This is very interesting work. One of the questions that I have been wondering about is where the Co-working members get their clients. If you are a coworking member, who are your customers and how do you get them?
Any chance you could ask this kind of question? I have about 3-4 different questions around that issue to help me understand how we support and enhance the co-working participants. On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 9:28 AM, [email protected] < [email protected]> wrote: > I mentioned on this group a few months ago that Emergent Research (my > company) was considering conducting a research project on coworking. > We are going forward with the project and started a few weeks ago. > > The project details are on our new project blog - www.coworkinglabs.com, > which is still very much in beta form and a work in progress:). We > soft launched the project today with a post describing our plans on > www.smallbizlabs.com. > > We are partnering with the non-profit think tank The Society for New > Communcations Research (www.sncr.org) on this project. > > Our project plan includes two surveys. One of coworking owners/ > facility managers and the other of coworking facility users. We also > plan on creating a census of U.S. coworking facilities working > cooperatively with other groups who are creating directories. We will > also be conducting in-person and phone interviews. > > In terms of timing, we're developing the surveys - which will be as > short and as simple as we can make them - and will field them this > summer. We hope to have the research completed this fall. > > Our goals are: (1) develop a solid estimate of the size of the > coworking market (facilities and users); (2) gain an understanding of > how users view and use coworking facilities; (3) understand the roles > social media and connective technologies play in coworking; (4) to > make a stab at forecasting where coworking is going and its role in > the future of work. > > As we get deeper into this work, our goals may change based on > feedback, input from folks we interview and what we find > interesting. > > For now I am just alerting the group to this work. As we get to the > survey stage we will be reaching out and looking for help getting > facility managers/owners and facility users to fill out our surveys. > > We will update this group as we progess. > > Thanks, > > Steve > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Coworking" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<coworking%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en. > > -- John Sechrest . Corvallis Benton . Chamber Coalition . 420 NW 2nd . (541) 757-1507 . [email protected] . . -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. 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.
