Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: RE: Shadowlake Research Project

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

On Mar 23, 2006, at 6:03 AM, Lisa Poley wrote:

> I just want to clarify that I have been in the process of contacting 
> each
> community individually for the past two weeks, by direct email and
> telephone.  I decided to post a note to the listserv as well since the
> contact information for a number of communities was not working 
> properly.  I
> feel that I must try every channel available to make contact with a
> community before I remove it from the study.

No problem -- this sounds wonderful and I'm glad you shared this 
information and that you are contacting individual communities. Just 
hearing that you have a methodology is reassuring -- many before you 
haven't had a clue.

And certainly it is important to let people on the list know you are 
doing this and it is a perfect use of the list to let people know you 
need help contacting individual communities. While we all get 
frustrated when communities do not update their contact information (or 
even tell us what state they are located in), in the end it is also a 
sign of success -- the communities have become communities, looking 
inward until they have problems and need help or someone else needs 
their help.

I'm sorry if there was a misunderstanding but in the end I hope it is 
useful. Perhaps the frustration over living a fish bowl where the fish 
are expected to entertain as well as keep themselves swimming around 
24/7 can find a place in your research!

Sharon
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Sharon Villines
Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
http://www.takomavillage.org