Don't miss Nancy's five-part series on Blogs and Community where she identifies three forms of blog-based communities - blog centric, topic centric, community centric. She then examines them through two lenses - social and tech/design, and lists out implications around each. 

Reading the whole series, Nancy raises many issues which I struggle with.  I think some of us straddle all three types of blogging -- I am a blog-centric blogger with Conversations with Dina, a topic-centric blogger with a loosely-knit communities around social media, ethnography, qualitative research; and have been and am a community-centric blogger with Worldchanging (GULP - no posts there for ages from me) and all the Help blogs.  Would be interesting to see how my behaviour and interactions vary depending on where or what I am blogging.

Some of the questions she has in her last post on the series:


Lots to think about on my long flight tonight ... am looking forward to meeting you again Nancy .. and to your session at BlogHer!

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