Blogging Communities

There are three types of Blogging Communities, The Blogosphere, Search Engine and Directory. The Blogsphere Blogging Community is the perception of a connection of blogs between other blogs. It is the interconnected web of blogs through social plugins, blogrolls, post comments, backlinks and linkbacks (Herring et al, 2004).



The Search Engine Blogging Community is where bloggers can go to search or browse for other blogs in the blogosphere with the added option on some to be able to favourite and bookmark blogs of interest. Some of the popular Search Engine Blogging Communities include; Bloglines, BlogScope and Technorati (Herring et al, 2004)

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The Directory Blogging Community is where bloggers engage in blog directories as a social means to get a connection with people to blogs, bloggers to other bloggers and/or to promote their blog to others. There a several directory blogging communities that exist online, including BlogCatalog and MyBlogLog (Herring et al, 2004).



To build a blogging community, one needs to have a weblog that is of interest and interactive. Other than that, linking your readers can boost readership tremendously because it strengthens the sense of community. This can be seen in Twitter as following others will ultimately increase ones followers (Darrren, 2008)

References
1. Darren, R., 2008, How to Build Community On Your Blog, viewed 2nd November 2009, http://www.problogger.net/archives/2008/04/26/how-to-build-community-on-your-blog/



2. Herring, S.C., Kouper, I., Scheidt, L.A., & Wright, E.L., 2004, Women and children last: The discursive construction of weblogs. In L.J. Gurak, S. Antonijevic, L. Johnson, C. Ratliff, & J. Reyman (Eds.), Into the blogosphere: Rhetoric, community, and culture of weblogs. Retrieved November 13, 2009, http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/women_and_children.html