Thursday 15 April 2010

Blogs Communities and Methods

The era of an online communities have begun all over the world and social networking site have sprouted all over the place like Facebook, Myspace, Twitter and etc. If we go through the meaning of 'online communities' the definition would be as what White (2006) states, an online community is a place for those who interacted online within some technologies boundaries he also characterized the blogging communities into three major parts:
  • Single blogger centric communities: this is a community that established for those primary blogger. It is a community which develops around single blogger.
  • Topic centric communities: community that arises between blogs linked by a common passion or topic.
  • Boundaried communities: collection of blogs and blog readers hosted on a single site or platform.
Networking site maybe one of the example of the online communities in this world but blog is on the rise to be one of the site where the users are able to do more than sharing ideas, interest, hobby and idea's sharing but also blog is a place where the single users blog are able to introduce their companies for business purposes and relate their blog with another to create a wide network of society which called as a 'topic centric community'. This so called 'Topic Centric Community' enables the user to create other people's blog links or tag a link into their weblog to form a group, and enables the group to comment, chat, interact, photo tagging, links posting and video sharing to form a wide 'idea-exchanging' communities where everyone can benefits from.



(Blog centric community)


(Topic centric community)


(Boundaried community)

According to Rowse (2009), there are 8 tips to build blogging community:
  1. Start with comments
  2. Reader centered posts
  3. Interactive tools and projects
  4. Invite reader generated content
  5. Become a cheer leader
  6. Give readers jobs
  7. Set reader homework
  8. Give multiple avenues to join or be a member
Reference List:
White, N (2006), ‘Blogs and community-launching a new paradigm for online community?’, Australian Flexible learning framework, viewed 15 April 2010, 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 Your Community on Your Blog', viewed 15 April 2010, http://www.problogger.net/archives/2009/02/28/8-tips-for-building-community-on-your-blog/

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