Thursday, April 8, 2010

Explain briefly types of blogging communities & methods to build blogging communities.

In my opinion, blogging community is structured from two words which is bloging and community, so this is the group of people that doing blog. blogging community is a place where blogger are create their network between them with gathering, sharing, exchange information,about their hobby, interest and life. Some of the community will have their frequent activity in many way, they might just gather in the virtual world, or they are actually meet up in the real world.
There is a lot of type of blogging community, it's depends on the interest of the writer. some writer might interest in heavy topic like political issues,economic, some of them just blog about their life style such as food, traveling, fashion and games. according to white, community can divide by three:



communities can divided by 3 ; One blog centric (getting to know the bloggers and community though the link) , Bounaried (join a community and post the blog), and Topic centric (exemplified groups of bloggers)


How to create a blogging community? according to eHow.com and problogger.net there is steps to build the bogging community. for both website, I have my version of craeting blogging community.
  1. decide our permanent address/ URL,with state the clear objective of your website you can actually link other website from you site
  2. with Update your information often, you are actually increase traffic in your website. use the counter to keep up your number.your blog need to be popular before you convince other people to join.
  3. develop relationship between blogger, you can actually visit their blog and give the comment on their post. with doing this you are actually showing that you active and interest to the other blog.and from there you can actually meet new blogger and have more network.
  4. ask other to participate in your blog, and don't forget to give the feedback of their comment, with doing this you are actually showing a real interaction and care about them.
  5. if you are popular enough, you can actually convince them to join you blog, slowly built up your readership and create a community logo
I pick one example of fashion blogging community : fashionising.com is a fashion community and social network for people who love fashion. Keep up with cutting edge fashion. in this blog there is alot of people all around the world are sharing their information about fashion and sharing their opinion.


References
how contributing writer, How to start a blogger community, viewed on 9 april 2010

how to build community on your blog,26 april 2008 , viewed on 9 april 2010
http://www.problogger.net/archives/2008/04/26/how-to-build-community-on-your-blog/

white,nancy ,2006, blogs and community- launching a new paradigm for online comunity,viewed on 8 april 2010
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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