julie,
i *love* this idea if it becomes a north american or global scale. and if so, when camaraderie is up and running in toronto, count us in! r. On Aug 22, 3:06 pm, Julie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Space Owners, > > Susan of Office Nomads in Seattle and I (in Portland) have been toying > with the idea of letting our members work in the other's space if/when > they travel between Portland & Seattle (spurred by a few member > requests + some frequent traffic between our two PNW cities). > > I know I've gotten many member requests about where to work when I'm > in in fill-in-the-blank city. Example: Just last week, one of souk's > repeat meeting room users was looking for a meeting room in San > Francisco and called me saying, "I need a souk in SF!". I hit the > wiki list and checked for spaces with meeting rooms and referred her > to a couple. > > If you are experiencing this and want to expand upon it, Office Nomads > and I have come up with some simple terms to start communicating to > our members that while we're not 24 hour fitness all-club, our mobile > workers have options. > > SIMPLE. Repeat, SIMPLE. For simplicity's sake, and lack of real > data, and taking into account how each space varies from drop-in and > meeting room availability (O.N. and souk offer both) and tracking > systems, we've decided to allow members of our spaces to do up to 3 > daily drop-ins to each other's space. Again, to keep it simple, we'll > leave it up to the space what they offer after 3 daily drop-ins, as > well as leave it up to the space whether that drop-in may include > meeting room usage and/or discounts on meetings - and certainly caveat > to our respective members that spaces vary in terms of offerings (not > cookie cutter). Can we agree though, that those first 3 drop-ins are > free? At least Susan and I have ;) > > Side note: If there are any questions as to whether that person is > actually a member of the space they claim, we believe we should all > feel free to email each other to verify. Though, it's difficult to > imagine this would be abused. > > Of course, we're certainly not looking to make this exclusive to the > west coast by any means. At the same time, we recognize that Seattle > and Portland are not a hotbed of cross-country and international city > hoppers. Non-west coasters & USA space owners though, please chime > in. Please! > > At the very least we see this move and "offer" to our existing and > future members as a message for how coworking spaces are connected, > and that mobile workers (mavericks) can have "home bases" when they > travel, not to mention a move to formalize some great cross marketing. > > If you want to be included, just holler here. If you're in, Susan and > I will communicate that out to our members. We recognize that there > may be many t's to cross and i's to dots here, but aim to get this > simple move underway asap between the two of us. You too? > > Cheers, > > Julie Duryea > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
