Thanks Jeannine and Jamie for your suggestions! Jamie, thanks, I'll look at all those places.
Jeannine, I love thinking about cities and places in the way you wrote at the start of your email, would like to talk more and hear how you think about that, either on a phone call or online, whichever you prefer. Could you say more about what all your places share and how they are different? You write 'the Community Manager in the home space' is the main organizer for each location; do you mean there's one person at one main location for you, who is contacted for all the locations, or each location has a person who is physically there most of the time who is the organizer? That's lovely to hear about the rolling/rotating parties across the locations, I'd love to do that. You write it's a lot of fun when members start their own locations; could you write more about why/how it's fun? (Collective Agency members have independently started at least 5 locations of which at least 3 are still continuing, plus private offices often modeled on us, often when there is a split in a requirement, like another city/location, a specific demographic niche, a corporate request, or when a certain ethos or experiment is desired by two or more members that wouldn't fit within the Community Guidelines. Gangplank in Chandler Arizona has a licensing model that I always love hearing about.) It's helpful to hear about membership at one location and 'as if membership' at the other locations, people have suggested that. I'm wondering for key and alarm access, how that works? (I could see having the same alarm code at each location, or different codes at each location. To start, we'll have different door key systems at each location; magnetic key fob at one, and metal key at the others.) Do you have one key and code for all locations, or are there resident members who open and close, and members at other locations can visit during those hours? How do people at the various places dream up ideas and make them happen? Do they ever do that without going through a Community Manager or you? Do you tend to have one person at a time or groups of people who come up with ideas and make them happen? What roles/autonomy do they have, and are their roles/autonomy broadly written down? Right now with 2 locations I'm seeing confusion/disappointment sometimes, and joy/excitement/surprise sometimes (of all the emotions, it's mostly excitement/anticipation), that one place is physically different with different amenities than the other. We have an Instagram account shown on all our website pages that seems to be a main emotional connection for many people. The disappointed people want either wood and brick Loft, or white-wall Gallery, but not both, and showing the second location reduces inquiries in the first location, and showing the first location reduces expectation for the second location. So I could see having different Instagram accounts for each location, and show the main Instagram at the top, and the second Instagram below, and then Facebook and other more community/human things, to share, and the Membership page to share (as long as members at the third location want the same rates as the main location). Or I could see just having enough variety in the Instagram, the same way we currently have variety of photos with humans (which attract most people more) and photos without humans (which attract some other people more). Alex http://collectiveagency.co/ -- Alex Linsker | Business Owner Collective Agency <http://collectiveagency.co> (503) 517-6900 office | (503) 369-9174 mobile 322 NW Sixth Ave, Suite 200 | Portland, Oregon 97209 On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 2:19 PM, Jamie Russo <[email protected]> wrote: > Alex, > > Here are a few folks with multiple locations that you might reach out to, > or do secondary research on their websites: > > Blankspaces (LA) > Workbar (Boston) > COCO (Minneapolis) > The Commondesk (Dallas) > Link (Austin) > Grind (NY, Chicago) > > Best, > Jamie Russo > Founder, Enerspace Coworking <http://www.enerspacecoworking.com> > Host, Everything Coworking Podcast <http://www.everythingcoworking.com> > Executive Director Global Workspace Association > <http://www.globalworkspace.org> > > > On Friday, June 24, 2016 at 7:37:25 PM UTC-7, Alex Linsker wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> Other than searching the Google Group for "multiple locations", what >> would you recommend searching for, for info on coworking places with >> multiple locations? Collective Agency is almost signed on our third >> location in Portland and I'm curious to see what questions have come up for >> people who've done this before. >> >> The vision is for each location to be slightly different, with locally >> influenced community and different amenities, but a similar overall feel. >> This will be our second location for members (the other location is just >> for event rentals right now, but could become for members in the future). >> >> Questions I have: >> - the pros and cons of members of each location having membership at all >> the locations. (Most members at the main location will not want to switch, >> and all will want the ability to come to our main location, but about 1 in >> 10 people are interested in mainly being at the third location.) >> - the pros and cons of having multiple web pages, one for each location. >> - local experimentation: the best ways to try new policies at one >> location, and when to try something and when to not try something. >> - pros and cons of local parties vs combining locations for parties? Do >> you rotate locations sometimes, and combine sometimes? >> - local governance: including, when applicable, what benefits have your >> members said they've had from being involved in governance? Do any places >> have local representatives from each location get together to talk >> governance for the organization overall? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Alex Linsker http://CollectiveAgency.co/ >> > -- > Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Coworking" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/coworking/fqQ3cYhTAZ0/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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.
