Sunday, November 22, 2009

Blogging Issues: Types of blogging communities and how to build a blogging communities


Blogging communities are known as a group of bloggers who joined together to discuss about any latest news around them. According to Denise (2009), online community is very different from everyones' perspective. When the blogging communities join together, a blogosphere would be formed. As the size of blogosphere continues to grow, which means the blogging communities are also growing significantly.

Blogs are known as the core or backbone of creating a blogging community (Alex, 2008-2009). Furthermore, he added that the blog content has to be consistent, design of the blog, the comment section, announcements and follow-ups and also extras posting in a blog is needed to create a good blog community. Blogs can also be turned into a community by tagging(Weinberger, 2005).


Source: Google (2009)


Source: Google (2009)


According to White (2006), there are three types of blogging community:

  • Single blog or blogger community where issues are revolving around a blogger.

Source: Google (2009)
  • The central connecting topic community is known as the community that discusses about a particular topic with their members and administrator of the blog.

Source: Google (2009)
  • The boundaried community is known to be the collection of blogs and blog readers hosted by a single platform. For example, the discussion board in a particular University that requires username and password.

Source: Google (2009)

One of the example for the single blog or blogger community is known as Kenny Sia where he is the center of the blogging community in Malaysia as he is one of the famous blogger (Wong, 2009). Here he blogs about lifestyle that includes his personal life and shares with everyone around and most of the time people who viewed his blog would read and might comment on it.


List of References:

Denise, 2009, How do you build community, Blogher, viewed on 22nd of November 2009),

Alex, 2008-2009, How to Build a Community Around Your Blog, Blogussion.com, viewed 21st of November 2009,

White, N. 2006, The Knowledge Tree: an E-journal of Learning and Innovation, The Knowledge Tree - Going communal, 11th Edition, Australian Flexible Learning Framework, The Knowledge Tree, viewed on 21st of November 2009,

Weinberger, D. 2009, Tagging and Why It Matters, Harvard Berkman Center for the Internet and Society, viewed on 20th of November 2009,

Wong, A. 2009, Who Are The Top Malaysian Bloggers? (2009), LiewCF.com, viewed on 20th of November 2009,

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