The Blogging Community

According to Kinkeldi (2007), she defined that blogging community is a term that used to describe people using the same blogging platform instead of personal. It is also defined as a group blog, where people contribute everything in a blog instead of individual blog. ‘blog communities aggregate the individual and independent blogs of a number of people with a shared interest’ Kinkeldi (2007).

“Blog communities usually focus on a shared interest, a cause, or an organization.”

Kinkeldi (2007)

Kinkeldi (2007) explained bloggers used different kind of applications to manage and host a blog which gather individual bloggers who has common interested to discuss and exchange their point of view towards certain topic in one platform.

There are three main types of community. (White, 2007)

- One Blog Centric Community

- Topic Centric Community

- Boundaried Community

One Blog Centric Community- a blog that owned by an individual or organization with few authors. Blogger can change, remove or censor certain reader but not but cannot control the topic. Click Downes for example.

Topic Centric Community- a blog that allow bloggers to share knowledge of their common interest. Example, food blog, photography blog, travel blog and etc. Click Global Voices Online for example.

Boundaried Community- numerous of blogs and readers are collected and host in a single site or platform. It is only for specific public to discuss or question specific topic. Click Share Your Story for example.

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Referencing:

1. Kinkeldi, B 2007, Forging Connections and Promoting Growth Through Blog Communities, Whitepaper Blog Communities, viewed on 22 August 2011, http://www.21publish.com/pub/21publish/blogging-whitepaper.pdf

2. White, N 2006, Blogs and community-launching a new paradigm for online community, Going Communal, edition 11, viewed on 19 April 2009, http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2006/edition-11-editorial/blogs-and-community-–-launching-a-new-paradigm-for-online-community