Blogging Communities & Methods to build Blogging Communities & Structure of Blogging Community

Blogging Community is where a group of blogger shares their interest, or of what they know beside adding in their comments and tagging to other followers (Nikki S). A blogging community is essential to keep your blog active in reader's attention.

Readers are important, without readers there will be no community. Ways to create a blogging community.

1. Blog must be attractive. Title to capture reader's attention and content to keep them continues reading.
2. Read other blogger blog (Nikki S) to search for the same interest sharing community. 
3. Use Link (Rowse D,2008) if you are adopting other blogger idea or writing about them which indirectly creates a good neighborhood around the blogosphere universe ( Brogan C, 2008) while keeping track of the their activities and make relevant comments on their blog  (Reed M, 2010). 
4. List your blog in directories (Brogan C, 2008) which helps to increase the number of readership

One also needs to know which types of blogging communities' best suite.

Topic Centric Community, well-known communities circulate around blogger today whereby blogger are connected through certain topic via links and relationship (Koterwas T, 2007). This group of blogger form by their interest shared and does not have a central location for if any one of the community falls would not affect the others (White N). For instance Baking Mum, blog on baking and cooking. At the right side of her blog stated her blogging pals (whom writes on the same topic) linking to them. This group of community often interacts via back-channel (e.g. MSN, Facebook etc)

Besides, 2 others form of community are;

• Single Blog Community - A single blog with many writters (e.g. Wordpress)

• Boundaries Community - Collection of blogs hosted on a single site (e.g. Edublogs)  

Referencing;

Nikki S, "How to Build a Blogging Community", eHow.com viewed 15th April 2010
<http://www.ehow.com/how_2152382_build-blogging-community.html>

Rowse D, 2008, " How to Build Community on Your Blog", Problogger.net viewed 15th April 2010
<http://www.problogger.net/archives/2008/04/26/how-to-build-community-on-your-blog/>

Brogan C, 2002, "25 Ways to build Your Community", chrisbrogan.com viewed 15th April 2010
<http://www.chrisbrogan.com/25-ways-to-build-your-community/>

Reed M, 2010, "Give Yourself the Best Chance of Community Building Success", communityspark.com viewed 15th April 2010
<http://www.communityspark.com/give-yourself-the-best-chance-of-community-building-success/>

Koterwas T, 2007, "Blogs and Community - Part 1- 5", wdil.org viewed 17th April 2010
<http://www.wdil.org/resources/blogs-and-community-parts-1-5>

White N, 2006, "Blogs and Community - Launching a New Paradigm for Online Community?", The Knowledge Tree- Going Comunal Ed. 11th, Autralia Flexible Learning Framework.
<http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2006/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/The%20Knowledge%20Tree%20Ed%2011.pdf>

Baking Mum
<http://bakingmum.blogspot.com/>