Thanks Salim, Among the words you pulled out, they all boil down to one core idea:trust. Trust has been a core focus of our community-based model since the beginning - building social systems that rely on trust means that if we do things that allow trusting relatoinships to form, good things consistently happen. The cool part is that trust allows more than just the cool things that WE want to happen, to happen, but it opens up the doors for other cool things that we hadn't thought of to happen as well.
Our door's always open, would love for you (and anybody else who wants) to visit Indy Hall. -Alex /ah indyhall.org coworking in philadelphia On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Harlem CoWorking <[email protected] > wrote: > Alex, > > Ive only had the great opportunity to read all of the things you have > posted, including your video on Coworking from sxsw. I read the research > report and thought you guys nailed it on a couple of topics. Some of the > points I wrote down where words used by members "safe, trusting, healthy, > productive and the perceived element of having no rules. Very few Coworking > spaces focus on those elements, but it's important. > > Those are my two cens, if possible Alex I'd like to connect with you at > some point and visit the space. > > > -Salim > > Organizer @ www.harlemcoworking.com > > > > Salim Mhunzi > [email protected] > www.salim.cc > > > On Jul 19, 2011, at 11:28 AM, Alex Hillman <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Some of you may have already seen this, but I wanted to make sure that I > shared it here: > > <http://www.scribd.com/doc/60102928/IndyViews> > http://www.scribd.com/doc/60102928/IndyViews > > We’re always introspective, but we do it most when we’re thinking about > growth. Our new house project <http://village.indyhall.org> put us into > that mode in a pretty heavy way in the last 6 months, and we wanted > something to help us understand our membership better as we thought about > who might live in the house. > > What we ended up with was verbal reinforcement of goals and values, which > are the tools we use for hard decision making around growth efforts. > > Especially with the complexities of the house, I see this as an extremely > valuable set of tools to have freshly renewed. > > Also, we’re headed into a redesign of our branding and our website, putting > a heavy heavy focus on “member stories” as the primary method of > communicating Indy Hall. This research project reinforced that the stories > members tell are the most compelling, and they’re so consistant with our > “planned” marketing message that we want them to take center stage. It’s a > complicated and kinda risky project to pull off, but I think the result is > going to be fantastic. > > Finally, I personally think that more coworking spaces should be conducting > their own research. We’re going to publish our research framework to try to > spur more things like this from other coworking crews. > > This draft is "initial findings". We're not done, we wanted to share sooner > than later. > > -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]. > 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. 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.
