I have been working in two coworking spaces in the Netherlands so far, and these are my short impressions:
- We had multiple *events *at the locations, from which some were for *training and education purpose*, and some were created for *networking *& *socializing*. The events were free for members and people who came from outside had to pay. I think the admission to events can be a part of the membership package. - Online (or offline) *training materials* could raise the value of the membership. - As I noticed, even if people work next to each other, breaking the ice or having deep conversations is hard without knowledge about the other person. This is especially the case in coworking spaces with more companies than less solopreneurs or freelancers. What really helps it to have *online communities* and/ or *online collaboration tools* at the coworking space level. Here I mean that coworking spaces offer a platform as part of the membership to *connect their members*: help them find each other, support communication, and give tools to smoothly work together. There are various platforms that partially help in connecting members starting from chat applications to coworking management softwares. We use *Bisner*, which is an online collaboration & community platform <https://www.bisner.com/> that was designed to *connect coworking spaces and their members*, and where coworking space managers and coworking members can communicate, share files, network, and collaborate with each other. Hope it helped! -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
