Blogging Communities

It is fairly easy and convenience to build up communities via blogging (Roberts & Kraynak 2009). Blogging community is defined as a group of people that sharing the same views, interests and thoughts, linked their blogs together in a community to form a blog community which can help to attract more readers (Whitepaper 2007). Most of the blogs are interconnected with other blogs. Many bloggers will follow some other blogs that they found to be interesting which make them to form a community. Most of them classified themselves in different communities like Blogger, Blogosphere, warblog and so on (Myers 2010, p.24).

According to White (2006), there are three types of blog communities as follows:

1．Single/One Blog Centric Community: 

There is one specific blogger who owned this community and act as the main person in the community. 

     

        2. Topic Centric Community

This is formed by the bloggers who shared similar topics like cooking topics. They normally linked their blogs together and shared the same power. They did not use the same technology platform, which only linked by hyperlinks, RSS, feedbacks and posts. 

   

 3．Boundary Communities

This is most similar form to the traditional forum which is built up by a group of blogs and blog readers that register or join themselves in a site or blog. 

  

ReadMyDay.com (http://www.readmyday.co.uk) is a Boundaried community that established in United Kingdom. This community allows its users to write on the topics that they interested in and showing all the hot topics and Blog of the Months (most popular) in the homepage. ReadMyDay allows the users to link together and sharing through RSS to view individual blogs (Whitepaper 2007).

References:

Myers, G. 2010, 'Discourse of Blogs and Wikis', Continuum International Publishing Group, London. Viewed 25^th March 2012,

<HYPERLINK "http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YIpFXTgqw-sC&pg=PA26&dq=classifications+of+blogs&hl=en&sa=X&ei=OwdvT-HLJ6_UmAXUlIStBg&ved=0CGoQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=classifications of blogs&f=false"http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YIpFXTgqw-sC&pg=PA26&dq=classifications+of+blogs&hl=en&sa=X&ei=OwdvT-HLJ6_UmAXUlIStBg&ved=0CGoQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=classifications%20of%20blogs&f=false>.

ReadMyDay Website 2012,

<HYPERLINK "http://www.readmyday.co.uk/"http://www.readmyday.co.uk/ >.

Roberts, R.R. & Kraynak, J. 2009, '52 Weeks of Sales Success: America's #1 Salesman Shows You How To Send Sales Soaring', Library of Congress, New Jersey. Viewed 26^th March 2012,

HYPERLINK "http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=AkWYUSUAAAAC&pg=PT135&dq=types+of+blogging+communities+&+methods+to+build+blogging+communities.&hl=en&sa=X&ei=FyR0T8G5H4TqrAf1mr3aDQ&ved=0CFUQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=types of blogging communities & methods to build blogging communities.&f=false"http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=AkWYUSUAAAAC&pg=PT135&dq=types+of+blogging+communities+%26+methods+to+build+blogging+communities.&hl=en&sa=X&ei=FyR0T8G5H4TqrAf1mr3aDQ&ved=0CFUQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=types%20of%20blogging%20communities%20%26%20methods%20to%20build%20blogging%20communities.&f=false 

White, N. 2006, 'Blogs and Community- Launching A New Paradigm for Online Community', 11^th edn, e-Journal of Learning Innovation, Australia. Viewed 25^th March 2012,

<HYPERLINK "http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2006/edition-11-editorial/blogs-and-community-–-launching-a-new-paradigm-for-online-community"http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2006/edition-11-editorial/blogs-and-community-%E2%80%93-launching-a-new-paradigm-for-online-community >.

Whitepaper 2007, 'Blog Communities: Forging Connections and Promoting Growth Through Blog Communities', 21Publish Cooperative Publishing, USA. Viewed 26^th March 2012,

<HYPERLINK "http://www.21publish.com/pub/21publish/blogging-whitepaper.pdf"http://www.21publish.com/pub/21publish/blogging-whitepaper.pdf>.