Hi Everyone! Short intro, I'm Bart and I am one of the founders of mr.Watson, which is a private social network for coworking spaces, located in The Netherlands. We have had a focus on the community part from the beginning on. Creating a platform that is focused on building trust and stimulating and facilitating bottom-up initiative. By giving members the opportunity to get in touch with each other easily, setting up events them selfs, managing shared facilities etc. We are traditionally coming from the member side, instead of the community management side. The spaces we were visiting and located in ourselves back then were not that well managed. So we started building our tool as a tool for the members to get more value from the community by themselves. Just after a while we started moving from that positions to being a tool for coworking spaces and shared offices in a broader sense.
One thing we learned, developing our product, is the possibilities of integrating the social and the practical / management part. We always had the idea to integrate our social approach with the practical / managerial part, with mr.Watson as 'the member focused front-end'. As soon as we started doing this and integrated room booking software and a fix-it service application we saw what integrating practical tools in a social environment could do. You could say online got the 'coffee machine effect' as well. As you go to the coffee machine for a cup of coffee (practical reason) you bumb into a coworker, sharing at least a simple and short, trust enhancing, shared experience. Online we saw that members that were difficult to involve in the social part to start of with did go to mr.Watson to book a room (practical), while being there they saw the faces, names, events and conversations going on and, when relevant, they started participating themselves as well. Eventually these members got more and more involved socially both on- and offline. Like Alex said, I also believe that trust building is a great part and we try to bring this into our product. In such a way that members feel the confidence to start playing an active role in the community (building) as well. We are learning every day and are looking to add new trust building elements (coming soon: the facegame) and integrate with practical / management tools as well (would love to get in touch with you guys at Cobot as well!). Op zaterdag 9 april 2016 17:32:27 UTC+2 schreef Rob Landry: > > Hi Everyone, > > For those of you who manage coworking spaces, I'm wondering - what would > you like to see to improve coworking apps and make them more useful to you > and your members? > > I'm familiar with apps like Cobot and Coworkify, among others. > > I started a coworking space a few years ago and built an app that works as > a CMS for the website, handles billing of members, and a public member > directory, among a few other things. The app is now used by a number of > spaces. I'm ready to refine it > > Thanks! > > Rob > r...@pleinairinteractive.com <javascript:> > -- 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.
