Blogging community is defined as a bunch of people of similar interests collectively participating and interacting on the same topic in a specific blog post. Certain blog communities even apply rules and guidelines by which participants have to adhere to and this creates a proper community atmosphere. Bloggers share what they know and learn through their posts and in return followers or readers contribute sufficiently by commenting or sharing (Wei, 2004).
Blogging communities have been identified and are segregated into 3 parts as below (White, 2006):
1. One Blog Centric Community:
In this community, the blog is known to be owned by one person or an organization collectively but may have multiple authors. The author has full control of comments as well as the flow of discussion and also has the authority to remove or censor comments. Detailed filters are also in the hands of the author who is the sole proprietor of the blog.
2. Topic Centric Community:
This form of community of bloggers arises when there is a common thought or interest which is shared among a group of people and membership is enforced as well as domain within the community. This sort of community basically begins through an exchange of thought on the same topic of interest.
3. Boundaried Community:
In this community, readers as well as blog writers are required to register in order to join the platform in which they may create their personal blog.
Blogging is considered to be a passive activity, therefore in order to build a community, readers are advised to participate and dive into the communities around by joining in on any discussion pertaining a topic of interest. By installing RSS (Really Simple Syndication) on your computer, you are then able to locate a community of interest efficiently rather than browsing through various sites (Denise, 2009). Apart from this software, the tagging option in any post also helps attract and categorize readers into topics of their interests, thus creating a community (Chastain, 2009).
References
Chastain. S n.d, What is tagging, viewed 12 April 2012, <http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/glossary/a/tagging.htm> .
Denise 2009, How do you build community?, viewed 12 April 2012, <http://www.blogher.com/how-do-you-build-community >.
Wei. C 2004, Formation of Norms in a Blog Community, viewed 12 April 2012, <http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/formation_of_norms.html >.
White. N 2006, Blogs and community-launching a new paradigm for online community, going communal, edition 11, viewed 12 April 2012, <http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2006/edition-11-editorial/blogs-and-community-%E2%80%93-launching-a-new-paradigm-for-online-community>.
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