Hey Trisha! It has a lot to do with how people join the community in the first place, and the existing cultural context.
If people join with a mindset of it being about renting workspace, then people will come in with those intentions. If people join specifically because they intend to benefit from a community and programs that will help them grow their businesses and make friends, then they'll come in expecting to talk to people–because it's what they're paying for. The former scenario is a pretty commoditized thing that lots of people are rubber-stamping now. A nice looking space with desk and wifi isn't particularly impressive and hard to differentiate these days. The latter scenario is more fun for you and compelling for the prospective coworker. For this reason, I strongly advocate for creating a way to invite people to join your community through an intentional, interactive program. In my old space, I was most effective doing this by running a thing called Cotivation <http://cotivation.co>, a collaborative motivation and goal-setting group. I aimed it towards freelancers who needed to share some accountability to keep them focused, and it worked really well–the people who joined the community because of that program were far more likely to be social with each other and newcomers. Lots of other good community things spun off from that. So my suggestion to you would be: come up with something along those lines. Happy to chat with you off-list about helping you get a Cotivation or similar group going! Tony *---* *New Work Cities <http://nwc.co/consulting>* *Doing everything we can to help coworking spaces thrive!* [image: Inline image 8] <http://tonybacigalupo.com/>[image: http://twitter.com/tonybgoode] <http://twitter.com/tonybgoode>[image: http://facebook.com/tonybacigalupo] <http://facebook.com/tonybacigalupo>[image: http://linkedin.com/in/tonybacigalupo] <http://linkedin.com/in/tonybacigalupo>[image: Inline image 1] <http://medium.com/@tonybgoode> *[image: Inline image 2] <https://www.youtube.com/c/TonyBacigalupo>* * <https://www.youtube.com/c/TonyBacigalupo>* On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 12:23 AM, Trisha <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, everyone! > > I'm pretty new to coworking and would love all the advice I could get. > To give a little context I recently started in my coworking space as a > community manager. Everything seems to go great with my members and their > happiness, but there is one big problem. I have noticed that members > interactions and participation with the environment is very little to none. > Does anyone have advice on how to get people more involved in a way that > doesn't seem forced? > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
