Blogging Communities

Blog community is defined as a referrer to collective blog owners of the world who create, organize, market or are involved in the blogosphere (Words in a Row, 2011). According to Park (2011), blog communities are formed via exchanging of comments by readers and such communities.

There are 3 types of blogging communities, namely the Single Blog also known as the Blogger Centric Community, the Central Connecting Topic Community and the Boundaried Community (White 2006).

The Blogger Centric Community grows within the commentors of one blog. Besides getting to know the blogger themselves, the commentors also grow to show common ground and interest among each other. The community within them would however be destroyed unless they have created external bond if the blog is removed (White 2006).

The Topic Centric Community allows exchange of information between bloggers themselves that helps create the community would revolve around this same topic. For example in a mom blog, is where mothers share ideas and stories in their individual blog about their new born and any other posts related to being a mother (White 2006).

Boundaried Communities are public that joins in a platform to communicate. For instance a site where all mothers can join together and have discussions and ideas to share. Topic Centric Community is much more personal in a blogging form whereas boundaried community is more public as of it being a site than a blog.

Www.adoption.com is an example of Boundaried Communities as it only revolves around those that wishes to adopt a child. These communities have other tools such as discussion boards and instant messaging built in describing it as a Boundaried Community site as said by White (2006).

References:

1. Park. B., (2011), Blogs are “tool to manage the self”, [Online]. Available from: http://binnypark.wordpress.com/2011/05/23/week-7/ [Accessed 19 August 2011].

2. White. N., (2006), Blogs and Community- Launching a New Paradigm for Online Community?, [Online]. Available from: http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2006/edition-11-editorial/blogs-and-community-%E2%80%93-launching-a-new-paradigm-for-online-community [Accessed 19 August 2011].

3. Words in a Row, (2011), Blog Community, [Online]. Available from: http://www.wordsinarow.com/blog-glossary.html [Accessed 19 August 2011].