A nice bit of coverage for the Hub here. This whole 2.5mins (!) of air time was on CNN's international business channel yesterday. Filmed out of Hub Kings Cross last week, they give a good nod to the international network. It takes an 'officeless generation' angle - not the most exciting, but good coverage all the same!
http://edition.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/business/2010/09/01/qmb.quest.mobile.workers.cnn.html
♥ Hub Melbourne
thanks guys! it was so great to check-in and hear about all you are doing and share stories!
Peer-to-peer relationships
Institutional figureheads
Big hub is not just a small hub made bigger
Putting in educational programmes
What is the best corporate platform and then work backwards?
Get the right institutional partners in play
Infrastructure being developed – building curriculum structures
Club-model, sequence of clubs that operate
Network hosts, already have networks already, create their clubs in their venue
we entrepreneurship
Class of hosts, knowledge hosts/network hosts/space hosts
Predictability – face-to-face members
Navigation – how does the host tell where the member is, high turnover and no fixed location
Seeding process – community of 120-150 firstly
Curating the next phase of the pop-up Hub
Archetypes – understanding patterns
People who set-up networks, then moves on to the next thing
Not asking people to do a job but do what they do
Founding member rights – give them something so they feel ownership
10% based on scholarships, invite people we think are going to be key
Joburg – is it useful to invest as an event space or office space – to allow you to build the community
Lots of conferences – designed to build presence
PR campaign – avoid, and host dinners, real tangible experiences
TED team – sign the whole space
Artist-in-resident
Chalk and chairs exercise
Getting the sequence right – invest in the first space
First 12 members will set the tone of the space – set the tone – once culture goes wrong
Bristol was an example – rebooted because the core team didn't get the culture right - new space, new place
Crowd sourcing ideas but not the design
Feel open and habitable, people can leave the imprint on the space or the culture of the story – what the aesthetic of that is?
Avoid IP – open-source to the community, overriding ethic, authorship not healthy
Celebrating successes in Hub newsletter, cake to celebrate, culture ways of celebrating, not in the IP, system ties, reputation ties ways
Gifts to the Hub – libraries, nice chairs, etc. – should be acknowledged – habitecture – ways of handling the respect that doesn’t commodify
Petal table – sociable furniture, Hub Zurich – relooked at the table, Hub London – have done an open source version
- GPOs in lockers to charge notebooks
- Public status and recognition of who is in the space
- LCD Panels available
- Permenant Lockers that you could pay extra for
- Write up a security protocol which would be part of induction
- Look at CH2 and how they have reported on the ROI of their sustainable building
- See the TED talk How to grow your own fresh air.
- 8:30 to 6:30pm is fine for opening of pop-up hub, if you had an unlimited membership you should have a key to come 24-7
| hi all,following on from the idea that we rent out walls or find some art, here is something i found through a friend today. i haven't checked it out much but worth a note. http://www.facebook.com/#!/artscrowddan |
Have secured twenty office chairs (formerly from the Department of Premier & Cabinet) for $25 each through Green Collect. They aren't necessarily the most attractive things, but they are comfortable to sit in for 8 hours and in good working order! We will work our knitting and artistic magic on them to make them more beautiful! I will be going to the Green Collect warehouse in West Footscray on Tuesday morning to see what other things we can get from them! If anyone wants to come along, please let me know x
http://www.greencollect.org/
