I've been wondering the same thing for a while. My space has been open for a year, we've had strong growth and our members always tell us they love working there, but nearly everyone seems totally uninterested in socializing or networking. We try doing happy hours, game nights, film screenings and speakers but everyone really just wants to come in and get their work done.
On Tuesday, April 14, 2015 at 11:51:42 AM UTC-5, Chris Lindsey wrote: > > Hi there, > > I currently help manage two very different coworking spaces. One is a very > social, elite "social club" where we filter membership applications to > build an intentional community. The other is a quiet, independent space. We > allow anyone interested to get a desk in the latter and, as a consequence, > we tend to get members who just want a place to work with very little > networking or community building. We've got some plans to help build a > community (member-led presentations, office happy hours, etc.), but are > there other inexpensive ways to build community and market the space to get > more members? Does anyone have experience managing this type of space? > > Thanks so much! > > Chris > -- 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 coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
