Hey Alex, I saw your note about it getting too technical. As some had stated, coworking looks a bit different n different cultures and even differently within same regions. One thing I think you can do is state the common factors and then open it up to a few mini-stories from others that have success doing it differently. Heck, stories period would be cool to read.
I'm visual. Got an illustrator to add to the mix? I'm thinking "Orbiting the Giant Hairball" style. A must read for any creative and I think the style is a good fit for coworking. Quirky cartoons, charts and illustrations. The history of workspace is cool - would make for a great foldout timeline with illustrations! Interestingly we've touched down on a form of coworking through history. I'm thinking about the police precincts and publishing companies in the 50s and 60's. Or go all the way back to the Renascence when artists coworked and lived together and they created the best art in the world. Hmmm - something great happens when we tear down the walls. Chad 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. 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 > > -Alex > /ah > 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]. > 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. Chad Ballantyne The Creative Space Director (705) 252-2423 www.thecreativespace.ca -- 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.
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