Types of blogging communities and methods to build blogging communities

What is the blogging community?

Blog communities that aggregate the individual and independent blogs of a number of people with a shared interest – the same cause, similar political views, business interest, etc (Kinkeldei, 2007). Nevertheless, it is also a platform for the blogger to increase their blog's traffic and followers. First of all, to create a blogging community, the blogger themselves have to create their own social network, for instance, it is easier for them to advertise their blog and increase the number of followers. For an example, blogging community can easily expand with RSS. From here, we can briefly know how to create a blogging community.

According to White (2006), there is 3 types of blogging community, which is the single blog centric community, the central connecting topic community and also the Boundaried community.

SINGLE BLOG CENTRIC COMMUNITY

-The first and most visible model of focus and spoke model of 'one blog/blogger.

-It only owned by one owner or an organisation.

-Might be more than 1 author, but it is not an aggregation of blogs

-A blog where readers will return and leave comments, not only that readers can get to know the blogger itself and also the other community of commentators. For an example, Xiaxue's blog

THE CENTRAL CONNECTING TOPIC COMMUNITY

-Instead of hub and spoke, the Central Connecting Centric blog community is a network formation where they reader share their common passion.

-They linked together and became a network.

-For an example, "Global Voices" is one of the central connecting topic community.

BOUNDARIED COMMUNITY

-gathered other's blog and readers hosted from a single site or platform.

-often this website function like social network, community can join the group and get the chance to create a blog.

-In this blogging community, they have discussion board, social networking features, wikis and instant messaging.

-For an example, "Edublogs" and "Myspace" is one of the best example.

Kinkeldei, B. 2007, Whitepaper Blog Communities, 21 Publish Cooperative Publishing, viewed 25th August 2011, <http://www.21publish.com/pub/21publish/blogging-whitepaper.pdf>

White, N. 2006. Blogs and community- launching a new paradigm for online community?, The knowledge tree, viewed 25th August 2011, <http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2006/edition-11-editorial/blogs-and-community-%E2%80%93-launching-a-new-paradigm-for-online-community>