Re: [Coworking] Re: How I'm using workflows and automation to improve our member onboarding

2015-01-30 Thread dangerouslyawesome
Great ideas - thanks Glen! -- The #1 mistake in community building is doing it by yourself. Join the list: http://coworkingweekly.com Listen to the podcast: http://listen.coworkingweekly.com On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 10:42 AM, Glen Ferguson g...@coworkfrederick.com wrote:

Re: [Coworking] Re: How I'm using workflows and automation to improve our member onboarding

2015-01-30 Thread Glen Ferguson
Hey Alex, I've been using Zapier enough to finally move into a paid account. It's hooking together a lot of differnet services. I have it: - tying together website room reservation forms with Freshbooks for invoicing non-members plus Google calendars to make an event entry/send the

Re: [Coworking] My morbid curiosity with Coworking Space Closings

2015-01-30 Thread Jerome Chang
I think the below typically applies to smaller coworking spaces. Well, let me rephrase: the below is required for smaller spaces larger spaces does not need to follow the below rule; BUT, should they, yes, I agree that the below would be ideal. That said, from my experience of

Re: [Coworking] Re: How I'm using workflows and automation to improve our member onboarding

2015-01-30 Thread Thilo Utke
Hi all, somehow the post has perfect timing :) Thanks Alex for sharing your learnings with the video. You really have a great way to explain this stuff. We also using Slack in our space and recently played around with Zapier. Wow is it a powerful way to automate workflows across different

[Coworking] Frederick Dept. of Economic Development at Cowork Frederick

2015-01-30 Thread Glen Ferguson
We've just worked out the details. If any of you would like free help with your business, the City's Department of Economic Development will hold open office hours at Cowork Frederick starting February 6. Walk ins are welcome; appointments can also be made by contacting the DED office. Here's

Re: [Coworking] Frederick Dept. of Economic Development at Cowork Frederick

2015-01-30 Thread Glen Ferguson
Thanks, but my apologies; I meant to send that to our Google member group. Darn browser auto-complete! --- Glen Ferguson Cowork Frederick 122 E Patrick St Frederick, MD 21701-5630 +1 (301) 732-5165 www.coworkfrederick.com @CoworkFrederick http://twitter.com/CoworkFrederick On Fri, Jan 30, 2015

Re: [Coworking] Frederick Dept. of Economic Development at Cowork Frederick

2015-01-30 Thread Tony Bacigalupo
Bad ass, Glen! It's always great to see folks from the municipal side of things embedded in coworking spaces. Let us know how people respond! Tony *-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ Keep in touch: Twitter http://twitter.com/tonybgoode * Facebook

Re: [Coworking] My morbid curiosity with Coworking Space Closings

2015-01-30 Thread Jacob Sayles
It's all about balance... and that's our role. The easy part is to make sure the toilets are clean and the credit cards are run. Keeping things in balance is the tricky (and fun) part. On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 8:18 AM, Jerome Chang jer...@blankspaces.com wrote: I think the below typically

Re: [Coworking] Re: How I'm using workflows and automation to improve our member onboarding

2015-01-30 Thread Jacob Sayles
This is what we use Nadine for. OK so it's another silly name but we now have a cute logo and website http://nadineproject.org! Since I'm focused on running Office Nomads and not writing the best marketing speak I've struggled with how to describe Nadine. The user profiles are what people

Re: [Coworking] Re: How I'm using workflows and automation to improve our member onboarding

2015-01-30 Thread Thilo Utke
Hi Jacob, congrats on having a site and logo for nadine :) Especially like the friendly form at the end, hope you don't mind if I copy that. Thanks for your continued open source efforts, I bet Nadine works perfect for you and could for other spaces too that like to roll their own. So not so

Re: [Coworking] Re: My morbid curiosity with Coworking Space Closings

2015-01-30 Thread rachel young
I'll add another item to Jonathan\s list: 4 - Less diversity. 100 members with a flex or part time membership is 3x as many different occupations, passions, life experiences, and hobbies than 35 members with a full time membership, so the mix of people that members interact with will be much less

Re: [Coworking] Re: My morbid curiosity with Coworking Space Closings

2015-01-30 Thread jonathan . markwell
Many full-time members with permanent desks is absolutely a problem. We limit to a maximum of 40% of desks for full-timers. If you go too far above that there are at least three common problems: 1) Part-time / flexible members don't feel like they have a significant sense of ownership of the

Re: [Coworking] Re: My morbid curiosity with Coworking Space Closings

2015-01-30 Thread Marius Amado-Alves
Too many full time members, not enough flex (or some variation on flex). Er... many fulltimers is a *problem*?!?!? -- 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

[Coworking] Re: The Right to “Cowork”: Free Coworking!

2015-01-30 Thread Marius Amado-Alves
How would a free coworking space get income (to pay rent, manager, etc.) ? I see some sites rent the conference rooms, is that it? Thanks a lot. -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

[Coworking] Re: How I'm using workflows and automation to improve our member onboarding

2015-01-30 Thread Anne Kirby
Great post, thanks! I use Trello all the time for my marketing business but haven't really used it in this way for our coworking space. I'll have to try it :) On Friday, January 30, 2015 at 12:33:58 AM UTC-5, Alex Hillman wrote: We’ve been working on a lot of workflows and streamlining at

Re: [Coworking] Re: How I'm using workflows and automation to improve our member onboarding

2015-01-30 Thread dangerouslyawesome
Very welcome :) Trello's blog is worth scoping out too, they show it being used in all kinds of ways I had never imagined...definitely part of what inspired this stuff.  http://blog.trello.com -- The #1 mistake in community building is doing it by yourself. Join the