Re: [Coworking] Re: Tips on Dishes

[Angel Kwiatkowski]

:)

On Thursday, November 12, 2015 at 4:39:50 PM UTC-7, Tony Bacigalupo wrote:
>
> "It sits up in a stand that collects its own drips (I wish my baby did 
> this)."
>
> Ah, Angel. Your penchant for wit never fails to delight.
>
> This is truly great, thanks for sharing! Added to my queue to include in 
> the new Best Practices section on the Coworking Blog.
>
> Tony
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> On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 12:29 AM, Angel Kwiatkowski  > wrote:
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>> The ultimate dish brush and what our whiteboard says above the sink that 
>> is actually working 
>> http://coherecommunity.com/blog/coworking-must-have-supply-list
>>
>> On Friday, August 26, 2011 at 6:06:45 PM UTC-6, Jacob Sayles wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> With any community, dishes are often times a sticking point.  We've come 
>>> up with some fun psychological aids to help "encourage" folks to take care 
>>> of their own dishes while at the same time not badgering everyone.  
>>>
>>> *Tips:*
>>> B)  Everyone loves kittens and puppies
>>> A)  A fake camera goes a long way
>>> C)  Be nice!!!
>>>
>>> The attached picture is what we currently have up over our sink bringing 
>>> together all three of these elements.  Another tip is to change out your 
>>> signs regularly so they don't blend into the background as much.  We have 
>>> used Mr T, Sarah Palin and my favorite Dish Karma to help get the message 
>>> across.  
>>>
>>> What tricks have you guys used?  What's worked well, and what hasn't 
>>> worked out?  
>>>
>>> Jacob
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Re: [Coworking] Tool of meeting room management

[Katherine Warman Kern]

I've tries Skedda. Now using Zapla.

Zapla is the simplest system for our purposes so far. 

But neither are perfect. 

Ultimately will probably develop a system for our private member network. My 
goal is a single sign on solution - i.e. once a member logs in they can book a 
room and it is automatically billed to their account and shows up in their 
account transactions. With Skedda they were sent out of the site where they had 
to login. With Zapla they stay on the site, but have to reenter their email and 
credit card info. 

So I did a work around with Zapla where they merely enter their name, an email 
comes to me to approve the booking and I manually complete the transaction in 
stripe.

K-

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Re: [Coworking] Re: Slack for Coworking

[Jonathan Markwell]

Hi Elizabeth,

It's brilliant that you've managed to get that many of your members into
Slack already. It's not easy getting a 75% success rate on sending
invitations out.

It's also really interesting to see your thoughts on what an ideal system
would include. I see the challenge of getting people to use any new online
system as very similar to that of getting people to use our coworking
spaces in the first place. It can be quite a slow process. It took about a
year for Slack to become the primary means of communication at The Skiff.
And it still doesn't suite everyone.

GroupBuzz continues to be the best service we've ever used for threaded
email based discussions: http://groupbuzz.io I can't imagine Slack ever
getting to the stage where we don't need GroupBuzz too. GroupBuzz has
created a brilliant on boarding process that anyone who is familiar with
email can understand. It's much less of a leap for our less technically
savvy members than Slack is. I also feel much more comfortable with all our
community's most important discussions taking place there. Since GroupBuzz
is bootstrapped (no evil venture capital funding) and owned by Alex Hillman
we can trust that our data and our users are safe.

It would be fantastic for us as community founders to be able to
communicate with all of our members via a single system with a single
message. But I don't believe that's ever going to be possible. Our
communities aren't drawn together by a common interest in a single way to
communicate online. It feels like a bit too much to ask to expect them to
all change all of their communication preferences to match each other. When
we want to reach as many of our members as possible we send email
broadcasts using tools like MailChimp, alongside announcements in Slack and
GroupBuzz. Sometimes we'll even use posters in the space, SMS and/or a
telephone call to make sure.

Here's a process I'd recommend for getting members into a new online system
(I'm probably stealing some of this from GroupBuzz's onboarding process):

1) Identify 10 people who are super keen. Maybe they already use the system
with another community.
2) Invite each of them into the new online system.
3) Ask them (one at a time) something specific that they could each do to
introduce themselves or start a conversation.
4) Once some habits have formed with the first 10 using it regularly you'll
probably have more people asking about joining it.
5) Brief the founding members to be particularly helpful to new joiners.
6) Invite the next 10 people in and give it a week or two for everyone
adjust to the growing community.
7) Continue the process until you've added all your members.

Taking this approach means that most people joining will immediately see
some activity that they can get involved with. But it should also make sure
that you don't have a sudden spike in an off putting amount of activity
that then fizzles out.

Once you have an active community in Slack it makes so many aspects of
running a coworking space easier. Having a way to instantly message members
turns out to be far more effective than email for many little things that
can add up to be annoying.

Slack's integrations make it particularly useful. We're using one (that we
made ourselves) to start solving the member directory problem you
described: http://theskiff.coworker.directory/ It stays up to date with the
profiles members maintain in Slack.

Hope this helps,

Jon


On 12 November 2015 at 23:19, Elizabeth Trice  wrote:

> Hi,
> We just invited everyone to Slack a little over a month ago. We have 60 of
> 80 members on Slack, but we don't have a sense of how many people are
> actually using it, and I'm not sure if it's the right platform, or if so
> how to get it used.
> Ideally, an internal communication system would:
> 1. Provide links to email, phone, photo and bios for each member
> 2. Have threads, so someone can follow specific topics without needing a
> new channel
> 3. Be seen by everyone (we're still resorting to emails for important
> announcements)
> 4. Make it easy for me to post new topics of interest or in-person
> discussions and know everyone has seen it without bombarding them with
> emails.
> Thoughts?
>
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