Blogging Community

Blogging community is a community that is created to bring people around the world that share the same common ground. White (2003) mentioned that, "the term 'online community' implied a community who interacted online within some bounded set of technologies". Denise (2009) also stated that the existence of blogosphere is already a community itself.

Creating a blogging community is easy and these communities are already exist, all you have to do is create a blog via Blogspot, Xanga or Wordpress that you could relate the type of blog that you want. As an example, if your main idea of a blog is to post up vlogs (video blogs) via YouTube from your bedroom, the community of vlogs have already exist.

Links, comments, tags and postings could all be easily generated when creating a blog. Where else, blogging about sensitive issues such as politics would not only go against the government but also drive your readers away.

As you can see from the image above, there are three types of blogging community. 

• One blog centric community - It communicate and create a relationship between the writer and their audiences
• Topic centric community - Shares the same interests that are grouped together
• Boundaried community - A social networking tool of a collection of blog hosts

What topics you blog about shows which types of blogging community you fall under. For example, politics (http://chedet.co.cc/chedetblog/), music, photography (http://www.sixthseal.com), fashion (http://www.cheeserland.com) and many more.

Reference

1. Denise, 2009, How do you build community?, viewed on 10 May 2012, <http://www.blogher.com/how-do-you-build-community>


2. White. N, 2006, Blogs and Community - launching a new paradigm for online community? 11th edition, viewed on 10 May 2012, <http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2006/edition-11-editorial/blogs-and-community-–-launching-a-new-paradigm-for-online-community>