Alex Hillman
better coworking, better business, and better communities
better coworking, better business, and better communities
DeskMag is doing a series on “The Future of Coworking”. I generally am uninterested in these discussions since they’re so theoretical, compared to the vast amount of exploration of TODAY we could be doing. The closing note by Araceli Camargo from The Cube in London captures th...
Continue ReadingJust one more moment of brilliance from Indy hall members:
Continue ReadingIf I had to pick the lead-in to be used on every piece of press I get from today until the day I die, it’d be the lead-in that Chris Wink wrote for my Q&A on this past Friday’s edition of Technically Philly.
Continue ReadingBart had just handed me the telephone.
Continue ReadingThis is reposted from the Coworking Google Group.
Continue ReadingThis post is part 4 of a 5 part series exploring the 5 core values of coworking: Collaboration, Openness, Community, Accessibility, and Sustainability.
Continue ReadingThis post is part 3 of a 5 part series exploring the 5 core values of coworking: Collaboration, Openness, Community, Accessibility, and Sustainability.
Continue ReadingThis post is part 2 of a 5 part series exploring the 5 core values of coworking: Collaboration, Openness, Community, Accessibility, and Sustainability.
Continue ReadingAfter sharing recent growth stats and some specifics about our basic membership, I was asked:
Continue ReadingThis post is part 1 of a 5 part series exploring the 5 core values of coworking: Collaboration, Openness, Community, Accessibility, and Sustainability.
Continue ReadingI haven’t really had a chance to talk much about Code for America since the team was in Philly. I won’t go into what the program is or how it works, because frankly I don’t think I can do a better job than their about page. But I really enjoyed having the CFA fellows in town e...
Continue ReadingI really do enjoy answering coworking questions that find their way into my inbox, and the best questions are the ones that are discreet and to the point. I recently was emailing with Joshua Hill, the director of a new coworking effort in Bozeman, Montana.
Continue ReadingAfter nearly 4 years of working on making the best place in the world to work, we turned to our members to find out exactly what they thought about the experience. In their own words.
Continue ReadingYesterday I shared my opinion that professional & personal relationships – not jobs – are the key to student retention in Philadelphia.
Continue ReadingRetention is a big problem everywhere, and here in Philadelphia it’s no exception.
Continue ReadingOne day, shortly after we moved into our “new and improved” Indy Hall office in 2009, a bunch of chess pieces showed up on one of our kitchen tables. Interestingly, there was no board – just a bunch of chess pieces, arranged as if there was a board.
Continue ReadingI’ve noticed an increase in interest in systems like “swipe card entry” for coworking spaces, both from the perspective of security and automated billing. In a recent thread on the coworking google group, I mused:
Continue ReadingDeskmag just published a piece about a Dutch incubator’s research project about physical proximity and collaboration. Among the things that stood out to me, these two sentences had the most tips for what was happening in space design as related to collaboration:
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 ...
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