Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Group Communication

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One of our members found this incredible resource: http://zenlunatics.org/
It includes everything you would want or wish for and more - for free - 
including the hosting
All communications and documents and polls/surveys and calendar and photos - 
ALL of them in one place. 
It is designed by Sean Davey - a computer programmer at the University of 
Arizona. 
He wrote this software for his community, Sonora Cohousing, and is happy to 
share it with other communities.
There’s a demo. I am in the process of testing and evaluating it.
Our group is using Wiggio currently and are mostly happy with some parts of it 
i.e. the sharing docs and the calendar but not so many people participate and I 
wonder if that is because it isn’t so intuitive to use and it isn’t very 
interactive either.
I’d be curious whether other groups are using Mosaic and what you think about 
it 
Miranda
Gainesville Cohousing

On Dec 8, 2015, at 2:38 PM, Tim Hunter <timhunter100 [at] gmail.com> wrote:

> 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:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 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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