The two posts about how a blog can be good or bad for business generated more email than any other posts I have written. It also reminded me that I have not yet written about a contest that was put on by Liz Strauss at Successful Blog finished. Liz created "The Complete Metaphor Project" which received over 50 responses.
The metaphor for this blog - Teaching by Bits (and Bytes) - which I posted over 3 weeks ago, I believe says a great deal about my motivation. I think the question of the blog metaphor is very relevant to the debate about who should blog and how should they do it. Why start on something without a purpose? Why invest time effort and money without a measurable return value? The metaphor concept provides a good way to understand what you are trying to achieve.
I believe that a business should establish and maintain a blog to improve communication with existing and potential customers. The metaphor you chooses should be in keeping with that objective.
The Complete Metaphor Project List...
- What metaphor do you use to explain blogging?
at Ian’s Messy Desk - Blogging Metaphor–The Salad Bar Blog
at Word Sell - My blog is a smorgasbord, come and eat…
at Juggling Frogs - Feeding on Plankton
at krooz - My Preferred Metaphor for Business Blogging
at Business and Blogging - 10 reasons why blogging is like dating”
at Romance Tracker - Equestrian Ecstasy - Portal to another Reality
at INNside Innkeeping in Montana - Blogging Metaphors: Bridge-Building
at Middle Zone Musings - Blogging Metaphor: Blogging is like Exercise
at Virtual Impax - My Blogging Metaphor: BNI
at Kiss2 - Why Conversational Blogging Is Like A Conga Line
at dawudmiracle - Blog 101 and the New Cocktail Party
at What Would Dad Say - Bloggers, Brains and Metaphors
at BrainBasedBusiness - Blogging is like a box of chocolates…
at Small Business Marketing Ideas - Blogging Metaphors, or, What I am doing here
at A Politically Incorrect Entrepreneur - Blogging Metaphor: Why blogging is like a Mommy
at Moments of Clarity - My Blogging Metaphor
at Carpe Factum - What’s Your Blogging Metaphor? Teaching by Bits (and Bytes) at ModernMagellans -
Maps to Improve Your Business, Leadership, and Life - A Blog is Your Bullhorn to the World
at Blawg IT - An Image Is Worth A Thousand Words! Huh?
at Smart Wealthy Rich - Blogging Metaphor - The “Party Line”
at Insight Advertising-Marketing Communications - Singing the “blogging song” around the campfire
at Live the GREAT life you desire - Blogging is Like Baseball
at Rush Nigut: Rush on Business - Raise your sails and blog on!
at dsmBUZZ - One BIG small town
at Runners Lounge - Metaphorically speaking, this is what I do
at Passing It On - Kayaking as a Metaphor for Blogging
at Loosely Speaking - A hug, metaphorically speaking
at MamaBlogga - Blogging is like dancing on top of an iceberg, and other Metaphors
at J.T’s Productivity Blog - 20 Blogging Metaphors - Rock Throwing and the Universal Monkey
at marketing neophyte - Blogging metaphors
at Roberta Ferguson - Blogging Metaphors
at Lena M Holmberg - Blogging Metaphor (s)
at Transition Capital Management - The Blogosphere is a Virtual Time Capsule : Another Viral Meme
at Orbit Now! - Dexter’s Memetic Laboratory
at Spooky Action · - Really? Why? What’s a blog?
at Art Dinkin’s Moment on Money - 10 Basic Tips for Starting a Blog Using Gardening as Metaphor
at Circular Communication - Behold, A Blogging Sower Went Forth To Sow Links
at The Frugal Law Student - For Whom the Blog Tolls
at Idea Dude - All the Blog’s a Stage
at Just Thinkin’ - Blogging Metaphor: Blogging Is a Large City with Hundreds of Small Neighborhoods
at A Writer’s Word, An Editor’s Eye - What’s your blogging metaphor?
at The Junky’s Wife - Blogging is a Tapestry
at Grow Your Writing Business - Blogging Metaphors
at The Gift Idea Help Blog - 7 Ways That Blogging is Like Opera
at Randa Clay Design - Blogging Metaphor: Blogging Is Like Catching Dreams and Setting Them Free
at Online Public Relations - Blogging Metaphor
at Better Business Blogging - I’m Baking a Blogging Cake …
at Writing Thoughts - Why Blogging is Like Fishing
at Freelancing Journey - The Metaphor Project
at The Marketing Whore - and my own A Blogger’s Sunset
A bonus was given to 10 contributors. To quote Liz, "These ten contributors, selected randomly by a man, who paid so little attention that he doesn’t know what this contest is about, will receive an autographed copy of Lorelle’s book Blogging Tips — What Bloggers Won’t Tell You About Blogging.”
- 10 reasons why blogging is like dating”
at Romance Tracker - Bloggers, Brains and Metaphors
at BrainBasedBusiness - Blogging Metaphor: Why blogging is like a Mommy
at Moments of Clarity - What’s Your Blogging Metaphor? Teaching by Bits (and Bytes)
at ModernMagellans - Singing the “blogging song” around the campfire
at Live the GREAT life you desire - One BIG small town
at Runners Lounge - Blogging Metaphors
at Lena M Holmberg - 10 Basic Tips for Starting a Blog Using Gardening as Metaphor
at Circular Communication - 7 Ways That Blogging is Like Opera
at Randa Clay Design - Blogging Metaphor
at Better Business Blogging
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