Types of Blogging Communities and How To Build Them

Online community is a form of open and public social interaction between online users, as with White(2006) definition of “a place for those who interacted online within some technological boundaries”. The most prevalent form of this were forums, but these days, by the growth of internet gave rise to many more forms of internet community, such as Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter.

Blogging community on the other hand, is a community built based around blogs, for example, if people were to post in this blog and interact with each other through it, sending comments, then maybe post in each other’s blogs, messages and discussions. Then we’d have a blogging community :) it’s quite simple really.

An example of a guide can be found in Rowse (2008) online publishing that explains quite clearly. Basically it tells you to designate your target audience, extend your outreach, join other communities first, and finally encourage people to participate.

On the other hand, White (2006) divided the blogging communities to:


· Boundaried Community



· Topic Centric


· Single Blogger Centric



Each picture is quite self explanatory, and those are various possibilities a blogging community can usually be built upon.


Reference List:


White, N (2006), 'Blogs and community-launching a new paradigm for online community?', Australian Flexible learning framework, viewed 16 April 2010
http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2006/edition-11-editorial/blogs-and-community-%E2%80%93-launching-a-new-paradigm-for-online-community


Rowse, D (2009) , '8 Tips for Building Your Community on Your Blog', viewed 15 April 2010, http://www.problogger.net/archives/2009/02/28/8-tips-for-building-community-on-your-blog/