Blogging Community

Recently, the term of ‘online community’ implied a community who interacted online within some bounded set of technologies (White, 2006). Blogging communities are created for the users to have shared information or ideas in between the social connection provided. According to Kinkeldei (2007) indicates that ‘Blog communities carry the idea of a social network at their root, in the sense that they strengthen communication and connections amongst different groups of people with a similar mindset’.

Ways to create blog communities by Yaro Starak- The Blog Traffic King (2006)

·         Create a mentoring program where your more experienced readers help out the newbies.

·         Invite readers to submit something for review and have your community leave comments to help out.

·         Run a competition and have your community vote to decide the winners.

·         Create a group blogging project and invite all the bloggers in your industry to participate. Focus on your niche topic area in order to keep things relevant.

·         Conduct an interview of someone reasonably famous in your industry and ask your readers to submit questions to ask.

White (2006) has come out with 3 types of blogging communities:

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                   i.            The Single Blog/ blogger Centric Community

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  It is run by an individual which is also the blog ‘owner’ of the community which controls within rules. There may be several of authors designing and writing post to the blog but it is all under the same and only ‘one’ blog.

 

             ii.            The Central Connecting Topic Community

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It is run by a group of people who shared the same topic or interest in the blogs which connects the members together. Both power and identity of this community is kept privately.

              iii.            The Boundaried Community

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It is hosted in a single site or platform by the collections of blogs and blogs readers. Often these communities are link to the social media tools.

I would prefer the Central Connecting Community model as my choice. An example for Central Connecting Community is the ‘Xanga.com’ blogging community. It is a place for the bloggers and the readers to share their same interest and topic through this community.

References:

Kinkeldei, B 2007, ‘Forging connections and Promoting growth Through Blog Communities’, 21 Publish, viewed 24 March 2012, <http://www.21publish.com/pub/21publish/blogging-whitepaper.pdf>.

Starak, Y 2006, ‘How to Create a Community at Your Blog: Blog Traffic Tips Weekly Newsletter’, Entrepreneurs-Journey.com, viewed 24 March 2012, <http://www.entrepreneurs-journey.com/newsletters/how-to-create-a-community-at-your-blog/>.

White, N 2006, ‘Launching a New Paradigm for Online Community?’, Blogs and Community, viewed 24 March 2012, <http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2006/edition-11-editorial/blogs-and-community-%E2%80%93-launching-a-new-paradigm-for-online-community>.

Analogy of Taxonomy Blogs & Preferred Bloggers Contrivance

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          Blog-taxonomy is a review on organizing blogs specifically for two types of readers on the internet which are the human and search engines.          

According to the Media Report entitle ‘A Taxonomy of Blogs’ published on 25^th September 2008, an Australia freelance journalist, Margaret Simon’s has declared what ‘blog’ means.

There are 9 different types of blogs classified by Margaret Simon’s through various online pages.

 Ø  Pamphleteering Blog

 Ø  Digest Blog 

 Ø  Advocacy Blog

 Ø  Popular Mechanics Blog

 Ø  Exhibition Blog

 Ø  Gatewatcher Blog 

 Ø  Diary Blog

 Ø  Advertisement Blog

 Ø  News Blog

 Each and every type of the blogs above is clearly annotated through the interview. For instance, Diary Blog and the Advertisement Blog are the common blogs that bloggers and readers favourite. Moreover, political issues blogs such as the Pamphleteering Blog and Advocacy Blog are apparently differentiated.

On the other hand, Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere in 2011 report has stated the evolution of blogging rapidly increasing as compared in the year of 2010. According to Technorati (2011) report, it is investigated based on the interest and justification of blogging.

Technorati’s blog is differentiated into 5 categories based on the result shown.

v  Hobbyists

v  Professional Full-Timers

v  Professional Part-Timers

v  Corporate

v  Entrepreneurs

The highest percentage of bloggers categorised in is the Hobbyist which is also known as the backbone of the blogosphere which represents 60% of the respondents in the survey conducted (Technorati, 2011). These bloggers mainly blogs for ‘personal musing’ as they tend to express their feelings and thoughts through blogging. It is also to exhilarate their personal satisfaction. Furthermore, the remaining four types of bloggers focused on the income based as they get paid for it.

In comparison of both the authors Simon (2008) and Technorati (2011) through blogs classification, I would prefer Simon’s scheme. This is because Simon’s technique of blogs classification is easier to apply and recognize. As compared to Technorati’s blogosphere, there is limited space to understand the whole concept of blogs. Moreover, the format portrayed by Simon is in a spoken language which is simpler to absorb the meanings behind it. In contrast, Technorati’s uses research form to present which will have a need to digest the investigation thoroughly.  

References:

Simons, M 2008, ‘Toward A Taxonomy of Blogs’, viewed 23 March 2012, <http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/mediareport-1999/a-taxonomy-of-blogs/3186686>.

Technorati 2011, State of the Blogosphere 2011, Australia, viewed 23 March 2012, <http://technorati.com/social-media/article/state-of-the-blogosphere-2011-introduction/>.

Blogging Issues

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       Nowadays, people are used to online networking to complete tasks in various ways such as blogging. This is a research from Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere in 2011 chronicle.  

The appearance of blogosphere distinguishes the interest and satisfaction or income supplementary as well as a tool to advertise and communicate. In addition, hobbyist stands the highest percentage of blogging reasoning as compared to others. They are popular to share their experience expertise personally. Most of the people aim to blog for personal musings rather than on business and technology used like entrepreneurs and corporate bloggers.

Overall, United States holds the highest percentage of bloggers worldwide. Bloggers used social media such as Facebook or Twitter to access their blog to capture society’s attention and interest. As Naughton (2006) claims that media environment is a need to survive and develop. Hence, most of the hobbyist or especially the entrepreneurs used media to receive information and feedback from what they have blogged.

Moreover, blogging is beneficial when it is in proper usage. For instance, Professional part-and-full-timers and corporate bloggers stated blogging as their primary income including as a job supplier. It is proved in the research stated there is 37% of professional part-and-full-timers blog for income sources (Technorati, 2011).  While Entrepreneurs blog for the usage of attracting clients towards their businesses.

Produsage.org (2008) defines that in collaborative communities the creation of shared content takes place in networked. This explains the importance of a blogger having a reader to complete the cycles of blogging issue. 

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References:

           

Naughton, J, Blogging and the emerging media ecosystem, United Kingdom, viewed 18 March 2012, <http://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/fileadmin/documents/discussion/blogging.pdf>.

Produsage.ord 2008, Produsage: An introduction, viewed 18 March 2012, <http://produsage.org/node/27>.      

Technorati, 2011, State of the Blogosphere 2011, Australia, viewed 18 March 2012, <http://technorati.com/social-media/article/state-of-the-blogosphere-2011-part1/>.

Blogging Aspiration

 

The intention of my blog is to have a clearer understanding on the publishing affair and the themes of designated concepts to capture attention and concentration. It is the creation of ideas with variety of formations such as colours, tone, music, text font and so to the audience. (48 words)