Thanks Alex! Glen and I listened to the podcast this morning. It was great to hear examples the Slack channels Indy Hall has and how Slack is introduced to members. Also good to be reminded that establishing an online community using Slack (or any tool for that matter) has to be something that comes from members. We've tried the "hey - we have this thing called Slack and here's what it's for and here's some channels - you should use them" approach. You're right. It doesn't work.
I also liked the "invitation, not announcement" reminder. We've had a hard time figuring out how to get things to come from members and I'd like to run something by you (and others in this group). Members bring us ideas, but rarely seem to have the energy to go beyond generating the idea and sharing it with us (even when we offer support in making them happen). Here's what has worked, to some extent. Glen and I have started things we want - not as the people who "run"/"own" Cowork Frederick, but just as people who want to do something. One example is our Local Lunch outings on Thursdays. We want to go out to eat lunch and we want people to join us, so we do it. We put it on the calendar and ask around to see who wants to join and then, with them, decide on a place to go. We go out to lunch every week and now, occasionally before I get to it, a member comes in and asks, "where are we going to lunch today?". If I apply this to Slack, I would create a channel for daily goals because I really like that idea and I would start using it and would see if others would join in. I would do this rather than announcing the channel and telling everyone to use it. It would the equivalent of "I'm going to lunch, anyone want to join me?". "I'm going to post my goals and report back. Feel free to check in and hold me accountable." Then I'd see if others start doing the same. Regardless of whether they do, I would continue to post my goals as long as it makes sense to me. In doing so, I'm not expecting anyone to do anything. I'm just putting myself out there and, hopefully, setting an example that says to others that they can too of they want. Thoughts? On Monday, January 30, 2017 at 10:11:01 PM UTC-5, Alex Hillman wrote: > > Lots of folks have posted to this list asking for advice with online > community tools, or a specific piece of coworking software. Everyone has a > favorite (or not...maybe you're just barely tolerating the tools you use), > but no matter the csse I haven't seen anyone really dive deep into the > specifics of how any one tool gets used effectively. > > So I decided to give it a try, and I'm pretty happy with how it came out > :) give it a listen! > > > http://listen.coworkingweekly.com/episodes/57695-ep52-how-we-use-slack-to-build-community-online > > We have more of these on the way, this was first by popular request! Hope > you dig it. > > -Alex > > -- 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.
