Dear Alex, So happy that you took this initiative! I am giving a lecture to a group of MBA's about open innovation tomorrow, have sent your EXACT text to them and ask them to read it (and the coworking book) before attending the lecture.
I will be more than happy to co-edit the book, proud of it! Thanks and best regards, Liu Yan Xindanwei.com Shanghai On 2011-6-23, at 上午3:01, Karine wrote: > This is great. > Easy to read, straight to the point. > I hope we will be able to help; > Anyway you were right to share it and thanks for doing so > > Karine > la cantine numérique rennaise (Rennes, France) > > On Jun 22, 12:29 am, Alex Hillman <[email protected]> > 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...>. >> 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. > -- 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.
