Jeannine, this sounds remarkable. I hope I get to visit you someday! -Alex
/ah indyhall.org coworking in philadelphia On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Jeannine <[email protected]>wrote: > I have an advantage because my space is attached to my house -- it's > the former stable of a 400 year old farm house like thingie. So I > installed a door bell which rings in the space and in the house. So > far if anybody needs anything when I am not there they mostly send me > a tweet to be honest, it's faster than even ringing the bell. This is > fair because I send up a tweet when baked goods are coming out of the > oven :-) > > Because of this setup, everbody knows this is a mom and pop shop, and > pop only shows up when something IT related must occur. > > At least two of my members have taken to the role of house mother like > ducks to water and just take care of what needs taking care of without > my asking them to. It seems to give them ownership, which is fine > with me. > > But for many reasons I am for having somebody identifiably in the role > of space manager/concierge, even if you have to resort to having a > member be "front" every day. In the right community you could have > fun with this -- like I dunno, have a red shirt that the "front" > person wears on his/her designated day. > > Well, you don't actually have kill them before the end of the > espisode. :-) > > Or a cow bell. I dunno. In my community this would only go at > carnaval, for these guys the house mother idea is the cinnamon in > their apple pie. But I could see it work in a number of situations. > > Jeannine > On Feb 20, 3:47 pm, Jack <[email protected]> wrote: > > We are going through the process of opening a space in Prescott > > (Launch Pad Prescott athttp://launchpadprescott.wordpress.com/). We > > are trying to decide if we need to hire someone to act as the Space > > Manager/concierge and wanted input from other space owners on how they > > have handled that. > > Thanks > > -- > 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. > > -- 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.
