"And the Award Goes To…." Find What are the Best of BTC – IBITIANS.com in Year 2 (from 1st July 08 to 30th June 09)

Our last year picks are the best examples of what’s exciting about the IBITIANS in its 1st year. Here we honor posts with exceptional content and interests, which grabbed attention, loyalty and appreciation from our readers. We also have slightly modified our award categories, couple of new categories introduced, and few were excluded. Give comments and let us know what your favorite posts are from IBITIANS.com.

First of all, let’s talk about the selection mechanism. The data gathered from the various stats and web monitoring resources, provided by Wordpress Stats Plugin wp-stats, Google Analytics, Alexa.com, Webilizer stats from hosting server, and few other resources, which helped me to filter the data and readers / visitors pattern. Results may differ from someone’s perception, but they are listed unbaised and purely on merit.

 Here are the top 12 of the last twelve months! (Read by the Visitors)

1. Most Popular / Most Commented Post of the Year

Two awards in  a row, A bit controversial but most accessed and visited post by the readers of IBITIANS.

Governor Punjab Salman Taseer’s Family Wine Dance Pictures Scandal

 2. Column of the Year (Urdu)

Javed Chaudhry wins the heart of readers in this excellent column, written with historical context on daylight saving adjustment and time change in Pakistan twice a year.

Waqt Nahi Rukta

3. Article of the Year (English)

Fatima Bhutto on Indian City Jaipur during her visit in India, that’s what she observed.

The Pink City

4. Download / eBook of the Year

You dont have to analyze too much for this…

Download Urdu Novel Peer-e-Kamil (PBUH) eBook by Umaira Ahmed

5. Personality of the Year

A symbol of struggle, nation’s new hero…

Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry

 6. Humor of the Year

Pakistan got rid of Musharraf bad mouth and face, and his mockery was readers favorite.

More Funny Pics of General (Retarded) Pervez Musharraf

Pervez Musharraf After Resignation – Funny Pictures

7. Most Highlighted Issue of the Year

Result was even surprising for me, but this year people accessed this issue related post the most.

Lal Masjid – Jamia Hafsa

8. Video of the Year

Number of Golden Ratio, mystery of Kaaba, Miracle of Islam and Koran, it is the high time for Divine Secrets, Divine Mysteries.

Miracle of Kaaba & Golden Ratio: Exclusive Video

9. Highest Rated Post of the Year

A tribute to great legendary Ashfaq Ahmed & His Work Zavia.

Zaavia – A Lifetime Treasure

10. Contributor of the Year

With the most number of original contributions and highest cumulative ratings.

Farah Ahmed

11. Writer of the Year

Although, It was a tough competition b/w Umaira Ahmed & Ashfaq Ahmed Sb, she won by cumulative visits, and higher average per post.

Umera Ahmed

12. Columnist of the Year

Once again, it’s your favorite, yes… salute to great and trend-setter columnist…

Javed Chaudhry

*. Special Award of Honor

A wild card entry, BTC – IBITIANS is thankful for our foriegner contributor and renowned journalist of World, to share and allow her articles and posts for IBITIANS.

Nadene Ghouri

These were the picks but there are lots of other interesting posts, and cool stuff which haven’t found its place in the list, but worth browsing and searching. Thank you very much for your patience. I guess that’s all for tonight. It was a bit long, but exciting job to analyze all of the data to find out what our readers and visitors like most.  I hope that it will not only be an good overview of site for our new visitors but also a refresher for our regular readers. Don’t forget to add your comments below. Dive in, there is plenty to read!!!

Thank you for making IBITIANS.com a success…

Yours,

Naveed Taj Ghouri
Admin & Publisher
IBITIANS.com

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