Alex Hillman
better coworking, better business, and better communities
better coworking, better business, and better communities
After a brief holiday hiatus, The Coworking Weekly Show is back with a new installment of a kind of episode I affectionately refer to as “The Stack”.
Continue ReadingTwo things I’ve learned about conferences:
Continue ReadingRunning a collaborative space doesn’t automagically make you a great collaborator.
Continue ReadingI’ve been working on something new for you!
Continue Reading“We’re having a really hard time getting traction with our coworking space. Coworking is just so new here, and people don’t really understand it.”
Continue ReadingThe short, two part answer is loneliness + context.
Continue ReadingThink about the last person you met, or were introduced to.
Continue ReadingIf you’ve ever been in a community leadership position, you’ve probably been tempted (or worse even tried) to wrangle or squeeze a community closer together.
Continue ReadingHave you ever thought about how sending a message of “I don’t trust you” can actually make some kinds of problems MORE likely, not less?
Continue ReadingI have a love/hate relationship with the press, especially when it comes to coworking. Mostly because I know what’s NOT in the story.
Continue ReadingI don’t often do guest posts on my blog. But after Andy Soell helped someone on the Coworking Google Group with some tremendously valuable advice, I had to ask him if he’d be willing to share that same advice here. I’m happy that he obliged. Enjoy! -Alex
Continue ReadingWhat’s missing from this picture of a coworking space?
Continue ReadingI’m sooooooo sick and tired of industry-speke. There is a growing lot of people – and I include myself in this pool of guilt – who love to talk about coworking, communities, and our collaborative cultures.
Continue ReadingLast week, my biz partner Geoff DiMasi shared a bunch of Indy Hall lessons with a community of library-folk at their spring membership meeting.
Continue ReadingCommunity building is an endurance sport. Far more marathon than sprint.
Continue ReadingBack when Indy Hall was just a few days old, we were “lucky” enough to get some really good front-page newspaper coverage.
Continue ReadingIf you’ve read one newspaper or magazine article about coworking, you’ve read them all. Right?
Continue ReadingI can’t stand the title “community manager“. I’m not a community manager. I never have not never will hire a community manager.
Continue ReadingYou remember to talk about the future, what you haven’t done yet, because it’s still amazing/exciting to you. It’s easy and fun to dream, and share that dream with others.
Continue ReadingA community builder’s and work is a sequence of events. How can you be sure that the events that you organize stand out?
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