[Coworking] Re: When a member moves in :( How to deal with a member who is living in their office.

2018-11-26 Thread Miles Fidelman
Has anyone, you know, actually talked to the member?  Sounds like someone 
who's underwater & drowing.  Are they having business problems?  Family 
problems?  Mental problems?  Or are you just one of those places that's 
really just rental real-estate and members  be damned?  Not a place I'd 
want to work in, or a group of people I'd want to work with.


On Monday, November 26, 2018 at 1:25:27 PM UTC-5, Aloma Loren wrote:
>
> We have a member, we'll call this member X.
>
> X moved into a private office a couple months ago. 
> X gave 30 days notice that they will be out by the end of November, 
> however, they want to continue their membership as a Flex Desk member so 
> would still have 24/7 access to the space.
>
> It is clear from our security cameras X is here 24/7. Walks around the 
> space in their socks, is always in the same clothes, looks like they don't 
> shower... Hung a towel over the inside of the door to block any little 
> space between the blinds. 
> The other night the cameras showed the police here at 4:30am walking 
> through the space with flashlights. X says they had a friend in here that 
> got violent and they had to call the police.
>
> X refuses to let us show the office to new members. They claim they are on 
> the phone and busy all day. They literally slammed the door in my office 
> manager's face when she was trying to talk to her very kindly about this.
>
> Anyone dealt with this kind of situation before?
>
> I can handle not showing the office. I have a feeling it would not show 
> well anyway.
> I do not feel comfortable with X still having access to the space after 
> they move out of their office. 
> Have you had to cancel a membership/refuse someone before?
> How do you word it?
>
> Any advice or just sharing of stories welcome.
>
>
>
>

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Re: [Coworking] Use of Space After Hours

2018-09-26 Thread Miles Fidelman
What small business moves into a space that closes at 6pm? Certainly 
nobody who has deadlines that merit the occasional all nighter.


Miles Fidelman


On 9/26/18 6:03 PM, jessievill...@gmail.com wrote:

Hi All!

Our space is currently only open from 8am - 6pm. I am about to start 
moving in to a system where folks can leave after 6pm and our space 
will just be unstaffed.


I have been receiving many inquiries about after hours events (ending 
later than 6:30) and wanted to know what your typical protocol is. 
Since these aren't always members looking to host late night meetings, 
I can't decide if the space needs to be staffed until they are done. 
Does anybody else staff the space for specific events or do you trust 
these non member users to leave at the end of their time?


Thanks!
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Re: [Coworking] Let's fix the stupid job crisis ourselves

2012-10-24 Thread Miles Fidelman

Tony Bacigalupo wrote:


Long story short, while talking to her, I had a few beers and created 
this: http://nwc.co/letsfixthestupidjobcrisis




snip
Have any of you out there been thinking something similar? I'm serious 
about this. I want to talk about real ways we can do things to put a 
serious dent in the global job crisis and get a lot of people back to 
work.


Sounds great, but begs a key problem - what we really need is demand.  
Between a stalled economy, and increased productivity over the years 
(including automation and off-shoring), we kind of need to prime the 
pump somehow.


Which kind of suggests that marketing and sales are a key part of the 
mix.  Just like the move your money campaign has been shifting a lot 
of customers from large banks to credit unions and local banks, how 
about a move your business campaign, to move purchasing from 
traditional businesses, to our kinds of businesses.


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Re: [Coworking] What Grownups Want From Coworking

2012-10-09 Thread Miles Fidelman
Makes perfect sense to me - then again, I'm 58 years old.  I've got a 
professional community and a network of co-workers.  When I look to 
renting space, it's not about the people, it's about the facilities - 
and maybe about whether it's convenient for meetings among my existing 
network.


Jerome Chang wrote:
And very interesting: they say these grown-ups prioritized community 
last.


Jerome
www.BLANKSPACES.com http://www.BLANKSPACES.com


On Oct 9, 2012, at 8:19 AM, Steve King sk...@emergentresearch.com 
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Every so often we come across a study that really makes us jealous 
because we wish we had done it:). What Grownups Want From Coworking 
http://www.serendipitylabs.com/what-grownups-want-from-coworking/, 
from Serendipity Labs, describes the results of really cool study of 
corporate workers.  It covers what these folks look for in 
workspaces.  The key findings are:


The research indicates corporate knowledge workers rank the top needs 
as follows:


 1. Spacious, clean design, natural light
 2. Location close to home, but not at home
 3. Quiet spaces, confidentiality, ability to focus
 4. Reliability of technology and services
 5. IT security, material and personal safety
 6. Flexible, inspiring , collaborative spaces
 7. Accessibility to transportation  amenities
 8. Social interaction, community, networking

No great surprises but they used a very clever research approach. 
 They recruited 150 corporate workers and for two months they had 
them load photos of their ideal workspaces into an online forum and 
engaged them in an ongoing online dialogue about their workplace needs.


I hoping to get more details on the study.  I'm sure there were a lot 
of interesting insights beyond those in the article.

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Re: [Coworking] What Grownups Want From Coworking

2012-10-09 Thread Miles Fidelman

Actually, I don't think it's that.

Each time I've left corporate America, to start something new, I've 
generally had a team/network in place (in fact, I expect it's pretty 
foolhardy to do a startup without one).  I simply can't see that it 
would be very likely to find a relevant group of people in a co-working 
facility - everyone has their own project/agenda. Sure, it's nice to 
have folks for conversations over coffee, and if one is lucky, maybe 
find some ways to collaborate, but by and large one either brings the 
relevant people with you, or they're outside the office, or both.


Maybe it's different for folks early in the careers, but I expect the 
numbers in the cited study reflect that folks who are further along 
already have their networks.


Alex Hillman wrote:
I've got a professional community and a network of co-workers. 
BINGO! YOU have that. But there's a LOT of people who don't have this, 
regardless of their age. And that population is growing, again, 
regardless of age.


Facilities rentals isn't going anywhere. Coworking is less about where 
we work and more about how we work, and who we work with.


Here's the reality: coworking isn't replacing anything. It's giving 
people who never would have considered the pre-existing options a new 
choice, and it's one that they love.


-Alex


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On Tuesday, October 9, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote:


Makes perfect sense to me - then again, I'm 58 years old. I've got a
professional community and a network of co-workers. When I look to
renting space, it's not about the people, it's about the facilities -
and maybe about whether it's convenient for meetings among my existing
network.

Jerome Chang wrote:

And very interesting: they say these grown-ups prioritized community
last.

Jerome
www.BLANKSPACES.com http://www.BLANKSPACES.com


On Oct 9, 2012, at 8:19 AM, Steve King sk...@emergentresearch.com 
mailto:sk...@emergentresearch.com

mailto:sk...@emergentresearch.com wrote:


Every so often we come across a study that really makes us jealous
because we wish we had done it:). What Grownups Want From Coworking
http://www.serendipitylabs.com/what-grownups-want-from-coworking/,
from Serendipity Labs, describes the results of really cool study of
corporate workers. It covers what these folks look for in
workspaces. The key findings are:

The research indicates corporate knowledge workers rank the top needs
as follows:

1. Spacious, clean design, natural light
2. Location close to home, but not at home
3. Quiet spaces, confidentiality, ability to focus
4. Reliability of technology and services
5. IT security, material and personal safety
6. Flexible, inspiring , collaborative spaces
7. Accessibility to transportation  amenities
8. Social interaction, community, networking

No great surprises but they used a very clever research approach.
They recruited 150 corporate workers and for two months they had
them load photos of their ideal workspaces into an online forum and
engaged them in an ongoing online dialogue about their workplace needs.

I hoping to get more details on the study. I'm sure there were a lot
of interesting insights beyond those in the article.
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[Coworking] Re: Background Music in a Coworking Space

2012-08-14 Thread Miles Fidelman
Call me a contrarian, but I like quiet, or at least conversation as 
background noise.  I don't think I'd rent space in an office with 
background music.  That's for elevators and dentists offices.

Miles Fidelman

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[Coworking] Update: Who's interested in project management collaboration tools?

2012-08-10 Thread Miles Fidelman

Thanks to all who've sent me comments!

The new, and hopefully improved Kickstarter page and video are now up at:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1947703258/smart-notebooks-keeping-on-the-same-page-across-th

Take a look!  Comments welcome.  So are donations, likes, tweets, diggs, 
+1s, re-distribution, blog posts, and any other visibility!  And... if 
you happen to have a large, distributed project coming up - a 
conference, event, crowd sourcing effort, flash performance, disaster 
response exercise that just begs for a collaboration support tool - 
let's talk!


Best,

Miles

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Re: [Coworking] Who's interested in project management collaboration tools? And...

2012-08-06 Thread Miles Fidelman

Hello Anca,


Anca | Tech Liminal wrote:

Miles,

I've been involved in, or managed, projects with a variety of scopes 
(software, comedy
shows, business projects, marketing, etc) for many many years.  So, 
conceptually, I fall

into the category of people who care.


Thank you very much for your comments!  If I might ask, what else do you 
read (lists, blogs, etc.) that might be relevant?




I like the idea of what you've proposed, but you made me work really 
hard to get at what it is.


The thing that will make me click on your link needs to be much more 
succinct, and either
talk about the pain I'm feeling or the benefits I'm going to get from 
supporting your projects.


Take a look at how some of the leading project management tools 
describe what they do,
such as Basecamp, Podio, Mavenlink, etc.  Why is your tool more 
compelling than theirs?


That's a great suggestion!

What I'm going for is simple + distributed + open.

The short form is that I've yet to see the combination of simple (e.g, 
spreadsheets) and distributed (e.g., Git).  These days, everybody seems 
to be gravitating toward Google Spreadsheets as a way to share action 
items; I'm shooting for something more like:

- linked spreadsheets where the links actually work across the net
- running in a browser, linked by open, asynchronous protocols (no 
software to install, no vendor lock-in, updates flow when connected)


To an extent, my motivation comes from sending out action item lists in 
an email, only to be inundated by a huge follow-up thread - questions 
and answers, updates, comments, ..., each in its own message.  I don't 
like going to a central wiki or Google Doc - what I want is for replies 
to the first email to be automagically applied - sort of like sending 
out a wiki page by email, saving it on my desktop, and then anytime 
anybody updates their local copy, every copy gets updated.


How does this work for you as a concept and message?

And thanks for the rest of this:



Just to be clear, the pain I'm feeling when dealing w/ project 
management is that it's hard
to get to get people to use the project management tools that i've put 
in place because they
cater too much to a technical audience (trac, git), or require too 
much customization for
simple projects (Podio) or are too simplistic to let me do all PM 
tasks in one place (Basecamp).


The technical problem of keeping tasks synched across the network is 
among the least
of my worries, actually.   My problem is finding a tool that's simple 
enough yet complete

enough to work for a technical and non-technical audience.

Here are some suggestions for your pitch:
- identify a particular person that has a particular problem (e.g. 
your customer demographic)
  You might need to write a different invitation email based on 
whether you're sending it

  to theater producers or web designers
- put your link at the top of your pitch, not only at the bottom of 
paragraphs of justification.
- find a Twitter-length description of your tool.  Otherwise, you make 
it too hard for people

to share it.
- Crete an executive summary (no more than one paragraph) that leaves 
me wanting more


Kickstarter and Indiegogo are really great tools for honing your 
marketing pitch, and they
provide some brutally honest feedback about its effectiveness.   It 
may take you a couple

of iterations to get to where you want to be with this project.

Good luck!

Anca.




On Aug 5, 2012, at 3:26 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote:


Hi Alex,

Alex Hillman wrote:

LightTable is:
A) an outlier. Building anything on observations of outliers is a 
recipe for disaster


Well... funded projects in the $50,000+ range are outliers on 
Kickstarter in general, but there are other software projects besides 
light table that have succeeded in raising significant amounts.  I 
kind of like looking at outliers - you can learn a lot.


B) EXTREMELY niche. You're pitch is extremely broad. That's going to 
impact your sales in general, and even moreso at this stage.


Coverage helps for sure, but I don't think you've actually picked an 
audience to sell to. Do that, and you're entire formula changes.


Now that is certainly true.  In one sense, folks who manage 
projects is a niche, and more so when one focuses on folks who 
manage virtual projects with teams distributed across the net.  In 
another sense,  this crosses lots of different niches - whether one 
is doing software development, product development, running a 
marketing campaign, organizing a flash performance, etc., the number 
of folks who worry about project management are a small subset.  A 
common set of problems, but a dispersed audience.


Which brings me back to my questions of how to find and reach people 
for whom what I'm doing will be helpful.  I have a sense that a lot 
of my audience can be found among the same folks who inhabit 
co-working spaces, but I'm not sure - hence my inquiry to this list.


Thanks again,

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Re: [Coworking] A Formal Announcement...

2012-08-06 Thread Miles Fidelman

Jacob Sayles wrote:

Hello World,

I think this video says it all! http://vimeo.com/47040607



Nice!



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Re: [Coworking] Who's interested in project management collaboration tools? And...

2012-08-05 Thread Miles Fidelman

Hi Cindi,

cindi abribat wrote:


I think it's the message. I think of a wiki and evermore when I think 
collaboration tools. How us your offering better/different? In this 
day and age I think a simple short animation would be your best bet to 
covey your message. No on wants to get bogged down reading how it will 
work and how it's better than what is already out there. Show me ...




Thanks for the suggestion - kind of dovetails with a lot of the feedback 
I've been getting - and will make its way into the Kickstarter materials.


But even with the greatest presentation, I'm still stuck with the issue 
of how do I get people's attention in the first place?  Part of it is 
message, but part of it is finding eyeballs to read the message and 
follow a link.  Right now, under 300 folks have even clicked on the 
Kickstarter video - clearly I'm either reaching out to the wrong crowd, 
or I'm not grabbing enough attention to drive people to click and look 
further.


For me, the issue keeps coming back to:

- project management is a real pain, and it's gotten harder with virtual 
teams - it's easy if everyone can stand in front of a whiteboard every 
few days, but in these days of being spread around the net, and working 
multiple projects, it's a nightmare


- simple tools have gotten onerous - send out an action item list by 
email, and suddenly we're juggling 100s of messages, each one containing 
a question, an answer, a detail, a status update -- pulling together the 
big picture is a real pain


- one approach is to put everything on a central server - a Wiki, a 
Google Spreadsheet - but that has all the issues of requiring constant 
connectivity, and being tied to a vendor


- I keep seeing the simple answer being linked spreadsheets, but those 
don't really work across the net, and they're proprietary


Hence, I'm trying to build linked spreadsheets, that run in a browser, 
store as local files, and communicate via a peer-to-peer protocol.


I think it would be useful, nobody else is doing it, and the latest 
browsers make it doable.  But... how to make it sexy, and/or how to 
reach people who might get excited about the idea - that's a real 
stumbling block.


The standard approach - build it, put it out there, hope that people get 
excited by the product is the fallback; but that runs into having to do 
other work to pay the bills - hence the Kickstarter pitch to try to 
raise enough funds to dedicate myself to the project.  Which brings me 
back to: Is there an audience, and how to get them to take a look.


And... more specifically, to what extent are folks involved in 
co-working feeling pain associated with managing virtual teams and projects?


Thanks,

Miles





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Re: [Coworking] Who's interested in project management collaboration tools? And...

2012-08-05 Thread Miles Fidelman

Hi Alex,

Alex Hillman wrote:

LightTable is:
A) an outlier. Building anything on observations of outliers is a 
recipe for disaster


Well... funded projects in the $50,000+ range are outliers on 
Kickstarter in general, but there are other software projects besides 
light table that have succeeded in raising significant amounts.  I kind 
of like looking at outliers - you can learn a lot.


B) EXTREMELY niche. You're pitch is extremely broad. That's going to 
impact your sales in general, and even moreso at this stage.


Coverage helps for sure, but I don't think you've actually picked an 
audience to sell to. Do that, and you're entire formula changes.


Now that is certainly true.  In one sense, folks who manage projects 
is a niche, and more so when one focuses on folks who manage virtual 
projects with teams distributed across the net.  In another sense,  
this crosses lots of different niches - whether one is doing software 
development, product development, running a marketing campaign, 
organizing a flash performance, etc., the number of folks who worry 
about project management are a small subset.  A common set of problems, 
but a dispersed audience.


Which brings me back to my questions of how to find and reach people for 
whom what I'm doing will be helpful.  I have a sense that a lot of my 
audience can be found among the same folks who inhabit co-working 
spaces, but I'm not sure - hence my inquiry to this list.


Thanks again,

Miles

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[Coworking] Who's interested in project management collaboration tools? And...

2012-08-04 Thread Miles Fidelman

 where are they and how do I get their attention?

Hi Folks,

I assume that a lot of folks here are involved in managing various 
projects - particularly projects involving virtual teams spread across 
the net.  So...  I wonder if some of you might have an opinion to offer


I've been working on some open source software to support virtual teams
and projects - putting some of the experiences and techniques I've
acquired over the years into code - and I'm trying to gather some
support via Kickstarter.

The thing is, I'm having a very hard time getting people to even visit
the project's web page - so far, only about 300 people have visited the
Kickstarter page, despite some serious attempts to spread the word
across various email lists, twitter, and so forth.

It's one thing if people were looking at the page and not contributing,
but I can't even seem to get people's attention - which suggestions one
or more of four things:

- nobody cares about project management (I hope this isn't the case - I
know administrivia isn't sexy, but an awful lot of people are working on
an awful lot of projects, and getting buried in mountains of paper,
email, phone calls, texts, meetings, and yellow stickies.  I sure know
that I'm always looking for ways to declutter that side of my life)

- I'm not reaching people who care.

- I'm reaching people, but not getting their attention.

- I'm reaching people, getting their attention, but not providing enough
motivation to go the next step and click their mouse (on

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1947703258/smart-notebooks-keeping-on-the-same-page-across-th 



So... I'd really welcome any feedback on the questions who cares about
project management  collaboration tools, how to reach them, and what
might motivate them enough to take a look at what I'm doing?

Thanks very much,

Miles Fidelman

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Re: [Coworking] Who's interested in project management collaboration tools? And...

2012-08-04 Thread Miles Fidelman

Hi Alex,

Alex Hillman wrote:
I think that the truth is that the Kickstarter model is much more 
effective for physical goods  design oriented projects as Matthew 
alludes.


Probably a lot of truth to that - though there are some exceptions - a 
good example is Light Table 
(http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ibdknox/light-table)


I think that your KS page could be more effective, but you've actually 
just chosen the wrong marketplace to crowd-fund your idea and you're 
not speaking to the people who actually care about these problems, as 
you've already deduced.


Rather than focus on an arts/creative/design audience, you'd be better 
off in front of a business or productivity-minded audience.


It's pretty clear that the key to a successful kickstarter effort is 
driving people to the site (coverage by Wired or Gizmodo seems to do magic).


Having said that... any thoughts on email lists, LinkedIn Groups, 
specific blogs, and the like where business and productivity-minded 
audiences might congregate?


Thanks!

Miles



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Re: [Coworking] Kickstarter project you might be interested in

2012-08-01 Thread Miles Fidelman

Randall G. Arnold wrote:


Miles,

Based on your Kickstarter project, I thought you (and the group in 
general) might be interested in this article on personal data control: 
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/08/01/iphone/


Yes, thank you!  The whole notion that we should be paid for our 
personal data turns current markets on their head :-)


Miles


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[Coworking] Kickstarter project you might be interested in

2012-07-30 Thread Miles Fidelman

Hi Folks,

I just launched a Kickstater project that might interest some of you.

At various times, I've been involved in various efforts to help startup 
and small organizations - most notably as one of the original founders 
of the MIT Enterprise Forum, and building a couple of early online 
marketplaces for small companies.  Over the years, my thing has  been 
the theory and practice of using the Internet to support virtual 
organizations.Over 40 years, I've scratched this itch by working on 
everything from list hosting, to C2 systems and distributed simulation, 
to electronic town meetings, online rulemakings, and webmarkets.


I've been particularly interested in tools to support virtual teams and 
projects - sort of providing the electronic counterpart to co-working 
spaces.  I've continued to find that the simplest tools seem to be the 
most effective - particularly email lists, and various forms of 
shared/synchronized documents, both on paper (musical scores, theatrical 
scripts) and electronic (RFCs, linked spreadsheets, military mission 
orders distributed by email).


The Kickstarter project represents a distillation of a lot of ideas 
about how to support virtual projects and teams with smart 
documents.It started out as some funded work on smart op orders that 
I'm trying to generalize as an open source tools.I'm nominally calling 
them smart notebooks - and the core idea is keeping people on the 
same page, across the net. Think of a composer, writing some music, 
then handing out pages to orchestra members, then telling people to mark 
up their pages - then think about writing in a web browser, distributing 
by email, and linking the pages so markups propagate 
automatically.Functionally, I've been thinking of the tool as a cross 
between a DayRunner on steroids, and HyperCard, retooled for groups, 
running in a browser.  No new tools to install, no fancy groupware 
running in the cloud - just web apps executing locally, email, and a P2P 
protocol.



I encourage you to take a look at
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1947703258/smart-notebooks-keeping-on-the-same-page-across-th
and if you're so moved, get on board.

If you can help spread the word - by 
reposting/retweeting/slashdotting/putting and so forth - that would 
really be helpful.If you know anybody at Wired or Gizmodo, that would 
also be helpful (seems like coverage by one of those is a really good 
vehicle to successful Kickstarter funding).



If you have a project coming up that needs tools for supporting a 
distributed effort - say a large crowdsourcing project, or organizing a 
large event - I'm looking for scenarios to support - particuarly if 
you're funded :-)  If you run a co-working space, and think this might 
be useful to your tenants, let me know!



And there's a 30-day clock running, so sooner is better!


Thank you very much for any support you might offer,


Miles Fidelman

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Re: [Coworking] Re: Last push to support Coworking Startups

2012-05-10 Thread Miles Fidelman
I would, except to do so requires logging in via either Facebook, 
Twitter, or Google - with each one asking for far more access to account 
information than I'm comfortable giving.  Sorry...


Veel Hoeden- Where Many Hats Meet! wrote:

Try this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgeJP-BhzRMlist=PLC5EB46C1BDEC0D19index=6f
eature=plcp

Thanks  God Bless,

Joel Bennett
Chief Dreamchaser
Veel Hoeden
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-Original Message-
From: coworking@googlegroups.com [mailto:coworking@googlegroups.com] On
Behalf Of Toni Hogan
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 1:59 PM
To: Coworking
Subject: [Coworking] Re: Last push to support Coworking  Startups

is the wildbits video posted somewhere else? i can hear it but i can't see
it.

TH

On May 9, 1:16 pm, Joel Bennettjbenn...@actsofiowa.org  wrote:

Coworkers- A week or more ago I asked the group to support my
coworking space by watching our video and voting for us in Turnstone's
$25,000 furniture/space makeover contest that was announced at GCUC.  
Although I'm not sure if there are other coworking spaces

participating in the Top 25, I am aware that our own Alex Hillman

(IndyHall) and their startup Wildbit is.

Could you take a few moments to view out videos, both quite good I
would add, and drop a thumbs up vote for both of us?  Top 5 vote
winners each get
$25,000 to totally transform their space into their dream space.

Just use this link, then click on Veel Hoeden  Wildbit's videos.  
-  http:/http://bit.ly/JIIiuK  bit.ly/JIIiuK


Voting ends May 13.  Winners announced May 31.  I hope we'll be able
to deliver the news that we BOTH will be sitting pretty.

Thanks  God Bless,

Joel Bennett

Chief Dreamchaser

Veel Hoeden

veelhoeden.posterous.com

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