Blog Community is a social network where different people communicate with each on a particular topic or purpose on the same technological blogging platform. According to Kinkeldei (2007), it shares information and knowledge from different individuals by blog posts and strengthens the communicative purpose. The community is bounded by a set of technologies and use tools such as usernames, passwords or registration.
According to White (2006), there are three main types of Blogging communities in the society and y hybrid communities which derive from them. The main types are ‘The Single Blog/ Blogger Centric Community’, ‘The Central Connecting Topic Community’ and ‘The Boundaried Community.
1) The Single Blog / Blogger Centric Community
Figure 2: Single Blog/Blogger Centric Community
- Nancy White Article
In this type of community an individual or an organization is the owner of the blog. The blog could have multiple authors who work for it but it does not contain an aggregation of blogs. The blog owner provides the features to the community to interact with the blog. If the blog owner closes his blog the community ends. An example of a single blog is Interplast.
2) The Central Connecting Topic Community
- Nancy White
In this type of community there is a cluster of spread across the community. The blogs are focused on a single issue and it allows for many views to be expressed. There is no single technological platform and the community interacts with hyperlinks such as blog posts, tagging, comments, trackbacks etc. An Example of this type of community is Global Voices Community.
3) Boundaried Community
Figure 4: Boundaried Communities
Nancy White
In this type of community there is a collection of blogs on a single platform which could consists many topics or purposes.
It consists of a member register. The member is allowed the chance to create a blog. Examples of these types of communities are. MySpace, Yahoo 360, March of Dimes, Share Your Story etc.
International Network For Social Net work Analysis is a blogging community with 1604 individuals and 2621 Organizations in its membership list (INSNA 2010) . Its members provide information on vital social issues by blogs , podcasts and photo uploads.
References
Kinkeldei, B. (2007), Forging Connection and Promoting Growth Through Blog Communities, [Online], 5 June 2011, Available at < http://www.21publish.com/pub/21publish/blogging-whitepaper.pdf >
Wei,C. (2004), Formation of Norm in a Blog Community, University of Washington, [Online], Retreived 5 June 2011, Available at < http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/formation_of_norms.html >
White, N. (2006), Blogs and Community – Launching a New paradigm for Online Community, The Knowledge Tree, [Online], Edition 11, Retrieved 5 June 2011, Available at < http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2006/edition-11-editorial/blogs-and-community-%E2%80%93-launching-a-new-paradigm-for-online-community
International Network For Social Net work Analysis , (2010), [Online] Retrieved 5 June 2011, Available at < http;//www.insna.org/ >
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