Blogging community
A blogging community is one that interacts online and contributes to discussions via their blogs (Vinson 2006). There are 3 main types of blogging communities as defined by Nancy White (2006)：
- One blog-centric community – a community is established around the primary blogger.
- Topic-centric community – community occurs between the blogs around a shared interest
- Bounded community – collections of blogs hosted on a single site or known as social networking
Building a blogging community requires 7 steps according to eHow.com (2008). These steps are reading other blogs, commenting on other blogs, replying to comments on our blogs, listing the blog in directories, post often, make the posts interesting and most importantly to market the blog well,
Example: Nuffnang
Nuffnang is a Malaysian blog advertising community that specializes in advertisement placements in blogs that are part of their community. Nuffnang falls under the scope of the bounded community (White 2006). This is because Nuffnang controls the content of the site while blog owners give their feedback on the posts within the website. Nuffnang also includes Innit which is a feedback application which functions similarly to Twitter. Comments can be given to quick updates which is particularly useful to people who are short on time.
References
Nikki, S. 2008, How to build a blogging community. Last accessed 16 April 2010.Nuffnang.com, viewed 16 April 2010,
http://www.ehow.com/how_2152382_build-blogging-community.html
Nuffnang.com, viewed 16 April 2010,
Vinson, J 2006, Blogging and Communities, Blog.com, viewed 1 June 2009, http://blog.jackvinson.com/archives/2006/06/26/blogging_and_communities.html
White, N 2006, Blogs and Community – launching a new paradigm for online community?, The Knowledge Tree, viewed 30 May 2009,
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