As an old-salt print journo, I say if email isn't e-mail, coworking shouldn't be co-working.
Free those what, 8-bits for the hyphen character, back into the ether. Cheers! Pat On Sep 1, 2011, at 10:14 AM, Jacob Sayles wrote: > This is great! Thanks for leading the charge on this. It's not an old > issue, it's an ongoing issue. First step is to get "coworking" into common > use. Second step is to make our argument. It looks like for $20 you can > subscribe to AP Stylebook Online and then you have access to Ask The Editor. > Not sure if this would be any more effective then the twitter flood already > proposed. > > Jacob > > --- > Office Nomads - Individuality without Isolation > http://www.officenomads.com - (206) 323-6500 > > > On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 2:29 AM, sop...@deskwanted.com <sop...@deskwanted.com> > wrote: > Hi everyone, > > For a while now we've been annoyed about the resurgence in the use of > the hyphenated version of the word coworking. As you all know, most > major media outlets these days write it as co-working. > Deskmag recently published an article explaining why this is > happening: it's because the AP Stylebook has decided that co-working > is the correct form. > However, we'd like to ask for your assistance in helping AP change > their minds! We've put out a call for people to bombard AP with the > following tweet: > > @APStylebook #Coworking is not Co-working. It’s an independent > movement that doesn’t want to be separated by a hyphen! > > For a backgrounder on why we think the word should be without a > hyphen, have a read of the article: > http://www.deskmag.com/en/coworking-or-co-working-with-hyphen-252 > > What do you all think? I know this is an old issue, but it's important > to get the name right, right? > > Sophie > Deskmag/Deskwanted > > -- > 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. -- 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.
