And now I'm reviving this one. 5 years ago we had a good idea in LA but we forgot to teach people how to tell their stories, specifically the story that becomes the bedrock of every new community. http://coherecommunity.com/blog/the-coworking-secret-weapon-ive-told-everyone-and-no-one.
Angel On Friday, January 20, 2012 at 12:28:02 PM UTC-7, Susan Evans wrote: > > Greetings fellow coworkers, > > As a result of the coworking space owners meetup in LA in October, a small > group of folks volunteered to work on efforts surrounding the topic of > "Awareness." The small group grew bigger thanks to many of you who stepped > up to volunteer as a part of the Coworking Awareness Team > <http://groups.google.com/group/coworking-awareness-team?hl=en>. > > In LA, we determined that our first task as a group would be to work on > building a great contact database that can help tell the best stories about > coworking. So often the attention of the media is drawn to the boring > aspects of what we do: the stuff, the physical space, or the number of > spaces around the world. We want to help the press tell the awesome stories > about coworking: how members interact, how coworking improves quality of > life, and the cultural impacts of coworking communities. We want to help > talk about how coworking makes an impact, not how awesome it is that we > share a WiFi connection. > > In order to do this, we need all coworking spaces to start sharing their > best stories! We've created a very basic form > <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_US&formkey=dEluZWdWM0Y4QUs5X0pEOVVrQlN4QkE6MQ#gid=0> > > to get started sharing. You'll be asked to categorize your story, give us a > very brief synopsis, and let us know who to contact for more information. > Your stories will then be shared in two helpful ways: > > 1. Passing your stories along to inquiries that come through a press > contact form, which we're getting up on coworking.com pronto. The idea is > simple: someone wants to write a story about coworking, drops us a message, > and we direct them to talk to the storytellers. We don't tell your story > for you, we just connect the storytellers to YOU. > 2. Posting the "freshest" synopses publicly as an organized PDF on the > front of coworking.com for anyone to see and follow-up on. As long as the > stories keep coming in, we'll keep rotating the stories shared with you > all. So if you're looking to post a great story on the coworking blog, you > immediately have a few folks you can follow-up with to enhance what you're > writing about. We hope it will be inspiration for all of us to keep telling > our stories with the world (such as via the global coworking blog > <http://blog.coworking.com/>!!) > > To clarify, the goal of this form is not to collect FULL stories, it's to > give a quick synopsis so that someone will be inspired to follow-up with > you and hear the full story. We do not want to be the keepers of the > stories - we want to help connect the writers with the best stories out > there. Please know that the Awareness Team will be sure to keep fairness, > fun, and thoughtfulness in mind when handling all of the info shared. > > Ready to share something awesome that happened in your coworking space? Head > HERE to the form. > <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_US&formkey=dEluZWdWM0Y4QUs5X0pEOVVrQlN4QkE6MQ#gid=0> > > > If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact > me personally. We're just getting started and I'm sure we'll be learning a > ton along the way. If you want to help out at all, please head to the > Coworking > Awareness Team > <http://groups.google.com/group/coworking-awareness-team?hl=en> google > group and join in the conversation. Our next exciting steps are going to be > to work on keeping this great databased organized, as well as to create a > "tips sheet" for how to talk with the press. It's not always as easy as it > sounds (speaking from a LOT of experiences I wish I could have prevented!). > > Thanks, everyone! > > Susan > > PS - Awareness team, if I missed anything, please chime in! > > __ > Office Nomads > officenomads.com > 206-484-5859 > > -- 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 coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
