Blogging community is a group of communities which has the same interests which will share knowledge and ideas about what they blog. According to Bryan Haines, the study of 6 Ways to Build Your Blog Community which is the good tips for bloggers to build their own community. The 3 types of blogging communities that has been analyzed by Nancy White's are one blog centric community which discuss about the readers back to the earliest day where people start blogging. This particular blog is not only for a person but for the whole community. The commentors will start to share information with others via private email, instant messaging, and other forms which is easier to let them contact. For topic centric community, it deals with the groups such as travel blogger, youth blogger, food blogger and etc. They will do their best to attract more people to read their blogs like how to previous bloggers did. This topic centric basically has no single platform whereas it tends to link with all the related information such as other blogs. Some researchers thought that linking between blogs may visualize blog communities. Boundaried community is about the collection of blogs and the blog readers which is under the same platform. This kind of blog has the overall of ecosystem where it less concentrate on the RSS and cross linking. Therefore, readers may easily access the blogs. It divided into 3 typical ways which are the frequency of posting, popularity and interest as well as social networking to visualize relationship. For example Global Voices, this blog falls under the category of topic centric community where they want to get mainstream media to pay attention to countries issues.
References:
1. Britta Kinkeldei (2007), Whitepaper Blog Communities, Forging Connections and Promoting Growth Through Blog Communities, viewed 25 August 2011
2. Bryan Haines, 6 Ways to Build Your Blog Community: Increase Your Reader Participation, viewed 25 August 2011
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