Re: [Coworking] Community Manager/Tummler role, responsibilities, and tasks

2016-09-16 Thread Thomas Lodato
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

Re: [Coworking] Community Manager/Tummler role, responsibilities, and tasks

2016-09-16 Thread Tony Bacigalupo
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

[Coworking] Community Manager/Tummler role, responsibilities, and tasks

2016-09-16 Thread Thomas Lodato
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