Blogging Communities

Blogging community is a platform which has its own practices and behaviors for people with similar interest to interact with each other on a blog post (Wei,2004).

Blogosphere is a community and as a blogger, they are already in the community.

How do bloggers create a blogger community?

Bloggers have to get more involved within the blogosphere and create connection and relationships with the readers and other bloggers ( Denise,2009).

There are three types blogging communities (White,2006).

1. The Single Blog/Blogger Centric Community

2. The Central Connecting Topic Community

3. The Boundaried Community

The Single Blog/ Blogger Centric Community

( White,2006)

This community is run by an organisation or one owner but may have more than one blogger writing in a blog ( White,2006).

The Central Connecting Topic Community

( White,2006)

This community is a network formation that linked by common passion or topic.Topic centric communities have no single technological platform. What links them is hyperlinks, in the form of blogrolls, links to other blogs within blog posts, tagging, aggregated feeds (using RSS), trackbacks and comments ( White,2006) .

The Boundaried Community

( White,2006)

This community have a collection of blogs and the site or platform is hosted by the readers. The registered members can join the community and create the blog ( White,2006). Normally, these communities have other tools such as chat box, social networking features and so on.

Blogger.com is one of the examples of the boundaried communities. Users can be only create a complimentary blog after they register as a member. Besides that, Blogger.com provides different features for the users such as designing the layout, adding other gadgets, creating chat box and so on.

Reference List:

1. Denise 2009, How do you build community?, viewed on 24th August 2011, http://www.blogher.com/how-do-you-build-community
   
   
2. Wei, C 2004, Formation of Norms in a Blog Community,viewed on 24th August 2011, http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/formation_of_norms.html
   
   
3. White, N 2006, Blogs and community-launching a new paradigm for online community, going communal, edition 11, viewed on 24th August 2011, http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2006/edition-11-editorial/blogs-and-community-%E2%80%93-launching-a-new-paradigm-for-online-community