You're invited! :) ᐧ On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 6:28 PM, Gretchen Bilbro < [email protected]> wrote:
> I would love an invite as well! > [email protected] > > On Saturday, September 6, 2014 8:47:49 PM UTC-5, Adam Teterus wrote: >> >> Hey, all. I'm Adam. >> >> So I've been running Indy Hall as the Point Man for just shy of 3 years, >> looking over this place and these people on a daily basis from January of >> 2011 to right now (and well beyond right now, I should hope). 3 years of >> facilitating relationships between new and old members, introducing >> newcomers to our community, saying goodbye to longstanding members who came >> before me, bumping into very *human* obstacles and guiding members >> through sometimes tough social situations, always toward a place in which >> we're much tighter and stronger and better than where we came from. >> >> I recently had a really great conversation with a friend about what it is >> that I do here at Indy Hall. Given that coworking is relatively "new" in >> the scheme of things, and given that it's a burgeoning meta-community and >> industry in its own rite, she asked me who I turn to when I have questions, >> when I encounter something new. >> >> That's a long, winding answer. My reference points are ALL OVER the >> place, there's not really anyone one, particular role model. Not really a >> coworking space manager that I look to for parallels or direct reference. >> Many of you on this forum are among reference points, but there's a >> contingent missing from the Google Group: the person that most closely >> reflects me and what I do here at Indy Hall. I know that person and those >> people exist, but...where are they? >> >> My friend, she's a researcher type, and she points out that I've got this >> wealth of domain knowledge >> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_knowledge>, this set of skills and >> attributes that I reflexively understand and act on every day to keep this >> community up and running. Things that I often take for granted, admittedly. >> Things I rarely think about because I'm not talking about them out loud >> with other people who do it, too. >> >> She goes on to say that it sounds like I'm lacking a field >> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discipline_(academia)>, a network of >> people who share the same domain knowledge. A group of people like me. >> Where are those people? >> >> I know the Google Group is primarily for/frequented by owners and >> prospective space owners, but where do the space managers go to talk to one >> another? The daily, boots on the ground, hired to be here community >> leader - where does she go for answers? Where do they go to learn and talk >> and share? Hell, where do they go to debrief and unwind after a long week >> of weird social situations? Who teaches them how to do what they're doing? >> >> Further, for owners and prospective owners: when you're hiring for a >> coworking space manager, who are you looking toward and thinking, "yeah, I >> need *that* person"? When you do hire someone, who do you refer that >> person to in terms of a role model for the gig? >> >> Where are the people like me? Who are they? I want to meet 'em. >> > -- > Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Coworking" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/coworking/TKWCKxHlHE0/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Adam J. Teterus *Prodigious Point-Man!, Indy Hall* indyhall.org -- 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. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
