Our City has planted support staff in our space. The first is a research analyst for our Department of Culture. She fits right in and loves this space over the City Hall space she can also use if needed. The Economic Development Office has made mention of some staff placements as well wanting to be close to the heartbeat of SMEs in Barrie. Our new CAO is working on moving their local government supported business Resource Centre into our space. This works great as one of our members is a business coach and would love to spearhead something like this anyways. We will, although, do all we can to be self-sufficiant and sustainable, so we'll always keep our main operations community/privately supported.
Peace, Chad Chad Ballantyne 705.812.0689 [email protected] On 2012-08-13, at 12:12 PM, Alex Hillman wrote: > There have been threads about coworking spaces working with local > governments, and (I think) examples of city officials joining coworking > spaces…but I'm pretty excited about the fact that one of our members has just > been recruited as Philadelphia's first Chief Data Officer as part of the > city's push towards open data for citizens. > > http://technicallyphilly.com/2012/08/13/mark-headd-first-ever-city-of-philadelphia-chief-digital-officer > > We've played an active role in that initiative, and a very vocal supporter of > some leaders in City Hall who have attempted to interact with the community > in a way that's a bit more coworking-like. Mark's made it a point to say that > he feels that in order for him to do this job effectively he wants to > maintain strong ties to the community that supported him up through his > appointment. > > Related, but separately, we're working on a program to invite city > officials/workers to work from Indy Hall once a month as an opportunity to > embed themselves in our community better as well > > This post is partially to share my personal excitement for this milestone in > OUR community, and wondering if anyone else has similar success stories. > > I know that Gangplank has a very tight relationship with their local gov't > and a number of other spaces have casual/functional relationships (a lot like > we've had up until this point), but I'm wondering mostly about examples about > embedding city officials in coworking spaces and vice/versa. > > -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.
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