Thanks, Tony. This is super helpful. With regards to your comment about the role being a defined position. What are examples of how the community manager/tummler is instituted? I have seen from my field work a few types: full-time employees with the title; coworkers who are given space in exchange for doing admin tasks; owners who are really involved in cultivating the space. Are their other ways this function is realized?
On Friday, September 16, 2016 at 11:23:07 AM UTC-4, Tony Bacigalupo wrote: > > Hi Thomas! > > My thoughts: > > 1) It's only necessary insofar as you care to cultivate valuable > relationships between your people. One might run a shared workspace with no > effort to build community and call it coworking, and maybe some community > will emerge on its own. I don't consider this to be in the spirit of the > movement. > > I'll add that the "role" can take many forms; it need not be an individual > with a job title. Ideally, everyone in the community plays a role, with > leadership creating the circumstances that encourage and empower everyone > to do that. > > 2) Responsibilities: > > 1. Ensure the space is a safe space for everyone. > 2. Be nice and encourage others to do the same. > 3. Look for opportunities to introduce, empower, encourage, celebrate, and > give permission. > 4. Help people clear up any issues that arise, ideally by showing them how > to resolve things themselves like grown-ups. > 5. Not become an individual linchpin of the community, such that it would > be seriously injured if you leave. > > 3) Tasks: > > + Talk to people > + Develop programs > + Work with others to develop their programs > + Ensure stories are getting told, online and offline > + Assist with day-to-day operations > > Off the top of my head! > > Tony > > On Sep 16, 2016, at 7:48 AM, Thomas Lodato <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > > Hi All- > > I am trying to better understand the role and responsibilities of a > community manager/tummler for some research/writing I am doing about > coworking. I am a postdoc at Georgia Tech and find the very limited > academic research on coworking to be disconnected from the way you all > think about it. I posted these questions elsewhere, but didn't get much of > a response, so hopefully you all can help. So my questions are: > > 1) Is the role of community manager/tummler necessary in a coworking > space, and why? > 2) What are the top five responsibilities of a community manager/tummler? > 3) What tasks do community managers/tummlers perform? > > I am not looking for a definitive answer, but individual perspectives and > opinions from your experiences in coworking communities. Thanks for any > help in advance. > > -- > 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:>. > 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.
