I have to confess that I have not yet done what is advocated in my title.  I ought to do so, and have been reminded about it by an excellent blog post entitled “Year in Review Article Template” by Chris Knight of EzineArticles.com.

To supplement that article I looked around on the web and found a few different examples of recent Year in Review writing.  Here are four, including a narrative report, a video review, a simple list and even a spreadsheet format. Between them they may give some ideas.

Commercial Open Source Blog: Another Year in Review

Commercial Open Source blog few days ago has completed another year of life, a good excuse to make another write-up about the past year. Over 300 posts covered many open source related to.

Wrecked Magazine – A Drifting Magazine featuring Formula D, D1GP …

Scion Racing 2009 Year in Review. The 2009 Scion Racing team video has quite a few drifting highlights from their respected stars Ken Gushi and Tanner Foust. The video is mixed with some other Scion assets but the bulk of the video …

Josh Ellingson Illustrator – Battle Damage – 2009 Year in Review

2009 Year in Review. Holy smokes, it’s almost 2010! It’s been a very interesting year, and about a million things happened. Here’s a meager rundown of all the trouble I got into this past year: My artwork went to SPACE! …

Data Breaches in 2009 – a year in review | Assassin's Blog

Announced Where the Data Breach Occurred Details of Breach Amount of Stolen Records October 28, 2009 Bank of New York Mellon Corp.

What will my own review look like? Watch this space!

One aspect of Internet marketing that I really enjoy is researching and writing articles. Sometimes they’re for one my sites or blogs. Other times they’re for placing on the various article directories that I use (and shortly I’ll be launching my own as part of the Admastery.biz suite of services.

However, much as I enjoy it I simply don’t have the time to write all the articles I need. So where can I get them? PLR (Private Label Rights) material almost always needs serious rewriting unless it comes from one of the more expensive services. Much cheap outsourced writing comes from people with English as a second or third language and can be a false economy. So where can we turn?

There’s now a new article writing service, and judging by the people behind it I can’t help believing that it’s going to be good. They’ve recruited writers with English as their native language and capable of researching and writing coherent prose. What’s more they don’t charge a fortune as they’re mostly doing this as a part-time occupation in retirement or semi-retirement.

It’s a brilliant idea, and I’m going to try it out. If I can get a set of five totally unique, well-researched and well-written 350-word articles on a topic of my specification for $30, as is claimed, then I’ll be over the moon.

I joined up today at Articlez.com and you might want to take a look also.

- David Murray -