Re: [Coworking] Open vs Semi-closed space

2015-03-18 Thread Alex Hillman
Hey Marc-Alain, Just to clarify, are you someone who is considering joining a space with one of the two options, or someone who is opening a space? Reading your email it seems like you're a member scoping things out but I just want to be sure before answer! -Alex On Wednesday, March 18, 2015,

Re: [Coworking] Insurance

2015-03-12 Thread Alex Hillman
Thanks for saying that, Gretchen :) On Thursday, March 12, 2015, Gretchen Bilbro cultivatecowork...@gmail.com wrote: Great article Alex! You are so helpful and please know that you and your work is very much appreciated. :) G On Tuesday, March 10, 2015 at 9:12:16 PM UTC-5, Gretchen Bilbro

Re: [Coworking] Re: Insurance

2015-03-11 Thread Alex Hillman
Awesome :) I hope it works out for you! And thanks to this thread, I finally got around to writing a post answering this question about insurance. The magic, of course, isn't that Diane actually has access to anything special it's that she puts in the work to *really* understand coworking so she

Re: [Coworking] Re: Know anyone in Fayetteville, North Carolina? New coworking community here!

2015-03-10 Thread Alex Hillman
to keeping everyone up to date, especially Alex, whose words and thoughts I've really been channeling throughout this process! On Friday, July 11, 2014 at 12:49:01 PM UTC-4, Alex Hillman wrote: Stoked to see you next month, too :) We'll try to meet there every week at the same time, and perhaps

Re: [Coworking] Insurance

2015-03-10 Thread Alex Hillman
After dozens of agents who didn't have a clue, I lucked out and found an AMAZING agent who has consistently helped us get the coverage we need. That includes alcohol (on site and off-site) and other special events insurance. And she's helped tons of US based coworking spaces get very

Re: [Coworking] Member Growth first months - 1 Year

2015-03-08 Thread Alex Hillman
Ah, I missed that part of your question, saw the 1 year in the subject and that's what stuck :) From what I've seen, most spaces have one of two experiences in their initial months: 1 - Lots of fanfare and excitement, often fueled by membership pre-sales and the opening itself...but the initial

Re: [Coworking] Are Restaurants Becoming Coworking Spaces?

2015-03-06 Thread Alex Hillman
True story: in many ways, Indy Hall was born in a restaurant. We were doing our touring Jelly community bootstrap process and looking for new places to hang out. A new restaurant had opened and I reached out to them: hey, we're a community of freelancers and entrepreneurs who work together once a

Re: Re: [Coworking] Re: Anybody have a trash compactor in their kitchen?

2015-02-25 Thread Alex Hillman
FOOD COURT COMPACTORS that's brilliant. Requested info, I'll share pricing back here when I have it. :) thanks Jeannine. -- 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

Re: [Coworking] Legality of having alcohol on site

2015-02-25 Thread Alex Hillman
Oh yes, Tom’s totally right. We have a specific provision in our insurance for alcohol on site AND offsite. -- The #1 mistake in community building is doing it by yourself. Join the list: http://coworkingweekly.com Listen to the podcast: http://dangerouslyawesome.com/podcast

Re: [Coworking] Legality of having alcohol on site

2015-02-25 Thread Alex Hillman
Exact laws vary based on where you are but generally (at least in the US and true most other places): 1- you absolutely cannot SELL alcohol without a license 2 - serving alcohol to minors is generally illegal as well There’s obviously edge cases, like when a coworking space is connected to

Re: [Coworking] Anybody have a trash compactor in their kitchen?

2015-02-24 Thread Alex Hillman
, Alex Hillman dangerouslyawes...@gmail.com(mailto:dangerouslyawes...@gmail.com) wrote: Yeah, all good options. We already use a fully-stocked kitchen of real dishes and glassware, and already have a dishwasher that runs…I don’t even know how many times a day :) And we don’t host a lot

Re: [Coworking] Re: Anybody have a trash compactor in their kitchen?

2015-02-24 Thread Alex Hillman
the source of the trash, then reorient as a community :) Hell, I might even go so far as to collect a week's worth of trash and put it in the lobby. I believe in you all. Angel On Monday, February 23, 2015 at 12:52:22 PM UTC-7, Alex Hillman wrote: We've been looking for ways to improve

Re: [Coworking] Re: Anybody have a trash compactor in their kitchen?

2015-02-24 Thread Alex Hillman
be a culture-fit for IndyHall ;-) 2. Restaurant supply stores/food industry folks in general Ask a few restaurant owners in your neighborhood. They might have some suggestions. Robert Bull City Coworking Durham On Tuesday, February 24, 2015 at 11:15:00 AM UTC-5, Alex Hillman wrote

Re: [Coworking] Re: Anybody have a trash compactor in their kitchen?

2015-02-24 Thread Alex Hillman
it by yourself. Join the list: http://coworkingweekly.com Listen to the podcast: http://listen.coworkingweekly.com On Feb 24, 2015, 6:23:19 PM, Alex Hillman dangerouslyawes...@gmail.com wrote: Duh. My girlfriend works in the restaurant industry. I should’ve thought to ask her sooner. Thank you

[Coworking] Anybody have a trash compactor in their kitchen?

2015-02-23 Thread Alex Hillman
We've been looking for ways to improve the trash situation that's generated at Indy Hall - general waste is exacerbated by an active kitchen and lots of food events. Great for the community, but the new challenge is getting rid of the trash :) Does anybody have a trash compactor in their

Re: [Coworking] Anybody have a trash compactor in their kitchen?

2015-02-23 Thread Alex Hillman
have the luxury of being in a small town with a compost pile (and vermicomposting capabilities) a few minutes away. May not be as feasible in urban Philly. Joel On Feb 23, 2015 1:52 PM, Alex Hillman dangerouslyawes...@gmail.com(mailto:dangerouslyawes...@gmail.com) wrote: We've been looking

Re: Re: [Coworking] Re: Coworking Chart of Accounts?

2015-02-18 Thread Alex Hillman
Well crap, that formatting came out terrible :-/ Here's a version with line breaks: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/9efce6e1a11079966c45 -- The #1 mistake in community building is doing it by yourself. Join the list:

Re: [Coworking] Re: Coworking Chart of Accounts?

2015-02-18 Thread Alex Hillman
Here's ours at Indy Hall, below. But holy moly I do NOT recommend doing this on your own. My bookkeeper and accountant are two people I love to pay because they do this a million times better than I could. If you don't have a bookkeeper you love, I've been hearing really great things

Re: [Coworking] Re: Anyone been through a move?

2015-02-13 Thread Alex Hillman
you want the members to be excited about the move and feel like it was their move and not your move. The end result being that they're going to be the ones excited about the new space, and that energy and excitement is going to shine through when you get people coming through the door

Re: [Coworking] Member Growth

2015-02-10 Thread Alex Hillman
Some figures from our first few years of growth in this presentation from Indy Hall's 2012 expansion: https://speakerdeck.com/alexknowshtml/indy-hall-expansion-town-hall-2012 Note that in May 2009 we expanded from our original location (1800 sq ft) to one just a bit larger than the one

Re: [Coworking] My morbid curiosity with Coworking Space Closings

2015-02-06 Thread Alex Hillman
Looking at our own membership levels (we have full time, 3 days/week, 1 day/week, 1 day/month), far and away the highest churn rates are in that 1 day/week level. 40% of all cancelations we’ve had are from that level.  1 day a week churns more than 1 day a month. That’s a pretty HUGE clue

Re: [Coworking] My morbid curiosity with Coworking Space Closings

2015-02-06 Thread Alex Hillman
(301) 732-5165 www.coworkfrederick.com @CoworkFrederick On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 4:58 PM, Alex Hillman wrote: * Looking at our own membership levels (we have full time, 3 days/week, 1 day/week, 1 day/month), far and away the highest churn rates are in that 1 day/week level. 40

Re: [Coworking] My morbid curiosity with Coworking Space Closings

2015-02-06 Thread Alex Hillman
://coworkingweekly.com Listen to the podcast: http://listen.coworkingweekly.com On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 7:50 PM, Alex Hillman dangerouslyawes...@gmail.com wrote: About 2-3 years ago, we started noticing an entirely new cancellation reason showing up when people left Indy Hall.  For 5+ years

Re: [Coworking] Re: Infuriating article on the high premiums charged by coworking spaces in Bloomberg

2015-02-05 Thread Alex Hillman
If the writer knew what he was talking about, he wouldn’t have hyphenated the word “coworking”. Duh! I wish that were true. Editors, again, religiously follow the AP Stylebook and since coworking as a term is neither in the dictionary nor in the Stylebook, even the BEST writers who bring

Re: [Coworking] Re: Infuriating article on the high premiums charged by coworking spaces in Bloomberg

2015-02-04 Thread Alex Hillman
Yep, to add to what Steve said: I can usually tell when a reporter has had their story assigned to them from an editor during the interview and I can ALWAYS tell from the final product.  This is one of those stories.  I’d bet $100 that the editor was like, “oh, all of these happy

Re: [Coworking] Abridged summary of coworking@googlegroups.com - 10 updates in 5 topics

2015-02-03 Thread Alex Hillman
there. JEROME CHANG WEST: Santa Monica 1450 2nd Street ...more http://groups.google.com/group/coworking/msg/f5630f309c361a01?utm_source=digestutm_medium=email Alex Hillman dangerouslyawes...@gmail.com: Feb 02 07:13PM -0800 Do you know why the people who want to use your space haven’t joined your

Re: [Coworking] Poker Night and other events. How to monetize this?

2015-02-02 Thread Alex Hillman
Do you know why the people who want to use your space haven’t joined your community yet? -Alex -- The #1 mistake in community building is doing it by yourself. Join the list: http://coworkingweekly.com Listen to the podcast: http://listen.coworkingweekly.com On Mon,

[Coworking] How I'm using workflows and automation to improve our member onboarding

2015-01-29 Thread Alex Hillman
We’ve been working on a lot of workflows and streamlining at Indy Hall recently…and today had a bit of a breakthrough that I wanted to share because I’m already stoked about what it’s going to let us do and hope that more people use these tools. Anybody here use Trello? How about Zapier?

Re: [Coworking] Conference room presentation equipment.

2015-01-28 Thread Alex Hillman
Wireless presentation tools seem like they'd be easier but in practice they're still pretty clumsy and unreliable.   Wired is much more reliable, and there’s no question about how it works. :) Just get yourself a couple of the different kinds of adapters for Apple laptops (most PCs use

Re: [Coworking] Conference room presentation equipment.

2015-01-28 Thread Alex Hillman
. Randy On January 28, 2015 at 1:57 PM Alex Hillman dangerouslyawes...@gmail.com wrote: Wireless presentation tools seem like they'd be easier but in practice they're still pretty clumsy and unreliable. Wired is much more reliable, and there’s no question about how it works

Re: [Coworking] Cohere finally got venture capital and it's almost on par with WeWork

2015-01-26 Thread Alex Hillman
Gives me warm, fuzzy rememberies of this important event in startup history:  https://signalvnoise.com/posts/1941-press-release-37signals-valuation-tops-100-billion-after-bold-vc-investment -Alex -- The #1 mistake in community building is doing it by yourself. Join

Re: [Coworking] Who's looking for a virtual co-working group?

2015-01-18 Thread Alex Hillman
Hey J.C., I’m honestly not sure why people are getting all fussy about this, it seems to me like your goals are totally reasonable to accomplish.  I don’t get the sense that you’re trying to avoid a coworking space…maybe you’ve even tried it but because you’re often on the phone it

Re: [Coworking] backup internet?

2015-01-15 Thread Alex Hillman
Internet downtime sucks and we’re in a similar situation, having only one ISP option.  We tried an LTE backup and it was actually worse than not having internet when it goes down. At least when it’s down you know it’s down vs. when the LTE backup kicks in and it’s frustratingly slow but

Re: [Coworking] backup internet?

2015-01-15 Thread Alex Hillman
think it's just them. On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 11:35 AM, Alex Hillman dangerouslyawes...@gmail.com wrote: Internet downtime sucks and we’re in a similar situation, having only one ISP option. We tried an LTE backup and it was actually *worse* than not having internet when it goes down. At least

Re: [Coworking] Re: Member board/photos

2015-01-14 Thread Alex Hillman
I’m also a big fan of offline, low-tech solutions…especially within the space itself. Photos of members’ experiences - things that show off life in and outside of the coworking space - sound awesome.  But we also ran into the problem with analog photos (using the Instax camera) getting

Re: [Coworking] My morbid curiosity with Coworking Space Closings

2015-01-13 Thread Alex Hillman
4, 2015 at 3:42 PM, Alex Hillman dangerouslyawes...@gmail.com wrote: Turns out that surveys are terrible for collecting this kind of information :) I’ve had to do a lot of more hands on work to find real, valuable information. I’ve used some of my findings to help fuel other articles, like

Re: [Coworking] Re: My morbid curiosity with Coworking Space Closings

2015-01-12 Thread Alex Hillman
, Tom Brandt twbra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Alex, This all makes sense. But I am not quite sure what is meant by Top-heavy membership. Can you elaborate? On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 1:54 PM, Alex Hillman dangerouslyawes...@gmail.com wrote: Here’s an incomplete and in-no-particular order of things

Re: [Coworking] Re: My morbid curiosity with Coworking Space Closings

2015-01-12 Thread Alex Hillman
appreciate what you guys are doing to make this phenomenon successful globally. Cheers, Shailesh /shailes...@gmail.com//@indieloft//www.facebook.com/indieloft// On Tuesday, 6 January 2015 10:18:29 UTC+5:30, Alex Hillman wrote: Hey Stacey, welcome to the discussion! :) Hit me up off list, I'll

Re: [Coworking] Re: Wired vs Wireless?? Does anyone use wired anymore?

2015-01-08 Thread Alex Hillman
Ouch. ADSL. *Shudders*.  :) Bandwidth and coffee beans - the two things that coworking spaces should pay for the best you can afford to provide. -Alex -- The #1 mistake in community building is doing it by yourself. Join the list: http://coworkingweekly.com

Re: [Coworking] Wired vs Wireless?? Does anyone use wired anymore?

2015-01-07 Thread Alex Hillman
We have a mix of ethernet and wireless, though it’s a fairly small % (probably 10 or 15 out of 100+ active people each day) who actually use the hard lines.   The cases where a hard line makes the most sense are: - people who do work that requires low-latency, like a lot of screensharing

Re: [Coworking] Re: Starting a new coworking space while employed fulltime

2015-01-05 Thread Alex Hillman
Ah, that's great Jason. I somehow missed that you were already remote in the previous email, but that obvs makes sense since you're already a member of a space. :) Have you started in on gathering some early community members for your own yet? -Alex -- The #1 mistake

Re: [Coworking] Re: My morbid curiosity with Coworking Space Closings

2015-01-05 Thread Alex Hillman
Hey Stacey, welcome to the discussion! :) Hit me up off list, I'll catch you up on what I've found so far and some leads that might be worth following. I agree that there's a ton of value in better understanding the patterns in the mistakes made and problems encountered. -Alex

Re: [Coworking] Re: What has been trend at your coworking space?

2015-01-04 Thread Alex Hillman
The natural trends definitely seems pretty consistent - mid-week seems to be the highest use, which I’ve been able to connect to the feeling of either  1 - “Well shit, my week is halfway over and I still have a full week’s worth of work to do. better get somewhere more productive” or 2 -

Re: [Coworking] My morbid curiosity with Coworking Space Closings

2015-01-04 Thread Alex Hillman
2012 09:19:57 UTC-4, Alex Hillman wrote: Excellent suggestion on location data, and the little formatting fix. On their way. I've got a dozen or so submissions overnight. Keep 'em coming people. -- /ah indyhall.org coworking in philadelphia On Wednesday, September 19, 2012 at 8:45

Re: [Coworking] Re: Starting a new coworking space while employed fulltime

2015-01-04 Thread Alex Hillman
One other question regarding the startup - any thoughts on investors vs sponsors vs no outside capital? http://dangerouslyawesome.com/2011/09/how-to-fund-your-coworking-space/ probably my most popular article is on this topic. With that said…. I’m pretty sure I can count the

Re: [Coworking] Coworking and Unemployment

2014-12-27 Thread Alex Hillman
I know this has come up on the group before a couple of times, this thread seems to have the most action! https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/coworking/unemploy/coworking/A2kIhgI2Od0/RHiYVv2Mt1gJ In general I love the idea that coworking spaces can be economic engines - in fact I

Re: [Coworking] Can we talk about bank fees?

2014-12-23 Thread Alex Hillman
Oh wow, your fees are way too high. Kill that contract! Standard fees are closer to 2.9% + 25-30 cents per transaction. Even when you factor in all of the tools to work with a decent processor like Stripe or Braintree, the max you're gonna pay is 5%ish. Even PayPal (which sucks for lots of

Re: [Coworking] Re: Inside The Phenomenal Rise Of WeWork

2014-12-16 Thread Alex Hillman
Funny enough, the article URL is more telling about what’s really going on here: /wework-now-a-5-billion-real-estate-sartup-1418690163 -- The #1 mistake in community building is doing it by yourself. Join the list: http://coworkingweekly.com Listen to the

Re: [Coworking] Re: Inside The Phenomenal Rise Of WeWork

2014-12-16 Thread Alex Hillman
://www.doodle.com/cruikshank linkedin: in/cruikshank http://www.linkedin.com/in/cruikshank On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 8:05 AM, Alex Hillman dangerouslyawes...@gmail.com wrote: Funny enough, the article URL is more telling about what’s *really* going on here: /wework-now-a-5-billion-real-estate

Re: [Coworking] community manager vs business owner, and sales?

2014-12-08 Thread Alex Hillman
Based on the way you asked these questions and your intro about decisions, I think it'd be helpful to get a bit more context so our advice can actually help you :)  Otherwise, we're going to be answering questions based on some conclusions you've already drawn...but we aren't aware of. That's

Re: [Coworking] Re: US Coworking Space Survey Results from Share Your Office

2014-12-04 Thread Alex Hillman
When I’m referring to hot-desks, I’m not actually talking about what the coworking space calls it…I’m actually talking about the “come in and use a desk” members compared to the “participate and get connected to the community” members.  coworking in smaller areas can be very difficult to

Re: [Coworking] Re: US Coworking Space Survey Results from Share Your Office

2014-12-03 Thread Alex Hillman
I’m a big fan of Jeannine’s theory here. Lots of data tends to skew to more urban coworking examples, and even worse, gets skewed further by outlier mega-cities (where density and demand for ANY space makes it very easy for a coworking space to appear more sustainable than it really is). There

Re: [Coworking] Coworking Europe Conference Recap and Takeaways (Part 1)

2014-12-03 Thread Alex Hillman
these together! Liu Yan One of the people who really want to be there aren't able to make it” On Dec 2, 2014, at 6:09 AM, Alex Hillman dangerouslyawes...@gmail.com wrote: It was SO great to see many of you last week in Lisbon! Catching up with the European coworking community is always a highlight

Re: [Coworking] Coworking focused on music

2014-12-02 Thread Alex Hillman
Talk to Angel about Cohere Bandwidth! (Search this group for her posts, too) -Alex -- The #1 mistake in community building is doing it by yourself. Join the list: http://coworkingweekly.com Listen to the podcast: http://listen.coworkingweekly.com On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at

[Coworking] Coworking Europe Conference Recap and Takeaways (Part 1)

2014-12-01 Thread Alex Hillman
It was SO great to see many of you last week in Lisbon! Catching up with the European coworking community is always a highlight of my year. And a HUGE thank you to Jean Yves and the team who work tirelessly every year to put these events together. The only bummer is when people who really

Re: [Coworking] Updating Pricing

2014-12-01 Thread Alex Hillman
We went 5 years without raising our rates and I consider it on the short list of our bigger mistakes. When we announced our rate change, many members said, “it’s about time!”.  When we announced the change, I made it clear that if it put stress on anybody, to come talk to me. I was so, so,

Re: [Coworking] Re: The best wireless routers for a 3500 sq. ft. space

2014-12-01 Thread Alex Hillman
Doing a little more research on these Unifi APs and found another HUGE selling point: they support Power Over Ethernet (PoE). This was one of the biggest selling points of the Ruckus APs for me, because it meant we didn’t need to ALSO run power to the ideal location; we just needed to run

Re: [Coworking] How are we doing?

2014-11-25 Thread Alex Hillman
Jensen, based on what I hear from a lot of new spaces, you're ahead of averages for spaces that start with zero members!  At this point, the thing I would start noticing is how long people are staying members, not just how many new members you can add each month.  Also, it would be great

Re: [Coworking] Re: The best wireless routers for a 3500 sq. ft. space

2014-11-22 Thread Alex Hillman
This post is awesome Jon! Mirrors a lot of my experience (and no I'm tempted to see if those Unifi APs are worth selling our Ruckus units second hand...). :) -Alex -- /ah indyhall.org On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 8:58 PM, @jot jonathan.markw...@gmail.com wrote: I've expanded on this with

Re: [Coworking] Re: The best wireless routers for a 3500 sq. ft. space

2014-11-21 Thread Alex Hillman
The ruckus APs are worth every penny.  -- /ah indyhall.org On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 4:05 PM, Craig Baute - Creative Density Coworking baut...@gmail.com wrote: I am ready to make the dive off the deep end and go high grade with the routers that Alex is talking about. I don't need to fine tune

Re: [Coworking] Re: Optimal Desk Sizes / Dimensions

2014-11-20 Thread Alex Hillman
Yeah, Ikea changed the name of that product line in the last year. Confused the crap out of us when we needed to add 20 more desks :) Here’s what those desks look like in action, in a post about the visual color “cues” that we use to help members know where they can sit (we use different

Re: [Coworking] The best wireless routers for a 3500 sq. ft. space

2014-11-20 Thread Alex Hillman
A) Separate your wireless access points from your router. You want a single router that provides network + internet to the entire network, and the wireless access points to be “dumb”, in that the wireless access points only provide a wireless connection to the network. B) Its time for you

Re: [Coworking] Re: Inside The Phenomenal Rise Of WeWork

2014-11-18 Thread Alex Hillman
I wrote this in 2011, but my thoughts haven’t changed much: http://dangerouslyawesome.com/2011/11/sex-coworking-and-rock-n-roll/ WeWork is tiny compared to Regus (who employs nearly 1/4 of the headcount that WeWork is aiming for as membership in 2015). And yet we laugh at considering

Re: [Coworking] AltamontCowork Closing

2014-11-17 Thread Alex Hillman
Dude, your perseverance is epic.  It sounds like you’re in good spirits about the whole thing, and as others have said, you’ve undoubtably left a mark on your local community, as well as this one here on the Coworking Google Group over the years.  Thanks for being a member, and a leader,

Re: [Coworking] Music or not?

2014-11-14 Thread Alex Hillman
If you search the archives of this group you'll find a bunch of good threads on this topic! Here's one: https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!searchin/coworking/Music/coworking/k7-t8U4LkMA One thing that I notice in Coworking spaces with no music is FAR less interaction between people

Re: [Coworking] Re: I have a quick favor to ask this community

2014-11-13 Thread Alex Hillman
Thanks for subscribing Kyo! Very cool to hear about the magazine launching to help educate people who are stuck focusing on the workspace :) 400 coworking spaces (even McCoworking spaces) in Tokyo doesn't sound crazy when you consider the scale of the population: 13MM+ people, 50%+ more

[Coworking] I have a quick favor to ask this community

2014-11-12 Thread Alex Hillman
Some of you are on my Coworking Weekly newsletter http://coworkingweekly.com, but I know that many aren't. That's okay, no hard feelings. ;) A lot of the articles and essays that I share one that list are topics that stem from conversations and questions that start here. *This week...*I

[Coworking] Re: I have a quick favor to ask this community

2014-11-12 Thread Alex Hillman
Whatever y'all are doing is working, but don't stop now! At this moment, The Coworking Weekly Show is: - #17 overall in the Business category, - #6 in the Management Marketing category, - New Noteworthy in BOTH categories, as well as Society Culture - And as of a few moments

[Coworking] Re: 4Legal na #SGE - Faça já sua inscrição

2014-11-11 Thread Alex Hillman
Sorry 'bout the spam being let through here, everyone :( I'll check in with the moderators to see what happened and how we can avoid it! As a moderator, I've noticed this google group has been getting a LOT more spam in the last several months, so it's easier for things like this to slip

Re: [Coworking] Phone Calls / Noise Control

2014-11-11 Thread Alex Hillman
I wish more accidental replies were THAT packed full of useful info, Marius! :) On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Marius Amado-Alves amado.al...@gmail.com wrote: We built phone booths. They can be a bit pricy to do up right but they help. Just remember to ventilate them. :) It's a long story

Re: [Coworking] Re: Coworking Europe 2014 conference to take place in Lisbon on November 24-25-26

2014-11-05 Thread Alex Hillman
I'm stoked to be there, one of my favorite gatherings of the year! -- /ah indyhall.org On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 11:03 AM, JeanYves jeanyveshuw...@gmail.com wrote: We are very proud of the great lineup we managed to gather for the Coworking Europe 2014 conference (Nov 24-25-26).

Re: [Coworking] Crowdfunding Insights

2014-11-04 Thread Alex Hillman
I agree with Jacob. You dodged a bullet.  How much does your community know about the situation? I’d be asking them what makes sense for rewards, not us!  Pre-selling membership is one of the best things you can do (3-6 months of prepaid membership can really help build a warchest). But

Re: [Coworking] Why do you go coworking?

2014-11-04 Thread Alex Hillman
It's a bit outdated, but here's a report we had done in 2011: http://dangerouslyawesome.com/2011/07/why-do-people-love-indy-hall-we-asked-they-told/ This one is newer and a mix of quantitative and qualitative data:

Re: [Coworking] Handling phone calls in an open coworking office

2014-10-22 Thread Alex Hillman
In all of the examples I've seen, the issue with zones in either direction is that they inherently need to be enforced...which either doesn't happen or when it does, people end up feeling slapped on the wrist (not a great feeling for the enforcer or the enforcee).  Zones don't actually solve

Re: [Coworking] is there a design language in all co working spaces

2014-10-15 Thread Alex Hillman
Hi Jasmeet! Check out this recent thread:  https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/coworking/Tvf2gg-WZ5w As you’ll see from the discussion, there are very few things that apply to all coworking space.  But there ARE a lot of design language (read more simply, patterns that

Re: [Coworking] Coworking in Astana, Kazakhstan

2014-10-15 Thread Alex Hillman
Hey Faraz! You can see different groups of coworkers interacting with each other on a daily base.    The space looks cool, but why aren’t those people in your photos?! That would make it look WA more inviting!  See what I mean:

Re: [Coworking] Handling phone calls in an open coworking office

2014-10-14 Thread Alex Hillman
Hey Jensen, Here’s the answer I wrote when somebody asked a question like this on Quora, which was one member asking about how to deal with another member.  http://www.quora.com/Is-it-normal-to-take-a-lot-of-phonecalls-in-coworking-space/answer/Alex-Hillman It's not a matter

Re: [Coworking] Coworking Space in Hyderabad

2014-10-14 Thread Alex Hillman
like you, my morale is all boosted up now! On Monday, 13 October 2014 22:12:39 UTC+5:30, Alex Hillman wrote: Raghuveer, the good news is that you’re not alone. The kinds of problems you’re encountering happen everywhere! Unfortunately, people get distracted by the people who don’t get

Re: [Coworking] Coworking Space in Hyderabad

2014-10-13 Thread Alex Hillman
Raghuveer, the good news is that you’re not alone. The kinds of problems you’re encountering happen everywhere! Unfortunately, people get distracted by the people who don’t get it.  At the risk of sounding all “back in my day…”, remember that for communities like Indy Hall, New Work City,

[Coworking] I love when journalists actually TRY Coworking instead of just writing about it.

2014-10-08 Thread Alex Hillman
http://www.argusleader.com/story/news/business-journal/2014/09/20/schwan-inside-week-co-working/15995287/ Hyphen notwithstanding, this is a great example of people's expectations of coworking...juxtaposed against the realities.  In the last year, we've STRONGLY encouraged a couple of our local

Re: [Coworking] Contest to Name the Co-working Space

2014-10-02 Thread Alex Hillman
1 - Crazy to invite your community to name the place? Not at all. In my experience, the best names have come from the community whose helped create the space. It’s just one more opportunity for people to feel a sense of ownership, which is a good thing. 2 - Crazy to do a contest? I’ve

Re: [Coworking] Re: Membership Perks

2014-10-02 Thread Alex Hillman
We do all the same marketing Tyler mentioned, plus announce them at our monthly happy hour. One idea that I tried unsuccessfully was inviting a partner to do a quick preso of their own to the happy hour group about their product and discount. Seemed like a great way to create a personal

Re: [Coworking] Importance of space

2014-09-23 Thread Alex Hillman
You can get away with imperfections in the space when the community vibe is good. It’s much, much harder to get away with cultural dysfunction (or nonexistence) when the space is good. It’s not debate of if space OR community is valuable or important. Both are important.  What’s

Re: [Coworking] Re: Getting rid of the co-working hyphen

2014-09-23 Thread Alex Hillman
Lots of great analogies in there, Oren. http://ihighfive.com/ -Alex On Tuesday, Sep 23, 2014 at 8:51 AM, Will BennisLocus Workspace wmben...@locusworkspace.com, wrote: Hi Oren, I really appreciate your thoughtful reply about this. And it's definitely pushed me in the direction of

Re: [Coworking] Coworking as summer camp?

2014-09-16 Thread Alex Hillman
I don't know of a particular summer camp vision statements, but I've had several of our members describe their experience/impressions this way (each one qualifying, in the best way possible).  They described a bit more detail, including the generational aspect of the community (the seniors

Re: [Coworking] Re: Basic elements for a definition of coworking

2014-09-13 Thread Alex Hillman
Glad you mentioned Ray’s recent posts. This one was truly fantastic, full of gold. 

Re: [Coworking] Re: Basic elements for a definition of coworking

2014-09-12 Thread Alex Hillman
In my opinion a coworking space -- being a community of coworkers -- always calls and treats its coworkers members. ​I like this one a lot!! -Alex -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: [Coworking] Background Checks

2014-09-11 Thread Alex Hillman
It's a trust network, not a blame network :)  More importantly, the signatures themselves aren't the point. They're an action that someone has to take to get to know people who already care enough to look after the things worth protecting.  Even a background check company doesn't have that

Re: [Coworking] Background Checks

2014-09-11 Thread Alex Hillman
Back at my computer, here's that recent thread I mentioned: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/coworking/IHgBU9UpCDo/Maw_ilGMzqgJ Especially, this post about ACTUAL liability concerns: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/coworking/IHgBU9UpCDo/uCmegDpZhesJ -Alex -- Visit this forum on the web at

Re: [Coworking] Re: So...where are all the space managers?

2014-09-11 Thread Alex Hillman
Ramon, that group is actually specifically for organizing OpenCoworking (http://opencoworking.org/) related efforts. That certainly could (and should!) include space managers, owners, and members, but I think that its goals are broader than space managers helping each other.  -Alex On Thu,

Re: [Coworking] Re: So...where are all the space managers?

2014-09-11 Thread Alex Hillman
However, I know that OpenCoworking IS looking for regional volunteers to help organize…so if you’re interested in that sort of thing, you should contact them about joining the list! On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Alex Hillman dangerouslyawes...@gmail.com wrote: Ramon, that group

Re: [Coworking] Basic elements for a definition of coworking

2014-09-11 Thread Alex Hillman
I’m pretty sure that Emergent Research has a rubric they use for when they do their research for their annual report, but I can’t remember exactly what is on it. Having some consistency with that would probably be helpful! I think it had some of the items you described, but it was a lot more

Re: [Coworking] Basic elements for a definition of coworking

2014-09-11 Thread Alex Hillman
://www.officenomads.com - (206) 323-6500 On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 9:48 AM, Alex Hillman dangerouslyawes...@gmail.com wrote: I’m pretty sure that Emergent Research has a rubric they use for when they do their research for their annual report, but I can’t remember exactly what is on it. Having some consistency

Re: [Coworking] Basic elements for a definition of coworking

2014-09-11 Thread Alex Hillman
Isolation http://www.officenomads.com - (206) 323-6500 On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Alex Hillman dangerouslyawes...@gmail.com wrote: If we can find neutral language to highlight distinctions like this it would go a long way to that goal of finding like-minded spaces and filling our

Re: [Coworking] Basic elements for a definition of coworking

2014-09-11 Thread Alex Hillman
/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_food_restaurant But tell me one time that you’ve heard someone dining at Micky D’s call it “Fast Casual” :) -Alex On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 1:40 PM, Alex Hillman dangerouslyawes...@gmail.com wrote: Likening another space to a fast food joint

Re: [Coworking] Innovation Themed Space. Thoughts?

2014-09-10 Thread Alex Hillman
From my experience, innovation comes at the end of a chain of events: - Innovation comes from collaboration - Collaboration comes from establishing trust, met with a common goal - Trust is established in casual, social interactions mixed with the ability to experiment with working together on

Re: [Coworking] Innovation Themed Space. Thoughts?

2014-09-10 Thread Alex Hillman
: I Totally Agree Jerome www.BLANKSPACES.com On Sep 10, 2014, at 6:53 AM, Alex Hillman dangerouslyawes...@gmail.com wrote: From my experience, innovation comes at the end of a chain of events: - Innovation comes from collaboration - Collaboration comes from establishing trust, met

Re: [Coworking] Re: G'day from Melbourne, Australia

2014-09-10 Thread Alex Hillman
Hi Lil! I’m not involved in Sean’s group at Collins Collective, but I thought I could help with your questions :) Getting people involved in the space and building a community even while we are in the build phase of this project. It sounds like you already have the space, but it’s not

Re: [Coworking] Membership Agreements/Contracts

2014-09-08 Thread Alex Hillman
24, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Alex Hillman dangerouslyawes...@gmail.com wrote: Jessica, Are you looking for something specifically for drop ins, or for memberships? For people who drop in/tour Indy Hall, we focus on making them feel welcome and understand what they’re experiencing rather than

Re: [Coworking] Re: Co-working as the future of work?

2014-09-03 Thread Alex Hillman
There might be slight confusion around and you can encounter anomalies where hot-desking or random business networking are identified with coworking (most directories don't make differences, throwing everything in).  This is why Indy Hall doesn’t use any directory sites for finding members. 

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