Types of Blogging Communities & Methods to Build Blogging Communities

Online became part of the Internet as a community, in these recent years of rapid changes, blog has introduced as a new platform for online communities (White 2006).


What is a blogging community?
Personally, I believe blogging community does not define as one answer. Blogging community is based on the blogger own selves to build their own blog as a place to share ideas, socialize, connect with people through online. In another word, everyone can create their own blogging community, whether the community is large or small.


How do we create our own blogging community?
In that case, we as a blogger could always make use of the tools provided by the blogging agent such as Blogspot, Wordpress, etc. There are several ways to build up blogging communities:

1. Comment (Rowse 2009)
Before someone notice your blog, you should start notice someone's blog. Make use of the comment box when necessary, share your opinions, give some feedbacks, all these comments will be appreciated by the blog's owner and they would also interact with you.

(source: http://thedangthings.blogspot.com)

2. Share Link (Dalu, 2009)
Nowadays, everything is all about Facebook and Twitter. Why not share your blog post on Facebook or Twitter? Under every section of each blog post, there's a button to share on few social networking sites.

(source: http://thedangthings.blogspot.com)

3. Advertorial
Now that we have few blogging communities that makes blogging become a fun job to do. Nuffnang is one of the top blogging advertising community, they often pay top-viewed bloggers to write advertorials for certain clients of their own. This not only promote a product, but also giving a hand to the blogger to build up blog communities of their own.

Looking at all the blogging communities around us, we are globally connecting with each other.


References:

White, N 2006, 'Blogs and Community - launching a new paradigm for online community', online, viewed on 25 April, 2011, <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 Community on Your Blog', online, viewed on 26 April, 2011, <http://www.problogger.net/archives/2009/02/28/8-tips-for-building-community-on-your-blog/>

Dalu, M 2009, 'Create a Community Blog with Facebook and Wordpress', online, viewed on 25 April, 2011, <http://inchoo.net/wordpress/create-a-community-blog-with-facebook-and-wordpress/>