That earthquake milkshake must have really shook us up because we totally forgot to give a shout out to these blogs for sending us so many visitors in February.

So this month, we have a combined list. For February and March, these blogs booked the most blog tourists to our refreshing blog destination.

• Sheep Droppings – 304 visits
• Girls Just Want to Have Fun – 195 visits
• Jesus and Compassion – 187 visits
• the Daily Durias – 153 visits

Raise your hand if you love Coke or Pepsi. Jenny, a Coca-Cola/coffee/dark chocolate addict, is craving caffeine for Compassion. See what it’s all about.

2009 is here, and we’re out of the gate like an earthquake milkshake. We know it doesn’t make sense, but it rhymes.

What we mean is that you made January our best month ever – more than 15,000 visitors and 20,000 visits.

And these were the blogs leading the charge with the most referred visits:

• Sheep Droppings – 197 visits
• These Words of Mine – 92 visits
• the Daily Durias – 79 visits
• Girls Just Want to Have Fun – 55 visits
• Jesus and Compassion – 51 visits

Thanks!

Here’s another “Best of” type of post.

In 2008, the blogs that brought the most visitors to this here blog party were:

• Rocks in My Dryer – 1,628 visits
• These Words of Mine – 728 visits
• Shlog – 506 visits
• the Daily Durias – 477 visits
• Clever Phrase Here – 472 visits

And in December, the social bloggerflys were:

• These Words of Mine – 103 visits
• Girls Just Want to Have Fun – 93 visits
• Jesus and Compassion – 87 visits
• Sheep Droppings – 69 visits
• Clever Phrase Here – 56 visits

Thank you VERY much!

One hundred and thirty eight Compassion advocates from the United States and countless other advocates from around the world will be gathering in the Dominican Republic from October 5 to October 11 for the first-ever Global Advocates Tour…And we want to do our best to bring the experience to you!

Beginning slightly before our departure and continuing through the trip itself, we will do our best to bring you updates, tales, and highlights, in picture and in word, of this momentous world-wide Compassion event.

Our intention is to:

• Upload photos to Compassion’s Flickr group, which you can see in the sidebar under Your Flickr Photos (Kees will be doing this.)
• TWEET! – send regular text updates of what’s going on – so follow us on Twitter (That’ll be Kees too.)
• Share stories and commentaries on our blogs – Jesus and Compassion, Sheep Droppings and the “official unofficial” blog of the conference.
• Get YOU close to the action
• Provoke you (in a good way) to jealousy

We will be visiting many child development centers on this trip (too many to list here) and many of us, myself included (Oh! This is Compassion Dave.) will have opportunities to visit with the children we sponsor. It is our hope to transmit as much of the excitement and joy as we are able, so please tag along and be inspired!

For the month of July, these non-employee blogs referred the most dance partners our way.

Thanks for your support and for not bruising our toes.

1. Girls Just Want to Have Fun – 70 visits
2. Sheep Droppings – 61 visits
3. Jesus and Compassion – 49 visits