Cohousing-L Mailing List: Communications

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

Posted for eleanor [at] takomavillage.org Please respond to her or to the 
list and I will forward the messages:


Takoma Village Cohousing (TVC) is an urban community of 43 units and
approximately 75 people of all ages. We would like to know what ways 
other
communities have found most successful in disseminating information 
among
community members.

We use email, bulletin boards, and posting meeting minutes online and 
in our
common house. Informally we exchange news at our common meals but not
everyone is able to attend these. Many of us are too overwhelmed to 
keep up
with heavy email traffic and/or to read minutes of all the meetings. 
Some of
us make incorrect assumptions that things are just not getting done 
when in
reality alot is happening. We're anxious to hear whether other 
communities
perceive that an information gap exists in their communities and what 
other
communities may have done to assist their members in knowing what's 
going
on.