"Blogging Community is refers to a group of people who have been accepted and transcended their differences despite of the diversity of their backgrounds, communicate effectively and openly to work together toward goals identified as being for their common good." (Hampton 2004)
According to White (2006), there are three types of blogging communities which posses thier own individual pattern.
1. One Blog Cemetric
A identical owner or an organisation is the owner of the blog but may consists more than one blogger writing in a blog.
2. Topic Centric Community
A blog is made up of separate blogs but based community. The topic or issue in publication is identical and common among a network of people.
3. Boudaried Community
This boudary bound members registered in the community and makes the closest form to traditional forum. Other tools are built in to increase the accesibility and connection of the community.
Method to Build Community
1. Comments
Comments session is a good place for the author to interact with readers as readers are given chance to voice out their point of views by commenting in the post.
Author may ask questions in posts in order to generate readers' comments and answers.
2. Readers centered / entertained post
The topics of posts should be related to audiences in order to raise their interests and build their readership. Author may gain participation and contribution of readers to generate idea for post. Author may invite readers to submit their opinions or tips and then use them as references in the content of the post.
3. Interactive Tools
Author should post up some interesting polls, quizzes and competition frequently in their posts to encourage readers' participation in the blog.
4. Insert built in tools
Forum built in the blog is used to generate further discussion of a particular topic among readers. Instant messages and group chat used in blog to connect readers who cluster around the world. Readers will be able to communication with one another through instant message or group chat.
Read more: Darren Rowse 2009
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References
Hampton J 2004, Seven Community Definitions, viewed 23 August 2011, http://www.community4me.com/comm_definitions.html
Darren Rowse 2009, 8 Tips for Building Community on Your Blog, viewed 24 August 2011, http://www.problogger.net/archives/2009/02/28/8-tips-for-building-community-on-your-blog/
Nancy White 2006, Blogs and Community-Launchiong a New Paradigm for Online Community, viewed 24 August 2011, 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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