You can't force it. People will gravitate towards each other. The community will develop it's own personality and norms. Forcing the issue will push members away. Some people may just be happy workings with their headphones on. The problem with forcing it will also give the appearance of favoritism..
My partner and I already now many of our members from years of community involvement and some we are already friends with. We are keenly aware of this and keeping it in check But the community as a whole will dictate things. On Thursday, July 21, 2016 at 1:17:03 PM UTC-7, Vaibhav N wrote: > > Hey Group, > > We have just started our community of coworkers and we get great energy > from all of them working here. My end endeavor is that people collaborate > and build lasting friendships too from here. > It seems that coworkers are usually shy and in the end its me and myself > who has to strike a conversation with everyone of them separately and then > I try to wiggle some other coworker to jump in too. I am an introvert and > talking up with a new person isn't really my thing!! I always ask myself, > do I need to start a conversation everytime to make the coworkers talk to > each other? Why can't they just 'friendly' it up themselves? Do I need to > be the middle guy introducing them to each other everytime? What can I do > to make the place more valuable as a community so that there are actual > collaborative work happening from our space? > > Vaibhav N > NQube Inc. > New Delhi, India > -- 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.
