My blog posts of 2009, from how to reward top contributors to discussion about community metrics to grow your community, bullet pointed for you below. Here’s to a successful 2010 with more thoughts on online community, & with a special eye out for enterprises investing in communities for their employees (and what that might mean for internal communication professionals).

• How to pay special attention to your top community contributors
• Why it’s worth helping your community manager avoid burnout
• HP Labs report predicting content popularity & thus revenue
• How can mentoring help online communities?
• Why are profiles important?
• Why member organisations need to adapt to succeed in the online world
• Heuristic tools to help community managers
• Common pitfalls of Communities of Practice
• Taking the hard work out of measuring the success of your community
• Have you been to measurement camp?
• New metrics to help you grow your community