Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Group Communication

[Tim Hunter (timhunter100]

Jasmine,

At DurhamCoho we encourage the use of Google Docs for document sharing.
However many of our members never got the hang of Google Docs and simply
share Microsoft Office files as email attachments. This has the expected
drawbacks but it's the only method that everybody seems to be able to use.

Similarly, we've tried a number of different ways to disseminate
information within the community such as a web forum and an internal-use
web site, but the only method that all our members have mastered is a
Google Groups mailing list. Sub-groups such as committees use whatever
method pleases them. We tried setting up separate Google Groups for each
committee but it was too complicated to be worth the trouble.

We have a separate mailing list for external communication. We have about
260 addresses on this list. It works pretty well.

On Sun, Dec 6, 2015 at 11:04 AM, <jasminephilip [at] lycos.com> wrote:

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>
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> Hi,
>
> I am part of a newly formed group, who are trying to create a
> cohousing development in Victoria, BC, Canada. We are really just
> getting off
> the ground and one of our biggest issues at the moment is how to best
> manage
> communications between members of the group. We are wondering what
> people who have already established cohousing communities use for their
> communications.
>
> 1. Are there any document sharing platforms that are favoured by your
> cohousing groups?
>
> 2. How do groups disseminate information to group members. We are trying
> to
> figure out what would serve us best, a listserv or something like google
> groups, or something else all together that we might not have thought of
> yet.
> We especially need ways for different committees within our group to
> communicate with one another as well as ways for us to communicate to
> people
> who might be interested in our cohousing community vs active members.
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jasmine Philip
>
>
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