Hi everyone, I introduced myself in another thread and proposed an idea about a non- profit organization dedicated to providing services to coworking spaces, owners and members.
Connecting various spaces like a club membership would be an ideal first project - and one which I think would grow the concept of coworking globally - as well as establish credibility. Some ideas for this organization are here: http://www.coworknetwork.org I would love to hear ideas and comments, pro or con. At this stage I'm just gathering info - no firm plans for funding, or any details worked out. Just trying to measure interest and need. Space owners/members - what do you think? Are there people who would like to collaborate on this project? Karen P.S. I'm currently a project manager with a work at home gig; too much solo time has shown me the value of coworking. I'm in Monmouth County NJ now, but live in Florida. Need to be free and move around. On Aug 24, 5:10 am, Tijs Teulings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is this something you would want to expand to a worldwide scale? We > would love to be in as well, Nomadz is located in The Hague, The > Netherlands. An area with a lot of expats, so US workers looking for > temp space do probably come by here now and then. Like Citizenspace we > already offer free drop-ins so we would not have to change any rules > on our side. > > Tijs > nomadz.nl > > On 22 aug 2008, at 21:06, Julie 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 > > > Julie Duryea > > owner, souk > > 322 nw 6th avenue, suite 200 > > portland, oregon 97209 > > p | 503.517.6900 > > f | 503.517.6901 > > skype julieduryea > >http://www.soukllc.com > > tweet julsd > > -- > Tijs Teulings > tel: +31645004824http://tijs.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
