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This is a fundamental community-building lesson.

<aside> 💡 Objective: To understand the importance of organizing simple and recurring activities within a coliving space using only one message and how it can benefit the community.

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In a coliving space, it's important to create a sense of community. The fastest way is through the engagement among the guests. And this enagement happens through the cooking, having a drink after the work in the evening, but also through the activities.

Very effective way to do design this bonding is by organizing regular small events and activities.

However, it can be challenging to organize complex events each week. That’s why it’s important to organize small, but recurring events instead. Complex event would be an open air concert, or the conference. It requires a lot of people.

A lot of spaces hire one or two community managers who are organizing these small activities. In my opinion, it is better to do it without a community manager (and this person can be focused on other important work, like partnership building and be bringing business to a coliving space). And your activities can be organized by your guests with our One message system (1mE).

For example, this would be a strategic decision where your guests organize simple activities. The act of organizing one activity is community building task (because it’s a challenge and initiative). And your employee instead of organizing activities will be in charge to bring more business.

Win-win.

This lesson will teach you the importance of organizing simple and recurring activities within a coliving space by using only one message, and how it can benefit the community.

What is 1mE (one message activity)?

That is an activity which is permanently organized. And your guests have all tools to awake this activity with one message.

Example:

"Beth decided to do a Hat talk, sent reminder to everyone: “Hey, my talk on copywriting starts at 19h in the coworking space, please join".

Let’s deconstruct this.

Some years ago, our guest Roy suggested to start mini talks in Sende (like Ted talks with a hat). Very simple idea. We said, let’s test it.

We set up rules of this activity on that day (a years ago), and the activity of Hat talks started. And, when each new group of guests comes to our place, we just send 1mE One text message to awake it:

![This is 1mE - One text message that we use to re-organize same activity over and over again.

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This is 1mE - One text message that we use to re-organize same activity over and over again.

Important: 1mE has to be simple and easy to organize. Not just for you, but also for your guests. Hat talk is organized in 2 steps (by our guests). It takes them 40 seconds to write a message and to write their name on the wall.

It’s easy for our guests to organize it too. Just 1mE.

Whiteboard to write down the talk

We organized around hundred of talks until now, we learned so much.