Liz Strauss of Successful Blog fame has recently been running another wildly successful Group Writing exercise where she asked her readers to define their own metaphor for blogging, ideally to help explain it to those coming to blogging for the first time.

A huge range of really good and incredibly diverse metaphors were forthcoming which it seems appropriate to share here so that you can peruse them at your leisure.

There were also some “winners” chosen - randomly I might add, since my own Blogging Metaphor was one of them - who will be receiving a copy of Lorelle’s book “Blogging Tips — What Bloggers Won’t Tell You About Blogging“. The ten winners were:

• 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

The complete list is given below. Enjoy!

• 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
• 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 LineConga at dawudmiracle
• Blog 101 and the New Cocktail Party at What Would Dad Say
• Blogging is like a box of chocolates… at Small Business Marketing Ideas - Marketing Idea Blog
• Blogging Metaphors, or, What I am doing here at A Politically Incorrect Entrepreneur
• My Blogging Metaphor at Carpe Factum
• 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
• Blogging is Like Baseball at Rush Nigut: Rush on Business
• Raise your sails and blog on! at dsm BUZZ
• Metaphorically speaking, this is what I do at Passing It On
• Kayaking as a Metaphor for Blogging at Loosely Speaking - VA’s Blog
• 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 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
• 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 Neighborhoodsat 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
• Blogging Metaphor: Blogging Is Like Catching Dreams and Setting Them Free at Online Public Relations
• I’m Baking a Blogging Cake … at Writing Thoughts
• Why Blogging is Like Fishingat Freelancing Journey
• The Metaphor Project at The Marketing Whore

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