Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: [SURVEY] How do you communicate in your community?

[David Mencher (menchers]

Members can post what they want (as long as it is relevant to cohousing and
not commercial in nature), we use FB as a document archive, and post
announcements of meetings, committee meetings, etc.

On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 3:45 AM, Craig R. Wright <crw [at] crw.xyz> wrote:

>
> Thanks for the response!
>
> What types of info gets shared via Facebook? Do you use it to plan events?
>
> Thanks,
> Craig
>
>
> > On Apr 20, 2017, at 1:00 AM, David Mencher <menchers [at] gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Dear Craig,
> >
> > In our fledgling cohousing community-in-progress, (approx 40 members and
> > another 15 prospective members), we have instituted a communications
> > committee to interface between individual members and boards/committees.
> > We encourage Bcc for large mailings, and try to limit the number of
> > mailings per week to 2.
> >
> > In this day and age, most of our members already suffer from email
> > overload, and we have taken these steps in order to avoid a situation
> where
> > community emails get disregarded.
> >
> > So far, it's working.  We also have both a public and members-only fb
> page.
> >
> > Good luck
> > David
> > CoHousing Israel (CHI)
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 5:40 AM, Craig R. Wright <crw [at] crw.xyz> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Hello Fellow Co-housers!
> >>
> >> I would like to know how you communicate within your communities. I am
> >> particularly interested in problems or dissatisfactions you have with
> your
> >> communication tools.
> >>
> >> As a template, I would like to know about your methods of communication
> in
> >> these high-level areas:
> >>
> >> * All-community discussions and announcements
> >> * Committee discussions and coordination
> >> * Meals (menu announcements and sign-ups)
> >>
> >> Please reply directly to me. Any additional information you would like
> to
> >> provide is welcome.  As an example, here are my answers for Swans Market
> >> Co-housing (speaking for myself, not the community):
> >>
> >> ——
> >> * Community discussions, announcements, and social sharing happen in
> email
> >> on a special mailing list. Disagreements are resolved outside of email,
> >> either 1:1 or at the HOA. Problems: works well, but sometimes it is
> hard to
> >> find what is relevant, as in what is an urgent request vs a link
> someone is
> >> sharing from Facebook. Also, sometimes disagreements do happen in email,
> >> and require intervention to de-escalate (usually just a reminder of our
> >> email practices). Tone and emotion can be difficult to judge (easy to
> >> misjudge) in email.
> >>
> >> * Committee meeting coordination happens in email (mailing lists),
> >> otherwise all discussions happen in person at the committee meetings.
> >> Problems: in my opinion, as a result of the lack of willingness to
> discuss
> >> smaller issues via email, we miss opportunities to coordinate and
> resolve
> >> issue between meetings.
> >>
> >> * Meals announcements happen on a paper sheet, signups on the same paper
> >> sheet. The schedule is managed with a big paper calendar. Problems: as a
> >> pre-millenial, the non-digital calendar makes it hard for me to plan and
> >> schedule to be at meals. :)
> >> ——
> >>
> >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH for even reading this far, and an extra special
> thanks
> >> if you choose to participate.
> >>
> >> Why? I am doing market research for a product. I am working on this
> >> independently, I do not represent an established company, just myself.
> The
> >> product concept is a group messenger focused on private, asynchronous
> >> conversations within friendly communities. It occurred to me that
> >> co-housers are potentially an ideal audience. I have interviewed all
> >> different types of people, including members of my community, but I
> hadn't
> >> thought to interview co-housers more broadly. So, I’m doing that now! :)
> >> Any questions or comments welcome.
> >>
> >> Thanks, and be well,
> >> Craig Wright
> >>
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> >
> >
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> > David Mencher
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