Thanks for the thoughts Tony, Daniel, and Alex. I realize this is probably a pretty common topic to come up around here, and I can imagine that after a while it can get frustrating. I wasn't entirely sure whether I should send the email or not, but given coworking's collaborative and community nature I thought it would be better to admit to what is probably a consistent problem (even for those well established places) and get some help than to remain stoic and let the problem continue without new eyes.
Tony, here are some replies to the points you've made, not as rebuttals, but to hopefully help provide explanation. 1. This is a great idea, and I'm working on that email now to go out to our mailing list. I had had such a thought but was reluctant because to me it seemed as if asking the question could be taken as a sign of weakness, and that approaching people in such a direct manner might be alienating. Given that I'm already in a lack of people, that would be bad. Then again, it's not like it can hurt anything. 2. The Hour had already been talked about internally, but your impetus has helped me move up the ball. 3. As far as meetings go, we've already got a couple of meetings planned for the next month. The python user group is meeting here on the 13th, and there's a Flex group here in dallas I met members from this past weekend working a table at the Big (D)esign Conference here in Dallas that I'm trying to get in contact with, and we've got a couple of groups we've started on our own that are meeting here in this next month as well. The thing I'm having trouble is that there are more groups I've talked to, and plenty of people who want to use us as a free space for meetings, but after that initial "Hey, this would be a great idea" they go silent. Before hitting this I checked out the coworking wiki page "CoworkingIssues" because I figured that there would be some common info there (also so that I could RTFM before spamming the group). Daniel, I've been in contact with some blogs, but definitely I need to get it out there more. I twitter pretty consistently through out the day on it. Whether I am effective or not remains to be seen though. I've been trying to promote others and what not. It's frustrating because I know that it's my job to get out there and build relationships and network, and as such I've been pushing hard to help promote not only my space, but the events and what not around here, but the reciprocation has not been exactly what I would like it to be. Maybe I should be more hard nosed about that? Matthew --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
