ABC News Interview: Unpacking Coworking Trends for 2019

Are 30% of jobs really going to be done from coworking spaces? How do corporate employees fit into the coworking scene? What kinds of people get the most out of coworking?

New Site Design! Find the coworking ideas you need to succeed.

Longtime readers might notice this site looks a bit different today!

Community or commodity?

A while back I got an email from someone working on starting a new coworking community in her rural town.

Guest Post: 3 incredibly counterintuitive lessons that every coworking operator needs to learn

Howdy readers! Alex here, with a very rare guest post on my site. This story is packed with valuable lessons (and a smart, fun, honest approach) that I wanted to make sure as many people saw as possible. So please read, share, and leave a comment!  

Think you need investors for your coworking space? Here are four alternative ways to get funded.

I’ve been where you are.

How to hire the best people to run your coworking space

Hiring sucks. Finding great people for your team is tough in any industry, but staffing your coworking space is extra tricky.

My Crash Course in Lighting Design for Coworking Spaces

For 9 years, we built the iconic and vibrant Indy Hall community and workspace on top of spaces that had been built for someone else. Those spaces had a lot of charm, but especially in our previous space, we spent a lot of time working to make the space work for us.

Scaling community, avoiding burnout, & leading from within

This video is from a sit down conversation with my buddy Ryan Chatterton during a visit to Malaysia for my favorite coworking conference, CUAsia .

Indy Hall is hiring for a very special role

UPDATE: Applications are currently closed.

What did you want to be when you grew up?

One of my FAVORITE talks I’ve ever given, in spite of it being so early in the morning, was at Creative Mornings Philadelphia.

“What is a community, really? How do you know that you have it?”

I’ll start by saying what community is not. 

How to get people more involved in your community without forcing it

This question shows up more and more in my channels, especially from community staff that have been hired and are essentially inheriting a challenge of turning a room full of still relatively disconnected people into a dynamic, interactive community.

Indy Hall <3 Philly Dev Night Community

Roberto Torres from Technically just shared a really great article about something that I’m really excited about: the Philly Dev Night community finding a home with Indy Hall.

there’s no such thing as a collaborative space

Every time I read an article about a new “collaborative space” that’s opened, I hear the voice of Derek Neighbors repeating the following:

Lets cheers to the next 10 years

what’s next at Indy Hall? let’s find out.

For the last 15 months, I’ve been sharing various parts of the most crucial communications that I’ve sent to the Indy Hall community as we organized around and prepared for the biggest move of our 10 year history.  Below is the latest, which I sent today, 1 month into our ne...

What JFDI really means

Spotted this perfect quote from Indy Hall alumnus and longtime badass, Kelani Nichole.

Nearing the end of construction…

If you’ve ever been a part of a construction or renovation project, you know that there’s an “arc” of how things appear to be going.

Go on a video tour of Indy Hall’s new home at 399 Market

Enjoy sneak preview in advance of Town Hall this Thursday! Hope to see you there!

Proximity & behavior in coworking spaces

As a rule I try not to link to FastCo and instead to the original research that they synthesize.