{"id":84,"date":"2015-09-17T18:22:04","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T18:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opencoworking.org\/news\/?p=84"},"modified":"2015-09-17T18:22:04","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T18:22:04","slug":"what-tools-have-changed-your-life-in-managing-your-coworking-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opencoworking.org\/news\/2015\/09\/17\/what-tools-have-changed-your-life-in-managing-your-coworking-space\/","title":{"rendered":"What tools have changed your life in managing your coworking space?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Reporting live from the <a href=\"http:\/\/canada.gcuc.co\">GCUC Canada 2015<\/a> unconference day! The below are\u00a0quoted, but in many cases are paraphrased. If I misquoted you, let me know!<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>What tools are your favorites?<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/\">Google Groups<\/a>:\u00a0Tried and true!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/groupbuzz.io\">Groupbuzz<\/a>:\u00a0Like Google Groups but better! (Sam Abrams, Indy Hall)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/slack.com\">Slack<\/a>: (Sam Abrams)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zapier.com\">Zapier<\/a>:\u00a0Connects things like signup forms and Google Calendar &#8220;That&#8217;s 32 times I didn&#8217;t have to look at my email, manually put it in my calendar, and ask Shane if he was going to handle it&#8221;\u00a0(Angel)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/trello.com\">Trello<\/a>: (Sam Abrams)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/freshbooks.com\">FreshBooks<\/a>! (Not by a FreshBooks employee!)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cobot.me\">Cobot<\/a>: &#8220;I just emailed Thilo and said &#8216;hey, I need you to make a global change to these 85 people and he said &#8216;all done, what else can I do for you?'&#8221;\u2014\u00a0Angel<\/p>\n<h3>CRMS?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Zoho:<\/li>\n<li>Streak: &#8220;Plugs into Gmail&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/insight.ly\">Insightly<\/a>:\u00a0&#8220;I\u00a0had some issues with it but I liked it&#8221;\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;No CRM is perfect; find the one that&#8217;s closest for you&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Survey Monkey: &#8220;We used polls to ask people to rate things to see how important things are to them. We\u00a0people weight things by priority.&#8221;\u00a0\u2014 Carly Nix, Industry Lab<\/p>\n<p>Huge sticky notes: &#8220;Would you rather have better lighting, or better desks?&#8221; Good for when you only have enough budget for one!<\/p>\n<p>Amazon Prime! &#8220;Yes!&#8221; &#8220;Yes!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Member photo wall, using Chromecast and WordPress. ChromeCast displays the WordPress page, which is updated with the photos. \u2014Sam Abrams<\/p>\n<h3>What are we lacking?\u00a0What do we need?<\/h3>\n<p>Sam: Attendance. We just use our eyeballs. People slip through. It isn&#8217;t perfect.<\/p>\n<p>With the wifi APs you can log attendance. But it requires tech savvy and work.<\/p>\n<p>Inside App &#8211; you can sign in and auto-generate email &#8211; Carter Ellis, Loading Dock Raleigh<\/p>\n<p>Seltzer &#8211; Open source platform that does similar things \u2014 Carly Nix, Industry Lab<\/p>\n<p>One of our members created an app for property managers, so it&#8217;s easy for managers to push information to\u00a0members. People can set how often they want to hear from us, but if there&#8217;s an emergency, we can contact them no matter what. It&#8217;s called\u00a0Mona. Launching next month. $1\/user\/year. (Suzy Renzi, <a href=\"http:\/\/brightlane.ca\/\">Brightlane<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Alternative: Business Texter. (Tamara Payne)<\/p>\n<h3>Emergency Handbook:<\/h3>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the landlord&#8217;s contact info<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s where the nearest hospital is<\/p>\n<p>Here are the numbers for the IT admin, super, other critical people<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not a perfect tool, but you can do that with Trello&#8221; (Sam)<\/p>\n<p>Epi Pen. Benadryl. First aid kit. Fire extinguishers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cameras:<\/strong> Dropcam.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reporting live from the GCUC Canada 2015 unconference day! The below are\u00a0quoted, but in many cases are paraphrased. If I misquoted you, let me know! What tools are your favorites? Google Groups:\u00a0Tried and true! Groupbuzz:\u00a0Like Google Groups but better! (Sam Abrams, Indy Hall) Slack: (Sam Abrams) Zapier:\u00a0Connects things like signup forms and Google Calendar &#8220;That&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/opencoworking.org\/news\/2015\/09\/17\/what-tools-have-changed-your-life-in-managing-your-coworking-space\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What tools have changed your life in managing your coworking space?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,7],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-gcuc","tag-gcuccanada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opencoworking.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opencoworking.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opencoworking.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opencoworking.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opencoworking.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/opencoworking.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94,"href":"https:\/\/opencoworking.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/94"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opencoworking.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opencoworking.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opencoworking.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opencoworking.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}