Welcome to our January newsletter. We hope you had an excellent holiday season and that 2010 has gotten off to a great start for you!

The big news this month is our Top Blogs of 2009. We crunched the numbers for over 2 billion engagement activities for topical blogs in our system and came up with winners in three categories:

• Most Engagement (highest overall number of engagement points for the year)
• Most Influential (highest average engagement across the year's posts)
• Biggest Mover & Shaker (most growth in overall engagement points for the year)

Almost 500 topics, nearly 16000 blogs -- get all the details on our blog -- and then check out the Top Blogs of 2009 to see how yours ranked! (And if you're not there yet, make sure you add yourself to get ranked for 2010.)

If you've been thinking about checking out PostRank Analytics, now's the time. To celebrate the Top Blogs of 2009 and help people get more bang for their blogs, sign up now and get a second free month of Analytics!

And for something completely different, here are a few things we've been reading and thinking about recently.

• A 12-Step Strategy to ReFit Your Blog to the Social Web in 2010
• How Are You Saying 'Thank You' to Your Customers and Audience?
• Lean analytics: Questions VCs should ask (and you'd better answer)
• What The Real-Time Web Can Deliver

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