You are AMAZING, thank you for this great collaborative community. I am on the brink of opening a space in Costa Mesa, Ca. Each day i find something timely and perfect here. I want everyone to know you empower so many others with every contribution. And i just wanted to say how grateful i am for this.
See you around! Julie Collab Space, Costa Mesa, Ca 949.682.9141 ps: the book is going to create its own phenomenon, just like collaborative community's always do. On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 6:39 PM, Leif Utne <[email protected]> wrote: > Alex: This is awesome. Tweeted. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jun 21, 2011, at 4:41 PM, Chad Ballantyne <[email protected]> > wrote: > > This is great Alex - already digging in! > Funny how the shift from home, to coffee shop to Exec suite to coworking is > so common. In fact, it was my story, and we've been working it into a cute > cartoon animation (to be completed in August...I hope) I actually hope it > can serve many spaces as they try and explain the benefits of coworking and > as the cartoon explains - coworking is the combination of all the good > things from home, coffee shop and exec suite. > > See slide illustration I use a lot to share when people ask, "What the hell > is coworking?" and "Why would I join?" > > Anyway - great work on opening this up and doing it in public. > > In this world of independence and "look out for #1" we've seldom see truly > great works or live our lives leaving a lasting legacy. (wow - that's a lot > of "L"s) The best stuff in life happens when we are surrounded by people we > trust and we let go and let others at our ideas, our art, our dreams. We > call it "trusted critique." The term we use a lot is "Doing life together." > The coworking community is not just a cool work space idea, it's getting > back to the key ingredients proven to be the catalyst to innovation and it > is changing our world. Relate, Collaborate, Create > > If I see something to contribute, I'll chime in. > > Peace! > > Chad > <coworking123.jpg> > > > > On 2011-06-21, at 6:29 PM, Alex Hillman wrote: > > In the Spring of 2010, I started in on a project that I hoped was going to > be the coworking book that the world > needed<http://dangerouslyawesome.com/2010/03/sxsw-launch-chapter-excerpt-the-coworking-book/>. > A few months later, I stopped - discontent with where I’d started, and > unconfident that I knew what book about coworking the world needed. > > The original idea was a curated shared narrative that would help people > create successful coworking communities. I’m still in love with that idea, > I’m just not sure that I know enough alone to start that curated narrative. > > This past week I spent a bunch of time writing a new talk titled “Doing it > in Public”, about the value of taking ideas that are incomplete and, in > spite of your fears and insecurities, executing them in public - either the > the end of learning new perspectives, finding collaborators, or simply > finding out that you’re not alone. > > I realized that perhaps that was my path to finding the coworking book that > the world needed. > > So I am taking the beginnings of the book that I’m not pleased or proud of, > and am sharing them with the hopes that the world will help tell me what > book they’d like me to write. Even more, I’m sharing them in a publicly > editable document. Editable by anybody, even if you’re anonymous. Add things > delete things, comment as much as you’d like. Reply to others’ comments. > Point me in a new direction. > > Google Docs keeps revision history so if nothing else, we can always look > through the revisions. I can also scrap the whole thing and start over. > > I hope you’re join me in doing it in public. Let’s see what happens. > > <http://bit.ly/coworkingbook-in-public> > http://bit.ly/coworkingbook-in-public > > -Alex > /ah > <http://indyhall.org/>indyhall.org > coworking in philadelphia > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Coworking" group. > To post to this group, send email to <[email protected]> > [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > <[email protected]> > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > <http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en> > http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en. > > > Chad Ballantyne > The Creative Space Director > > (705) 252-2423 > <http://www.thecreativespace.ca/>www.thecreativespace.ca > > > <tcs-sign-1.png> > > -- > 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. > > -- > 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. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. 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