Cohousing-L Mailing List: How does your community handle internal communications?

[Lorne Mallin (lorne.mallin]

Greetings from Vancouver Cohousing, an urban Canadian community of 53
adults and 22 children in 31 units that completed in February. We are
examining how best to organize our internal communications so people feel
they know what's happening in the community. We'd appreciate learning from
other communities. Currently we have:

   - A Google group email that goes to everyone and everyone can post to.
   Residents often comment that there's too much email. We use SLO (Subject
   Line Only) messages in the subject line when possible to ease the burden.
   - A private Facebook group that most members belong to, but some members
   just don't want to deal with Facebook.
   - A sheet of announcements from our committees and teams prepared before
   our monthly community meetings.


I did a monthly digital newsletter while we were under development, and am
thinking now of a weekly one. We've talked about installing a bulletin
board in the common house that we intend to curate so it's effective. There
are of course the everyday interactions in our homes, the courtyard and
common meals.

Your thoughts would be much appreciated.

Thank you,
Lorne Mallin