Thank you Jeannie. Your message inspired me to name my coworking with street name+Coworking, i.e. Freedom Coworking (in local language).Coincedentally Freedom name also summarize what I want to achieve with coworking: Freedom from renting offices, fixed costs, hiring..freedom for innovation..
On Apr 10, 2017 14:44, "Jeannine van der Linden" < flexkantoorkame...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think that a name does not make or break you but havign a reason for a > name does help in clarity in future. > > My busness is called "de Kamer" which means "the room" in Dutch. It is > used in Dutch for many things, which gave me many punning opportunities. It > is used for the houses of parliament (the "first kamer" is cognate of the > US Senate and the "tweede kamer" is of the House of Representatives. If > you rent a place or go away to school you live "op kamers". And there are > some other puns which require too much explanation. > > Each location is named Kamer+the street number. So in Oosterhout Kamer52 > is located on the street called Zandheuvel, at number 52. (Actually 52B but > details). In Den Bosch it is on the Zilverenberg number 36 and is called > Kamer36. And so on. > > This means people always know where we are if they are local and can > remember the street name. It actually worked because one of our more > popular searches if you dig into this stuff turns out to be "city+Kamer" or > "Kamer in >City name<". Also for cities we are not in; it is nice to know > people are ambitious for me lol. > > If you are looking at many spaces in future, it is well to think about > this beforehand, having some logic to the name does help in keeping things > clear. > > Though we wrestled for a ridiculous amount of time over whether it should > be "de Kamer" or "de Kamers". we settled on the former becauwse coworkers > identify with one, which is theirs. The do not identify with the whole > network. Even the ones who use it a lot. > > > > On Saturday, April 8, 2017 at 8:42:48 AM UTC+2, Kevin Haggerty wrote: >> >> We are still searching for a name for our coworking space in Gloucester, >> VA, and I had an idea I wanted to run by this group for feedback. >> >> I'm thinking either "Pulse" or "The Pulse." I did a quick Google search >> and didn't see any other cowork spaces with this name (are there any?), and >> I like the idea of our space representing the heartbeat of the community. >> We're on our community's main street, so we're basically in the heart of >> Gloucester. >> >> What do you guys think? >> >> -- > 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.
