According to Wikipedia, a community is defined as a group of interacting organisms sharing an environment; intent, belief, resources, preferences, needs, risks, and a number of other conditions may be present and common, affecting the identity of the participants and their degree of cohesiveness. Same goes to bloggers - a blogging community can best be defined as a group of people with similar area of interest and discuss in a blog (Anthony, 2009).
How to create a blogging community?
• Take the lead and be the community that you want your readers to be – Readers follow the lead of bloggers in how they’ll interact with each other
• Q&A’s – able to interact with readers; opinions and comments
• Link to reader’s blogs
• Reciprocate with the readers, vice -versa
• Recognize and cite your readers
• Allow comments for everyone
One of the world’s most prominent blogging communities is Global Voices. The purpose of the community is to “shine” those who has talents and skills but with not recognized. The community provides platform for these bloggers to penetrate and excel in their fields. This community is operated by volunteer authors and part-time editors.
“Global Voices seeks to aggregate, curate, and amplify the global conversation online - shining light on places and people other media often ignore. We work to develop tools, institutions and relationships that will help all voices, everywhere, to be heard...”
Anthony 2009, What is a Blogging Community?, The Travel Tart, viewed on 25th September 2009, http://www.thetraveltart.com/what-is-a-blogging-community/.
About Global Voices, Viewed on 24th September 2009,
http://globalvoicesonline.org/about/
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