Totally agreed with Jen - it takes time, and sometimes longer than you'd expect. Even when you DO have a community it can take time to get a new ritual going to the point where it's got it's on momentum. I wrote about how sometimes it takes more tries than you'd expect in this article: http://dangerouslyawesome.com/2011/10/the-importance-of-rhythm-rituals-for-coworking-communities/
Like I talk about in that piece, try thinking about it in different intervals and levels of difficulty - easy stuff you can do more often like posting online and harder stuff you can do weekly or monthly like getting together in person. And to echo Jen...keep it up! You're in a marathon, not a sprint :) Keep us posted. -Alex On Thursday, October 29, 2015, Jennifer Kready <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Daniel - I think their site is down for upgrades, etc. > > I started a Meetup in Oct 2014 > <http://www.meetup.com/Engage-for-Entrepreneurs/> and hosted guest > speakers for 8 months. I had a good run with that, but really wanted to do > coworking (having closed a failed 'coworking' specific Meetup in Sept 2014 > after 3 months). In May 2015, I just transitioned to cowork mornings and > chose to a recurring Monday and Wednesday cowork sessions, 3-hrs a pop, at > two coffee shops. I've had as many as 13 people at a cowork morning and as > few as me, at another cowork event. Meetup us a fickle beast, as are its > members. People say coworking is a great idea, and it is until someone has > to pay for it. I don't charge for cowork mornings. > > I took a nod from Maui and started a coworking Facebook group, too. We > talk all things coworking, my coworks' progress and so forth. You can join > to see what we do https://www.facebook.com/groups/WilCoCoworkingConnection > > > In November and December, as we live in Austin with a horde of cowork > spaces, my community and I are doing cowork field trips to see what others > are doing. Has anyone signed up yet? No! Did they think it was a great > idea? Yes! See what I mean. They'd go in a heartbeat if I paid for their > day pass, but that's not the point of the experience. > > I sat in a coffee shop for 4 weeks with no one coworking with me > (solo-working?) and through free promotion via Facebook, community > calendars and Meetup, it got going. > > Keep it up > > Jen > > > -- > 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] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','coworking%[email protected]');> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- ------------------ *The #1 mistake in community building is doing it by yourself.* Join the list: http://coworkingweekly.com Listen to the podcast: http://dangerouslyawesome.com/podcast -- 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.
