Friday, May 6, 2011

Blogging Community

What is a Blogging Community?
Community is defined as a group of people which shares a common interest. Hence, group of individuals that blog is known as a blogging community.

(Source: 1.bp.blogspot.com, 2011)

Build Your Own Blogging Community
The most significant step is to make your posts entertaining. You definitely want to attract more readers to read your blog. Other than that, you need to get involved and interact with all your readers. It is a big no to turn off commenting on your blog. Bloggers loses some of what makes blogging such a dynamic, exciting medium: the interaction between bloggers and readers (Gardner & Birley, 2010). 
Click here to view more on steps to build a blogging community.

Types of Blogging Community
According to White (2006), there are three types of blogging community which includes:
  • Single Blog/ Blogger Centric Community - In this community, one blog is owned by one owner or organization. It may have more than one author for the blog.
  • Central Connecting Topic Community - This type of community is formed between blogs which is connected by a common interest or topic. 
  • Boundaried Communities - The public are allowed to sign up and join this type of community. Also, they are able to create their own weblog. 
An example of blogging community includes Xanga. Similar to Blogger or Wordpress, Xanga allows the public to create their own free weblog. Images, audio or even video can be added into posts. The one thing that makes it extraordinary is that it allows users to meet new people by viewing or communicate with other blogs users in Xanga, which makes it another social networking site. 

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