2008 is nearly gone. This is the time when we all sit back and thank to all those who made 2008 happy and memorable year.

Our own blog had on and off kind of flow this year. We promise to dig deeper into the internals of SugarCRM and share with our readers power tips. SugarCRM is a leader in open source CRM and have successfully made CRM affordable to many organizations. They deserve praise and support as well. Beyond SugarCRM, CRM practice is gaining social media steam as more and more bloggers contribute to the public knowledgebase. Chris Bucholtz at InsideCRM, has an excellent list of top 20 blogs.

Authors of these blogs did an extremely good job of highlighting issues and opportunities. You are highly recommended to visit Chris’s blog and read his comments. I think that list should be Top 21 to include insightful InsideCRM blog.

1. Chris Bucholtz at InsideCRM
2. CRM 2.0: The Conversation by Paul Greenberg
3. Church of the Customer Blog by Ben McConnell and Jackie Huba
4. Mercury Rising by Scott Annan, Scott Lake, Jeff Meldrum, Creighton Medley, Michael Marker, Andrew Milne, Jud Rasmussen
5. Brent’s Social CRM Blog by Brent Leary
6. Beagle Research Group by Denis Pombriant
7. CRM Outsiders, Martin Schneider and Colin Beasty
8. The CRM Consultant by Richard Boardman
9. Destination CRM Blog by Marshall Lager, Christopher Musico, Jessica Tsai, Lauren McKay, Josh Weinberger
10. Social Customer Manifesto by Chris Carfi
11. Customer Insider by Graham Hill
12. Michael Maoz’s Gartner Blog
13. 1 to 1 Media Blog by Ginger Conlon, Kevin Zimmerman, Jeremy Nedelka, Mila D’Antonio, Elizabeth Glagowski, Martha Rogers, Don Peppers
14. CRM Views and Trends by Wouter Trumpie
15. The Perfect Customer Experience by Louis Columbus, Randy Saunders
16. CRM Mastery Blog by Jim Berkowitz
17. CRM 2.0 by Guido Oswald
18. B2B Lead Generation Blog by Brian Carroll
19. Duct Tape Marketing Blog, John Jantsch
20. First Coffee by David Sims
21. Project VRM Blog by Doc Searls