Cohousing-L Mailing List: Need some data - Pam in Fresno

[Pam Rank (pamrank]

Hi Craig - 
Thanks for uploading the conference from the other day - found much of the 
conversation verry useful. 

I am looking for some data today & wondering if perhaps you can point me in the 
right direction. 

Any surveys or data collected that you are aware of which specifically 
addresses how cohousers access information? What I mean specifically is - I've 
been told that most cohousers do not own nor watch television, if this is true 
television advertising does not seem a smart outreach strategy. However, a 
non-scientific study of the Fresno cohousers would indicate that while a small 
percentage of the community do not indeed have TV - the majority do and in fact 
watch mainstream TV... So, I'm wondering if you are aware of any data that has 
been collected on the "habits" of persons that move into cohousing which might 
be useful to our ongoing outreach strategy.

Thanks for your assistance! Pam.

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From: "Craig Ragland" <craigragland [at] gmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2008 4:32 PM
To: Cohousing-L <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
Subject: Re: [C-L]_ CohoUS Conference Call 

Since Donna told me, I know how many participants - there were a few more
than 100 attendees and almost all stayed on for the whole call... the actual
count is inexact because some callers came on and off a few times during the
call. If you did attend, we'd really appreciate your feedback on how we can
make the next one even better... the link to the survey is on the Cohousing
homepage.

I just finished processing the MP3 audio recording and the quality is OK
considering, that it is a recording of a phone call. The MP3 file (about 9
Megs) should be posted on the Cohousing Website in the Members Area in the
next day or two. There will be a link to it on the Cohousing Website home
page when its available.

Like Ann, I encourage discussion on Coho-L of any of questions raised here:

http://www.cohousing.org/cm/news/conversation_questions

Donna, Lisa Poley, and I reviewed the questions we had as we planned the
call yesterday. It quickly became was clear that a moderated panel phone
call was not quite the right forum to try and address such a huge number of
specific questions... many of them require considerable unpacking and dialog
- and the diversity of topics is just too great. You can look forward to
more specific calls from Coho/US in the future.

We believe the call was a great success at addressing things broadly. And we
hope that the FREE recording will be very helpful to some and interesting to
many.

Stay tuned for more coho-goodness to come from Coho/US.

Craig

On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 3:57 PM, Ann Zabaldo wrote:

>
> Hi all!
>
> I hope you were able to be on the special conference call this
> afternoon w/ Jim, Chuck, Rick, Bob and Lisa talking about building and
> living in cohousing during this economic downturn. But if you weren't
> able to be on the call I understand CohoUS is going to post the call
> on the cohousing.org website where it will be available for FREE!! If
> you live in cohousing, if you are organizing a group, if you are
> building or even just thinking about cohousing ... tt's truly worth a
> listen!
>
> Also already posted on the website is a list of all the questions the
> organizers received in advance from various cohousing parties. It's
> quite an interesting (and somewhat arresting) list. Perhaps these
> questions will be fodder for this list altho' there is a discussion
> space on the CohoUS website for this to happen.
>
> Looking forward to the next conference call!
>
> Ann Zabaldo
> Takoma Village Cohousing
> Washington, DC
> Principal, Cohousing Collaborative, LLC
> McLean, VA
>
>
> PS ... anyone know how many people were on the conference call this
> afternoon?
>
>
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Craig Ragland

Coho/US executive director
http://www.cohousing.org
craig [at] cohousing.org

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