Blogging community & how a community is built

According to Britta kinkeldei, 2007, blog community is one of the sub-categories to gaining more recognition. In other words, blog community is community that where people can read our blog, picture and chat with the people all around the world. We can share our life experience, business and so on by using blog community, so our friends and other people may comment, then will got follower out latest update. The advantage of established blog community is the user finding new friends or people all around the world by networking. According to Darren Rowse 2009, there are 8 tips to build community, there are starts with comments, reader centered posts, interactive tools and projects, invite reader generated content, become a cheer leader, give reader jobs, set reader homework and give multiple avenues to join or be a member.

According to Nancy White, 2006, there are three type of blog community; there are one blog centric community, topic centric community and boundaries community. One blog centric community usually are owned by one owner or organisation, but there is a lot of blogger writing this kind of blog. Topic centric community is basically talked about common topic linked by blog and community.  Boundaries communities are single site or platform by combination of blog and blog reader.

An example of topic centric community is

source : http://www.travelblog.org/

This blog is a collection and combination of most of the tourist’s blog, it included review, guides and photos. Tourists can upload anything about the travel to this blog. This community is build for tourist, so the tourist can share travel experience and opinion or leave some comment to communicate with other reader.  

 Reference

Nancy White, 2006, blogs and community –launching a new paradigm for online community?, viewed 8 April 2012, http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2006/edition-11-editorial/blogs-and-community-%E2%80%93-launching-a-new-paradigm-for-online-community

Britta kinkeldei, 2007, forging connection and promoting growth through blog communities, viewed 8 April 2012, http://www.21publish.com/pub/21publish/blogging-whitepaper.pdf

Darren Rowse, 2009, 8 tips for building community on your blog, viewed 8 April 2012,http://www.problogger.net/archives/2009/02/28/8-tips-for-building-community-on-your-blog/