It’s been a while since we’ve done a round up post of some of the most popular content on our blog.  Despite some of these posts being from 2010, they’re still being tweeted, shared and talked about all across the internet.  These posts are some of the best and real oldies but goodies!

Here are some of our most visited posts over the past year:

This week’s employee spotlight is on Kamal Bhatia. Kamal is a business intelligence analyst on our business services team.  He is responsible for creating scheduled and ad-hoc reports as well as supporting retrospective and projection analyses. He also creates programs to generate summarized data within our reporting environment aligned to existing and future reporting needs.

More than 10 years ago, Heather Armstrong launched a blog to joke about pop culture, her job, and life as a single woman. As the years passed, she got married, had kids, suffered from extreme postpartum depression, dealt with broken washing machines, decorated her home, cleaned spit-up, changed diapers, and wrote about it all. Over time, all that blogging landed her book deals, media appearances, and $30,000 to $50,000 per month in ad revenue alone.

“She is one of the few bloggers who wield that kind of clout,” New York Times’ Lisa Belkin wrote. “Typically, there are 100,000 visitors daily to her site…where she writes about her kids, her husband, her pets, her treatment for depression and her life as a liberal ex-Mormon living in Utah. She is the only blogger on the latest Forbes list of the Most Influential Women in the Media.” Talk about impressive!

Remember running back into the office and checking messages on the old answering machine? Push the wrong button or grab a pen that’s low on ink and — whoops! — the message was long gone. Phone systems have come a long way since then, and now virtual pbx and VoIP systems have led the way in changing everything about how both individuals and small businesses like yours manage their messages, track their phone data and even control costs.

It’s all based on storing your valuable phone data digitally in the cloud, that is, a secure server you can access via the Internet, instead of a combination of your phone bill and a little answering machine tape that knows how to erase itself. This turns messages and call data into something you can store, access and monitor to improve the way your business operates.

This week’s employee spotlight is on Gizem Gaudet.  Gizem is a business analyst on our customer development and retention team here at Grasshopper. She works with the product, design and engineering teams to gather and document business requirements for software development projects.  She also investigates the operations of different functional business areas, researches solution options and uses that information to help us create a better Grasshopper.