Does your community use media and social media?

[Mary B.]

Does your community use media and social media?

And if so, how regularly and for what purpose?

[connie]

We use Facebook, LinkedIn and Meetup. Our outreach and communications people also use Twitter on a daily basis. Facebook is used to advertise events and recently, i posted a homemade video of a Meetup we just had -- this Meetup was about the differences between Co-housing Co-op Housing and condo Strata. Amateur? Yup! Fun? You bet!

[JasminaJ]

Condo strata -- I haven't heard of that, and it may be what we (my condo assoc) should be looking at. I'm going to check out your Facebook page, thanks!

[garyronstadt]

Jul 10, 2016 9:36:38 GMT -8 connie said:

We use Facebook, LinkedIn and Meetup. Our outreach and communications people also use Twitter on a daily basis. Facebook is used to advertise events and recently, i posted a homemade video of a Meetup we just had -- this Meetup was about the differences between Co-housing Co-op Housing and condo Strata. Amateur? Yup! Fun? You bet!

Connie, just curious. Is there support for social media among your residents? Or are you just kind of out there doing it on your own?

[Carolyn]

Quick answer to Jasmina's question. Strata is the Canadian term for type of ownership.

Now, as to media used: we use email, have a google group for in-community conversations, have a web page with a Member's Only section which includes documents archived on google drive. We have a webpage, facebook page and a monthly newsletter we send out to about 400 addresses by email and reachable from our website. That pretty much uses up our e-village folks' time and energy.