Glad you mentioned Ray’s recent posts. This one was truly fantastic, full of gold.
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/Community-Collaboration-Traps-Plus-Debunking-1954077.S.5915187168640262147?view=&item=5915187168640262147&type=member&gid=1954077&trk=eml-group_discussion_new_comment-discussion-title-link&midToken=AQENnkOIKC9ejA&fromEmail=fromEmail&ut=3_EA13phjrLmo1 -Alex On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Steve King <sk...@emergentresearch.com> wrote: > Great discussion and I really like the restaurant analogy. We use the > following criteria to identify a space as a coworking space: > - self-identifies as providing coworking space or uses language close to > this. > - offers a range of membership options such as daily, weekly, monthly, > etc. (does not need to offer them all) > - offers facilities broadly consistent with other coworking spaces > including some form of community space > - offers open membership, or membership available via a process that is > open > - offers activities that encourage community with the word "activities" > being broadly defined > - coworking is an important part of the facility offering > - is actively in use. > There is a fair amount of subjectivity in these and we've found identifying > coworking facilities is a bit like identifying pornography - you know when > you see it, but different people see it in different ways. But overall > they've worked well for us. > Interestingly enough, they've worked well not because they identify what > coworking is, but because in combination they're pretty good at identifying > what coworking is not. For example, many startup accelerators more or less > look like Parisoma coworking in terms of look, feel, activities and > membership demographics. But the accelerators tend to have some > combination of a closed membership process and/or limited or no membership > options. > The prolific Ray Lindenberg (where does he find the time to produce so much > content?) has been publishing a lot on segmenting and defining different > aspects of the office as a service market over at the GWA LinkedIn group > and elsewhere. He's doing this from the office business center point of > view, but it's been quite interesting and is well worth looking at. > -- > Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Coworking" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
