C. Explain briefly types of blogging communities & methods to build blogging communities. Then, discuss the structure of one blogging community in brief.

Blogging Community

Readers are able to visit a certain blog to actually form a group which defines community blog (Lim, 2006). By doing so, topics are shared with the aid of blog posts. As a result, blog communities are created and it also helps increase awareness in the community as its subject also relates to the community itself (Avenstar). The types of blogs converge with one and other whether or not it is a Single Blog Centric Community, a Topic Centric Community or a Boundary Community. Packwood (2005) mentions that a community is formed when a certain individual begins to express or share feelings and when people take actions and consideration on who said what.

How Do You Create A Blogging Community?

Not only in blogs, people sought for a certain appealing subject to satisfy their interest. In order to create a community blog, ensure (Rowse, 2008):

• ·         Questions are asks or Feedbacks are given. Comments are important
• ·         Readers participate in projects in the blog
• ·         Linking to reader’s blogs with the aid of permalinks or tags
• ·         To have an interaction device
• ·         To Enable publicity in your readers to make them known

Blogging Communities

Single Blog Centric Community-

The earliest blog community base which the community is able to get to know each other whether or not it is the blogger him or herself or the commentors and readers. The reason why it is referred as a single blog centric community is because this community is controlled by a single organization despite having a large amount of people blogging in the community (White, 2006).

Source: Personalbrandingblog.com

Topic Centric Community-

Group of bloggers who share the same interest and passion in a certain topic which forms a network formation.

Boundaried Community-

Is a collective blog contributed from the community which shares a social networking trait.

You are able to join or create a community blog to expose yourself to a diverse habit, interests and more. Popular blogging community sites such as Techcrunch, Global Voices and BoingBoing are well used today.

Referencing:

1.       Avenstar, Blog Definition 15 Different Definition for blogs.. that’s right – 15!, viewed 5^th May 2011, <http://www.avenstar.net/blogdefinition.htm>

2.       Lim, K 2006, Building Your Blog’s Community Using MyBlogLog, viewed 5^th May 2011, <http://theory.isthereason.com/?p=1091>

3.       Packwood N ,Gurak J, Antonijevic, S, Johnson, L, Ratliff, C & Reyman, J.,  2004, Geography of the Blogosphere: Representing the Culture, Ecology, and Community of Weblogs: Into the blogosphere: Rhetoric, community, and culture of weblogs, viewed 5^th May 2011, <http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/geography_of_the_blogosphere_pf.html>

4.       Rowse, D 2008, How to Build Community on Your Blog, ProBlogger, viewed 5^th May 2011, < http://www.problogger.net/archives/2008/04/26/how-to-build-community-on-your-blog/>

5.       White, N 2006,  Blogs and Community – launching a new paradigm for online community?, The Knowledge Tree, viewed 5^th May 2011, <http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2006/edition-11-editorial/blogs-and-community-%E2%80%93-launching-a-new-paradigm-for-online-community>