Figure 1: One blog centric community
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Blogging has definitely taken a step further where bloggers can create a community that allows other viewers and bloggers to share a common interest among each other. According to Davies (2007), a fellow blogger himself, shared that blogging communities does not only take place in the virtual world but also in the real world. What he meant is that when a blogging community is form online, some of its people will meet up occasionally at meeting points such as a café to indulge in further discussion while getting to expand their personal contacts.
Now, a blogging community can be easily built. There are a couple of steps for a blogger to undertake in setting up one. The first step that one can take is to reach out to the more established bloggers that have taken the time to put themselves in that position. It is important as it gets to give comments on blogs of fellow bloggers that are just starting up, this way they would know that their views are being acknowledge. The following step is to add them to your following list if you have a general blog or add them as friends if you’re on Facebook. Moving on to the next step is to share your list link so that other bloggers could easily search you up by using a search engine. It will also expose your large blogging network to the searches themselves (Holman, 2011).
Figure 2: Topic centric
Figure 3: Boundaried communities
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As White (2006), pointed out that there are three types of blogging communities. The first type is the “one blog centric community”, this community expresses only one way of communicating, where bloggers were only interacting with their fellow viewers/readers and their blogs were mostly viewed/read by a specific group of audience. The second type is called the “central connecting topic community”, the passion of a common topic has united bloggers and viewers to discuss on it and bringing them together as a community. Global Voices is an example site for this community, where bloggers from developing countries come together to share their common experiences in an effort to gained mainstream media attention. And the third type of blogging community will be the “boundaried communities”, this community operates on a bigger platform where viewers have to be a registered member to join the community and the chance to blog. This community usually encompasses a wide scope of topics for members to discuss on. These sites are commonly known as forums, wikis and directories. An example will be our own lowyat.net.
References
Davies., R., (2007). Making links: 15 visions of community. London: Community Links.
Holman., K., (2011). How to create a blogging community. (Online). Available at: http://www.spiceupyourblog.com/2011/03/how-to-create-blogging-community.html (Accessed on: 25/08/2011).
White., N., (2006). Blogs and community – launching a new paradigm for online community? (Online). Available at: http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2006/edition-11-editorial/blogs-and-community-%E2%80%93-launching-a-new-paradigm-for-online-community (Accessed on: 25/08/2011).
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