Alex, what do you mean by membership managemnet? What do you want it to do?
On Wednesday, October 26, 2016 at 4:39:22 PM UTC+2, Alex Hillman wrote: > > I'm with Jon on this one. The all-in-one approach just doesn't make sense > to me. > > Instead, we've assembled a toolchain of individual apps that let us > incrementally improve and focus our efforts where we know it'll get us the > most results. This reddit comment I made about a year ago is *slightly* > outdated, > but includes a large part of our toolkit. > https://www.reddit.com/r/CoWorking/comments/30ltlx/coworking_software_recommendations/cptm1og/ > > Case in point - I've been hunting for a tool to handle a collaborative > community calendar for YEARS and finally found it! > > One recent addition that's missing from that comment is Teamup Calendar > <http://www.teamup.com/>, which is the BEST calendar tool I've found by a > longshot. Google Calendar is a common default, but it requires giving > people permission to be able to add things to it and even then, there's no > audit trail of activity. Teamup is awesome because it doesn't even require > logins - it uses URLs for permissions e.g. admins get a special URL, > members get a different special URL, and the pubic website gets yet another > special URL. > > As a result, members can add stuff to the calendar without needing to > remember a login, meaning more stuff ends up on the calendar and more > people actually LOOK at the calendar, too. We can embed the calendar in our > member site, directly link to it, and people can still subscribe to the > feeds in their iCal or Google Calendars. We have members across time zones > who even remarked how awesome it is that Teamup automatically adjusts for > time zones. > > It's so f'ing awesome. It's *so* affordable. And we'd never get to use it > if we relied on an all-in-one! > > Ironically, the one thing missing from our kit right now is a membership > manager that *just* does membership management. We've definitely outgrown > our current solution, but every other option I look at is trying to do a > dozen things at once and none of them especially well! :( And I can't help > but laugh every time a new app launches that promises "build more > community" and then designs their entire app around managing desks. > ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > > So much love for my software peeps - for real, it's the world I came from > before I started Indy Hall. But I'd looooove to see more single-serving > apps that pick one problem and solve it REALLY well. There's a lot of money > to be made there. > > -Alex > > > > ------------------ > *The #1 mistake in community building is doing it by yourself.* > Better Coworkers: http://indyhall.org > Weekly Coworking Tips: http://coworkingweekly.com > My Audiobook: https://theindyhallway.com/ten > > On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 10:07 AM, Jonathan Markwell <jonathan...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Swiss Army Knives look great and are extremely useful in an emergency. >> But how would you feel depending on one to solve the same series of >> problems every day? Switching to using another multitool might improve >> things a little but for how long? >> >> Member communication, room bookings, CRM and billing are worlds apart. I >> can't imagine any one provider being able to do a good job of all of them >> in one go. >> >> Meshwork might be able to put together something that works well for a >> small number of spaces. But those spaces would have to work within a very >> strict set constraints. If they try to be all things for all coworking >> spaces you'll have to put up with ever increasing complexity in the user >> experience. >> >> I'm much happier using simple single purpose tools that do a really good >> job of solving one or two specific problems >> >> Why not consider different providers for each of the problems you have? >> >> On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 at 16:02, Stacy Kessler <st...@platform53.com >> <javascript:>> wrote: >> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> We are thinking of switching coworking software. We currently use Cobot, >>> and while there are a lot of great things about that, there are still >>> limitations. We have talked many times with product development and >>> customer service. While they are open to feedback, there are still things >>> we want out of our coworking software that have not come to fruition. For >>> example communication with and between members (no need to use Slack), >>> doing room bookings and invoicing for non-member revenue, some funky stuff >>> with user experience, etc. Just got a Meshwork demo and it seemed pretty >>> great. Some of these features aren't live yet, but if they live up to their >>> promises, seems they should have most everything we need with a few >>> shortages in customization on a few items, but more of the items we are >>> currently missing. >>> >>> Anyone have any experience using Meshwork or any of the other new >>> software providers? There was a thread on Nexudus about 3 years ago, but I >>> think that was the most recent discussion on it. We want to be able to do >>> all of our billing, member communication, CRM, have members be able to >>> manage their own membership, etc. all in one place with the ability to >>> customize how you want to bill and the limitations you want to be able to >>> set for your members. >>> >>> Thanks for your thoughts! >>> Stacy Kessler >>> Platform 53 >>> >>> -- >>> 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+...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> -- >> 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+...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- 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. 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