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May 29, 2010 By Michelle V. Rafter

Our favorite posts from the 2010 WordCount Blogathon

Throughout May, I’ve run Around the Blogathon posts on Saturdays to showcase some of that week’s best, most interesting posts from writers and bloggers participating in our month-long event. If you’ve been following along, you have to agree we’ve seen some amazing work.

Since this is the last Saturday of the month – and of the blogathon – I thought I’d switch things up a bit. I asked all 110+ blogathoners to share the one post they’re proudest of having written during May. This was a last-minute venture, so this isn’t a complete list – not all of the bloggers had time to respond (or maybe they were already out of town for the long weekend).

Here they are:

  • Anjuli – bhulbhulaiyan – Chinese tea ceremony
  • Christa Avampato – Christa in New York – A job you like
  • Joan Lambert Bailey – PopcornHomestead – Sidewalk as eden, gardens of Yanaka
  • Karen Bannan – Natural as possible mom – Throwaway society
  • t.a. barnhart – Left Coast Foodie – Guest post: Karen Bannan
  • Jane Boursaw* – Film Gecko – Tom Hanks talks Toy Story 3, Pixar and Mr. Potato Head
  • Alisa Bowman – Project Happily Ever After – You get what you ask for
  • Carson Brackney – Carson Brackney – Freelance writers, it’s your thing
  • Danielle Buffardi* – Horrible Sanity – 5 tips for writers when speaking publicly
  • Beverly Burmeier – Going on Adventures – Swimming with dolphins
  • Fiona Chan – Candy Prison – My very first haiku
  • Joy Choquette – One Year. 156 Fears. Life Changing – The gratefulness project
  • Caroline Clemmons – A Writer’s Life – Writing is a great job
  • Sue Dickman – Life Divided – Dehli Metro love revisited
  • Jackie Dishner – Bike with Jackie – Inspiration schinsperation
  • Tracy Doerr – Tracy Doerr – William Shatner…..we need to talk/Procrastination they name is William Shatner
  • Ron S. Doyle* – Blog Salad – The digital privacy paradox
  • Dana DuGan – Chick with a View – Modern Art{i}ishly played
  • Cindy Elsberry – Doodle9 – I can drive!
  • Heather Faesy – Blame it on the Full Moon – Run for the roses
  • Jennifer Fink – Blogging Bout Boys – All boys?
  • Barb Freda – Babette Feasts – 6 rules I routinely break in the kitchen
  • Adina Genn – adinagenn’s blog – Be relentless
  • Alexandra Grabbe – Chezsven’s Blog – Confessions of an addicted woman
  • Elyse Grau – My Garden to Table – Hot preserves
  • Katie Hinderer – Write Beyond the Cubicle – Changing your niche
  • Amanda Hirsch – Tastee Pudding – Trust your gut
  • Lisa Jaffe Hubbell – Eat, Read and Be Harried – Don’t tell me I can handle it
  • Nancy Mann Jackson – Growing Food and Kids – Boys and gardens
  • Robert Janelle – Without an Apostrophe – On subscription options
  • Elizabeth King Humphrey – The Write Elizabeth – My circuitous South African roots
  • B.J. Keeton – Professor Beej – Lost series finale review: The End
  • Sara Lancaster – No.2PenBlog – Uptown Soap Co.: Expert soap making, expert mar/com pros
  • Bill Lascher – Lascher at Large – The freelancedom to investigate
  • Pooja Lohana – Brown-eyed Mystic – But what will the others think?
  • Jenny Lynes – Welcome to the Good Life – Lessons from grammy
  • Su-sieee! Mac – This and That. Here and There. Now, Sometimes Then. – What Daddy told me
  • Harry Marks – Curious Rat – A letter to open source Apple bashers
  • Joanne Mason – English Idioms – Big shoes to fill
  • Andrea Genevieve Michnik – Andrea Genevieve – A home-made Mother’s Day present
  • Kathy Murray – Out and Employed – The perils of winning one for the gipper
  • Charles Newbery – Pine Tree Paradise – The giant
  • Andrew Nielsen – A Green Mushroom – Innovation trumps graphics
  • Eric Novinson – Costing a Green Future – Major organic farming initiative in Madhya Pradesh
  • Andrea Parker – Autism Fundraising Guide – Why parents should not try to get children with autism to talk
  • Tara Phillips – Two Hands and a Road Map – Around the town and a little beyond
  • Jennie Phipps – WalletPop – How to make sure your complaints won’t be ignored
  • Ed Pilolla – Ed Pilolla – Good morning
  • Michelle Rafter, WordCount – What Yahoo’s deal for Associated Content means for writers
  • Meredith Resnick – The Writer’s [Inner] Journey – A muse will not get you published, but writing even when you don’t feel like it will
  • Rebecca Robinson – Rebecca Robinson – Maybe I’m just old, or maybe you’re just right: reflections on judging the Bruce Baer awards
  • Joe Romano – Blogging Perspectives Daily – The Internet experience and blogging behind the Great Firewall – On the day it appeared, this post made it onto Freshly Pressed, WordPress.com’s daily list of featured posts, not bad for a guy who’s only been blogging a month – congrats Joe!
  • Lisa Samalonis – Single Parent Savings – Don’t miss it
  • Ovetta Sampson – Musings of a Writing Princess – Take 37 seconds for Haiti
  • Lilian Schaer – Food and Farming Canada – First Ontario asparagus of the season
  • Kristie Sloan – mkBeautyZone – The beauty of variety
  • Stephanie Suesan Smith – Stephanie Suesan Smith PhD, Information Central – Natural is not necessarily safe
  • Margarita Tartakovsky – Self-ish – When saying ‘I’m sorry’ is unhealthy, and how to stop
  • Thinkingtoohard – Thinking too hard – Blessing no. 1 – time
  • Jan Udlock – Imperfect Mom – Embracing the journey
  • Brandi-Ann Uyemura – Brandi-Ann Uyemura – Be the super hero in your own comic book life
  • Beth VanHoose – Writing in Sand – Blogs I visit frequently
  • Rachel Vidoni – East Coast Musings – Cupcake conundrum
  • Sarah Webb – Webb of Science – Blogathon haiku day
  • Susan Weiner – -Investment Writing – Tips for how to connect with your workshop attendees
  • Jennifer Willis – Jennifer Willis – Lech Lecha and building bridges

* These awesome participants are also WordCount Blogathon 2010 sponsors.

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  1. Jackie Dishner says

    May 29, 2010 at 1:22 pm

    Jane Boursaw’s link took me to another writer’s post, and I really wanted to read the interview with Tom Hanks, too. Can you fix that?

  2. Michelle V. Rafter says

    May 29, 2010 at 3:01 pm

    All fixed.

    Michelle

  3. Jackie Dishner says

    May 29, 2010 at 4:03 pm

    Thanks! I know that’s one thing more to do, but I went to search her site and could not find the dang post. I may have been at the old b5media site…

    Anyway, thanks so much, Michelle, for taking on what I know has become for you a herculean task. The growth of the WordCount Blogathon, though, shows you how extremely useful it is for bloggers, beginner and otherwise. I know I look forward to it every year, and generally can’t wait a whole year, winding up organizing one of my own with my speaker friends. I find it very inspiring and motivating–and each year it gives me impetus to try something new on the blog or add a new gadget or tool. This year, I figured out how to do Google Analytics. The Blogathon works in mysterious ways, I tell you.

    So thank you for all the hard work, thank you for beging so inspiring that other people want to help make it a success, and thank you for having a blog where I can come to keep learning.

    Now, I really can’t wait till next year. See you on June 1st!

    All my best,
    Jackie

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