Explain briefly types of blogging communities & methods to build blogging communities. Then, discuss the structure of one blogging community in brief

What is blogging community?

Based on my understanding blogging community is define as the online community or group of people from different places who share similarity of interest via the creation of blogs.

how to define the different types?

According to Nancy White (2006), people began to blog and write about the things they cared the most. They start to find one another and give comments on each o

ther's blog. That is how a blogging community first being formed.

However, if people only depending solely on creating a blog based on applying an interesting topics will not be enough to expand into blogging community category.

In summarizing Nancy White's page. She explains on how people first understood online community is through the forums and emails. Also how blog adaption accelerated and with the new tools of RSS and feedreaders, it offer new possibilities and supporting the blogging community. As a whole she characterized blog community into 3 parts:

1. The single blog / Blogger Centric community - communities rest in one primary blog. - Example: interplast
2. The Central Connecting Topic Community - A network connection: Blogs linked by a common interest. Example : Animeblogger.net
3. Boundaries Community- A social networking where it is a collection of blogs hosted on a single site. - Example : Facebook

How to build blogging communities?

It is simple when we go through Nancy White's writing and through the understanding of the 3 parts of characterizing blogging community and also looking into the example I've given, we are able to build the community easily by applying them on the accords individual needs. Looking into the areas of interest and it is consider as a 'shortcut' for people to understand how to build a blogging community. However it is still important the amount of the content daily and also the credibility.

If not, using another way which is a very basic and longer steps. Which are read other blogs, leaving comments and the blog's URL. However most people are often feeling unhappy and treated those as spams (if it is not important).

Source: facebooksmileys.org

Facebook is one clear example of blogging community and it is falls under the Boundaried Community as it is worldwide well known social networking of 400 millions of active users. Their blogging structures are created for the convenient of millions people, it allows people register as members, create own profile page and also the community is giving more facilities of tools, such as : a shout out post ( it will appear on the link network friends), Discussion boards, social network features ( you can get to know new friends), instant messaging built in, relationship status and many more.

References:

Facebook, Press rom, 2010, Reviewed at 15th June 2009,

http://www.facebook.com/press/ info.php?statistic

How to Build a Blogging Community, Reviewed on 16th April 2010

http://www.ehow.com/how_2152382_build-blogging-community.html

Nancy white, (2006), Australian Flexible Learning Framework, Blogs and Community- launching a new paradigm for online community?, Reviewed on 16th April 2010,

http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2006/edition-11-editorial/blogs-and-community-–-launching-a-new-paradigm-for-online-community