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Blog communities take the idea of a social network at their core, in the sense that they strengthen communication and connections amongst different groups of people with a similar mindset and interest according to Blanchard and Markus (2004). Just imagine joining a blogging community where people can find and read your blog in such places as blogspot.com and, get your blog reviewed or even chat with other bloggers all around the world creating a community among users who have similar or larger interest weight values from the viewpoint of each user and in the building of community hosted blogging spaces said Boyd (2007).

Creating a blogging community is simple, for example a business community where the workers are allowed to voice out in an organisation to give say to ideas and provide feedback on actions in a manner not previously possible in a thin office environment instead of the normal quiet whispers in the office as Bausch, Haughey & Hourihan (2002) argue that while formal knowledge of blogs are understood, informal systems such as blogs provide an opportunity to capture knowledge where it is created in an organisation, sharing that knowledge throughout an organisation. Also personalised responses to news and messages are a simple means of developing an understanding of the collective knowledge of an organisation and a means of broadening that knowledge, thus creating 'intelligence' from 'knowledge' (see Pór & Molloy 2000).


Reference List

Blanchard, A. and Markus, M., 2004. The Experienced “Sense” of a Virtual Community: Characteristics and Processes. The DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems, Vol. 35, No. 1.

Pór, G. & Molloy, J. (2002). Nurturing Systemic Wisdom Through Knowledge Ecology. [Verified 6 June 2004] http://www.co-i-l.com/coil/knowledge-garden/kd/KE.pdf

boyd, d. 2007. A Bloggers Blog: Exploring the Definition of a Medium. Reconstruction 6(2006):30.

Bausch, P., Haughey, M. & Hourihan, M. (2002). We Blog: Publishing Online with Weblogs. New York: John Wiley & Sons, (Chapter 8). [Verified 6 June 2004]
http://www.blogroots.com/chapters.blog/id/4