There's something about end-of-the-year lists that we just love. We love how they pull together items we would have never grouped together but we still want to see in one place. The "year's most interesting new fiction", the year's "wealthiest female rock stars", the year's "best new places to get a veggie dog".
Well, not to be bested by either the New York Times or VH1, we have decided to bring you some strange and delightful lists of our own. We actually built most of these lists on strictly quantitative measures, e.g. the most frequently downloaded research. But what's extra cool about the results is that they reflect the extraordinarily broad range of issues being tackled by nonprofits and the diversity of the organizations producing that work. And where else would you see research about volunteering trends right next to research about the war on drugs? Only at IssueLab.
The titles that show below are ones that were added to the archive in 2008. The lists (with only one exception) are based on IssueLab user behavior, rather than on any qualitative measure of what's "best". In the last 11 months alone research has been downloaded from IssueLab 95,354 times!
Drumroll please ...
» The most frequently downloaded research titles
» The most frequently viewed research listing pages
» The IssueLab staff's favorite titles
» The oldest research added to the IssueLab collection in the last year
» Research that was tagged most frequently by IssueLab's LabRats
» The most frequently viewed organizational profile
Check it all out at
http://www.issuelab.org/closeup/Dec_2008
IssueLab is an online publishing forum for nonprofit research. If you know of work that you would like to see included in the archive or you yourself do research for a nonprofit, please create a free account with IssueLab today.
http://www.issuelab.org/rc_accounts/start
