They offer an affiliate program for linking elance on our websites, but it would serve their and our freelance clients to inform everyone about coworking as well as elance type resources. Is that not fostering healthy business all around? That is what I thought Will was pointing to, I don't think having elance look more like coworking was the goal.
Elance could promote mutual collaboration, just provide a link to directories of coworking spaces on their site, newsletters. Loosecubes, Liquidspace, worksnug, deskwanted, shareyouroffice, the wiki etc. Unless they have made exclusive arrangements with Regus which would diminish their credibility for me. We are an extremely valuable resource. Here in Orange County a structure for finding, doing, keeping, and growing freelance work would be a large part of what I think coworking is here to do. Provide environments where freelancers succeed so their families, associates, clients - their communities - thrive. Julie www.collaboc.com 949.682.9141 Julie 949.682.9141 On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Alex Hillman <dangerouslyawes...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thought exercise: > What would an Elance look like if it were more like coworking? > > What would be different? How would it work? > > -Alex > > /ah > indyhall.org > coworking in philadelphia > > > On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 9:35 PM, Julie Scanlon <juliescanlo...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> The people who use elance - the freelancers - are the community i am >> thinking of, i should have specified. The folks in my space are >> sometimes veterans of elance. >> Julie >> 949.682.9141 >> >> >> >> On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Alex Hillman >> <dangerouslyawes...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > I'm not so sure. I'd say that the elance community isn't "our" >> > community. At >> > least not Indy Hall's community. Maybe we're different. >> > >> > Elance, along with lots of its competitors, have built massive >> > enterprises >> > on the commoditization of freelance talent. Is there value in brokering >> > quick transactions between freelancers and companies that need them? >> > Absolutely. >> > >> > But this removes one of the differentiating factors that coworking was >> > built >> > on repairing & supplementing: the relationships we have with the people >> > we >> > work with. >> > >> > Without that, it's the hiring transaction equivalent of desk rental >> > businesses. Complimentary to the desk-rental and "quick fix" model that >> > Regus is built on? Absolutely. But take a good hard look at the kinds of >> > business transactions and collaborations that go on in your coworking >> > spaces >> > and try to find why people enjoy it so much. It's because they're >> > working >> > with people they like, people they care about. >> > >> > I'm not anti-Elance, mind you. I'm also not anti-Regus. I just don't >> > think >> > they're a fit for the elements that have made coworking a new and >> > favorable >> > option for droves of workers around the world. >> > >> > It's like this post, but for hiring instead of office space: >> > >> > http://dangerouslyawesome.com/2011/07/i-dont-think-were-solving-a-cubicle-problem/ >> > >> > -Alex >> > >> > >> > >> > /ah >> > indyhall.org >> > coworking in philadelphia >> > >> > >> > >> > On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 8:46 PM, Julie Scanlon <juliescanlo...@gmail.com> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> Yes this is interesting, i posted the article on my fb page, the >> >> elance community is our community. We should build a bridge. >> >> >> >> Julie >> >> www.collaboc.com >> >> 949.682.9141 >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 11:37 PM, Will Bennis, Locus Workspace >> >> <wmben...@locusworkspace.com> wrote: >> >> > Just thought this was interesting. Not sure how a bottom-up coworking >> >> > community could coordinate well enough to offer things like this (or >> >> > whether they'd want to), but my sense is it would be nice if we >> >> > could. >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > https://www.elance.com/p/blog/2011/10/build-a-virtual-office-with-regus-and-elance.html?utm_source=elance&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=elancer-client-201111-002 >> >> > >> >> > -- >> >> > 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. >> >> -- >> 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. 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