Online community has been an important part of the Internet, mainly forming around email lists, bulletin boards and forums. In recent years, the ascendancy of blogs has introduced a new platform for communities (Nancy White 2006).
How do you create a blogging community?
According to Nikkis (ehow), it mention that create a blogging community have to:
Refer to others blog and get the idea from them. You will also discover blogs that you share common interests with.
Leave comments on other blogs. By leaving a comment, you are also leaving a URL for others to find you.
Reply to your comments. When people comment on your blog or your posts, mean they have read and want a reply from you. A simple comment, "Thank you for visiting my blog" is enough to show people you are engaging with them.
List your blog in directories. There are many blog directories on the Internet to choose from. A simple Google search for "blog directories" will bring thousands of results.
Write often. In fact, most professional bloggers will advise that you post more than once a day. To get a chance for keep your readers longer, posting is the way to interest them by every day.
Make your posts more entertaining. Firstly, we have to understand about your reader’s interest, and make an interesting topic to grab their attention. The important is, people are hated to read an article by words with words and using formal type in blog post, readers are prefer to read your opinion and the words shows personally .
Start marketing your blog. To have a signature link to your blog on message boards and forums.
Based on Nancy White (2006), in recent years, the ascendancy of blogs has introduced a new platform for communities. Blog based community shows up in three main patterns with a wide variety of hybrid forms emerging between the three. The Single Blog/Blogger Centric Community, the Central Connecting Topic Community and the Boundaried Community.
1: Blog Based Communities
By looking at the patterns we can start thinking about strategic approaches to blogs as a medium for community development. For example, technology/design - the impact of how the blogging tools are deployed and their impact on the community and etc.
2: Single Blog/Blogger Centric Community
· This is the first form of blog based community to emerge as readers begin returning to early bloggers’ sites, commenting and getting to know not only the blogger, but the community of commentors, it is own by owner but they also can be own by more than one blogger to write.
3:Central Connecting Topic Community
· This form is a community that arises between blogs linked by a common passion or topic. The boundary of the network is a combination of subject matter (domain) and membership (community).
4: Boundaried Communities
· The chance to create a blog is by the members register and ‘joins’ the community. This boundary makes them the closest form to traditional forum based communities. For examples the sides that youth usually go, MySpace.com, Yahoo 360, March of Dimes, Share Your Story, and Farmer’s (2006) Australian free educational blogging sites Edublogs, ESLblogs, Uniblogs and Learnerblogs.
Structure of one blogging community
From the social networking started in our social life, everyone starting to create their own blogging community as a part of their life. The most famous news blogger in Malaysia Jeff Ooi produced a lot of local news and voicing out his opinion to shows human rights, besides that he is also dare to criticism on the news that no local newspaper dare to publish or voice out. According to Onn Yeoh 2005, Ooi is hardly a traditionalist but his blogging style follows the classic blogging formula of Excerpts + Links + Commentary, initially used by tech geeks in the late Nineties when they wanted to share information and articles they found with other geeks.
So that, the main audience mostly is the citizen in Malaysia and those pro government to focus what he is really comment about. Why he becomes a famous blogger in Malaysia, the reason is, he creates a thing that less even none people are dare to do, but most of the people would like to cover on it.
References List
· The knowledge Tree, 2006, ‘Blogs and community- launching a new paradigm for online community’, viewed 28 September 2010
http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2006/edition-11-editorial/blogs-and-community-%E2%80%93-launching-a-new-paradigm-for-online-community
- eHow, 2008,’ How to Build a Blogging community’, viewed 28 September 2010 http://www.ehow.com/how_2152382_build-blogging-community.html
- Oon Yeoh, 2005, ‘ Jeff Ooi’, viewed 29 September 2010, http://oonyeoh.squarespace.com/chrome/2005/12/3/jeff-ooi-screenshooter.html
- Asian correspondent, ‘Jeff Ooi Blog’, viewed 29 September 2010, http://asiancorrespondent.com/jeff-ooi-blog/
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