{"id":2179,"date":"2017-01-05T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T09:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/?p=2179"},"modified":"2017-01-04T15:43:23","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T15:43:23","slug":"our-most-popular-posts-of-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/2017\/01\/05\/our-most-popular-posts-of-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Most Popular Posts of 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve published another year&#8217;s worth of blog content and now is\u00a0my chance to take a look back and see how far we&#8217;ve come since this blog was just an idea in my head.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016 we nearly doubled our editorial team. For me, that meant fresh ideas for posts, and new approaches and styles of writing. As a result, I think we&#8217;ve increased the\u00a0variety of content we&#8217;ve produced during the past year.<\/p>\n<h2>Top five of 2016<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/2016\/02\/10\/go-mobile-web-editor-community-event-a-guest-post-by-anna-jenner\/\">Go Mobile Web Editor Community Event<\/a> (guest post by Anna Jenner)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/2016\/03\/22\/breaking-bad-when-it-comes-to-links\/\">Breaking Bad When It Comes to Links<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/2016\/03\/24\/team-update-14-24-march-2016\/\">Team Update: 14 \u2013 24 March<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/2016\/06\/02\/tips-for-surviving-go-mobile-a-guest-post-by-kate-austin\/\">Tips for Surviving Go Mobile<\/a> (guest post by Kate Austin)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/2016\/04\/08\/team-update-29-march-8-april-2016\/\">Team update: 29 March \u2013 8 April<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>We had two guest posts on the blog this year, and they both made it in to the top five.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a clear sign that you&#8217;re looking to hear from other editors about their experiences. That&#8217;s something that&#8217;s supported by the positive response we&#8217;ve had to our web editor community events.<\/p>\n<p>To build on this, my goal for the blog for 2017 is to get more guest posts on the blog &#8211; so if you&#8217;ve got an idea, <a href=\"mailto:emma.cragg@ncl.ac.uk?subject=Idea for blog post\">get in touch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m interested to see a couple of our team updates in the list. I took a look to see if I could spot what managed to hook people&#8217;s interest for those two weeks in March.<\/p>\n<p>The first\u00a0introduced our new members of staff; Andrew, Emily and Fen. The latter covered the launch of the new Careers website.<\/p>\n<h2>Popular evergreen content<\/h2>\n<p>Not all of our popular posts in 2016 were written the same year. In fact, the top performing post on the blog during 2016 was written the year before.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s popular because it remains relevant to all our editors and presents practical tips for <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/2015\/11\/20\/using-siteimprove-to-find-content-and-assets-on-your-website\/\">using Siteimprove to find content and assets on your website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>My favourite post<\/h2>\n<p>There were quite a few contenders for my favourite among the 62 posts we wrote last year. High up the list was one from Fen on the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/2016\/05\/19\/a-quick-guide-to-bold\/\">use of bold<\/a>, but I figured I couldn&#8217;t just give it to her for the Star Trek reference.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, I&#8217;ve chosen a post on another topic that&#8217;s close to my heart &#8211; clarity. In <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/2016\/09\/14\/making-research-readable\/\">Making Research Readable for All<\/a>, Andrew looks at why using Plain English and producing scannable content are the key to communicating your message.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve published another year&#8217;s worth of blog content and now is\u00a0my chance to take a look back and see how far we&#8217;ve come since this blog was just an idea in my head. In 2016 we nearly doubled our editorial &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/2017\/01\/05\/our-most-popular-posts-of-2016\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":755,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,21],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-2179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-content","category-what-we-do","tag-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/755"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2179"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2184,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179\/revisions\/2184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}