Chad, I'll ask you the same thing as I did Derek: Any interesting outcomes of that working arrangement worth sharing?
-- /ah indyhall.org coworking in philadelphia On Monday, August 13, 2012 at 12:32 PM, TCS wrote: > Our City has planted support staff in our space. The first is a research > analyst for our Department of Culture. She fits right in and loves this > space over the City Hall space she can also use if needed. The Economic > Development Office has made mention of some staff placements as well wanting > to be close to the heartbeat of SMEs in Barrie. Our new CAO is working on > moving their local government supported business Resource Centre into our > space. This works great as one of our members is a business coach and would > love to spearhead something like this anyways. We will, although, do all we > can to be self-sufficiant and sustainable, so we'll always keep our main > operations community/privately supported. > > Peace, > > Chad > > > > Chad Ballantyne > 705.812.0689 > c...@thecreativespace.ca (mailto:c...@thecreativespace.ca) > > > On 2012-08-13, at 12:12 PM, Alex Hillman wrote: > > There have been threads about coworking spaces working with local > > governments, and (I think) examples of city officials joining coworking > > spaces…but I'm pretty excited about the fact that one of our members has > > just been recruited as Philadelphia's first Chief Data Officer as part of > > the city's push towards open data for citizens. > > > > http://technicallyphilly.com/2012/08/13/mark-headd-first-ever-city-of-philadelphia-chief-digital-officer > > > > We've played an active role in that initiative, and a very vocal supporter > > of some leaders in City Hall who have attempted to interact with the > > community in a way that's a bit more coworking-like. Mark's made it a point > > to say that he feels that in order for him to do this job effectively he > > wants to maintain strong ties to the community that supported him up > > through his appointment. > > > > Related, but separately, we're working on a program to invite city > > officials/workers to work from Indy Hall once a month as an opportunity to > > embed themselves in our community better as well > > > > This post is partially to share my personal excitement for this milestone > > in OUR community, and wondering if anyone else has similar success stories. > > > > > > I know that Gangplank has a very tight relationship with their local gov't > > and a number of other spaces have casual/functional relationships (a lot > > like we've had up until this point), but I'm wondering mostly about > > examples about embedding city officials in coworking spaces and vice/versa. > > > > -Alex > > > > -- > > /ah > > indyhall.org (http://indyhall.org/) > > coworking in philadelphia > > > > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Coworking" group. > > To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com > > (mailto:coworking@googlegroups.com). > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > (mailto:coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com). > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Coworking" group. > To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com > (mailto:coworking@googlegroups.com). > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > (mailto:coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com). > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
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