Re: [Coworking] Re: Human element of space directories

2011-02-27 Thread Campbell McKellar
Hi Brian, It looks awesome! Your community looks like a lot of fun. Would love to get your feedback on the new Loosecubes 2.0 if you're around this week/next week! Cheers, Campbell On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Brian Sierakowski briansierakow...@gmail.com wrote: Sadly I'll be here in

Re: [Coworking] Re: Human element of space directories

2011-02-24 Thread Jacob Sayles
That looks really great Brian! Are you going to be down in Austin? Jacob --- Office Nomads - Individuality without Isolation http://www.officenomads.com - (206) 323-6500 On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Brian Sierakowski briansierakow...@gmail.com wrote: Tis indeed the plan, and much

[Coworking] Re: Human element of space directories

2011-02-24 Thread Brian Sierakowski
Sadly I'll be here in Baltimore, being jealous of everyone in Austin :). Happy to catch up sometime and give the rundown of how things are progressing! -B On Feb 24, 5:00 pm, Jacob Sayles ja...@officenomads.com wrote: That looks really great Brian!  Are you going to be down in Austin? Jacob

[Coworking] Re: Human element of space directories

2011-02-23 Thread Jeannine
I think I am coming into an existing conversation but I don't know where it is, anybody who could add a link to it would be doing me a great service. It may be cultural -- Dutch guys are generally aware of the possibilities of a global network for good and valid geographical reasons -- but my own

[Coworking] Re: Human element of space directories

2011-02-23 Thread Devin
The folks at TheCube in London have a very interesting, neuro-psychological approach to eliciting important info from people via Q + A. I've pinged them about this thread and hopefully they'll chime in. We need a database of coworking space managers so we can all discuss, design and deploy

Re: [Coworking] Re: Human element of space directories

2011-02-23 Thread Jacob Sayles
Interesting... so maybe a network only accessible if you are a member of a participating coworking space... Jacob --- Office Nomads - Individuality without Isolation http://www.officenomads.com - (206) 323-6500 On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 2:04 AM, Jeannine flexkantoorkame...@gmail.comwrote: I

Re: [Coworking] Re: Human element of space directories

2011-02-23 Thread Alex Hillman
I think that participation comes with an element of trust, for sure. But I like that quite a bit. -Alex /ah indyhall.org coworking in philadelphia On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Jacob Sayles ja...@officenomads.comwrote: Interesting... so maybe a network only accessible if you are a member

[Coworking] Re: Human element of space directories

2011-02-23 Thread Jeannine
Right. Though (as with TED) there's no necessary reason for profiles not to be public -- this can go either way, but there are many reasons to make them public. In the case of TED it's also a publicity thing -- see what I am associated with. For the participation, communication, apps, you gotta

[Coworking] Re: Human element of space directories

2011-02-23 Thread Angel Kwiatkowski
--If your intern found good questions on a particular site, I'd love a source! http://www.buzzle.com/articles/funny-would-you-rather-questions.html On Feb 22, 10:20 pm, Alex Hillman dangerouslyawes...@gmail.com wrote: I'm working with some guys from Baltimore on an internal member directory

[Coworking] Re: Human element of space directories

2011-02-23 Thread Angel Kwiatkowski
Jeannine, Here is a link to the coworking registry http://coworkingregistry.org/ that was mentioned. As far as a place for members to tell their stories--it doesn't exist yet and therefore has no link :) On Feb 23, 3:04 am, Jeannine flexkantoorkame...@gmail.com wrote: I think I am coming into an

[Coworking] Re: Human element of space directories

2011-02-23 Thread Jeannine
Hi, Angel, I am in it. But I mean that the conversation begins with reference to another conversation taking place somewhere. But not apparently in this thread. This is happening a lot lately and I am really not swift enough to follow when this goes on. That's all I meant; if whatever you

[Coworking] Re: Human element of space directories

2011-02-23 Thread Angel Kwiatkowski
Jeannine, This thread is janky. Below was my original post which now shows up as the 3rd post in this thread. I'm not sure where I pulled the quote from Alex but I believe it was after I searched the google group for desks. When Alex said, The biggest thing I continually see missing from

[Coworking] Re: Human element of space directories

2011-02-23 Thread Jeannine
*whew*. Thank you, Angel, for taking the trouble to sort that out for me. I kept looking around for the rest of the conversation and then gave up. Not that it stopped me talking, lol. But truly, I appreciate it. Jeannine On 23 feb, 22:10, Angel Kwiatkowski fccowork...@gmail.com wrote:

[Coworking] Re: Human element of space directories

2011-02-23 Thread gerard @ Cincy Coworks
There is a new site called Mapalong http://mapalong.com. When I heard story and location, I thought of Mapalong. [small shameless plug] The co-creator is an acquaintance of mine. [/small shameless plug]. The idea is to tie stories to locations. Maybe not yet, but soon, it could address this

[Coworking] Re: Human element of space directories

2011-02-23 Thread Angel Kwiatkowski
-Regarding community participation, I've found mixed results. I'm -always badgering our members to write a blog post about coworking, or -about themselves (they all have access to the Wordpress), and half of -them have done so. But I might not be asking them in the right way. One of my members

[Coworking] Re: Human element of space directories

2011-02-23 Thread Angel Kwiatkowski
You're welcome. To be honest, even I was confused by the order of this thread and I started it! On Feb 23, 2:35 pm, Jeannine flexkantoorkame...@gmail.com wrote: *whew*.  Thank you, Angel, for taking the trouble to sort that out for me.  I kept looking around for the rest of the conversation and

[Coworking] Re: Human element of space directories

2011-02-22 Thread Angel Kwiatkowski
I'm not a big fan of getting everything figured out first and acting later. Let's be honest, coworking is a baby. We don't know what size shoes she's going to need in 3 years let alone in the next 2 months. I don't want to get hung up in planning it to death or putting a hundred parameters around

Re: [Coworking] Re: Human element of space directories

2011-02-22 Thread Alex Hillman
I don't think I was looking to introduce parameters or anything complicated, I was genuinely curious what questions people ask in order to get the stories worth telling. That's valuable to share here (and document together) so that the goal of 2012 stories by 2012 isn't just a numbers game, but

[Coworking] Re: Human element of space directories

2011-02-22 Thread Angel Kwiatkowski
I agree--we'd need some serious buy-in to get enough storiesI imagine that stories beget stories. No one wants to be the only person with their story out there! To some extent, yes- I have my mind made up about this project but my mind is made up insofar as I think it needs to happen. In order

Re: [Coworking] Re: Human element of space directories

2011-02-22 Thread Alex Hillman
I totally agree that we don't need a custom solution. We can build a Wufoo form in minutes that asks a few good open ended questions and provide that to coworking space owners and community leaders - and see what comes back. The data will be structured and we can do just about anything we want

[Coworking] Re: Human element of space directories

2011-02-22 Thread Angel Kwiatkowski
My intern found some pretty fun questions on a would you rather site. Now, mind you, these aren't soul bearing questions about coworking but I do think that people's responses really let personality shine through. For example, would you rather have a pencil sharpening nostril or a ketchup

Re: [Coworking] Re: Human element of space directories

2011-02-22 Thread Alex Hillman
I'm working with some guys from Baltimore on an internal member directory app (imagine a wall of polaroids so you can easily track down faces to names). Rather than encourage members categorize themselves by arbitrary industries, I'm heading in the direction of asking these sorts of questions for

Re: [Coworking] Re: Human element of space directories

2011-02-22 Thread Alex Hillman
That app sounds awesome. Would it be shareable for other spaces to use internally? I can't speak for the guys who are primarily responsible for it (we're their first non-internal test case) but I think that's the plan! /ah indyhall.org coworking in philadelphia On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at

[Coworking] Re: Human element of space directories

2011-02-22 Thread Angel Kwiatkowski
Cohere has member profiles (a little more formal though some are pretty hilarious and utterly fictional) on our website under the Community tab and then we're also kicking it old school and the intern has created a physical wall o' members with actual Polaroids, contact info and a 1 line niche