Blogs have many categories depending on the niche product the blogger blogs or writes and the method for content delivery. Niche product refers to the theme of the entire blog.
The personal blog category
The personal blog reflects the life, thoughts, and experiences of the writer. This runs like a personal life journal or diary and is the most common type of blog. Bloggers writing and maintaining personal blogs take pride in their writings even though readers seldom visit their site or nobody visits to read at all. Blogs are forms of expressions, which is more than just communicating ideas. It reflects the thoughts, life, and the creativity of a person. Personal blogs provides a sentimental value to the owner although only a few of them gained followers and became popular. The microblog aims to capture a specific moment in a person’s life. The content and style of writing is extremely detailed and very personal. The social media networks such as Twitter or Facebook allows writers and bloggers to communicate their thoughts and feelings to a large group of audience. The communication is fast and instantaneous that allows contacts to respond in a fast way. This platform also allows individual activity updates sent to their contacts or friends.
Looking into corporate blogs
Organizations create corporate blogs to enhance communication structure. This relatively introduces a different kind of organizational culture and makes managing relationships much easier for individuals sharing the same thoughts and discussing certain corporate issues. The blogs and the other content of the website express the culture and the kind of image the corporation wants to project towards its audience. The organization uses the blogs to enhance public relations with its consumers as well as for its strategic marketing and branding operations. The clubs and societies use the blogs to maintain rapport and update their members of the clubs activities.
Blogs by genre category
Genre could be political, travel or travelogs, house, education, niche, project, fashion, music, classical music, or legal. The art and the music blogs are the most common genre. Mom blogs provide content about family relationships, family activities, and home. However, people sometimes create blog for the sole purpose of spamming known as Splog.
