Thanks for the responses and emails. Chris: I wouldn't use "exhaustive" to describe our research plan, but we try to do a good job:). We would make as much of our data public as possible. We will likely do this work jointly with the non-profit Society for New Communications Research (I'm a senior fellow there) and will be bound by their disclosure rules. Shouldn't be an issue, but they have very strong rules around data privacy.
Ryan: Thanks for the pointer. Interesting study. We've done a lot of work on home-based businesses and remote work, and we've also seen the growing role of "hidden tech." Susan: Thanks, will do. Steve On Feb 17, 10:17 am, Susan Evans <susan.c.ev...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Steve, > > Sounds interesting! You might want to get in touch with the crew at > La Cantine (www.lacantine.org), as they were working on a coworking > survey and report as far as I know. > > Try contacting Dilara - she's at dil...@siliconsentier.org. > > Good luck! > > Susan > > On Feb 15, 10:29 am, "sk...@emergentresearch.com" > > > > <sk...@emergentresearch.com> wrote: > > Hi: My name is Steve King and I am a long time lurker and occasional > > poster on this group:). I'm a partner at a research firm - Emergent > > Research (www.emergentresearch.com) - that focuses on the small > > business sector of the US and global economy. > > > We've been following coworking for several years and are thinking it > > might be time for a more formal study on this topic. I'm curious to > > see if the members of this group agree. > > > What we are thinking of is: > > > 1. A more in-depth look at the number of coworking facilities in the > > US today. We keep an informal count, but it is for directional > > purposes only and probably not too accurate. > > > 2. A survey of coworking facility owners/managers focused on the size > > and scope (number of facility users, how often they visit, etc.) of > > the industry. > > > 3. Possibly a survey of coworking facility users to see what they > > think. > > > 4. Interviews with both coworking facility owners/managers and > > users. > > > 5. Possibly a forecast of where this heading. We won't know if we > > can do this until we are farther along. > > > If we go forward with this study, we would make our full results > > publically available. > > > As you can tell, we are just starting to scope this study. Some > > questions I have for this group are: > > > 1. Would this be useful and would you be willing to fill out our > > survey? > > > 2. Is anyone else already doing this? No need to reinvent the > > wheel. > > > 3. Do you have some suggestions as to what we might cover or include > > in the survey/research? > > > Thanks for the help. > > > Steve- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to cowork...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
