It’s finally here: this years Top 50 Personal Development blogs of 2012.
As you know I tried to do it a little different from last year to try and whittle the numbers down a bit. Last year we had 200 nominees and this year we had 70 nominees. Upon reflection I will leave the voting open to 3 votes per person, as I did last year. It’s more work, however we will get a more comprehensive listing of the personal development blogs out there.
You can see this years nominations here
How are the top 50 selected?
The 5 main areas that I concentrated on, were weighted as follows:
Number of votes – 15% of total score
Klout Score – 15% of total score (if someone didn’t have a Klout account they were given a Klout score of 30, however there were only 7 people who didn’t have one)
Avg Number of posts per week – 15% of total score
Avg number of comments per post – 20% of total score
Quality score – 35% of total score. This was broken down into a further 3 areas: Blog design(10%), Navigation(10%). and content (15%)
So if someone received the most votes they would receive the highest score of 15 in ‘the number of votes’ category as was the case with Jeff Friend, and everyone else’s score would be weighted. The person with the highest Klout score was Leo Babauta with 81, so he received 15 points for being top and everyone else received a score going down to 0 depending where they were on the table. The avg number of posts per week; 15 points was awarded to Ben Rolnik, however he didn’t score high enough in the other areas for him to make it into the top 50.
Quality score was a mark out of 35: 10 for design, 10 for navigation and 15 for content. This is, of course, the subjective part of the contest, however I again had certain criteria to look for when I was marking. e.g. in the navigation area I was looking for: A good about page, a search function, a contact page, a subscribe area, an archives feature, and a social media subscribe area, this ruled out as much of the subjectivity as possible.
Content was not just about the writing, it was about the post structure, images in post, ability to share and most important the writing itself.
I hope you agree I couldn’t make the marking any fairer than I have, so favouritism was taken out of the equation, and objectivity was the name of the game.
Anyways onto the winner of this years top 50.
Top 50 Personal Development Blogs of 2012
#50 – Jamie Flexman |
#49 – Roman Soluk |
#48 – Melissa Curran |
#47 – David Singer |
#46 – Jackie Walker |
#45 – Jamie Alexander |
#44 – Suzie Cheel |
#43 – Dennis Do |
#42 – Melissa Reyes |
#41 ““ Dragos Roua |
#40 – Amit Sodha |
#39 – Stephanie Mulac |
#38 – Angela Goodeve |
#37 – Sarupa Shah |
#36 – Tamarisk Saunders-Davies |
#35 – Otiti |
#34 ““ Evita Ochel |
#33 – Holly Worton |
#32 – Joe Wilner |
#31 – Evelyn Lym |
#30 – Brendan Baker |
#29 – Arvind Devalia |
#28 ““ Tess Marshall |
#27 – Galen Pearl |
#26 – Alex Blackwell |
#25 – Taslim Jaffer |
#24 – Anne-Sophie Reinhardt |
#23 – Victor Schueller |
#22 – Betsy Henry |
#21 ““ Justin Mazza |
#20 – Craig Morton |
#19 ““ Angela Artemis |
#18 – Ken Wert |
#17 – Stephen Borgman |
#16 ““ Dani DiPirro |
#15 – Paige Burkes |
#14 – Arianna Merritt |
#13 – Zeenat Merchant-Syal |
#12 – Sandi Amorim |
#11 – Leo Babauta |
#10 – Jeffrey Friend |
#9 – Elle Sommer |
#8 – Tim Brownson |
#7 – Vidya Sury |
#6 – Jodi Chapman |
#5 – Marquita Herald |
#4 – Celestine Chua |
#3 – Izmael Arkin (Izzy) |
We have joint winners this year.
congratulations to:
#1 – Melody Fletcher |
#1 – Michael Hyatt |
Please leave a comment to congratulate all the bloggers listed.
A huge thank you to everyone who voted, all 1,200 of you 🙂 We’ll do it
all again next year
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