A blogging community is where an individual feels a sense of belonging, membership, the influence of others, the emotional connection that is shared within the community and the integration and fulfilling the need of one another(Blanchard 2004). A community is where people gather with a common goal, a shared interest and meet in a place where everyone gather with the same passion(Vinson 2006).
According to eHow.com, one should expand and enlarge one's circle of blogs by reading other people's blog and leaving comments on the blogs. Next, each postings on the blog should be interesting and captivating to capture the interest of the readers, therefore building a blog community. As suggested, besides leaving comments and replies, one should leave their own signature link so that other people are able to find and read your blog and in a way, expanding the blogging community. According to White(2006), she mentioned that with the technologies such as blogrings and by having key words, these help people with the same interest to be able to connect and therefore enlarging the blog community.
There are many types of blogging communities which are popular with many such as food blogging community, the photography community and fashion communites. The example of a blog community that I have is a food community such as the Small Small Baker's blog. According to White(2006), this is a topic Centric blog where this is a community which is linked by the same interest and the subject and membership is the network boundary.
White, N 2006, Blogs and community - launching a new paradigm for online community?, The Knowledge Tree, viewed 29 September 2010, http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2006/edition-11-editorial/blogs-and-community-%E2%80%93-launching-a-new-paradigm-for-online-community.
How to Build a Blogging Community, eHow.com, viewed 29 September 2010, <http://www.ehow.com/how_2152382_build-blogging-community.html >
Blanchard,A, 2004,"Blogs as Virtual Communities:Identifying a Sense of Community in the Julie/Julia Project",Into the Blogosphere, viewed 30 September 2010, < http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/blogs_as_virtual.html#comments1 >
Vinson,J, 2006, "Blogging and Communities",Knowledge Jolt with Jack, viewed 30 September 2010,
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