Types of blogging communities & methods to build blogging communities.

As what I had shared in the previous posts, the main purpose of blogs were to shared thoughts and views on certain issues, and this will led other people to comment on the issue discussed. The people who commented on certain topic of a blog were the blog communities. To be clear, blog community is the one who has relationship with the blogger either as a reader or blogger and they must be sharing the same interest.

There are various ways to build blog community. The basic requirement that need to be fulfilled is to be active and update the blog with new topic frequently instead of publishing once in awhile. Secondly, try to ask some question to increase the interaction between you as a blogger with others (readers/bloggers). Thirdly, try to answer the question by the other bloggers or readers that commented on your post. By asking question and answering them, it gives the feeling to the community that they are having a 2 way communication instead of just read through and comment with no hope for responses.

Fourthly, visit the reader’s blogs and link to them to increase the exposure. And lastly, think of some projects that allow readers to take part. There will be more people to follow your blog if you have more projects for them. These are basically what a blogger must do to increase the readers, but for sure there are other methods like Facebook and Twitter to act as a tool to get readers, so it is all depend on the bloggers on which methods to use.

              (source: http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2006/edition-11-editorial/blogs-and-community)

As proposed by White (2006), there are three types of blogging communities, named the Single Blog/Blogger Centric Community, the Central Connecting Topic Community and the Boundaried Community. The single blog community can be owned by one owner or organization. This form of blog based community is to emerge readers to begin return to bloggers sites and getting to know the community of commenter. Second, Central Connecting Topic Community arises between blogs linked by a common passion or topic such as food bloggers, automobile bloggers and political bloggers. Lastly, the Boundaried communities are collections of blogs and blog readers hosted on a single site or platform.

One of my favourite blog is the Hemmy.net. It is considered as Single blog centric community because he is the only author for the blog and if he takes down the blog, the community would just disband. Now you get the idea on how to build the blogs community, try it out.


Reference list

White, N, 2007, Blogs and Communities Part1-5, viewed 23 August 2011,

http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2006/edition-11-editorial/blogs-and-community>