{"id":4347,"date":"2018-12-28T03:33:34","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T11:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/?p=4347"},"modified":"2019-04-08T19:09:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T02:09:00","slug":"topblogs2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/2018\/12\/topblogs2018\/","title":{"rendered":"My top blog postings of 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1884\" src=\"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/angryjayne.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"222\" \/>I wrote 80 blogs\u00a0in 2018, including the one you are reading now. It was a prolific year in terms of writing. No idea why I had so much to say this year.\n\nAt the end of each year, I like to review the stats of my blogs and see which were the most read &#8211; and which seemed to be overlooked. It&#8217;s a review I publish more for me than my blog readers. But note that it&#8217;s something you need to be doing with your blog entries as well, so you can look for trends, so you can try to understand why one blog was well-read and another was overlooked, etc.\n\nMy top blog in 2018, BY FAR, was this one: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/2018\/02\/12\/diagnose\/\">Diagnosing the causes of volunteer recruitment problems<\/a><\/strong>. In fact, it&#8217;s now one of my top\u00a015 most-read blogs <em>ever<\/em>\u00a0since I moved my blog to its current address more than eight years ago.\n\nFor 2018, my other top 20 blogs are:\n<ul>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/2018\/07\/19\/speakout\/\">Trump\u2019s War on Volunteerism<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/2018\/05\/02\/stillfrustrated\/\">Still trying to volunteer, still frustrated<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/2018\/02\/19\/oxfam\/\">International aid workers having sex with people in countries in crisis<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/2018\/04\/23\/duck\/\">Volunteers themselves speaking out about voluntourism<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/2018\/01\/18\/voluntourismbacklash\/\">Voluntourism is fighting back<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/2018\/02\/05\/dade\/\">An incredible volunteer recruitment success story in Texas<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/2018\/05\/21\/volunteertalk\/\">Volunteers should be talking about their experience online<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/2018\/09\/17\/poor\/\">\u201cBut I wanted to help POOR people\u2026\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/2018\/01\/15\/servicerequirements\/\">Governor Bevin &amp; Donald Trump Are Wrong on Community Service Requirements<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/2018\/05\/30\/risks\/\">My wakeup call regarding risks in volunteering programs<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/2018\/06\/18\/techvolunteers\/\">The Tech Volunteering Group Urgently Needed Everywhere<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/2018\/02\/26\/pressrelations\/\">Press relations tip from a person I loathe<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/2018\/03\/12\/captions\/\">Nonprofits: volunteers can caption your YouTube videos<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/2018\/12\/03\/ivd2018\/\">Honoring volunteers engaged in economic &amp; social development<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/2018\/08\/06\/arnovapaper\/\">can volunteer engagement cultivate innovation<\/a>?<\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/2018\/02\/13\/nationalservice\/\">Donald Trump wants to eliminate national service<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/2018\/08\/20\/perfectvolunteers\/\">Some people think they aren\u2019t perfect enough to volunteer with you<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/2018\/08\/27\/dream\/\">the first steps for a nonprofit dream<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/2018\/03\/05\/testyoursite\/\">If I can\u2019t find what I\u2019m looking for on your web site, who else can\u2019t?<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/2018\/03\/26\/crosscutting\/\">Please do NOT stay in your lane (walking the talk on mainstreaming)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nIt\u2019s worth noting that most of\u00a0my blog entries that got the most views in 2018 <em>weren&#8217;t<\/em> written in 2018. And for the seventh year in a row, the blog that was most viewed this year was written in 2011:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/2011\/11\/09\/courts-being-fooled-by-online-community-servi\/\">Courts being fooled by online community service scams<\/a>, about unscrupulous companies that will take money from people sentenced to community service and give them a letter saying they completed volunteering hours, when in fact, the people did nothing at all.\n\nMay your 2019 be full of strength, compassion and prosperity. And I hope you will\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.coyotecommunications.com\/me\/consult.html\">consider me for help in 2019 with your communications and community engagement needs<\/a>.\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" class=\"wp-image-4685\" src=\"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/donate_icon_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n \n\nIf you have benefited from this blog or other parts of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coyotebroad.com\">my web site<\/a> and would like to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.coyotebroad.com\/me\/payme.shtml\">support<\/a> the time that went into\u00a0developing material, researching information, preparing articles, updating pages, etc., <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coyotebroad.com\/me\/payme.shtml\"><strong>here is how you can help<\/strong><\/a>.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote 80 blogs\u00a0in 2018, including the one you are reading now. 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