Blogging Community

Blogging community can be defined as a group of similar interests people sharing their passion through a community. According to Kinkeldei (2007), blog communities has no borders that they are not bound by certain providers, country borders or age.

Creating a Blogging Community
According to Vinson (2006), blogging communities are created through comments left at blogs, hyperlinks connecting the blogs to other sites and shared language.

Types of Blogging Community
White (2006) illustrates that there are three forms of blog based community:

• Single Blog/Blogger Topic Community
• Central Connecting Topic Community
• Boundaried Community

Example of a Blogging Community
One of the example of blogging community that I am familiar with is Nuffnang Malaysia.


(sources:www.nuffnang.com.my)

Nuffnang Malaysia creating a protal of all bloggers to gather and discuss exchange blogging experiences. Every now and then Nuffnang will organise meet ups and event to gather bloggers together to interact among themselves.

References:
Kinkeldei, B 2007, Whitepaper Blog Communities: Forging Connections and Promoting Growth through Blog Communities, viewed 9 November 2009,

<http://21publish.com/pub/21publish/blogging-whitepaper.pdf>

Kirkpatrick, M 2006, MyBlogLog: Readers Network Around Their Favorite Blogs, TechCrunch viewed on 9 November 2009,

<http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/19/mybloglog-readers-network-around-their-favorite-blogs/>.

Vinson, J 2006, Blogging and communities, Blogspot, viewed 9 November 2009, <http://blog.jackvinson.com/archives/2006/06/26/blogging_and_communities.html>

White, N 2006, 'Blogs and community, launching new paradigm for online community?', The Knowledge Tree, edn.11, viewed 9 November 2009,

<http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2006/edition-11-editorial/blogs-and-community-%C3%A2%C2%80%C2%93-launching-a-new-paradigm-for-online-communitynity>