Thanks Alex, it's editable now.

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On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Alex Hillman
<[email protected]>wrote:

> Hey All,
>
> Thanks for the awesome feedback. I feel something interesting brewing.
>
> It seems that the document that was meant to be editable, wasn't.
>
> Can somebody check and see if the document is editable now? Thanks!
>
> -Alex
>
> /ah
> indyhall.org
> coworking in philadelphia
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 6:21 AM, Bianca Rico <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> **
>> That idea sounds awesome! I love to hear stories from coworking spaces all
>> over. That would be a fun read.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 6/22/2011 8:19 AM, Chad Ballantyne wrote:
>>
>> 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"<http://www.amazon.com/Orbiting-Giant-Hairball-Corporate-Surviving/dp/0670879835>
>>  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<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
>>
>> -Alex
>> /ah
>> indyhall.org
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