Hello from the OC

[Julie Scanlon]

You are AMAZING, thank you for this great collaborative community. 

I am on the brink of opening a space in Costa Mesa, Ca.  Each day i find something timely and perfect here.   I want everyone to know you empower so many others with every contribution.  And i just wanted to say how grateful i am for this. 

See you around!
Julie
Collab Space, Costa Mesa, Ca
949.682.9141

ps: the book is going to create its own phenomenon, just like collaborative community's always do.

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 6:39 PM, Leif Utne <leif...@gmail.com> wrote:

Alex: This is awesome. Tweeted.

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On Jun 21, 2011, at 4:41 PM, Chad Ballantyne <ch...@thecreativespace.ca> wrote:

This is great Alex - already digging in!

Funny how the shift from home, to coffee shop to Exec suite to coworking is so common.  In fact, it was my story, and we've been working it  into a cute cartoon animation (to be completed in August...I hope)  I actually hope it can serve many spaces as they try and explain the benefits of coworking and as the cartoon explains - coworking is the combination of all the good things from home, coffee shop and exec suite.

See slide illustration I use a lot to share when people ask, "What the hell is coworking?"  and "Why would I join?"

Anyway - great work on opening this up and doing it in public.

In this world of independence and "look out for #1" we've seldom see truly great works or live our lives leaving a lasting legacy. (wow - that's a lot of "L"s)  The best stuff in life happens when we are surrounded by people we trust and we let go and let others at our ideas, our art, our dreams.  We call it "trusted critique."  The term we use a lot is "Doing life together."

The coworking community is not just a cool work space idea, it's getting back to the key ingredients proven to be the catalyst to innovation and it is changing our world.  Relate, Collaborate, Create

If I see something to contribute, I'll chime in.

Peace!

Chad

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On 2011-06-21, at 6:29 PM, Alex Hillman wrote:

In the Spring of 2010, I started in on a project that I hoped was going to be the coworking book that the world needed. A few months later, I stopped - discontent with where I’d started, and unconfident that I knew what book about coworking the world needed.

The original idea was a curated shared narrative that would help people create successful coworking communities. I’m still in love with that idea, I’m just not sure that I know enough alone to start that curated narrative.

This past week I spent a bunch of time writing a new talk titled “Doing it in Public”, about the value of taking ideas that are incomplete and, in spite of your fears and insecurities, executing them in public - either the the end of learning new perspectives, finding collaborators, or simply finding out that you’re not alone.

I realized that perhaps that was my path to finding the coworking book that the world needed.

So I am taking the beginnings of the book that I’m not pleased or proud of, and am sharing them with the hopes that the world will help tell me what book they’d like me to write. Even more, I’m sharing them in a publicly editable document. Editable by anybody, even if you’re anonymous. Add things delete things, comment as much as you’d like. Reply to others’ comments. Point me in a new direction.

Google Docs keeps revision history so if nothing else, we can always look through the revisions. I can also scrap the whole thing and start over.

I hope you’re join me in doing it in public. Let’s see what happens.

http://bit.ly/coworkingbook-in-public

-Alex
/ah
indyhall.org
coworking in philadelphia

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