Blog community we can say that it is an essential community where people can discuss and share their issues and thoughts, goals or interest using web tools or socialize offline. Livejournal (2009) define community as, “a wide array of creative individuals looking to share common interests, meet new friends, and express themselves.” While White (2006) explains blogging community as a community who interact online within some bounded set of technologies. To create a blog community you can use tools such as permalink which shows only a particular entry or comment, rather than showing a category of posts or the main page of the blog, comments, keep the comments flowing to Stimulate lively conversations with our comment features.
Also White (2006) suggest the following tools like
Tagging- Tags are the keywords people add to articles in their blog
RSS - (Really Simple Syndication) – it is simplest, a mechanism to allow you to subscribe to updated web content such as blog posts and forum messages.
Mashups - application that uses content from more than one source to create a completely new service.
Blog roll – A list of recommended sites that appears in the sidebar of a blog.
There are three sorts of blog community according to White (2006) which is the Single Blog, allow the reader to comment and getting to know not only the blogger, but the community of commenter’s. It is owned by one owner or organisation. The Central Connecting Topic Community is a form of community that arises between blogs linked by a common passion or topic. And the Boundaried Community, members register and ‘join’ the community and are offered the chance to create a blog. Also this boundary makes them the closest form to traditional forum based communities.
References
White, N 2006, Blogs and community – launching a new paradigm for online community?
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