Hi Adam,

Please add me to the manager's group. Thank you! 
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On Thursday, November 13, 2014 1:25:25 PM UTC-6, Adam Teterus wrote:
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> You're invited! :)
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> On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 6:28 PM, Gretchen Bilbro <[email protected] 
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>> I would love an invite as well!
>> [email protected] <javascript:>
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>> 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. 
>>>
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