Jim Pagiamtzis shares insight on 100 days at Camaraderie Coworking

Power of Newsletter

  In late February I got a newsletter from Camaraderie Coworking, just before I was going to delete it I scrolled to the bottom noticed they were looking for Community Managers for new location in the Bloor and Roncavelles area. Email, got and interview and was hired in less than week.


Events

Since April, I have done numerous educational seminars on Social Media, Sales, Blogging and Networking. Huge thanks to Tom Kaufmann, Patrick Bizindavyi and Erik Swanson for speaking and sharing


Social Experiment

On May 6th I participated in a social experiment initiated at Camaraderie Coworking by Steve Dolson (2 Social) and  Lyndon Johnson of Think Different, in which I de-activated my Facebook page for 1 week. Went on for an entire month. It was an amazing experience. (story I will share another time)


Mix n Mingles

We have had monthly Mix'n'mingles  since March to welcome new member and foster relationship with internal and external members. Our last event in June was a full house!

Look forward to sharing more insights and experience from Camaraderie Coworking later in the year as we open our second floor in the summer and 1st floor near the end of the year.

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De-activated my Facebook accound for entire week!

   A unique social experiment took place on Friday May 10th at Camaraderie Coworking (2241 Dundas Street West 3rd floor)

 Upon the challenge of Steve Dolson from 2 Social and Lyndon Johnson of Think differently they challenged me to get off Facebook for an entire week. Check out link below Check out video

 It was an idea that I had been "thinking" about for a while but had not executed for many reasons. One of the main reasons was that I teach and train on social media and not being on Facebook would have not looked good. The main reason that I did do it was I know I was spending to much time on it!

On Friday May 17th was the one week mark of the social experiment and I made it!  I was an experience and you know what? I am still of Facebook!  

Here is what I learned from not being on Facebook for more that a week!

1st It's a huge time waster!  Searching my timeline, talk to friends was good thing but that was it.

 2nd. I got to focus more on being more productive and focused on the tasks for the day.

 3rd.  Spend time on Twitter and LinkedIn. As a matter of fact I spent two hours on Wednesday search the careers posting and at 3:00pm that day I had a phone interview.That was a powerful result!

 4th I had better and productive meetings and email conversations regarding upcoming events and projects.

  5th. Nobody has missed me on Facebook!  I stand corrected one person has Arlene Gray texted me on the weekend asking if I had unfriended her on Facebook or she couldn't find me. I told her about the social experiment and she said "Good for you"

 In the end I was glad I did it and the only thing I do miss is speaking to few friends and uploading pictures from event. Result is I can always call my friends and post pictures on Pinterest!

  I have not activated my account and will not for now.

 Moral of the story: I challenge you to step back and evaluate you social habits and see if they being productive or wasting your time and energy.