Blogging Communities

A blogging community is essential to being a successful blogger to create name and reputation. Driving the traffic to the blog to build a reader community. Blog communities refer to community who interacted online within some bounded set of technologies. There are three types of community:
i. Single blogger Centric Community - One blog owned by one owner or organisation. It is a blog by commenting not only get to know only the blogger but the community of commentors where could build up identity.
ii. Central Connecting topic community - This form of community that arises between blogs linked between a common topic. Power distributed across all the blogs. Each bloggers has unique identity

iii. Boundaried Community - Collections of blogs and blogs reader hosted a single site or platform. Community leaders may have more influence site owner wields ultimate power.
(White, 2005)

How to create a blogging community:
Step 1: Discover other blogs that share common interest with you. By reading blogs also give you a starting point to discuss topic with your readers.

Step 2: Leave a comment on other bloggers to create the communication. Leaving a comment is like leaving a calling card, there are URL that people could discover you.

Step 3: Reply to your comments whoever that comment on your blog. Give a simple " Thank you" and appreciate to engage the relationship in between.

Step 4: List out your blog in directories

Step 5: A professional blogger will advise that post more than once a day. By more posting you are providing your readers to stay longer time to read at your blog longer.

Step 6: Make your post entertaining and giving some different opinion from others. People would not want to read the samething with other blogger. Writing skills is one of the key point to keep your readers loyalty.

Step 7: Beside commenting and and visiting on other blog, marketing your blog such as have a signature link to your blog on message boards or forum. (eHow.com)

One of the famous local blogging community is Nuffnang. Nuffnang is a blog advertising platform for bloggers to bloggers. What this means that is cerntain bloggers with associated skills and influence have been invited to take a stake in the company. Most of the blogger act are all partners of Nuffnang and act as ambassadors and advisors. They could help you to find the best opportunities for your blog, tell them what you want to see and generally weave their magic to ensure that your Nuffnang experience is the best it can be.They relates the bloggers and advertiser together. Nuffnang already become the focal point of Asia Pacific. (Nuffnang.com)

Naffnang.com, n.d., Our Community, viewed 1 May 2011, http://www.naffnang.com.my/our-community/

Nikkis, n.d., eHow, How to build a Blogging Community, viewed 1 May 2011, http://www.ehow.com/how_2152382_build-blogging-community.html

White N, 2005, Blogs and Community - Launching a new paradigm for online community, viewed 1 May 2011,
http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2006/edition-11-editorial/blogs-and-community-%E2%80%93-launching-a-new-paradigm-for-online-community.