Types of Blogging Communities and Methods to Build Blogging Communities.
According to Kinkeldei (2007, p.2) a blog community is where the individual and independent blogs of a number of people with similar interest come together.
Crowe (2011) wrote that there are 5 ways to create a blog community.
1. Reach out to professional bloggers
Reaching out to established bloggers and create a strong connection with them to leverage that connection into creating a strong network of bloggers.
2. Respond to reader's comments.
By responding to the comments creates an open discussion environment allowing readers to feel apart of the community.
3. Write post in reaction to others.
Crowe encourages bloggers to write a post in direct response to other blogger's post in hopes to strike a conversation with them, which will help strengthen the blog community.
4. Create a local blogger meet-up.
Hosting and organizing a local blogger meet up will enable bloggers to interact with each other in person in order to create a stronger bond between the bloggers in your community.
5. Share your link.
Lastly, share your links to everyone everywhere because it enables search engines to track your blogs, which shows readers that you have a larger blog network that is a crucial part of the community.
(source: Time 4 Mommy)
White (2006) states 'as blogging gained wider adoption, blog based community shows up in three main patterns with a wide variety of hybrid forms emerging between the three.'
Blog Based Communities.
The Single Blog/ Blogger Centric Community.
The Single Blog are usually owned by an established individual blogger or an organization. The main idea of this community is their blog owners because the power is firmly in the central blogger's control.
The Central Connecting Topic Community.
This blog community is a network formation. The central idea of the communities is the similar interest shared between the bloggers.
The Boundaried Communities.
Boundaried Communities are a collection of blogs and blog readers hosted on a single site. The power of this community is held by part of the site owner because he can impose rules on the community.
The Global Voices Online Organization is an example of The Boundaried Communities. Global Voices is an international community of bloggers who report on blogs and citizen media from around the world.
References:
1. Kinkeldei, B 2007, 'Forging Connections and Promoting Growth Through Blog Communities', viewed 20 August 2011, <http://www.21publish.com/pub/21publish/blogging-whitepaper.pdf>.
2. White, N 2006, 'The Knowledge Tree- Going Communal' Ed. 11, viewed 20 August 2011, <http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2006/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/The%20Knowledge%20Tree%20Ed%2011.pdf>.
3. How to Create a Blogging Community 2011, Spice Up Your Blog, n.p, viewed 20 August 2011, <http://www.spiceupyourblog.com/2011/03/how-to-create-blogging-community.html>.
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