Have a "welcome script" to drop in chat 

This is particularly good if you have links that your people will need throughout the coworking session. Have some kind of welcome script that you can drop into the chat whenever someone joins the session, especially if they join late.

Because your video call software might not show past chat stuff when people join late, so if you drop it at the beginning of the call, anyone who joins the call after that won't see it.

I just had it a pinned note in my notes app so that I could copy paste it into the chat whenever someone like joined late or anything like that.

Here's what my welcome chat copy-paste was:"Hi ! Here's the timer for the day: https://marinaratimer.com/7vBOnZ
And here's the tip jar link (optional but appreciated!): blahblahblah.com/whateveryourlinkis"