The community in blogosphere is now emerging and progressing actively in different sizes and types (White,2006). The emerging of these blogging communities had gather up different groups of people with the same interest and passion on blogging. Nancy White (2006) had discussed the three pattern of current blog based community: one blog centric community, topic centric community and boundaried community.
Source: Australian Flexible Learning Framework, 2006
- One Blog Centric Community
Usually appears on blogs with a single owner. The commentors and readers of these blogs not only get to know about the owner of the blog but also communicate within each other. The central identity of this community is the owner which means that the commentors of the blog cannot change the subject matter; it all depends on the owner.
Source: Australian Flexible Learning Framework, 2006
- Topic Centric Community
This is a community where blogs are linked together with the same interest or subject matter. The centric identity does not depend on one blog but is distributed among the community. This form of community allows readers to have more point of views compared to the one blog centric community.
Source: Australian Flexible Learning Framework, 2006
- Boundaried Community
This is a single site with a collection of blogs. It is almost like a form of forum where there are different connection tools on the sites. The centric identity of the community is the owner of the site but the power depends on the bloggers’ posting, popularity and social networks.
Source: Australian Flexible Learning Framework, 2006
As an example, Xanga is a blogging community with a collection of blogs, it is a form of boudaried community where bloggers can be linked to each other and easily connected.
For further and more detailed information about patterns of blogging community, please refer to Nancy White – Blogs and the Community.
Building your own blog community is important in order to be a successful blogger (Nikkis, n.d.). There are several ways to create a blogging community using different connection tools online.
- Comments
Leave your comments together with your URL or link after visiting a blog so that people can easily connect to you (Nikkis, n.d.)
- RSS (Really Simple Syndication)
RSS is a connection tool used to keep track on favourite websites automatically (ProBlogger, n.d.). This offers new possibilities to discover and read on new blogs (White, 2006).
- Tagging
Tagging on blog posts allows the information to be found and discover easily (Taricani, 2007).
- Blog Search Engines
Submit blogs to blog search engines which can help in targeted traffic. People can easily find and link into your blog (Go for Success, 2010).
There are still many connection tools used for creating a blogging community but the most important is to put in passion and effort in blogging in order to maintain your blog community.
References
1. Go For Success 2010, 4 ways to increase traffic to your blog, viewed on 30/9/2010, retrieved from http://resourceavail.com/blog-traffic/4-ways-to-increase-traffic-to-your-blog#more-546
2. Nikkis n.d., How to build a blogging community, viewed on 30/9/2010, retrieved from http://www.ehow.com/how_2152382_build-blogging-community.html
3. Taricani, E 2007, Communities of blogging: extensions f our identities, viewed on 30/9/2010, retrieved from http://www.acjournal.org/holdings/vol9/fall/articles/blogging.html
4. White, N 2006, Blogs and community – launching a new paradigm for online community?, viewed on 30/9/2010, retrieved from http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2006/edition-11-editorial/blogs-and-community-%E2%80%93-launching-a-new-paradigm-for-online-community
5. WordIQ.com n.d., Blog – definition, viewed on 30/9/2010, retrieved from http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Blog
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