{"id":4459,"date":"2022-01-02T13:24:42","date_gmt":"2022-01-02T18:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.totalengagementconsulting.com\/blog\/?p=4459"},"modified":"2022-01-02T13:24:42","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T18:24:42","slug":"happy-new-year-my-top-7-blogs-of-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.totalengagementconsulting.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/happy-new-year-my-top-7-blogs-of-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year! My Top 7 blogs of 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

\"\"<\/a>This is now one of my blog traditions! Every year for the past several around New Year\u2019s, I share my top 7 most read blogs of the year. It is really fun to go back and pull my website stats to see what people read the most. And for the first time ever, all of the top blogs were published before this year, and people found them via google search.

Quick stats about his year\u2019s list:
\u2022 Five of the 7 dealt with some general aspect of diversity
\u2022 Two of the 7 dealt with diversity within sports
\u2022 For four of the 7, I had a collaborator assisting me with the content

Here are the seven most read of 2021, starting with number 7 and working up to number one. At the bottom I will give an honorable mention to the top blog published in 2021

7) This year\u2019s number 7 was written in 2019 \u2013 a book review titled A new fantastic book in inclusive leadership: \u201cHow to be an Inclusive Leader\u201d by Jennifer Brown. <\/a><\/strong>I often use industry leading consultant Jennifer Brown\u2019s material when I teach about inclusive leadership.

6) A guest blog written in 2018 by my cousin Brandon, who has a masters degree in social work and now works in the Federal Prison System \u2013 Five Misconceptions about Atheists from my Experience: A guest blog by Brandon Garrick.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n

\"\"<\/a>5) \u201cFive Things Never to Say to Hispanic People\u201d<\/a><\/strong> is a companion piece to this year\u2019s number one blog, guest written by my part-time bilingual consultant on staff, Elsa Maria Jimenez Salgado. It probably hit the top 7 list for the first time since people could link to it from the top blog.

4) My fourth most popular blog was also 2019\u2019s number 4, but it did not make the list last year \u2013 \u201cThree Wonderful Recent Examples of Diversity and Sports,\u201d<\/a> <\/strong>in which I provide short summaries with links about an NFL football player with one hand, an WNBA player who is a new mother with her wife, and a college track star who overcame a harsh abusive upbringing in Africa.

3) I received excellent assistance from local activist and Muslim woman Zainab Baloch for the third most read blog (with over 2,000 hits) and published in 2018, \u201cFive Things To Never Say To a Muslim.\u201d<\/a> <\/strong>

2) Last year\u2019s number one is now number 2. With over 4,500 hits across the two blogs were 2018\u2019s Seven More Fabulous Out Gay Men of Figure Skating (and One Bisexual Woman)<\/a><\/strong> and my 2016 personal labor of love which included several personal photos that I took, \u201cSeven Fabulous Out Gay Men of Figure Skating.\u201d<\/a><\/strong> With 2022 being an Oympic year, I plan to write my third installment of this series in January.

1) With the growing number and visibility of Hispanic Americans, Number 2 for the previous three years now made it to number 1 in 2021 with over 6,500 hits! \u201cSeven Misconceptions or Stereotypes of Hispanic People\u201d<\/a><\/strong>, a guest piece written in 2016 by my part-time bilingual consultant on staff, Elsa Maria Jimenez Salgado.

Since none of the few dozen blogs I wrote in 2021 made it into the top seven, I will give honorable mention to the top 2021-written blog, a book review – A Diversity Book Truly for EVERYONE \u2013 \u201cEmpowering Differences\u201d by Ashley T. Brundage.<\/a><\/strong>

I wish all of my faithful readers a happy and hopefully COVID-free 2022.<\/p>\r\n

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