Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Moving, affordability, outreach

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

On Aug 8, 2013, at 11:09 AM, Diana Carroll <dianaecarroll [at] gmail.com> wrote:

> Also make  yourself really really easy to find.  Make sure you are the very
> first Google hit for "cohousing your-state".  Make sure you have a website
> with current information, and an easy way to contact you. 

Exactly right. Websites are the new business card. Think about what you would 
put on a business card -- name, complete address, phone number, email address, 
web address, and field of interest/business. Websites are very easy to put up 
these days. My granddaughters are learning how to do this in elementary 
school!!!!

A repeated question to new communities posting on this list has been "What 
state are you in?" It's almost a running joke that communities think everyone 
knows Main Street is in Springfield and what state Springfield is in.

I once visited a cohousing site and could not figure out what _continent_ it 
was on. There was a picture of a field with mountains in the background. It 
could have been any one of three continents that I was familiar with and I'm 
totally not a world traveller. It turned out to be in Australia.

And list yourself on the Cohousing.org site as "forming" right away.

Sharon
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Sharon Villines, Washington DC
"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have 
any..." Alice Walker