Re: [Coworking] Building Community

2017-05-22 Thread Joel Bennett- Veel Hoeden
+10. Love this, Alex. It's the heart of the matter... community can't be done in "ones", it's can't be "strategically planned" on paper, and it can't be done in a vacuum. It's chaotic, wonderful, messy, energizing, time-consuming, and quite often a meandering path of surprises. It's not about

Re: [Coworking] Building Community

2017-05-22 Thread Alex Hillman
Hey Lisa! Community building feels most elusive when you're getting started because you want to *do* something. You want to *start* something. But like you said...you want it to feel natural, not forced or fake. The counterintuitive answer is that the community you're looking for is all around

[Coworking] Building Community

2017-05-22 Thread Lisa Dimond
Hello! My name is Lisa Dimond. My family and I opened ecafe, a coworking coffeehouse, in Overland Park, KS, in October 2016. Here's our website (which is a work-in-progress): www.ecafecoffee.com. We also have another website, www.visitecafe.com, which is in the process of being merged with

[Coworking] Building community - lessons learned from Crossfit

2011-10-06 Thread Ann Kingman
Since January my family and I have been working out at a local Crossfit gym. You may or may not have heard of Crossfit -- it's the current fitness craze in many parts. Much of the focus and appeal of crossfit is its emphasis on community. While Crossfit is open-source, and each gym is

Re: [Coworking] Building community - lessons learned from Crossfit

2011-10-06 Thread Jerome Chang
Coincidentally, CrossFitLA just moved into an office in our SM location. Your pricing mention on #4 does make sense for some coworking places. I'm not sure if the price premium is for the space alone (which I admit sometimes happens at BLANKSPACES), or for the community. But nonetheless, if