[Coworking] Re: Membership Perks

[RedRokk]

Hey Jessica, we do this with our members. Each of our members has a keycard 
to access the space, which includes their picture, name, company, and our 
space's logo. We have been negotiating with businesses around town to offer 
between 15-25% off their services if our member comes in with their badge. 

We decided on the businesses to approach based on suggestions from our 
members and how far they were from our space. So far we have mostly coffee 
shops, restaurants, and bars but we are talking to a couple of more 
traditional businesses such as gyms and printing services now. 

When we approached the business we showed them the keycard our members used 
and explained how many people we have and how we would promote them. 
Promotion included being featured in our newsletter, keeping a menu of 
services in our space for members to review, listing them in our member 
services directory, and in our sign up packages. We are also going to begin 
featuring them on our website and social media profiles. 

So far the response from both members and businesses has been positive. We 
had a couple businesses push back on the discount amount we were asking 
for, but we explained that those were the minimum thresholds to be included 
with us.

Hope this helps.

Tyler

Good Morning, 


 We starting to think about creating  perks (discounts from local 
 businesses, and services) for our members. Do any of you have this at your 
 coworking spaces? I am not exactly sure how go about asking businesses for 
 discounts for our members especially since we are so new. 

 Thanks!

 Jessica 


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Re: [Coworking] Coworking space run by Members

[Tom Brandt]

I am one of the co-owners (should co-owner have a hyphen :)) of Workantile,
a coworking community in Ann Arbor. We are very much like a co-op. We have
no paid staff, no front desk, and in fact the two other co-owners and I
are dues paying members like all other members.

We set the expectation right away that members contribute to the community
by doing whatever needs doing. One of our members organizes monthly
cleanings, where the space is cleaned top to bottom. We have maybe half a
dozen people show up, and we get it done in around an hour. Members take
out the trash when the trash containers get full. Other members organize
social activities, or order supplies, or work with me on the billing
system. It all works quite well. Some people participate more than others,
but everything gets done that needs to get done.

The keys are setting the expectation right up front, before someone joins,
that this is the way things work; and the subtle peer pressure that is
created when members see other members doing things.

On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Jessica Hill jessicarenee.h...@gmail.com
wrote:


 Hello again,


 Any coworking spaces out there, strictly maned by members or workshare
 members?  How is it working out for you?  Seems like a great idea. Any tips
 you may have would be great.  We are starting to do this, but we are having
 an issue with people calling out. It's somewhat frustrating because myself
 and the other co-owner work full time jobs that are not in the local area
 of the space , and it is hard for us to get out of work and cover.  We run
 the front desk in the evenings only.



 Thanks
 Jessica

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Re: [Coworking] Re: Getting rid of the co-working hyphen

[Jacob Sayles]

I'll reach out to him and see if he is close enough to stop in for coffee.

Also, if it would help the cause, Open Coworking can buy a subscription.
But a subscription without the leg work isn't worth much.  Lauren and Oren,
you two seem to have a good momentum on this.  Go team!


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On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 5:19 PM, oren.salo...@gmail.com 
oren.salo...@gmail.com wrote:

 I was doing some digging and found it not so easy to contact the editors
 of the AP Style Guide directly without a content subscription, but I did
 find this: https://twitter.com/apstylebook

 Does anyone want to join on a tweet campaign to get their attention
 #NoHyphenInCoworking anyone?

 Also, found this: https://twitter.com/dhminthorn

 Jacob, he seems to be a Washington state native, maybe you can reach out
 and invite him to Office Nomads to check out coworking?



 On Tuesday, September 23, 2014 1:15:25 PM UTC-5, Alex Hillman wrote:

  Lots of great analogies in there, Oren. http://ihighfive.com/


 -Alex

 On Tuesday, Sep 23, 2014 at 8:51 AM, Will BennisLocus Workspace 
 wmbe...@locusworkspace.com, wrote:

 Hi Oren,

 I really appreciate your thoughtful reply about this. And it's
 definitely pushed me in the direction of greater support for the cause.
 Two particular points that I can agree with: (1) the name is being spelled
 in two different ways for no very good reason. We might be able to solve
 that, and get it spelled in the way most people using the word want it to
 be spelled, so why not do it? (2) The way it's spelled matters to a lot of
 people in ways that are not specifically about language clarity and are
 more about identity and community support. And for those people, the
 preferred spelling tends to be coworking, so why not respect that?

 I'm in. I can respect that.

 Best,
 Will

 On Saturday, September 20, 2014 9:41:49 PM UTC+2, oren.s...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 Hi Will,

 I know what your name is, I was just trying to make a point. :)

 I respect and value your points about no horse in the race and that the
 indifference of the co-working fans would never lead them to debate this
 to such an extent and that clearly this is something the coworking fans
 are pushing here. I also see your point about the flexibility of language
 and I agree no entity can stop language from changing and adapting and
 being interpreted differently in different contexts.

 All that being said, I find co-working to be disrespectful. There is a
 distinct difference between your example of personal computing and
 computing and co-working and coworking. One refers to a rapidly adapting
 industry where the nature of what was being described changed over time.
 While coworking is rapidly expanding and comes across new variants all the
 time, I don't think anyone is claiming a full transformation is happening
 like in your computing example.

 Nobody in journalism misspells kibbutz in writing and nobody just
 started calling them collective agricultural communities either. Kibbutz
 means something because it staked out the term and owned it. I see the
 exact same thing happening with coworking except that spelling it
 co-working means a distinct unfamiliarity with the subject matter.

 Maybe I'm making some assumptions here, but this was one of the first
 things I learned about coworking. I don't know a single major organization,
 association, product, content hub, group or otherwise large group of
 coworking people identifying under the co-working banner. We're all
 squarely organized under the coworking banner. So what if some space
 operators choose to spell it co-working? Obviously that's their choice as
 an operator and they're welcome to do so, but to me it's always been a red
 flag that they're disconnected from the global community. Maybe I'm wrong
 in assuming so, but in my experience it's been validated pretty
 consistently.

 Even if there is little ambiguity in co-working vs. coworking (because
 there's nothing currently called co-working), it's still very undignified
 not be regarded as important enough to have a consistent spelling. That's
 the core issue at hand from my perspective and maybe you disagree, but
 that's why I think we're talking about entering the dictionary and the
 style guides. It's for the same reason that a apple is in appropriate but
 an apple is ok. If I said I'm going to eat a apple, you'd understand me but
 look at me funny. We're just trying to get the journalists to realize that
 from our perspective, co-working = a apple.


 On Friday, September 19, 2014 5:19:38 AM UTC-5, Will Bennis, Locus
 Workspace wrote:

 Hi Oren,

 I appreciate your reply about this!

 Actually, my name is Will, not William, damnit!!! :

 But I don't think this is really the same.

 First, coworking isn't a company name or a given name / proper noun.
 It's not your name or my name. It's not even the movement's name. If