And business in many countries outside of the US. Example, from the business etiquette section of the Fodors guide to Barcelona, Spain:
http://books.google.com/books?id=_keO1RJHyfkC&lpg=PA50&ots=n01OuOsmrr&dq=fodors%20barcelona%20business%20etiquette&pg=PA50#v=onepage&q&f=false The interesting part is, as our research reinforced, people recognize this behavior and flock to it, wether you tell them that it exists or not . -Alex /ah indyhall.org coworking in philadelphia On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Harlem CoWorking <[email protected] > wrote: > Well said and interesting. This is echoing the fundamentals to dating and > successful relationships. > > > Salim Mhunzi > [email protected] > www.salim.cc > > > On Jul 19, 2011, at 2:46 PM, Alex Hillman <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 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 > <http://indyhall.org>indyhall.org > coworking in philadelphia > > > On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Harlem CoWorking <<[email protected]> > [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 @ <http://www.harlemcoworking.com>www.harlemcoworking.com >> >> >> >> Salim Mhunzi >> <[email protected]>[email protected] >> <http://www.salim.cc>www.salim.cc >> >> >> On Jul 19, 2011, at 11:28 AM, Alex Hillman <<[email protected]> >> [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> >> 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". 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