-Regarding community participation, I've found mixed results. I'm -always badgering our members to write a blog post about coworking, or -about themselves (they all have access to the Wordpress), and half of -them have done so. But I might not be asking them in the right way.
One of my members once told me, "Angel, we'll do anything for you. You just have to tell us when it's REALLY important to you." So, that's what I started doing. When I ask for something from the members I tell them why it's important to me or why it matters for the community. It might be saying something simple like, "People who want to try out coworking go to the member page to read about you--the more stories we have there, the more likely people are to identify with one of you, come in and eventually join. This will keep Cohere in business." It's been remarkably effective. Also, they like deadlines. If I give them a date by which to have something turned in, they usually do it. -Angel On Feb 23, 2:49 pm, "gerard @ Cincy Coworks" <helloger...@gmail.com> wrote: > There is a new site called Mapalong <http://mapalong.com>. When I > heard "story" and "location", I thought of Mapalong. [small shameless > plug] The co-creator is an acquaintance of mine. [/small shameless > plug]. The idea is to tie stories to locations. Maybe not yet, but > soon, it could address this thread. For instance, you could zoom into > your city, search for "coworking" and find coworking stories nearby. > > Regarding community participation, I've found mixed results. I'm > always badgering our members to write a blog post about coworking, or > about themselves (they all have access to the Wordpress), and half of > them have done so. But I might not be asking them in the right way. > > Thanks, > Gerardhttp://cincycoworks.com > > On Feb 22, 6:49 pm, Angel Kwiatkowski <fccowork...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > When Alex said, "The biggest thing I continually see missing from > > directories like this is a > > sort of sense of humanity - physical attributes are useful in > > determining > > what you DON'T want, but make it hard to differentiate between one > > space and > > the next once you know what you DO want." > > > I've been reading up on the coworking registry database and whatnot > > but again as a member just told me, "I don't want to know where the > > desks/spaces are, I want to know where my people are." I think that as > > a community of community-minded people-centric people we missed the > > boat. Big time. As a matter of fact, we're in the wrong boat going the > > wrong direction on the wrong river. > > > Idea: what if we have a place where coworkers can tell their stories? > > That's it. Tell your story about how you found coworking, why you > > cowork, where you cowork and how it has changed your life. Tag those > > posts with city names and space names and let the wider community of > > prospective coworkers find their tribe there. > > > *Question: as a space owner do you think you could inspire your > > communities to contribute their stories online?* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
