As follow up to my original post, I'm hoping some who have been doing this coworking bit longer than I can also clarify what was meant when those values were identified.
On Thursday, June 27, 2019 at 1:10:47 PM UTC-4, Julia Ferguson wrote: > > Hello all. > > We're updating our website, which has me reviewing our current content. > We're just wrapping up a branding exercise that have given us some good > language we can use to talk about who we are and what it's like to cowork > with us. We have always said we embrace the five values of coworking, > established in the movements early days: collaboration, openness, > community, accessibility, and sustainability and we've tried to say what > that means to us and how they apply to our every day operations and how our > members relate to each other. I've always had trouble with openness and > accessibility. In many ways they seem the same to me. In fact, if you > look up "openness", one of the words used in its definition is > "accessible". I've read what I can (including Alex Hillman's great posts > from 2011 and am still struggling. I would like your thoughts. > > Here's what I have so far: > > >> Being open is about sharing, about being authentic, ready to learn new > things, accepting of others, listening to other perspectives. > >> Being accessible is about how easy it is for others to reach you in > your open state, how easy you make it for others to hear and understand > your ideas and perspectives. > > The two go hand in hand. Being open, but not accessible does little good > because people can't take advantage of the openness. Being accessible but > not open is just rude. > > Thoughts? > > Julia > > -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/coworking/848cd93f-6c7f-4b38-90a2-95bffdb143f4%40googlegroups.com.
