Inquiring minds want to know: What were the most amazing, profound, surprising, or even whacky things you’ve learned over the last year?

Here’s one more late-breaking entry from Pearl, at Fresh Perspectives

I started Fresh Perspectives in April of 2007. The biggest lesson I’ve learned in the last few months of writing online is that no blog is an island and that my blog wouldn’t have been so successful if I didn’t have tremendous support from my readers and other bloggers, many of whom have become good friends offline.

As for lessons from individual posts, I have to say that many of my posts became very successful but there are some that didn’t do so well. Here are some posts I’d like to note here:

May: How to be Happy was in my opinion my first article in which I not only linked up with other bloggers, but also included some research about the subject, giving my take on the subject which was well received. This article brought a guest posting opportunity which gave me good exposure and experience. So the lesson here was to be myself, include something useful for others and if there is evidence supporting your belief, ideas or opinions, all the better.

August: Communicating with People You Haven’t Met was a very well received post and I think the main reason for this was that it was submitted to Problogger’s Group Writing Project. I used to be very hesitant in submitting my articles to group writing projects but this is the biggest favor I have done to my self esteem and my blog, to participate in projects. Most people have given me nothing but encouragement and it has helped me improve my skills.

September: Male-Female Ratios of 50 Most Influential Blogs and Some – was submitted to StumbleUpon by Darren Rowse and I thought it became one of the most popular posts on my blog. The lesson: We read other people’s posts all day long and still are faced with writer’s blocks from time to time. Its okay to take another’s post and build upon them by doing further research and providing something that has not been seen before. This post came after NorthEast published their top 50 Most Influential Bloggers.

Many posts, many lessons, but the biggest lesson I’ve learned is that providing help and support to others never goes wasted, rather you get it back multi-fold.

I invite you to visit Fresh Perspectives and see some other posts that were hugely successful on many social media sites as well and I am sure you will enjoy them too.

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So what’s it all about?

Friends, if you’ve written about it at your blog in 2007, then you’re invited to join us for this special edition of What I Learned From… Care to share with us your favorite/ best/ most controversial/ strangest, etc. posts? (You get to pick one from each month you’ve been blogging in 2007.)

Well, don’t just sit there like a bump on a pickle; click the link, check out the simple instructions, and jump right in! Get your entries in by Sunday night, January 13, and I’ll publish them all right here at Middle Zone Musings.