This is a question for any of the coworking spaces who do not keep regular hours and who want to attract drop-in community members. How have you been letting your community know when you are open and when you are closed?
Here at Berkeley Coworking, we went around the room, and came up with lots of ideas, most of which involved writing code or hacking some electronics, none of which we're opposed to mind you. However, we quickly realized we were trying to build the equivalent of a space pen that can write in zero gravity, when a simple pencil might do the trick. Currently we're posting our status on a twitter account and have that display on our website www.berkeleycoworking,com. That way anyone who's interested in coming by could conveivably follow us on twitter and get some form of a ping from us whenever we're in the house. It's simple, and it has worked so far. However, we really can't use that to show our availability in the future... you know for those who actually plan their day in advance ;-) We've also investigated using a Google GrandCentral account to setup a central phone number that will ring one or more of our anchors (the ones with the keys to the joint). At this time though, GrandCentral doesn't let you register your real phone numbers to more than one account. As a result, I can't receive calls for a coworking information line, since I use GrandCentral for other purposes. GrandCentral says that this feature is on their development roadmap, but didn't give a time estimate. So, I thought I'd throw this out to the community for discussion. What have you all tried and what seems to work? Kindest Regards, Sean O'Steen http://berkeleycoworking.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
