Alex Hillman
better coworking, better business, and better communities
better coworking, better business, and better communities
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An interesting and fairly often recurring thread in the coworking google group is security. A recent version of this thread prompted a response from a Toronto-based coworking space, CG6. A couple of important quotes:
Continue ReadingThis is a liberal lift from the Coworking Google Group, in a discussion about if a coworking space should run itself.
Continue ReadingSingle-demographic coworking misses the point – the thickest value of coworking I’ve seen is in creating a work construct where people who wouldn’t likely sit next to each other to work, find that possibility for themselves, and the possibilities derived from that opportunity ...
Continue ReadingQuick repost from the coworking google group. This was too good not to share here.
Continue ReadingWhen we scored the coworking.com domain early last year, my personal goal was to have a digital placeholder for the word “coworking” and tie it to the shared core values of the community: collaboration, openness, community, accessibility, and sustainability.
Continue ReadingIndy Hall is growing, every day and in more interesting ways. We think a lot about how to grow something like Indy Hall. “More members” seems like the obvious answer, but we think it’s not quite that straightforward. We’re focused on growing deep, not growing tall.
Continue ReadingNerd Fort isn’t your typical coworking facility. We don’t rent out desks daily or hourly to whoever wanders in. We lease space on amonthly basis to good people, and focus on building a vibrant, active, helpful community. Of nerds.The fact that this group in self-identifies ...
Continue ReadingMy friend Thomas Fuchs, who also happens to be the author of Scriptaculous, also just authored a list of his “power tools” that he uses while creating badass webapps with his wife & co-conspirator Amy Hoy. He surprised me at the end – not because he’s wrong, but because I ...
Continue ReadingThough I’ve known for a couple of weeks, Tara just announced publicly that Citizen Space is closing at the end of this month.
Continue Reading2010 was different.
Continue ReadingMy buddy Jonathan Finnegan (a.k.a. Finn, or that guy who Karaoke’d “The Humpty Dance” and “Just a Friend” with a broken arm at Cogaoke in years past) asked me,
Continue ReadingAmong the interesting growth patterns I’ve seen as coworking has begun to make the transition from nascent “nerd clubs” to mainstream is varying instances of support from Economic Development Centers/Councils/Committees/Corporations .
Continue ReadingI met Daniel Shipton, founder of since-shuttered “Impromptu Studio” in Des Moines, and knew he was in it for all the right reasons.
Continue ReadingI wanted to publish this before I arrived tomorrow at NewsFoo, a niche FooCamp co-organized by O’Reilly, Google, and the Knight News Foundation. It’s self-described as “a gathering of 150 key practitioners and thinkers from the worlds of journalism, technology, and public poli...
Continue ReadingThere’s a handful of great creative industry job boards that aren’t specific to Philadelphia, and the ones that are here tend to be relatively underused or mis-populated. At the same time, Indy Hall has been decidedly pinned as a “source for talent”, while we actively avoid pu...
Continue ReadingPhiladelphia’s tech community is special.
Continue ReadingThis is a repost from the Coworking Google Group, because I thought it was useful enough to share here as well.
Continue ReadingIn 2007, when Geoff and I sat down to figure out how to make Indy Hall a real place for the real people we’d already recruited, we made a decision to operate it as a business.
Continue Reading“So, what do you do?”
Continue ReadingJust over a year ago, Parker Whitney showed up at Indy Hall during our search for an intern.
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