The existing group for managers is at https://opencoworking.groupbuzz.io/
Ramon Suarez Serendipity Accelerator, Betacowork Author: http://coworkinghandbook.com email & hangouts: ra...@betacowork.com Phone: +3227376769 GSM: +32497556284 Twitter:http://twitter.com/ramonsuarez Skype: ramonsuarez Try coworking: http://betacowork.com <http://betacowork.com/free-coworking-tryout/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=468x60_banner&utm_content=girl-home&utm_campaign=ramon-signature> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 5:14 PM, Adam Teterus <a...@indyhall.org> wrote: > So glad this resonates, Lindsey. I'm *really* looking forward to having a > network of folks to talk with on a more regular basis. We all have so much > to learn from one another just by sharing war stories, as it were. I'll get > you on into the Slack team! > > > On Wednesday, September 10, 2014 10:27:27 PM UTC-4, Lindsey Rima wrote: >> >> Hey Adam! >> >> Thank you for putting this out there. I'm the operations manager/ >> community foster-er/ coffee maker/problem solver/ non-owner at Link. I'm >> part of the Austin Office Managers group. The collective wisdom and >> experience in the group is amazing, but a coworking oriented group would be >> the bees knees. Please invite me to the Slack group and google hangout. >> >> >> >> On Saturday, September 6, 2014 8:47:49 PM UTC-5, Adam Teterus wrote: >>> >>> Hey, all. I'm Adam. >>> >>> So I've been running Indy Hall as the Point Man for just shy of 3 years, >>> looking over this place and these people on a daily basis from January of >>> 2011 to right now (and well beyond right now, I should hope). 3 years of >>> facilitating relationships between new and old members, introducing >>> newcomers to our community, saying goodbye to longstanding members who came >>> before me, bumping into very *human* obstacles and guiding members >>> through sometimes tough social situations, always toward a place in which >>> we're much tighter and stronger and better than where we came from. >>> >>> I recently had a really great conversation with a friend about what it >>> is that I do here at Indy Hall. Given that coworking is relatively "new" in >>> the scheme of things, and given that it's a burgeoning meta-community and >>> industry in its own rite, she asked me who I turn to when I have questions, >>> when I encounter something new. >>> >>> That's a long, winding answer. My reference points are ALL OVER the >>> place, there's not really anyone one, particular role model. Not really a >>> coworking space manager that I look to for parallels or direct reference. >>> Many of you on this forum are among reference points, but there's a >>> contingent missing from the Google Group: the person that most closely >>> reflects me and what I do here at Indy Hall. I know that person and those >>> people exist, but...where are they? >>> >>> My friend, she's a researcher type, and she points out that I've got >>> this wealth of domain knowledge >>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_knowledge>, this set of skills and >>> attributes that I reflexively understand and act on every day to keep this >>> community up and running. Things that I often take for granted, admittedly. >>> Things I rarely think about because I'm not talking about them out loud >>> with other people who do it, too. >>> >>> She goes on to say that it sounds like I'm lacking a field >>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discipline_(academia)>, a network of >>> people who share the same domain knowledge. A group of people like me. >>> Where are those people? >>> >>> I know the Google Group is primarily for/frequented by owners and >>> prospective space owners, but where do the space managers go to talk to one >>> another? The daily, boots on the ground, hired to be here community >>> leader - where does she go for answers? Where do they go to learn and talk >>> and share? Hell, where do they go to debrief and unwind after a long week >>> of weird social situations? Who teaches them how to do what they're doing? >>> >>> Further, for owners and prospective owners: when you're hiring for a >>> coworking space manager, who are you looking toward and thinking, "yeah, I >>> need *that* person"? When you do hire someone, who do you refer that >>> person to in terms of a role model for the gig? >>> >>> Where are the people like me? Who are they? I want to meet 'em. >>> >> -- > Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Coworking" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/coworking/TKWCKxHlHE0/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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/d/optout.
