Types of blogging communities & methods to build blogging communities.

During my research for this post i found there was a few well known blog communities. 
Aeonity Blog Community
Mybloglog community
Blog Catalog community
Spicypage community

Joe Whyte has an excellent write up at the Search Marketing Standard blog on how to build up a blog community. He gives the classic ten point list, for his part one of a series in this column. Here is a quick summary of the ten point list:

• Network with others in your industry
• Learn about your blog community with MyBlogLogs and related blogs
• Be opinionated and lively with your content
• Have goals and think long term
• Retain your visitors
• Encourage commenting
• Use linkbait like titles
• Leverage social media
• Leverage link baiting
• Join ad networks                                           (Schwartz, 2007)

Aeonity Blog Community
Aeonity Blog a is a Free Blog Community where your friends and family can create a blog and get feedback from other registered users just like you. Aeonity Blog even offers a private feature that allows your blogs to be private if you want them to be.

Reference list:
1) Schwartz B. 2007, 'Building your blog community',
http://searchengineland.com/building-your-blog-community-10556