http://brainsonfire.com/blog/2007/06/22/i-love-analogies/ Fascinating, Inspiring, Rewarding and Engaging kinded spirits. Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:04:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://brainsonfire.com/blog/2007/06/22/i-love-analogies/#comment-78903 Patrick Fri, 22 Jun 2007 22:36:02 +0000 http://brainsonfire.com/blog/i-love-analogies/#comment-78903 Cool, I see Justin is a fellow Winthrop Alum. I myself graduated from Winthrop and was a Mass Communication Major in the late 80's/Early 90's. I also minored in creative writing so this subject really hits home with me. I'm constantly using analogies when talking to customers and potential clients, in fact I was using quite a few today to explain RSS to a potential customer. I was also amazed at how passionate I was getting when using the analogies of older ways of doing things except with newer tools. A customer was asking why in the world he would want to leave comments on someone else's blog (like I'm doing right now) and I explained it was the same reason someone writes a letter to the editor to a newspaper or magazine except it so much better. In fact I um show the comment I left on your post yesterday as an example and how my comment on your site leads back to my site. It's so exciting to see the lights go on in their head when you apply a "new concept" and they "get it." Cool, I see Justin is a fellow Winthrop Alum. I myself graduated from Winthrop and was a Mass Communication Major in the late 80’s/Early 90’s. I also minored in creative writing so this subject really hits home with me. I’m constantly using analogies when talking to customers and potential clients, in fact I was using quite a few today to explain RSS to a potential customer. I was also amazed at how passionate I was getting when using the analogies of older ways of doing things except with newer tools. A customer was asking why in the world he would want to leave comments on someone else’s blog (like I’m doing right now) and I explained it was the same reason someone writes a letter to the editor to a newspaper or magazine except it so much better. In fact I um show the comment I left on your post yesterday as an example and how my comment on your site leads back to my site. It’s so exciting to see the lights go on in their head when you apply a “new concept” and they “get it.”

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