Alex, Let's get back to the "What's Mine is Yours, The Rise of Collaborative Consumption". I found this book exhilarating to read. It's inspired me to look around me for active evidence of the sharing economy in action here in Vermont. And there's tons. Some quick examples, CarShareVermont, The VBSR marketplace (http:// marketplace.vbsr.org). where you can use your business services and products as dollars in a bartering / trading exchange, Vermont Business Materials Exchange (http://www.vbmx.org/) to name a few. We have CSA farms galore serving a network of families and individuals helping to sustain organic small farming in Vermont.
What we don't have enough of is CoWorking spaces. With our distributed network of small rural towns, villages and larger cities Vermont's workers spend a ton of time on the road commuting to their jobs. We lack density but have many beautiful hills, farms and cows. Can CoWorking work in smaller scale settings like Vermont? There's one I know of, Office Squared run by Jen Mincar in Burlington. We need more though. I live in Montpelier, our Capitol city. We have some empty storefronts downtown. How hard is it to start up a CoWorking space? What are the steps? How do you determine if there is a market other than asking friends I know and doing the word of mouth thing? Is CoWorking as a business lucrative, self- sustaining, a hobby or avocation? Any examples of Collaborative Consumption and the Sharing Economy in Action where you live? What are the successes? Failures? Emerging trends? Let's crowd source this? How are traditional business structures being upended with this unruly yet invigorating trend? Thanks, Steve On Jun 24, 6:43 pm, Alex Hillman <[email protected]> wrote: > That's a great idea! If somebody's interested in composing/maintaining that > list, I can give you access to the blog to do so. > > -Alex > > /ah > indyhall.org > coworking in philadelphiaOn Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 6:39 PM, Leif Utne > <[email protected]> wrote: > > How about a Recommended Books page on the Coworking Blog, with summaries of > > all the aforementioned books? Or a books category and separate posts for > > each book? Or both? > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Jun 24, 2011, at 2:52 PM, Alex Hillman <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > I've gotten so much social spam from Goodreads, there's no way I'd subject > > my friends to them. > > > -Alex > > > /ah > > <http://indyhall.org>indyhall.org > > coworking in philadelphia > > > On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Ryan Price < <[email protected]> > > [email protected]> wrote: > > >> Good suggestions all - added some new stuff to my wishlist today. > > >> Do you guys know Goodreads? > > >> Why not start a "Coworking" tag there? > > >> <http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/4204328-ryan-price> > >>http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/4204328-ryan-price > > >> Peace, > >> Ryan Price > >> <[email protected]>[email protected] > >> @liberatr > >> 407-484-8528 > > >> <http://FloridaCreatives.com>FloridaCreatives.com > >> Happy Hour: Tue June 28th Fringe @ Gringo's Locos > >> Show and Tell: Tue July 5th @ Urban ReThink > >> Likemind.us: Fri July 15th @ Urban ReThink > > >> On Jun 24, 2011, at 5:09 PM, Angel Kwiatkowski wrote: > > >> >>>> Crap. We need a coworking book club. Stat. > >> > Started. > >> > Our first book is What's Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative > >> > Consumption by Rachel Botsman > >> > Please continue the discussion on this thread until it doesn't make > >> > sense anymore and then we'll move to the next book which will be > >> > selected by Alex. Then Alex will pick the next person who will pick > >> > the next book and so and so forth. > > >> > Haha! > >> > Angel > > >> > On Jun 24, 1:00 pm, Alex Hillman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Crap. We need a coworking book club. Stat. > > >> >> /ah > >> >> <http://indyhall.org>indyhall.org > >> >> coworking in philadelphia > > >> >> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 2:35 PM, [email protected] < > > >> >> [email protected]> wrote: > >> >>> The Mesh by Lisa Gansky is another book on this topic. The book's > >> >>> tagline is "Why the Future of Business is Sharing." It mentions > >> >>> coworking and several coworking facilities. It came out about the > >> >>> same time as Collaborative Consumption and covers the same ground. I > >> >>> think both books are quite good. > > >> >>> On Jun 24, 10:16 am, Angel Kwiatkowski <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >>>> I'm devouring this book right now and it based on the simple concept > >> >>>> that sharing is the new owning. Is anyone else reading it and > >> thinking > >> >>>> about coworking? We're starting to vision out Cohere in ways that > >> >>>> revolve around even more sharing and I wanted to see if anyone else > >> is > >> >>>> on the same wavelength. 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