Blog and Community

Classification of Blogs & Methods to Build Blogging Communities

People with different interest and background creates different kinds of blog such as;
Food Travel Design Fashion Cars Pet

Blogs are also classified into;
Filter Blog - Is build through a whole commentary of hyperlinks.
Short Form Journal Blog - A much more personal experience blog writing on thoughts, observations and events.
"Red-flag" Blog - It uses the original blog entry as the starting point for the rest of the series of the posts, either as comments or reciprocal links. E.g Mike Davidson Blog

Building a Community

When readers are attach to you or they love your reading your blog a lot that they return to view it again and again, commenting on the issues you write on. Building a community in your blog is good to keep track on your readers and allowing them interact with you as well. It also creates a sense of loyalty and readers who like you will help you out in various ways (Daniel Scocco 2007). Through this, it makes your blog different from others and create a good positive impression among others.




Starting a community;

1.Show Map & Time
Show your readers where you are, and it also allows you and others to know where are the other readers come from. Timezone is important as they allows international readers to know when are you available for consultation.

2. Create a chat group
Allows fast and effective feed backs from your readers even if they do not have an account.

3. Commenters
Select the month's best commenter (chosen by yourself or the community). They may be inspire by to win again and make a greater effort to write comment regularly. E.g Huffington Post

4. Work together
Bloggers play their role by writing and allow others to read on it, on the other hand you can post a topic and asking them for tips and by allowing them to submit their tips via the comment section. Readers are likely to get involved in creating a role in the content.


5. Forum
Host a forum or use free online services forums. It will reach the extend where your forum might become popular creating a loyal community and meeting place within your own niche.
Even if it is small, it gives you the opportunity to get to know your readers better.

References

Barry Schwartz, Building your Blog Community, Viewed 31st May 2009, http://searchengineland.com/building-your-blog-community-10556

Daniel Scocco, Building a Community around your Blog, Viewed 1st June 2009, http://www.dailyblogtips.com/building-a-community-around-your-blog/

Motive (Ltd), The Motive Design Web Glossary, Viewed 31st May 2009, http://www.motive.co.nz/glossary/blogs.php