Great new logo and site Alex! Chad Ballantyne 705.812.0689 [email protected]
Barrie's Coworking Community Perfect for small businesses, startups and entrepreneurs. 12 Dunlop St E, Barrie Ontario, L4M 1A3 Memberships start at $25/mth www.thecreativespace.ca 705-812-0689 On 2012-12-07, at 10:13 AM, ShannonSkylightCoworking wrote: > Fabulous, Alex! The new site looks really, really great. Congratulations > and as always - a job well done! > > Shannon > www.skylightcoworking.com > (We could use a new website too I guess haha)! > > > On Thursday, December 6, 2012 5:52:05 PM UTC-5, Alex Hillman wrote: > What do you think about when you look at the website for your coworking space? > > What do your members, and prospective members, think about when they look at > your website? > > Over this past year we've taken a lot of inventory of how our community has > grown and matured, and along the way we realized that our website didn't do a > very good job of communicating it anymore. > > A lot had changed in the 3+ years since we designed and launched the last > one! Our members have become the dominant voice of Indy Hall, not me. And > many of the photos we were sporting were from our original space, and we had > none of our new expansion. > > So we sat down with two objectives for a redesign: > > 1) Refresh the website to accurately and honestly reflect who we are and what > it's like to be here. > 2) Have a website that was co-created by the members. Their thoughts. Their > ideas. Their words. > > With those objectives, we spent 4 evening sessions in August brainstorming > with about 2 dozen of our members from various disciplines, including many > who have never designed or built a website before. > > We asked ourselves, "what does a website for Indy hall need to accomplish?" > > First, a website is informational, of course. There were certain basics that > couldn't be omitted. But we challenged ourselves to think about why we would > decide to keep one part of the site but not another. > > We determined that beyond information, the purpose of our website was to be > an invitation. > > From there, we set out to write copy, shoot new photos, and make the simplest > version of our web presence that accomplished our goals. Every photo, every > line of copy, was written by our members (except for one line that we lifted > with permission from our friends at The Workbench in Sydney) > > We launched today, at http://indyhall.org. > > Though we're far from done, we've accomplished a lot - not just by launching > a new website, but by having our members voices be the voice of Indy Hall. > > After all, that's always been the voice that attracts more new, wonderful > members. > > -Alex > > > -- > /ah > indyhall.org > coworking in philadelphia > pre-order my new eBook, "the business of community > > -- > Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Coworking" group. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
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