According to White (2009), there are three types of blogging community:
- Single blog/blogger centric community
Readers begin returning to early bloggers’ sites, commenting and getting to know not only the blogger, but the community of a hub and spoke model.
- Central connecting topic community
Blogs are linked by a common passion or topic and subjected to a combination of subject matter and membership. This is the wider and most invisible network of readers.
- Boundaried communities
A collection of blogs and blog readers hosted on a single site or platform. This is where members join and offered to create their own blog. Example: www.blogspot.com
According to Vinson (2006), blogging communities are groups of people who share the similar and ordinary interest in a blog. When people share their hobby by commenting and replying on other people blogs and provide the links in order for other people to visit those blogs. These activities are creating a blogging community.
How to build blogging community
· Start with comment
· Reader centered posts
· Interactive tools and projects
· Invite readers and generated content
· Become a cheer leader
· Give readers jobs
· Set readers homework
· Give multiple avenues to ‘join’ or be a ‘member’
The example of blogging community is www.student.com. This is a kind of blog where consists of students, they can linked each other because there is a forum and chat room for them to interact among students. They can share everything like education, student life, homework, scholarship, even about drugs and alcohol which prevent for them.
References:
Vinson, J. 2006, ‘Blogging and Communities’, viewed April 14 2009
http://blog.jackvinson.com/archives/2006/06/26/blogging_and_communities.html
Rowse, D. 2009, ‘8 Tips for Building Your Community on Your Blog’, viewed April 14 2009
http://www.problogger.net/archives/2009/02/28/8-tips-for-building-community-on-your-blog/
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