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Subject: Re: [Coworking] Re: Collaboration
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 10:12:13 -0500
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Yes retention is easy to overlook, but keeping people engaged is =
definitely important. Who wants high turnover rates for coworkers? Not =
us! :)

Cheers,
-Willie


On Nov 11, 2010, at 10:06 AM, Alex Hillman wrote:

> TOTALLY agreed, Willie. Members that have great experiences together =
will talk about those experiences, and want their friends to be a part =
of it. What's good for the members is also good for membership growth.=20=

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> And let's not forget about retention! Who cares how many members you =
have if they don't have any reason to stick around?
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> -Alex
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> /ah
> indyhall.org
> coworking in philadelphia
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> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Willie Morris =
<willie.mor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> but I also think this extends to getting new members if you are a =
newer space like us.
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> We initially started having brainstorming sessions with pizza and wine =
on Thursday nights and a weekly wind down on Fridays on our deck to get =
all the members into the sense of community and become friends. For some =
reason, flipcup has become a favorite team building game here. Once we =
got everyone on the same page, we started inviting others from our local =
tech community to come see what we're doing. The response was great. We =
had our first real open-to-the-public party here last Friday and since =
have signed up 3 new members, become host to another usergroup, and some =
of our members have started scheduling things to do outside of work =
together.
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> Some other ideas for collaboration/promo are doing one project in =
house all the ti
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<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Yes retention is easy to overlook, but keeping people engaged is definitely important. Who wants high turnover rates for coworkers? Not us! :)<div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>-Willie<div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Nov 11, 2010, at 10:06 AM, Alex Hillman wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">TOTALLY agreed, Willie. Members that have great experiences together will talk about those experiences, and want their friends to be a part of it.&nbsp;What's good for the members is also good for membership growth.&nbsp;<div><br>

</div><div>And let's not forget about retention! Who cares how many members you have if they don't have any reason to stick around?</div><div><br></div><div>-Alex</div><div><br clear="all">/ah<br><a href="http://indyhall.org/">indyhall.org</a><br>

coworking in philadelphia<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Willie Morris <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:willie.mor...@gmail.com">willie.mor...@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">

<div style="word-wrap:break-word"> but I also think this extends to getting new members if you are a newer space like us.<div><br></div><div>We initially started having brainstorming sessions with pizza and wine on Thursday nights and a weekly wind down on Fridays on our deck to get all the members into the sense of community and become friends. For some reason, flipcup has become a favorite team building game here. Once we got everyone on the same page, we started inviting others from our local tech community to come see what we're doing. The response was great. We had our first real open-to-the-public party here last Friday and since have signed up 3 new members, become host to another usergroup, and some of our members have started scheduling things to do outside of work together.</div>

<div><br></div><div>Some other ideas for collaboration/promo are doing one project in house all the ti</div></div></blockquote></div><br></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>

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