Angel, Yes yes yes! This has been the direction I've been working towards all along and there are some significant challenges to incorporate.
First, our members mostly just want a great place to work and they think it's neat that there are a number of other spaces around the world, but they are more interested in the work they are doing. It's the space owners that are more invested in the larger coworking movement so they are the people who are putting in the work. They want to talk about their space mostly, what they build, etc. I talk up our members and their incredible stories<http://www.texttheromanceback.com/rachaelray>all the time but I wouldn't be able to keep individual profiles up to date. It's enough work to highlight them on our website<http://officenomads.com/category/featured-nomad/>. I have lots of thoughts on the Coworking Registry and where it fits in the wider vision. Mostly it starts with how difficult it is to "organize" the coworking wiki which is currently mostly used to list spaces. If we could get that buttoned up in a simple, central, neutral, way, and make it all free and open data, then there is a lot we can do with that. It's only one piece of the puzzle though. I could go in so many directions from here but I'll leave it at that. The conversation is going to be great in Austin. :) Jacob --- Office Nomads - Individuality without Isolation http://www.officenomads.com - (206) 323-6500 On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Angel Kwiatkowski <fccowork...@gmail.com>wrote: > When Alex said, "The biggest thing I continually see missing from > directories like this is a > sort of sense of humanity - physical attributes are useful in > determining > what you DON'T want, but make it hard to differentiate between one > space and > the next once you know what you DO want." > > I've been reading up on the coworking registry database and whatnot > but again as a member just told me, "I don't want to know where the > desks/spaces are, I want to know where my people are." I think that as > a community of community-minded people-centric people we missed the > boat. Big time. As a matter of fact, we're in the wrong boat going the > wrong direction on the wrong river. > > Idea: what if we have a place where coworkers can tell their stories? > That's it. Tell your story about how you found coworking, why you > cowork, where you cowork and how it has changed your life. Tag those > posts with city names and space names and let the wider community of > prospective coworkers find their tribe there. > > *Question: as a space owner do you think you could inspire your > communities to contribute their stories online?* > > -- > 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 > coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en. > > -- 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 coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
