This sounds like a great study and I'm excited to see where it goes. I'd love to see more of this kind of thing. It gives me an opportunity to show to our members that we are part of something bigger and invite them to participate. We're in!
Jacob --- Office Nomads - Individuality without Isolation http://www.officenomads.com - (206) 323-6500 On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 6:29 AM, Gretchen Spreitzer <sprei...@umich.edu>wrote: > Dear Members, > > > > I am a professor at the Ross School of Business at the University of > Michigan. I recently introduced myself to the moderators of this group and > have received their support for an academic study I am leading on > understanding the relationship between coworking and thriving at work. My > colleagues and I have recently developed an online survey that is meant to > be taken by members of your coworking communities. It provides a voice for > them to share their coworking experience with our research team. *My > hope is that you will consider distributing this survey to your members*. > > > > We understand that your members are busy professionals, and we know that > you do your best to shield them from unnecessary outside solicitations. > Our study is noncommercial and, instead, is aimed at building an awareness > and understanding of the broader coworking movement within our field of > management and organizational studies. In short, we want to help promote > the coworking movement by building a long-term understanding of the > underlying social mechanisms that enable people to thrive because of it. > > > > The survey is designed to take between 10-15 minutes to complete. As a > small thank you for helping us spread the word about our survey to your > members, the first 50 coworking communities that provide us with at least > 10 member survey responses will be provided with a $75 gift card to > Seamless, which you can use to provide food or other snacks to your > members. If Seamless is not available in your area, we will happily > provide you with a gift card of equal value to something comparable in your > area so that you can treat your members on us. > > > > If you are willing to participate in our research efforts, please contact > me at sprei...@umich.edu, and my colleagues and I will provide you with > additional information about the survey and how to participate. Additional > information can be found here: http://sitemaker.umich.edu/** > coworking_survey <http://sitemaker.umich.edu/coworking_survey>. > > > > Thank you. > > > > Gretchen Spreitzer > > Ross School of Business > > The University of Michigan > > > > -- > Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Coworking" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
