facilitate my first wave of guest posts from ten different people pertaining to some of the themes that this blog tends to focus on – prophetic leadership, spiritual formation and character development of leadership, organizational or congregational systems and dynamics among others.I have ideas for some of who I want to guest post, but not all so if you want to take a crack at a post that fits the general content of my blog let me know with a proposal of what you’re thinking.  If you’re a blogger I’m more than willing to help give you some publicity   If you’re not a “blogger”,  but have thought about it, I’m hoping I can give you a taste of blogging so that you might try it out!  Either way, look for the “Ten in 2010!”Happy New Year!

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