Hello Alex, The things that are the most fun to do are those that friends and family pronounce dumb and failure guaranteed.
When I published my book, Influencing with Integrity, I included all the original drawings that the editor said I could not use. A professional critic had advised to have a professional artist re-do them, as well. I did neither. I had the book printed with the drawings. Then when the book was a success (over 151,000 copies sold in seven languages ) I went around asking people why they bought the book. One in five (more or less) said it was the drawings. Regards, Genie ----- Original Message ----- From: Alex Hillman To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 6:07 PM Subject: [Coworking] Re: Coworking Mentioned in Key Trends List (sort of) esp. since our friends and family are telling us that this is a dumb idea that won't work! If you told ME two years ago that IndyHall would have the impact it's had on our community members, our city, other organizations within the city and myself, I'd have called you dumb too. Keep at it. :) -Alex, IndyHall -- ----- -- ----- Alex Hillman im always developing something digital: [email protected] visual: www.dangerouslyawesome.com local: www.indyhall.org On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 8:56 PM, HeatherO <[email protected]> wrote: very interesting! and timely! esp. since our friends and family are telling us that this is a dumb idea that won't work! woohoo At your service, Heather O' Heather O'Sullivan Canney Heather O' Real Estate & Business - Sales/Marketing/Consulting/Coaching Soco Studio - A Place for Coworking 104-B N. Salem St. Apex, NC 27502 919-387-0408 877-GoheatherO www.HeatherO.com www.twitter.com/heathero www.socostudio.biz www.twitter.com/socostudio Other Sites & Blogs: www.apexgoodliving.com www.westwakeliving.com www.westwakewomenpreneurs.ning.com www.livejuiced.blogspot.com www.Heatheroapex.blogspot.com www.activerain.com/HeatherO On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 1:23 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: The DaVinci Institute's annual forecast trend list includes two related to coworking. One is an increasing number of single person businesses. The other is a trend they call "business colonies", which sounds like coworking meets economic development meets clusters. Key quote: "Colonies will form around shared resources. Equipment that is too expensive for one person to own will be owned by the colony for all to share. Colonies will vary in size and structure as communities begin to experiment with the essential ingredients needed to make it successful." It is at: http://www.davinciinstitute.com/page.php?ID=621 DaVinci can be a bit flakey, but their work is almost always interesting and well thought out. We did our trends list for small business, but did not mention coworking:). It is at: http://genylabs.typepad.com/small_biz_labs/2008/12/2009-top-10-small-business-trends.html Steve --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
