[Coworking] Re: Is Linkedin good for reaching new members?

[Lisa Stein]

Following this question too since I am curious if LinkedIn has a good ROI.  
A wework ad popped up in my LinkedIN feed yesterday, so thats what made me 
curious.

On Monday, February 4, 2019 at 3:19:33 PM UTC-6, nanette...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> We have our Facebook page, and a following from a Meetup Coworking group 
> but wondering if anyone has gotten much traction from having a LinkedIn 
> Business page. Any suggestions on using it? 
> We are opening next month so making a big push to get the word out, but 
> don't want to go down a path that isn't fruitful. 
>

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[Coworking] Re: New Coworking Operator using Nexudus

[Lisa]

I am in agreement with Dave Lundy--Proximity Space is very user-friendly, 
and their staff is receptive to all questions. I know they have 
international accounts, and will even schedule phone meetings to match up 
with other's time zones. Also, when space operators ask for new features, 
they are great about creating software improvements. Their cost is quite 
reasonable.


On Sunday, April 29, 2018 at 7:42:49 AM UTC-5, Isabelle Sheffield wrote:
>
> Hi All
>
> My name is isabelle and I have just opened a coworking space on the Gold 
> Coast in Australia! I have a coaching and business background and I'm 
> really excited about my new space!
>
> I am desperately seeking to connect with other nexudus operators - its  
> steep learning curve and have not enjoyed the onboarding process much lol! 
> Would love any invitation to facebook groups and/or slack channels for 
> nexudus users I have been told they exist but are private :/
>
> I hope to get some great tips, share and support on this group
>
> Look forward to chatting with you all :)
>

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[Coworking] Re: hello

[Lisa]

Congratulations on your pending opening! There are several variations of 
the coworking VISAs across the internet. I would encourage you to sign up 
for all of them, as it gives your space visability, and also helps to 
spread the work about coworking around the world. Please don't worry that 
you will have too many visitors--we are in a city of 3 million people, and 
still haven't had an international guest, but we would love to very soon! 

On Friday, May 11, 2018 at 8:46:18 AM UTC-5, Almendra Samanez wrote:
>
> Hi, i am going to open a coworking in lima Peru and i so interested in be 
> part of this visa so we can offer your members something else.
> my space will starts operations at agust the 8th, please let me know how 
> to be part of this.
>
> many thanks
> Almendra
>
>

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[Coworking] Re: Any Coworking Space In Nigeria ? Africa ?

[Lisa]

Hi Eva! Look up http://Jokkolabs.net/en/  I know they have several West 
African Locations (The Gambia, Mali, Senegal, Ivory Coast and maybe 3-5 
other spaces, and they also have a location in France. They are focused on 
social enterprise. Also check out Capital Square's 2 locations 
http://capitalsqua.r e and Fast 
Launch http://fastlaunch.org Those three are all in the Lagos metro area. 
I'm sure there are many more. 

There are several coworking groups and sites you may want to join. I manage 
the largest independently-owned coworking space in the US (about 2,900 m 2, 
or 31, 000 sq. ft.) Feel free to email me, and I'll give you the 
information. lakins...@evolveworkplace.com 


On Friday, May 11, 2018 at 8:46:26 AM UTC-5, hub30...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Hello , Im Eva. Recently opened a coworking space in Lagos, Nigeria. 
> Looking forward to collaborations and meeting other amazing space 
> operators. 
>
> Is there anyone who has a coworking space in Nigeria or Africa  ?
>

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[Coworking] Feeling like a sponge (and absorbing all I can!) as we launch our space

[Lisa]

Hey there! I'm part of a team that's opening a 33,000 s.f. coworking/maker 
space/offices/corporate training space called Evolve Workplace, in West St 
Paul, MN. We're in an older, newly-redeveloped first ring suburb, about 10 
minutes south of downtown St Paul in the Twin Cities.  I'm hoping to glean 
some pearls of wisdom from those who own, manage, operate and who are 
members of similar spaces. I really want to know what does and doesn't work 
for each of you! Our website (according to initial feedback) 1. Needs more 
images of humans 2. Needs less verbiage and 3. Needs more personality. That 
being said, feel free to give us feedback and pointers--we're going to try 
to jazz up its personality in the next few weeks.

The three of us who are founders (along with two of the guys wives) are 
serial entrepreneurs, and decided to hop on the coworking bandwagon that is 
just now gaining popularity in the Midwest. As for unique space features, 
we have three cabanas/tents, a few hammocks, postal packaging and gift 
wrapping stations, and a photo/video studio with lights and a Chromakey 
green screen. We also have an awesome game room with a putting green, ping 
pong, foosball, air hockey, English darts, puzzle and board game tables, 
and even scrapbooking/stamping/card making.

For now, we're trying to open Phase I of the space, and to pull in as many 
people as possible. Any guerrilla marketing techniques are greatly 
appreciated!

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[Coworking] Building Community

[Lisa Dimond]

Hello!  My name is Lisa Dimond.  My family and I opened ecafe, a coworking 
coffeehouse, in Overland Park, KS, in October 2016.  Here's our website 
(which is a work-in-progress):  www.ecafecoffee.com.  We also have another 
website, www.visitecafe.com, which is in the process of being merged with 
the coffee one.  Originally we thought we needed to be 2 separate entities, 
but we are now presenting as one.

I mainly run the coffee shop portion of our setup, but I am starting to 
take over the coworking space as well.  I am really interested in how to 
build community in our space.  Everything I read talks about building 
community as one of the top priorities in a coworking space.  I just don't 
know where to start.  I need specific examples, please.

Do I hold workshops?  If so, how do I go about finding them?  Do I charge 
for them, or make them free?

I want to hold networking events, but don't know where to start.  I don't 
want them to be stuffy and fake; I want it to feel natural.


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[Coworking] Re: Basic Nexudus User Guide/Manual for Colleagues

[Lisa Reiner]

I would be grateful to see such a guide!

-Lisa


Lisa Reiner, Esq.   Associate Director
Community Legal Resource Network - CLRN
CUNY School of Law

On Thursday, February 23, 2017 at 12:25:22 PM UTC-5, Lauren McDaniel wrote:
>
> Hi, 
>
> I'm currently the sole operator of our coworking space, and I'm putting 
> together a SOW for colleagues who will need to take over for me from 
> time-to-time.
>
> I'm interested in pulling something together about Nexudus, in particular, 
> with some very basic guidelines to help them navigate the platform. I know 
> there is the online portal for questions, and the primary Nexudus contact 
> is helpful, but I'm just seeking a quick tutorial/reference guide. Have any 
> of you, who use Nexudus, pulled something like this together by chance? If 
> so, would you mind sharing? 
>
> Thanks in advance for any tips! 
>
> Lauren McDaniel 
> projectY cowork Los Alamos 
>

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Re: [Coworking] Re: phonebooths

[Lisa Reiner]

Thank you,
  Lisa

> On Jun 20, 2016, at 12:58 PM, Craig Baute - Creative Density Coworking 
> <baut...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> The phone booths are not self contained but we build one room length wall and 
> then subdivide with 4 foot interior walls. However, to go from 2 to 3 phone 
> booths is only $500 more but the total costs for the three phone booths will 
> be around $3000.
> 
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[Coworking] Re: phonebooths

[Lisa Reiner]

Hi,
   I am interested in the physical build of phone booths.  Can you share a 
photo or a link depicting the $500 phone booths?

Thanks!
  Lisa

On Friday, June 17, 2016 at 6:50:01 PM UTC-4, Craig Baute - Creative 
Density Coworking wrote:
>
> We are adding two or three new phone booths this summer to our 3500 sq. 
> ft. space. We have 50 members and it's probably go to be at 60ish by the 
> end of the summer. We have one phone booth, a conference room, and a TV 
> lounge that can be closed off for phone calls. Basically, we have three 
> places plus a patio where people feel comfortable taking phone calls. On an 
> average day we have around 20 people in the space.
>
> The days have spiked to where people are panicked looking for a spot to 
> take a long phone call. It's not a big issue yet but I can see people once 
> or twice a week hustling around trying to get a space. If people are trying 
> out the space on these days during the week I notice the questions about 
> phone calls because a pain point for them so I know it could deter future 
> memberships.
>
> So in summary, we are going from 1 official phone booth to 4 with 60 to 70 
> members (70 is where we will be at capacity). 4 will probably be overkill 
> but in construction costs it only adds $500 and we have the space. 
>

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[Coworking] Re: Any Feedback from People Who Use Nexudus Coworking Software?

[Lisa Reiner]

Great feedback on the many pros, and some cons of Nexudus.  Do folks have 
any suggestions for alternate, simpler (even if less robust) space 
management software?

Thanks,
  Lisa

On Wednesday, October 30, 2013 at 9:57:13 AM UTC-4, Ender Baykal wrote:
>
> Hello everyone, 
>
> We're still in progress of seeking a platform which meets all our needs at 
> once. However, it's kind of hard to find a platform like that, because we 
> would like to:
>
> *1.* manage all the membership payment transactions (charge users, 
> accepting new members(coworkers), canceling memberships etc.)
>
> *2.* track their check-ins to our space (we don't want to check them in 
> manually, we already have a HID card reader system that allows people to 
> check-in at the front desk, however this card reader application is 
> integrated with Cobot and if we use another platform instead of Cobot, we 
> are not sure that we will be able to use our current HID system with the 
> new platform)
>
> *3.* We would like to see our members can interact each other on a single 
> platform by posting events, chatting each other, posting something that 
> they find interesting, or even posting job ads etc.
>
> *4.* manage our printer system (may be by giving our members some credits 
> in order to use the printers in our coworking space)
>
> *5.* we want our coworkers(members) can easily book our meeting rooms as 
> well as other resources like phone booths.
>
>
> Besides all these, the user interface of the platform/software should be 
> extremely simple. It shouldn't be complicated, it needs to look really 
> simple to people to encourage them to use it. 
>
> As I mentioned above, we're still in progress of finding a platform like 
> this. We came up with Nexudus, but I am not sure if it's going to be 
> helpful and meet our needs. If anyone who already uses Nexudus can give us 
> a feedback, we would appreciate that. In addition, we also appreciate if 
> you suggest us other softwares.
>
> *P.S.: We think Project Management softwares (Basecamp, Podio etc.) can't 
> help us since they're quiet expensive and kind of complicated and not very 
> user friendly. They have a lot of apps to allow you to customize it based 
> on your needs, but these are not as simple as other softwares.*
>
> Thanks everyone!
>
> *Indiegrove Team*
>
> * <http://goog_1954297332>*
> *http://indiegrovejc.com/ <http://indiegrovejc.com/>*
>

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[Coworking] Re: Any Feedback from People Who Use Nexudus Coworking Software?

[lisa]

I have been with Impact Hub Ottawa and using Nexudus for just over a year 
now and overall we are happy with it. We have a coworking space with 300+ 
members, meeting rooms for booking, and extra services (mail service, 
after-hours entry). 

It's great having everything in one place - hours tracking, room bookings, 
invoicing, and so on.  It's easy for the members to use and understand, and 
it's hands-off for them (and us) to track their hours. 

I will echo one of the previous comments that the system is not something 
that can be learned in a day. There are the basic functionalities which are 
fairly straightforward, but I am certain we're not using the system and all 
its features to the best of its ability. We are always tweaking and 
changing things, looking for ways to improve our usage and get more out of 
it. Adrian is very helpful with this, I am regularly in touch with him 
trying to figure out a new process or get help with something that I can't 
find. He is very quick and responsive on the support side.

I would say our biggest struggle is with the reporting. The membership 
numbers aren't displayed in a way that we find convenient and usable. The 
finance information is fine, but when we want information re: upgrades, 
downgrades, hours used in the month, checkins per day/hr etc. it's much 
more effort to break that all down. We are regularly struggling to find *one 
*report that suits our needs instead of having to combine several (which is 
time consuming for weekly updates). They do some tweaks every now and again 
and add more reports, but that can be a little overwhelming because there 
are a lot to choose from and some of them don't seem to make much sense. 
Maybe it's the way our information is inputted so it's not pulling 
properly, however, it's still been an ongoing struggle with that. 

That is our only qualm though! 

Lisa

On Wednesday, October 30, 2013 at 9:57:13 AM UTC-4, Ender Baykal wrote:
>
> Hello everyone, 
>
> We're still in progress of seeking a platform which meets all our needs at 
> once. However, it's kind of hard to find a platform like that, because we 
> would like to:
>
> *1.* manage all the membership payment transactions (charge users, 
> accepting new members(coworkers), canceling memberships etc.)
>
> *2.* track their check-ins to our space (we don't want to check them in 
> manually, we already have a HID card reader system that allows people to 
> check-in at the front desk, however this card reader application is 
> integrated with Cobot and if we use another platform instead of Cobot, we 
> are not sure that we will be able to use our current HID system with the 
> new platform)
>
> *3.* We would like to see our members can interact each other on a single 
> platform by posting events, chatting each other, posting something that 
> they find interesting, or even posting job ads etc.
>
> *4.* manage our printer system (may be by giving our members some credits 
> in order to use the printers in our coworking space)
>
> *5.* we want our coworkers(members) can easily book our meeting rooms as 
> well as other resources like phone booths.
>
>
> Besides all these, the user interface of the platform/software should be 
> extremely simple. It shouldn't be complicated, it needs to look really 
> simple to people to encourage them to use it. 
>
> As I mentioned above, we're still in progress of finding a platform like 
> this. We came up with Nexudus, but I am not sure if it's going to be 
> helpful and meet our needs. If anyone who already uses Nexudus can give us 
> a feedback, we would appreciate that. In addition, we also appreciate if 
> you suggest us other softwares.
>
> *P.S.: We think Project Management softwares (Basecamp, Podio etc.) can't 
> help us since they're quiet expensive and kind of complicated and not very 
> user friendly. They have a lot of apps to allow you to customize it based 
> on your needs, but these are not as simple as other softwares.*
>
> Thanks everyone!
>
> *Indiegrove Team*
>
> * <http://goog_1954297332>*
> *http://indiegrovejc.com/ <http://indiegrovejc.com/>*
>

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[Coworking] Re: Any Feedback from People Who Use Nexudus Coworking Software?

[Lisa Reiner]

I took a look at your Nexudus based web at 
http://startuphall.spaces.nexudus.com/.  Looks great!  I am working on 
setting up a co-working space, and may use Nexudus.  A few questions:  Do 
you find it easy to learn and use - is it user friendly?  Also, how 
responsive is customer service, especially since they are based abroad, I 
believe.

Thank you in advance,
  Lisa

On Saturday, January 30, 2016 at 4:02:11 PM UTC-5, Nathan Daum wrote:
>
> Is there a list somewhere of coworking spaces that use Nexudus? We're 
> using it for basics like billing and room booking but planning to do more 
> as time goes on. We have a small staff and can't exactly shut down and 
> build it all at once. Would love to get ideas from others who are using it, 
> especially any folks who are doing more than just the basics like we are.
>
> Thanks! 
> Nate
> Startup Hall http://www.startuphall.org/
> http://startuphall.spaces.nexudus.com/
>
> On Wednesday, October 30, 2013 at 6:57:13 AM UTC-7, Ender Baykal wrote:
>>
>> Hello everyone, 
>>
>> We're still in progress of seeking a platform which meets all our needs 
>> at once. However, it's kind of hard to find a platform like that, because 
>> we would like to:
>>
>> *1.* manage all the membership payment transactions (charge users, 
>> accepting new members(coworkers), canceling memberships etc.)
>>
>> *2.* track their check-ins to our space (we don't want to check them in 
>> manually, we already have a HID card reader system that allows people to 
>> check-in at the front desk, however this card reader application is 
>> integrated with Cobot and if we use another platform instead of Cobot, we 
>> are not sure that we will be able to use our current HID system with the 
>> new platform)
>>
>> *3.* We would like to see our members can interact each other on a 
>> single platform by posting events, chatting each other, posting something 
>> that they find interesting, or even posting job ads etc.
>>
>> *4.* manage our printer system (may be by giving our members some 
>> credits in order to use the printers in our coworking space)
>>
>> *5.* we want our coworkers(members) can easily book our meeting rooms as 
>> well as other resources like phone booths.
>>
>>
>> Besides all these, the user interface of the platform/software should be 
>> extremely simple. It shouldn't be complicated, it needs to look really 
>> simple to people to encourage them to use it. 
>>
>> As I mentioned above, we're still in progress of finding a platform like 
>> this. We came up with Nexudus, but I am not sure if it's going to be 
>> helpful and meet our needs. If anyone who already uses Nexudus can give us 
>> a feedback, we would appreciate that. In addition, we also appreciate if 
>> you suggest us other softwares.
>>
>> *P.S.: We think Project Management softwares (Basecamp, Podio etc.) can't 
>> help us since they're quiet expensive and kind of complicated and not very 
>> user friendly. They have a lot of apps to allow you to customize it based 
>> on your needs, but these are not as simple as other softwares.*
>>
>> Thanks everyone!
>>
>> *Indiegrove Team*
>>
>> * <http://goog_1954297332>*
>> *http://indiegrovejc.com/ <http://indiegrovejc.com/>*
>>
>

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[Coworking] Hiring in San Francisco: Campus Associate for Hattery/1776

[Lisa Anne Logan]

Hi all -

We're hiring a Campus Associate 
<https://jobs.lever.co/1776/025bae11-9ad6-43a9-8a30-74feb2c1f7fc?lever-source=coworkinggooglegroup>
 
here in San Francisco, which is essentially an assistant manager role with 
an opportunity for direct growth to Campus Manager in the next six months. 
I'd much appreciate your help in circulating this job post amongst this 
awesome community of coworking leaders!

Hattery <http://www.hattery.com> (a boutique shared workspace since 2011) 
was recently acquired by 1776 <http://www.1776.vc> (a Washington DC-based 
seed fund, incubator, and coworking community). 1776 specifically supports 
startups in highly government regulated industries, such as energy, 
education, healthcare, transportation, civic tech, food/agriculture, cyber 
security, and fintech. As the first new addition to our SF team, the Campus 
Associate will play an important role in shaping and executing all the 
exciting plans to come as we rebrand and relaunch under the 1776 name. That 
will include some campus redesign work, membership restructuring, and 
extending 1776 programs, curriculum, and resources out here to the west 
coast.

I will directly supervise this person so please feel free to send me any 
questions. Apply directly here: 1776 SF Campus Associate 
<https://jobs.lever.co/1776/025bae11-9ad6-43a9-8a30-74feb2c1f7fc?lever-source=coworkinggooglegroup>

Thanks kindly,
Lisa Anne

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[Coworking] Re: iPad Receptionist

[Lisa Anne Logan]

We're huge fans of Envoy: www.signwithenvoy.com
We were their first coworking space and have helped a lot with feature 
development for the specific needs of a shared environment. The team is 
just down the street and super responsive, caring, and smart. Our space is 
19k sq ft and 4 floors, so Envoy has been a lifesaver for us in terms of 
notifying members of their guest arrivals. Other awesome features include 
badges, NDAs, photo capture, and more. Highly recommend!

On Monday, November 16, 2015 at 11:35:06 AM UTC-8, Todd Greer wrote:
>
> Greetings:
>
> Has anyone used "The iPad Receptionist" to run the front office for their 
> space? THis looks like it could fit some of the things we have been looking 
> for here, but didn't want to drop the cash until I heard feedback from 
> others.
>
> https://theipadreceptionist.com/
>
> Any other ideas if not this?
>
> Thanks!
> Todd Greer
> The Exchange@202
> www.exchange202.com
>

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[Coworking] Invitation for Digital Nomads - Tenerife is waiting for you!

[Lisa-Maria Eckstein]

Hi there!

   - Are you a digital nomad?
   - Do you like teaching? 
   - Do you have some experiences to share? 

Your answer is YES? 

In that case, this offer might be made for you. This year *we’ve opened our 
coworking space* and we also rent out rooms in shared flats 
(*www.coworkinginthesun.com 
http://www.coworkinginthesun.com/*). *You can use both, our apartment and 
our coworking space for free for at least two weeks*. The only thing I’m 
asking you *as a trade-off is to share your experiences* with our students. 
Most of them want to be digital nomads as well. *Show them your skills, 
give a talk to them about your life on the road.* Give them tips and answer 
their questions. 

Read our blogpost with further details: 
www.seointhesun.com/hey-you-digital-nomad-i-want-to-offer-you-something/

Sunny regards from Tenerife,

Lisa

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[Coworking] Re: What is the proper SIC Code for a Coworking Environment?

[Lisa Anne Logan]

I just had to do this and went with SIC code 8621 for Professional 
Membership Organizations.

Lisa Anne Logan
General Manager
Hattery

On Monday, June 24, 2013 at 9:27:42 AM UTC-7, Paul G. Kostro, Esq. wrote:

 http://www.naics.com/search.htm 

 What is the proper SIC Code for a Coworking Environment? 

 -- 
 Paul G. Kostro 
 The Workplace Center 
 Linden, NJ (USA) 



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Re: [Coworking] Re: Erasmus Plus Partner Search

[Lisa-Maria Eckstein]

Dear José,

thanks for your call this morning and for the nice conversation.
It was a great pleasure.

Please find below the contact information of Frank Sellingsloh.
The director of our school on Tenerife.

Frank Sellingsloh
f.sellings...@fui-ia.com

Phone:

   - +34 922 389303 (Office FU International Academy)


Linkedin:

   - es.linkedin.com/pub/frank-sellingsloh/28/619/84


Passez une bonne journée,

Lisa


*Lisa Maria Eckstein *Junior Online Marketing Manager
*FU International Academy Tenerife  SEOintheSUN*

web: www.fu-tenerife.com / www.seointhesun.com

email: l...@seointhesun.com

*Public holidays:* 08.12.2014 and 25.12.*2014 *
*2015:* 01.01, 06.01, 03.02, 02 and 03.04, 01 and  04.05, 14.07, 12.10,
02.11, 08 and 25.12.2015

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*C.C. La Cúpula, local 69. E-38400 Puerto de la Cruzphone +34 922 389 303 /
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C.C. Pueblo Canario, local 404-405. E-38660 Costa Adeje
phone +34 922 794 932 / fax +34 922 389 457

On 12 January 2015 at 12:30, Coworking Merignac Bordeaux 
coworkingmerig...@gmail.com wrote:

 Bonjour Lisa

 Thank for the connection with our Coworking Space,

 I hope we will see us on your Place, in Tenerife, Have you Lauch a
 Coworking Place there


 i would like to open something , on this place on Tenerife.

 With international connection.

 Hope to hear about the subject

 Have a sunny day

 *José Louis QUIROS *

 http://youtu.be/w8L1t03Pvg0

 Fondateur
 *AquiWork Center  Coworking Mérignac* http://www.coworking-merignac.com/
 80 Avenue de la Libération 33700 Mérignac CAPEYRON
 Tél: 00.33.(0)5.33.48.44.46   Mobile  : 00.33 (0)6.16.54.75.55 et
 (0)6.71.47.52.12
 Email: coworkingmerig...@gmail.com coworkingmerig...@gmail.com

 Viadeo Jose Quiros http://www.viadeo.com/fr/profile/josé-louis.quiros

 Facebook Coworking   http://www.facebook.com/Coworking.Bordeaux.Merignac
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 http://www.viadeo.com/fr/profile/coworking.merignac , Twitter
 https://twitter.com/coworkingmerignGoogle Plus
 https://plus.google.com/109044843729837577302/postsYoutube
 http://www.youtube.com/user/CoworkingMerignac

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 http://fr.linkedin.com/in/joselouisquiros

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 Conformément à la Loi Informatique et Libertés du 6 janvier 1978
 modifiée par la loi du 6 août 2004 (articles 38 à 43 de la Loi N° 78-17 du
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 coworkingmerig...@gmail.com

 2015-01-11 10:02 GMT+01:00 Coworking Merignac Bordeaux 
 coworkingmerig...@gmail.com:

 Dear lisa

 we are a french Coworking space, and i would like to have a connection
 with your coworking space in tenerife

 i look forward to hearing from you


 best regards from

 bordeaux

 jose QUIROS

 *José Louis QUIROS *

 http://youtu.be/w8L1t03Pvg0

 Fondateur
 *AquiWork Center  Coworking Mérignac*
 http://www.coworking-merignac.com/
 80 Avenue de la Libération 33700 Mérignac CAPEYRON
 Tél: 00.33.(0)5.33.48.44.46   Mobile  : 00.33 (0)6.16.54.75.55 et
 (0)6.71.47.52.12
 Email: coworkingmerig...@gmail.com coworkingmerig...@gmail.com

 Viadeo Jose Quiros http://www.viadeo.com/fr/profile/josé-louis.quiros

 Facebook Coworking
 http://www.facebook.com/Coworking.Bordeaux.Merignac
 http://www.facebook.com/Coworking.Bordeaux.MerignacViadeo
 http://www.viadeo.com/fr/profile/coworking.merignac , Twitter
 https://twitter.com/coworkingmerignGoogle Plus
 https://plus.google.com/109044843729837577302/postsYoutube
 http://www.youtube.com/user/CoworkingMerignac

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 http://fr.linkedin.com/in/joselouisquiros

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 souhaitiez plus recevoir ce genre d'informations, merci de me le signaler
 par retour de mail */annulation-abonnement
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 Conformément à la Loi Informatique et Libertés du 6 janvier 1978
 modifiée par la loi du 6 août 2004 (articles 38 à 43 de la Loi N° 78-17 du
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 vous pouvez exercer votre droit

[Coworking] Re: Erasmus Plus Partner Search

[Lisa-Maria Eckstein]

Dear Francesca,

first of all I want to wish you a happy new year.

My name is Lisa Eckstein and I live and work on tenerife. I`m the Junior 
Online Marketing Manager @ SEOintheSUN - Online-Marketing Seminars  
Co-Working Spaces on Tenerife.
Are you looking for new partner in 2015?

I look forward to hearing from you soon!

Sunny Regards,

Lisa Eckstein

Am Donnerstag, 17. April 2014 14:28:56 UTC+1 schrieb Francesca Martinuzzi:

 The University of Urbino is working on a project to be submitted in the 
 Erasmus Plus call KA” Stratgic Partnership (deadline 30th April 2013).

 Our project aims to enhance the coworking culture strengthening the 
 cooperation between coworking spaces and academic institution at a European 
 level and supporting the spreading of a collaborative and creative approach 
 to entrepreneurship familiarizing emerging entrepreneurs with new working 
 culture, skills and competences.
  
 The other partners already involved in the consortium are coworkings from 
 Italy and Germany. We need at least one more  partner from a 3rd European 
 Country.


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[Coworking] Re: Urgent: ShareDesk Contact?

[Lisa Anne Logan]

I've noticed a lot of interface improvements recently, and I do like that I 
get a text when someone makes a booking so I can immediately review and 
approve/decline as I choose. It does seem someone out there is working on 
the product but not the help desk - I submitted a support request 
recently on several truly buggy things and never heard back. We just 
recently entered our payout details to collect what's supposedly waiting 
for us, but the past reservations and receipts page is so jacked it's 
unclear what that amount even is. Will be curious to see if we get paid. 

Minna, have you tried searching LinkedIn for an employee you can email 
directly? Or making a support request post on their company page there, if 
they have one?

On a similar issue in the past with another vendor, I had some success in 
saying that I really liked their product and wanted to keep using it, but 
the growing concern in the online community of coworking space managers and 
my own experience of not receiving any help replies were leading me to take 
my business elsewhere - also, that I'd love to report back to such an 
influential community of prospective customers that I finally received good 
service and they should give it another chance. Power of the people ;) 
 Even the scummiest product will get back to you if they feel you're a 
voice to many. It's not a tactic to be abused of overused, but it was 
totally true in that case, and it totally worked.



On Tuesday, November 18, 2014 11:31:02 AM UTC-8, Minna Van | 
TheNetworkHub.ca wrote:

 Any one know direct contact for anyone from ShareDesk? Sent 3 emails, 1 
 twitter DM and filled out support form and no answer.

 ShareDesk sold a desk for a month, which we didn't know about until 
 someone walked in... no headsup, no form, no agreement, no money. Not even 
 sure if this is for real Help? :(


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[Coworking] Re: Membership Perks

[Lisa Anne Logan]

Hi Jessica,

+1 to Tyler's approach - it works out well. We do a few 'personal' services 
like gym, but mostly focus on business service discounts. I occasionally 
ask our members what services they're using, and then I pick a few from 
that list to approach about a discount.  Just position yourself as an 
influencer amongst a great group of candidates in their target market, and 
detail the internal marketing you'll do, and they're usually happy to offer 
something. 

We do all the same marketing Tyler mentioned, plus announce them at our 
monthly happy hour. One idea that I tried *unsuccessfully* was inviting a 
partner to do a quick preso of their own to the happy hour group about 
their product and discount. Seemed like a great way to create a personal 
connection - the partner loved it, got to talk directly with interested 
members, etc. - but it just didn't feel right in the moment. I could read 
my members' faces and they felt like they were being held captive for an 
advertising campaign. So we won't be doing that again :)


On Friday, September 26, 2014 8:40:31 AM UTC-7, Jessica Hill wrote:

 Good Morning, 


 We starting to think about creating  perks (discounts from local 
 businesses, and services) for our members. Do any of you have this at your 
 coworking spaces? I am not exactly sure how go about asking businesses for 
 discounts for our members especially since we are so new. 

 Thanks!

 Jessica 


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Re: [Coworking] Membership Perks

[Lisa Anne Logan]

Such good advice, Alex - thanks! 
Also, has anyone used AnyPerk? Too expensive for us (it's $10 per member per 
month, and we have $150 members) but could be interesting to this group. 

On Oct 2, 2014, at 12:00 PM, Tom Brandt twbra...@gmail.com wrote:

 The most successful partnerships we have had are massage therapists who come 
 once a week for a couple of hours and give discounted massages to our 
 members. The members loved it, the massage therapists, all of whom were just 
 starting out, built up a clientele of satisfied members, and it was a 
 non-disruptive activity.
 
 On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Susan Dorsch su...@officenomads.com wrote:
 Hi all,
 
 This is one of many situations where you should put yourself in the shoes of 
 your members and figure out what they'd want. We've had various so-called 
 partnerships pitched to us in the past to provide discounts to our members 
 that generally fall flat because they don't offer anything of actual value to 
 our members. I don't join a coworking space to get a discount on Zipcar or 
 10% off a local restaurant. I join a coworking space because I want to get 
 great work done, meet other interesting people, and get support in my 
 progress. 
 
 Just some food for thought - starting a network of partnerships is 
 tempting, but it's a lot of work for what I'd argue isn't much value.
 
 S
 
 __
 Office Nomads 
 officenomads.com  
 206-323-6500(o)
 206-484-5859(m)
 
 On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Lisa Anne Logan lisaan...@hattery.com 
 wrote:
 Hi Jessica,
 
 +1 to Tyler's approach - it works out well. We do a few 'personal' services 
 like gym, but mostly focus on business service discounts. I occasionally ask 
 our members what services they're using, and then I pick a few from that list 
 to approach about a discount.  Just position yourself as an influencer 
 amongst a great group of candidates in their target market, and detail the 
 internal marketing you'll do, and they're usually happy to offer something. 
 
 We do all the same marketing Tyler mentioned, plus announce them at our 
 monthly happy hour. One idea that I triedunsuccessfully was inviting a 
 partner to do a quick preso of their own to the happy hour group about their 
 product and discount. Seemed like a great way to create a personal connection 
 - the partner loved it, got to talk directly with interested members, etc. - 
 but it just didn't feel right in the moment. I could read my members' faces 
 and they felt like they were being held captive for an advertising campaign. 
 So we won't be doing that again :)
 
 
 On Friday, September 26, 2014 8:40:31 AM UTC-7, Jessica Hill wrote:
 Good Morning, 
 
 
 We starting to think about creating  perks (discounts from local businesses, 
 and services) for our members. Do any of you have this at your coworking 
 spaces? I am not exactly sure how go about asking businesses for discounts 
 for our members especially since we are so new. 
 
 Thanks!
 
 Jessica 
 
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[Coworking] Re: Onboarding task tracking and internal directory - best tools?

[Lisa Anne Logan]

Thanks to Jerome, Adrian, and Jacob for your suggestions! I thought I'd 
follow up and share with the group what ended up being our tool of choice: 
Parklet.

I looked at Simpler.co, Cobot, Nexudus, Mobilize.is, Dovetail.io, 
Memberful, and probably others I can't recall right now. We already have 
great tools to manage the prospective leads cycle, internal chatter, 
billing, and conference room booking. In the end, I didn't want a tool that 
replaced all those tools - while that seems a nice and streamlined ideal, 
I'm too invested in my other services and like them too much to consolidate 
at this time. If I were just starting out, I'd likely choose a more 
full-service or coworking-specific solve as some of these promise, but this 
is where we are today. It might also be important to note that we only 
offer dedicated desks, so it's a consistent group of people with 
comparatively low turnover, I have specific billing requirements (ACH only, 
no credit card), and other parameters that made the robust feature set of 
these tools a less-aligned fit for us in the end.

Parklet turned out to be a beautifully-designed solve for the last two 
issues I was needing tools for - onboarding and directory - that felt 
visually similar to our aesthetic, had good customization options, and a 
helpful product team behind it. 

If you're interested in checking it out, please tell Greg Smith I sent you: 
g...@parklet.co

Thanks!
Lisa Anne

General Manager
Hattery


On Saturday, August 30, 2014 6:44:16 PM UTC-7, Lisa Anne Logan wrote:

 Such a fun project for a Saturday night, right?!

 Trying to solve 2 problems for my coworking space.


 *Problem #1:*
 I need some sort of member management tool to track the ~50 tasks I do for 
 each new resident's onboarding and later offboarding. The spreadsheet I've 
 kept to date for this is now just too unwieldy. 

 *Problem #2:*
 I'd love some sort of internal directory, where people could create 
 profiles (which company they're with, role, personal interests, photos, 
 etc.). Just something light to facilitate more interaction between people 
 sharing a space but not actual work projects. 

 *Solutions:*
 I've heard of Simper (just requested an invite) and Parklet (appears to be 
 good). Is there anything else I should consider to tackle one or both of 
 these problems? What about any more robust membership management tools 
 (integrating billing, etc.)?

 Thanks all,
 LA

 Lisa Anne Logan
 Director of Marketing and Operations
 Hattery

 l...@hattery.com
 415.205.5325





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[Coworking] Re: Google Cal conference room booking by many different domains

[Lisa Anne Logan]

Following up on this thread... thanks for everyone's recommendations here, 
especially to Will from Locus for such an awesome and detailed sharing of 
process! I probably would've copied his method exactly had the LiquidSpace 
team not found me - by complete chance - the same week I was determined to 
solve this issue. After researching lots of services, I indeed went with 
LiquidSpace, which has been *mostly* great. It's an online meeting space 
booking tool, which is free to use internally so long as you post at least 
one space in their marketplace for external public booking (rev share 
model). You can choose access levels, pricing, amenities, paid add-ons, 
etc. The public bookings are a nice little bit of extra money each month 
but I intentionally don't do much of them, to keep rooms open for members. 
There was a transition period in which our members learned to change 
behavior around their booking process, but ultimately I've gotten good 
feedback on it. They have a very responsive support team as well, and I've 
sent in a ton of feedback (mostly around the features people expect from 
using Google Calendar that aren't yet developed in LiquidSpace, like 
recurring meetings). If interested in how it works, you can see our profile 
here: www.reserve.hattery.com Hope helpful!

On Sunday, July 20, 2014 11:40:03 AM UTC-7, Lisa Anne Logan wrote:

 Hi there,

 We've been using the ol' write your name on the door method for booking 
 conference rooms, and I'd like to implement a Google Calendar system 
 instead. And, of course, by tomorrow ;)

 Ideally, everyone on a specific Google Groups distro (e.g. 
 memb...@hattery.com) would have access to all our conference room 
 resource calendars for booking. I would add and remove people from that 
 group as they join or leave Hattery, and that would update their calendar 
 access. Access would always by synched between that group and the resource 
 list.

 It seems like this should just work as described, but it doesn't. The 
 kicker may be that our members use dozens of different domain names, so the 
 typical share with everyone in my domain choices don't apply.

 Looking for a Google Calendar whiz who might be able to lend some ideas...

 Thanks!

 LA


 Lisa Anne Logan

 Director of Marketing and Operations

 Hattery

 l...@hattery.com

 415.205.5325


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[Coworking] Onboarding task tracking and internal directory - best tools?

[Lisa Anne Logan]

Such a fun project for a Saturday night, right?!

Trying to solve 2 problems for my coworking space.

Problem #1:
I need some sort of member management tool to track the ~50 tasks I do for each 
new resident's onboarding and later offboarding. The spreadsheet I've kept to 
date for this is now just too unwieldy. 

Problem #2:
I'd love some sort of internal directory, where people could create profiles 
(which company they're with, role, personal interests, photos, etc.). Just 
something light to facilitate more interaction between people sharing a space 
but not actual work projects. 

Solutions:
I've heard of Simper (just requested an invite) and Parklet (appears to be 
good). Is there anything else I should consider to tackle one or both of these 
problems? What about any more robust membership management tools (integrating 
billing, etc.)?

Thanks all,
LA

Lisa Anne Logan
Director of Marketing and Operations
Hattery

l...@hattery.com
415.205.5325



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[Coworking] How to add my space to the wiki.coworking.org Directory

[Lisa Anne Logan]

Hi there,

I've requested access through the join this workspace link a few times in 
recent months and never received a response. Is anyone else having this issue? 
Is there an active admin/moderator for this workspace currently?

in particular, I'd like to add my space to the San Francisco directory listing, 
and it seems I need access to do so. 
http://wiki.coworking.org/w/page/16583935/SanFranciscoCoworking

Thanks for any help,
LA

Lisa Anne Logan
Director of Marketing and Operations
Hattery

l...@hattery.com
415.205.5325




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[Coworking] Google Cal conference room booking by many different domains

[Lisa Anne Logan]

 

Hi there,

We've been using the ol' write your name on the door method for booking 
conference rooms, and I'd like to implement a Google Calendar system 
instead. And, of course, by tomorrow ;)

Ideally, everyone on a specific Google Groups distro (e.g. 
memb...@hattery.com) would have access to all our conference room resource 
calendars for booking. I would add and remove people from that group as 
they join or leave Hattery, and that would update their calendar access. 
Access would always by synched between that group and the resource list.

It seems like this should just work as described, but it doesn't. The 
kicker may be that our members use dozens of different domain names, so the 
typical share with everyone in my domain choices don't apply.

Looking for a Google Calendar whiz who might be able to lend some ideas...

Thanks!

LA


Lisa Anne Logan

Director of Marketing and Operations

Hattery

l...@hattery.com

415.205.5325

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[Coworking] Re: Why do you love Coworking? Share your Coworking story on GoodCoworking

[Lisa Davis]

Great work! I saw this yesterday in my facebook stream and posted to it 
today.  Fantastic!

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Re: [Coworking] What is coworking? Promo video

[Lisa Davis]

I would love to see more videos!  I really appreciate our members taking 
the time to be in ours-- I think it gives a great overview of what 
coworking is at our facility.  


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[Coworking] Re: New to the Group -- Thanks for being nice :)

[Lisa K]

Thanks everyone! I work for a company called MBO Partners. The long
and short of what we do for independent consultants (the ones who
would normally be 1099's) is kind of offload all the back office work
like billing, invoicing, contract negotiation, and we carry all their
business insurances, etc. But also, because we hire them as W-2
employees, provide group benefits like health insurance, a 401(k)...
stuff like that.

As far as questions for the group - Ya know a while back I wrote a
blog post about coworking and how a lot of independent consultants are
choosing to cowork rather than work at home alone. Then, as we were
preparing an upcoming webinar on working in teams as a consultant,
we started wondering if there were ever small teams that formed at
these coworking locations. Like - small businesses formed out of a
crowd of talented solo workers/freelancers/consultants. Have you ever
seen that where you cowork?

Thanks!

On Jun 11, 7:18 pm, WHERE MMM where...@gmail.com wrote:
 What is the company you work for?

 On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 7:27 AM, Lisa K lisakan...@gmail.com wrote:

  Hello!
  My name is Lisa and I'm really here in this group to learn more about
  coworking. My company actually supports independent consultants so I'm
  kind of tasked with learning as much as possible about the industry.
  Coworking seems like a big wave right now, and what better place to
  learn as much as I can than through this group.

  Thanks for welcoming me and being nice to someone from the corporate
  world. I promise I'm good people :)

  Lisa
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[Coworking] Re: Checkin: Defining Coworking

[Lisa]

Well, I don't have the experience yet of others as my opening day is
TODAY but my effort lies within starting cooperative meetup groups and
Jellies to get those workers out of the house and taste what it means
to be a part of a sustainable community.  Every room I have here at
The Office (save for the conference room) is open workspace.  Even the
breakroom.  So I am promoting coworking both from within and from the
outside.

I will let you know how it goes

Lisa
http://itstheoffice.com

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[Coworking] Re: Introduction - PariSoma SF/A Couple of Questions

[Lisa]

I have a rather comprehensive umbrella insurance policy that covers
those that are injured (i.e. falling down the stairs to my entrance,
etc.) but my membership agreement specifically states that any
equipment or valuables brought in to The Office (whether under lock
and key or not) are the responsibility of the owner with no exceptions
- even from damage by another member. I also have a strict
confidentiality clause because I will have legal types running in and
out.  I don't offer private office space so I run only under a
membership with no sublease.

Lisa Thompson
The Office in Media Inc.
http://www.itstheoffice.com


On Jul 2, 8:40 pm, Ian Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Melaine,

 There are two types of space at our location, private and public.

 Private space is dedicated office space for small teams with each
 office being 200ish to 400ish sqft. these are on essentially short
 term license agreements similar to a sublease. These tenants are
 required to have GPL and personal insurance for their business
 covering workmans compensation and those sorts of things. I have a
 generic license agreement I could forward. However, this is intended
 essentially for a sublease like arrangment rather than an independant
 at a desk. You may be able to adapt it.

 The public space is cafe like with no fixed desks and an open concept
 area with a sit where there is a spot. I have my own GPL insurance for
 this space so this space is covered by my insurance in terms of public
 liability.  A membership agreement with some terms and conditions, now
 that you mention it, would likely be a good idea. Will give it some
 thought. People using this space are covered by my liability and I do
 not require them to have business insurance.

 Ian

 On Jul 1, 8:33 pm, melaniebee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  Hello All,

  First off, I'd like to introduce myself. My name is Melanie Berlin,
  and I've just been hired as the Office Manager for a space called
  PariSoMa in San Francisco. You can check us out at
  parisoma.wordpress.com. We are just now beginning to rent out desks
  for co-working, so we're still trying to figure everything out. I
  myself am more used to managing more traditional corporate offices, so
  I'm still learning as well. :)

  I have a couple of questions that I was hoping to get some advice on.

  First off, I'm wondering what other spaces have been doing if people
  want to share desks. We decided to try just charging a bit more than
  the cost of one person renting a desk to cover key and storage
  expenses. If your space allows desk sharing and also has locking file
  cabinets, do you have the people sharing the desk also share the same
  file cabinet? Any suggestions on how we should handle this?

  Also, we are just now getting office insurance for our space, and are
  wondering how other spaces handle personal liability insurance. Do you
  require co-workers to carry liability or renters' insurance before
  renting a desk? What about workers' comp? If someone is injured or has
  something stolen or damaged in your space, whose financial
  responsibility is it, and is there a way to word the contract so that
  the responsibilty lands on the individual and not us?

  Any help or info would be appreciated!!

  Thanks!
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[Coworking] Re: Coworking in Media PA

[Lisa]

Ok guys.. PHOTOS!!!

http://picasaweb.google.com/itstheoffice/TheOffice

Opening Day is July 7.

On May 19, 12:41 pm, Tara Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I'll send you a login for the blog so you can post your progress/opening.
 Send me the link to your website when it is up...and don't forget to add
 yourself to the map!

 Tara

 On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 9:38 AM, Alex Hillman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:



  Sweet! Keep us posted, Lisa!
  -Alex

  On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Lisa Thompson 
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  Well, I just wanted to let you all know that The Office of Media PA is
  almost a reality.  I looked at space on Veterans Square within sight of the
  Media Courthouse and it is a winner, both in price and location.  It 
  already
  is wired for Ethernet and the previous tenant left all their phones!  Just
  an FYI, the proximity to the courthouse is probably going to send a lot of
  attorneys my way that want to drop in to get some work done.

  I will send out more information later as this grows.  Good luck to all
  you out there that are doing the same thing!

  --
  Lisa Thompson

  The Office of Media PA
 http://www.itstheoffice.com
 http://socialnetwork.meetup.com/964/
  Blog:http://theoffice.blogspot.com
  Twitter: @lithompson friendfeed:http://friendfeed.com/theoffice

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[Coworking] Coworking in Media PA

[Lisa Thompson]

Well, I just wanted to let you all know that The Office of Media PA is
almost a reality.  I looked at space on Veterans Square within sight of the
Media Courthouse and it is a winner, both in price and location.  It already
is wired for Ethernet and the previous tenant left all their phones!  Just
an FYI, the proximity to the courthouse is probably going to send a lot of
attorneys my way that want to drop in to get some work done.

I will send out more information later as this grows.  Good luck to all you
out there that are doing the same thing!


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The Office of Media PA
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http://socialnetwork.meetup.com/964/
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[Coworking] Re: New CoWorking? Regus Business Lounge in Cupertino

[Lisa]

That was my first thought.  Perhaps they saw your page!  *points
fingers*

Be interesting to see how this pans out.

On Apr 15, 4:57 pm, Alex Hillman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
 I swear, I had nothing to do with 
 this:http://www.indyhall.org/2008/04/01/a-perfect-partnership/
 April Fool's gone wrong?

 -Alex



 On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Raines Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  Interesting, first time I've gotten semi-spammed with a coworking
  place announcement (they could have used the disussion board or
  mailing list, but instead they're contacting Bay Area Coworking MeetUp
  members individually, presumably en masse as it's non-customized).

  Here's the link, tinyURL'd:
 http://tinyurl.com/6q7cjq

  It's somewhat disconcerting to see something so corporate in its web
  front end, not so much transparency as you find in the grassroots
  coworking models... fill out a form and a representative will contact
  you with pricing? and no names listed.

  And of course, there's that thing about not actually using the word
  coworking on the website, or being present on this list or the blog...
  Regus, anyone lurking out there who would care to make community
  contributions if you're wanting to take advantage of the movement?

  Raines Cohen, Coworking Coach, connecting communities
 http://www.CoworkingCoach.com/
  in Durham for the rest of the week before zipping back home at long
  last; possibly making it to Raleigh Sat. eve

  P.S. $300/year for unlimited coffee and black-and-white
  printing/copying? I wonder about the profile of who this will
  attract...and the vibe in the spaces. While I understand the intent
  around the business traveler as audience, and it appears the real
  value is in the membership being usable at ALL the spaces, I can
  imagine some sub-optimal scenarios.

  P.P.S. While googling Coworking Regus to find any connections, I
  came across this German biz school paper on coworking, which feels a
  little older because it cites the long-ago-closed Gate 3 WorkClub but
  not any of the last-2-years SF spaces. It does have some intriguing
  references to Das Project coLabor.

  -- Forwarded message --
  Subject: Meetup Message from Randy King: New CoWorking Business Lounge
  in Cupertino

   Randy King sent you this message from Bay Area Coworking on
   Meetup.com:

   Regus has just opened a business lounge in Cupertino. It works
   on a membership basis. Memberships are $300/year and include
   Wi-Fi, unlimited specialty coffee drinks, and black and white
   printing and copying. The place has a very cool vibe to it too.
   Here's the link.

 http://offices.regus.com/locations/US/CA/Cupertino/CaliforniaCupertin...

   To see Randy King's profile, go here:
   http://www.meetup.com/members/6995908/

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[Coworking] PODCAMPNYC

[Lisa]

Is anyone going?
http://www.podcampnyc.org/registration/


I'd love a roomate to defray costs.. anyone?  female preferred.
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[Coworking] Indyhall photos

[Lisa Thompson]

These were taken on Thursday late in the day..
Enjoy!

http://picasaweb.google.com/ichliebedich.lisa/IndyHall



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[Coworking] Re: Attorneys (WAS re: taxes)

[Lisa Thompson]

Thank you, Raines

Great information as always!

On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 9:06 AM, Raines Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


 On the subject of lawyers in coworking, I was fortunate to be able to
 sit in this week on a conversation between Jayne, a Group 88 (near
 Hartford, CT) coworking cofounder, and an area attorney who is a
 prospective member, at the Group 88 launch party.

 The attorney had taken up teaching law so wasn't practicing full-time,
 so she moved her office home, and was looking for somewhere to meet
 with clients, 1 or two at a time. Several of her friends had offered
 her the use of their firms' conference rooms, but she didn't want to
 incur that obligation or have to be switching between locations.

 She saw an article in the local business  journal about the space,
 quoting a friend of hers that she had discussed the concept with a
 while back, so she came down to learn more.

 Jayne showed her the mid-size (capacity: 20? Maybe 10 around the
 table) conference room, to be equipped with all kinds of high-tech
 gadgetry, that the attorney could reserve as part of a basic
 membership. Several small private office/meeting spaces are also
 available.

 The attorney wanted to know the hourly rates and membership benefits.

 Jayne explained their simple membership structure, with daypasses
 being perhaps the most economical and suited to the attorney's needs,
 rather than a regular membership. The passes provide access to all
 resources, including the conference room (with advance reservations
 available), for $25 a day, less in pre-purchased quantity ticket
 books: $20 per visit if you buy 15, $15 per visit if you buy 30.

 The attorney was naturally concerned about privacy, but seemed
 satisfied by the conference room options. Jayne noted that the
 videoconference and other technology in the room will involve extra
 use fees.

 The attorney had noticed, and Jayne explained, the additional-cost
 secretarial support options available, such as word processing. Right
 now we're working to find out what our members want.

 While Group 88 envisioned various types of professionals such as
 executive recruiters usiing the space, Jayne said they hadn't yet
 created a detailed plan for marketing this type of use. This is a
 different market for us, she explained. We do want to target
 attorneys, for things like depositions.

 Raines, your neighborhood Coworking Coach
 http://www.coworkingcoach.com/

 On 4/2/08, Mark Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Lisa, I know a lawyer who is wanting to get out of the big firm
 rat-race.
  When I handed her the info I'd picked up at Cubes Crayons, what she was
  attracted to was the communal yumminess, not the corporate MBA-ness.
  For
  whatever that's worth--you might want to play up that aspect to the
  corporate types, precisely because they'd like something different.
 
  Mark

 



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[Coworking] Re: Atmospheric desire

[Lisa Thompson]

I actually proposed that to Jason who is opening up his Doylestown, PA
location this week (good luck!  Open House this Friday!!!) since we have
similar demographics and once I open, will be in neighboring counties.  We
shall see if there is a need.

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 5:29 AM, Venkat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I am trying to kick off the movement in a similar way in India...lets
 see how it goes...my blog should be up today, and I have to convince a
 couple of blokes who have their own spaces that this is a cool thing to do
 together.

 cheers


 On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 8:06 AM, Tony Bacigalupo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:

  Supposedly, I am project managing it :-) Seconded what Tara said. If
  anybody has availability to help, let me know and I'll include you in the
  next email.
 
 
  On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 2:04 AM, Tara Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
   And if someone knows how to move code from Unfuddle to Google Code, I
   will give you the password to Coworkination!
  
   T
  
   On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 11:01 PM, Hillary Hartley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   wrote:
  
   
This started as a larger idea -- Coworkination -- which I believe
got a recent kick-start at BarCampAustinIII during SxSW.  A project
manager was identified... The idea being to develop online tools
(and
an API) that all coworking sites could use -- along with the idea
that
if I pay for a desk in SF, if I visit Philly I could cowork at
IndyHall for free.
   
Alex, I can't find the thread where you re-capped this.  If you see
this message, could you provide a link?
   
Hillary
   
   
On Apr 1, 10:54 pm, Matt, Balu, and Java [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
  An idea that was posted on this forum that I think would work
well for us is
  to let several different co-working sites spring up and then
organize them
  as a group so people can pay a fee that allows them to go to
whichever
  co-working site fits their need at that time.  That way the
people who need
  the downtown office space can go there when necessary, but they
can also use
  the more convenient local space at other times.
  Sara

 Sara
 THAT is a cool idea!
 Matt
   
   
  
  
   --
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   coFounder
   Citizen Agency (www.citizenagency.com)
   blog: www.horsepigcow.com
   phone: 415-694-1951
   fax: 415-727-5335
  
  
  
 
 
 


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[Coworking] Re: Tax Question

[Lisa Thompson]

Very good idea; I was thinking about that but was going to play it depending
on the reaction to the idea.  I have a meeting with the chair of the bar
association scheduled.  She was interested and it would get the word out.
Thanks for the advice!!  Great stuff.

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Mark Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Lisa, I know a lawyer who is wanting to get out of the big firm rat-race.
 When I handed her the info I'd picked up at Cubes Crayons, what she was
 attracted to was the communal yumminess, not the corporate MBA-ness.  For
 whatever that's worth--you might want to play up that aspect to the
 corporate types, precisely because they'd like something different.

 Mark


 On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Lisa Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:

  Part of my demographic is lawyers.. they won't love it as much as see it
  as office space.  Unfortunate but the nature of the beast that is my
  location.  The space I am looking at will allow me to divide it up into
  communal yumminess and corporate mba-ness.
 
  On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Jacob Sayles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  
   Lisa,
  
   We don't use that as a selling point deciding to spend our efforts
   instead in highlighting the benefits of being around other people.  We
   also don't try to sell people on the various services we offer
   (coffee, printing, conference rooms).  We want people to come in, feel
   the space, love it here, and want to stay.  After that, everything
   should just fall into place... Then again, I'm not an MBA so :-)
  
   Jacob
  
   On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 5:13 AM, Lisa Thompson
   [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For those that have space.. is a selling point the fact that paying
   for
office space (for those that are registered businesses) is tax
   deductable?
   
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 http://socialnetwork.meetup.com/964/
Blog: http://theoffice.tumblr.com
Tweeter: @lithompson friendfeed: http://friendfeed.com/theoffice
   
 
   
  
  
  
   --
   Jacob Sayles
   Co-founder  Janitor
   http://officenomads.com
  
  
  
 
 
  --
  Lisa Thompson
 
  Media PA CoWorking Meetup
  http://socialnetwork.meetup.com/964/
  Blog: http://theoffice.tumblr.com
  Tweeter: @lithompson friendfeed: http://friendfeed.com/theoffice
 
 
 


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 Founder/Catalyst/Instigator
 PACTfund.com --Social Capital for Social Ventures
 PACTbank.com --our Bay Area demo/pilot/beta


 



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[Coworking] Re: Tax Question

[Lisa Thompson]

I'd read that up to 5000 of startup expenses can be written off and the rest
appreciated over 15 yrs.  I'm certainly going to be hammering away at an
accountant pretty soon.

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 2:30 PM, Tara Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Personally, I consider all write-offs attractive. Citizen Space doesn't
 allow for many through the rent (as we almost break even there), but we were
 able to write off alot of the improvements to the office this year.

 Tara


 On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Mark Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  Lisa, I know a lawyer who is wanting to get out of the big firm
  rat-race.  When I handed her the info I'd picked up at Cubes Crayons, what
  she was attracted to was the communal yumminess, not the corporate
  MBA-ness.  For whatever that's worth--you might want to play up that aspect
  to the corporate types, precisely because they'd like something different.
 
  Mark
 
 
  On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Lisa Thompson 
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
   Part of my demographic is lawyers.. they won't love it as much as see
   it as office space.  Unfortunate but the nature of the beast that is my
   location.  The space I am looking at will allow me to divide it up into
   communal yumminess and corporate mba-ness.
  
   On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Jacob Sayles [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   wrote:
  
   
Lisa,
   
We don't use that as a selling point deciding to spend our efforts
instead in highlighting the benefits of being around other people.
 We
also don't try to sell people on the various services we offer
(coffee, printing, conference rooms).  We want people to come in,
feel
the space, love it here, and want to stay.  After that, everything
should just fall into place... Then again, I'm not an MBA so :-)
   
Jacob
   
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 5:13 AM, Lisa Thompson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 For those that have space.. is a selling point the fact that
paying for
 office space (for those that are registered businesses) is tax
deductable?

 --
 Lisa Thompson

 Media PA CoWorking Meetup
  http://socialnetwork.meetup.com/964/
 Blog: http://theoffice.tumblr.com
 Tweeter: @lithompson friendfeed: http://friendfeed.com/theoffice

  

   
   
   
--
Jacob Sayles
Co-founder  Janitor
http://officenomads.com
   
   
   
  
  
   --
   Lisa Thompson
  
   Media PA CoWorking Meetup
   http://socialnetwork.meetup.com/964/
   Blog: http://theoffice.tumblr.com
   Tweeter: @lithompson friendfeed: http://friendfeed.com/theoffice
  
  
  
 
 
  --
  Mark Nelson
  Founder/Catalyst/Instigator
  PACTfund.com --Social Capital for Social Ventures
  PACTbank.com --our Bay Area demo/pilot/beta
 
 
 
 


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 coFounder
 Citizen Agency (www.citizenagency.com)
 blog: www.horsepigcow.com
 phone: 415-694-1951
 fax: 415-727-5335

 



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[Coworking] New Work City

[Lisa Thompson]

I so love this teaser page.  http://www.nwcny.com/

Go Manhattan!

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[Coworking] Re: New Work City

[Lisa Thompson]

That form is a phenomenal idea.. pardon me while I start typing my lil heart
out making my own!

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 6:17 PM, Tony Bacigalupo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 Thanks :-)

 When I get a chance, I'll write up more for you guys, but you all pretty
 much know the deal.

 Coworking. It rocks. NYC. Also rocks. The people need more Coworking in
 NYC, and this is our effort to fulfill that need.

 So, any NYC people on this list... check out the site, let me know if you
 have any questions, and show your interest here!
 https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pNuSiXEsOhsRND3rXOwyhTg

 We'll only be able to get a space if we can prove there's sufficient
 interest... that means this space will happen only when enough of *you* want
 it to!

 I'll keep everyone posted on my progress... I'm working on paperwork with
 Sanford now; things are moving awfully fast!

 Best,
 Tony


 On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Jacob Sayles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 
  That is seriously cool!  Go Tony!
 
  On undefined, Lisa Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  
   I so love this teaser page.  http://www.nwcny.com/
  
   Go Manhattan!
  
   --
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   http://socialnetwork.meetup.com/964/
Blog: http://theoffice.tumblr.com
   Tweeter: @lithompson friendfeed: http://friendfeed.com/theoffice
  

  
 
 
 
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  http://officenomads.com
 
 
 

 



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[Coworking] Re: Tax Question

[Lisa Thompson]

Ok, its not depreciating.  I looked up my source.  I do apologize for not
being clear earlier or looking up my source before posting.

If you start a business, you may deduct up to $5000 of startup costs in the
year that you launch it.  That $5000 is reduced by anything over $50,000.
Whatever isn't deductible *in that year* can be amortized over 15 years
beginning the month you launched your business.
Startup costs can include advertising costs, training wages and consultant
fees.

Sorry guys.


On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Julie Gomoll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Also, re: depreciating 5K of startup expenses... I know of no such limit.
 Depreciation applies to certain physical assets, and the schedule varies
 depending on the asset.

 By all means find a CPA to discuss the issues specific to your state.

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[Coworking] Re: Running Events vs. Memberships

[Lisa Thompson]

Not being an owner YET these are instinctual thoughts, but I would think the
event could also be a venue for getting more customers and limiting it to
paid members would prevent that whole angle.  On the other hand, if the
event is rather expensive and you are seeking to reward your members and
don't want freeloaders.. then you limit it.

Just my .02..

Lisa

On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Tony Bacigalupo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:


 Coworking space owners!

 I was wondering how you handled running events vis a vis your
 membership systems. If you're running a lunchtime or evening event for
 a couple of hours, do attendees need to have paid memberships and/or
 pay for admission that day?

 It seems to me to be a bit of a tricky gray area between being an open
 community space versus being a membership-based business.

 Thoughts? Tips?

 Thanks!
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[Coworking] Re: Personal Introduction

[Lisa]

Jason is hellaciously busy; they are moving in this week!  I will jump
in and provide what I know.

Date: 4/4/08
Time: 7:30 - 9:30 PM
Location:  72 N Main St, Doylestown, PA 18901

I will do my best to be there!! Hope to see you too!

On Mar 27, 6:04 pm, Alex Hillman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
 Jason,

 If you let us know more about your opening, I'll be sure to drop by to say
 hi!

 -Alex, IndyHall, Philly



 On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 6:01 PM, Tara Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Jason!

  More details! Please! :)

  T

  On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 6:07 AM, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

   Hi Matt  all,

   We have one person as a member of our group who is not on the creative
   side.  He is actually a logistics manager and manufacturing sales
   rep.  Let me tell you though, those skills are much needed in a
   creative environment.  His ability to negotiate lease details and
   other essentials have saved us a lot in up front costs.  He is also
   very cool and enjoys being part of a creative group.  I would go for
   the entrepreneurial spirit trait more than just creative.  Also some
   creative folks would don't get the coworking thing at all.  The
   question they pose is how am I going to make money doing this?  Any
   good answers to that question?

   On a positive note, the Doylestown, PA coworking group will be
   officially opening our doors on April 4th!

   Jason

   On Mar 24, 1:14 am, Matt, Balu, and Java [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   wrote:
Felicity,

Funny - we have to accept that a diverse crowd may include people
who are less on the creative end.  Isn't that wierd?

Matt

On Mar 21, 11:58 pm, felicity at cubes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 Hey there,

 Agreed with Alex.  I think this coworking is more about people
 selecting for the
 coworking lifestiyle versus necessarily techies.  I think you can
   end
 up with
 a very diverse crowd, as we have, depending on your market and
 connections.

 Look forward to hearing how the business plan goes and your
   progress.

 All the best,
 Felicity

 CubesCrayons
 www,cubesandcrayons.com
 photos:http://www.flickr.com/groups/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/

 On Mar 21, 5:49 am, Alex Hillman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:

  Matt, Balu, and Java,
  I'm looking forward to hearing more about your proposed model,
   since we
  often discuss so many different types of models on the list and on
   the wiki.

  I'm especially excited to see what develops since you've mentioned
   a
  relatively non-IT crowd that you're catering to. We've spoken
   before about
  how this scene tends to be predominately tech and creative, but
   I've
  maintained that the common thread tends to be entrepreneurship in
   genreal.

  Good luck, and looking forward to hearing more!

  Cheers,
  Alex

  On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 1:45 AM, Matt, Balu, and Java 

  [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

   Hey Everyone,

   My name is Matt and I'm new to the group, but not that new to
   coworking.  We had a great shared space (for CS students) at the
   University of Colorado.  Complete with pungent but
   o-so-comfortable
   furniture that I must admit I have slept on.  The Colorado space
   was
   neat because it surfaced many of the issues that coworkers face,
   like
   tiering, resource allocation, making sure people pay for their
   generic
   grape pop, etc.

   I am now writing a business plan around the concept.  I've
   entered it
   in the 2008 Shocker Business Plan Competition, here in Wichita.
   Wichita is very entrepreneurially minded but not too heavy on IT
   etc.
   so I have to adapt some ideas to make them fit.  I see a strong
   need
   for community (currently filled by cafes and lectures at the
   Devlin
   Center for Entrepreneurship), but I am definitely trying to go
   beyond
   break-even!  I'm willing to share my thinking though, and get
   and give
   feedback.

   Salutations,
   Matt, Balu, and Java (the labs)

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[Coworking] Re: Internet Access for Coworking Spaces

[Lisa Thompson]

I was planning on using Verizon's FIOS.  Has the speed and it's 40 a month.
Anyone think thats a bad idea?

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 3:46 PM, Alex Hillman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 We also have a speakeasy commercial line as well that's stood up quite
 nicely even at 5pm on a friday when everyone's watching hulu.
 Our router situation is still in flux as we find something that's stable
 and can handle the load better wirelessly. (knock on wood) it's been good
 this month. We're currently running on the Belkin 54g, but have tried a
 DD-WRT in the past as well and have had generally fickle responses from
 both.

 Hard-wired to the DSL, though...even when we're packed it's snappy. And
 for $130/month you can't touch it.

 -Alex


 On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Jacob Sayles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 
  I'm sure you'll need maximum bandwidth for downloading all those
  unicorn videos
 
  At Office Nomads we have a T1 with speakeasy that goes for about $350.
   It's 1.5Mbits up and down and is guaranteed and solid as a rock.
  When you go to officenomads.com you are going over this pipe.  We are
  looking to expand for heavy traffic days by load balancing over a
  direct wifi link to our friend's server rack downtown (3Mbit) and
  maybe even a fat DSL or cable line (6-10Mbit).  Speed isn't everything
  and your router/firewall has a lot to do with quality of service.  We
  use a fun little box that has no moving parts, 6 interfaces, and runs
  PFSense.  It was about $400 and it makes me smile.
 
  Jacob Sayles
  Co-founder  Janitor
  http://officenomads.com
 
  On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Tara Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  wrote:
   We use Speakeasy in SF. I don't know where they cover. We don't have a
   dedicated line, but it's pretty reliable and quick, even when 35+
  geeks are
   gathered.
  
   Tara
  
  
   On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:32 PM, Matthew Wettergreen
   [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  
   
Hiya,
   
I wanted to get everyone's thoughts on the best options for internet
access for coworking spaces.
   
What type of plan does everyone have? Speed? Price? Has anyone
  gotten
ISPs to sponsor?
   
thanks
Matthew
   
   
   
  
  
  
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phone: 415-694-1951
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[Coworking] Re: Internet Access for Coworking Spaces

[Lisa Thompson]

Very good points, Alex.. adding this to my list of questions for vendors!

I should probably start a new thread, but I am playing around with multiple
ideas for phone systems.  I want to offer phone service and vm that is
easily set up on the fly like Cisco Call Manager and Unity - only because i
expect more business clients that will need it (and plus it is something I
already know how to maintain lol).  The Media market is like that.  It's a
pretty large expense initially, but I am thinking that it will save me money
in the long run.

Who is doing what with their phone systems?

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Alex Hillman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 FIOS is AMAZING, there's only two potential issues:
 1) make sure that the license allows commercial use. It may be an issue,
 it may not. I do know that they usually block port 80 to make sure you're
 not web-serving over fios. But reselling bandwidth, which to some degree
 you are doing, MAY be against TOS.

 2) if it's not available. If it is available, I'm ridiculously jealous of
 you because we can't get it in center city philadelphia yet. Bugger.

 Other than those issues, FIOS is excruciatingly fast and can handle a pile
 of people hammering on it pretty hard.

 -Alex, IndyHall, Philadelphia


 On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 6:30 AM, Lisa Thompson 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  I was planning on using Verizon's FIOS.  Has the speed and it's 40 a
  month.  Anyone think thats a bad idea?
 
  On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 3:46 PM, Alex Hillman 
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
   We also have a speakeasy commercial line as well that's stood up quite
   nicely even at 5pm on a friday when everyone's watching hulu.
   Our router situation is still in flux as we find something that's
   stable and can handle the load better wirelessly. (knock on wood) it's 
   been
   good this month. We're currently running on the Belkin 54g, but have 
   tried a
   DD-WRT in the past as well and have had generally fickle responses from
   both.
  
   Hard-wired to the DSL, though...even when we're packed it's snappy.
   And for $130/month you can't touch it.
  
   -Alex
  
  
   On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Jacob Sayles [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   wrote:
  
   
I'm sure you'll need maximum bandwidth for downloading all those
unicorn videos
   
At Office Nomads we have a T1 with speakeasy that goes for about
$350.
 It's 1.5Mbits up and down and is guaranteed and solid as a rock.
When you go to officenomads.com you are going over this pipe.  We
are
looking to expand for heavy traffic days by load balancing over a
direct wifi link to our friend's server rack downtown (3Mbit) and
maybe even a fat DSL or cable line (6-10Mbit).  Speed isn't
everything
and your router/firewall has a lot to do with quality of service.
 We
use a fun little box that has no moving parts, 6 interfaces, and
runs
PFSense.  It was about $400 and it makes me smile.
   
Jacob Sayles
Co-founder  Janitor
http://officenomads.com
   
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Tara Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
 We use Speakeasy in SF. I don't know where they cover. We don't
have a
 dedicated line, but it's pretty reliable and quick, even when 35+
geeks are
 gathered.

 Tara


 On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:32 PM, Matthew Wettergreen
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 
  Hiya,
 
  I wanted to get everyone's thoughts on the best options for
internet
  access for coworking spaces.
 
  What type of plan does everyone have? Speed? Price? Has anyone
gotten
  ISPs to sponsor?
 
  thanks
  Matthew
 
 
 



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[Coworking] Re: Setting up a space in Sydney -- Citizen Agency contact form

[lisa herrod]

Definitely, that sounds like a great idea. I think there's a lot more we can
discuss in person over dinner... and I'll take it to mean the 'something' is
a nice glass of red :)

On 09/01/07, Brad Neuberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:



Tara, Lisa, Chris, let's all definently have a coworking birds of a
feather session at SxSW, or at least an informal dinner or something.
What do you think?

Brad

On 1/8/07, lisa herrod [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Well there's always the Web Directions Conference in Sydney, in
September ;)
 Come down, Australia feels so distant from all the conferences going on
OS
 we love it when you guys come across to us!

 We'll see you in March hopefully ;)

 Lisa


 On 09/01/07, Tara Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED]  wrote:
  Welcome Lisa!
 
  I don't know about everyone else here, but this just gives me one more
 reason to visit Sydney soon! :)
 
  T
 
 
  On 1/8/07, LisaH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  
   Thanks Tara,
  
   Well here I am :)
  
   There are some brilliant people working on the web in Australia,
many
   based in Sydney and Melbourne, and right around the country.
  
   I'm based in Sydney, so I'd like to see something come together
here.
  
   There's a group of us going across to SxSW, and I'm really keen to
meet
   up and talk about this some more.
  
   Now I'm off to read through the list!
  
   Lisa
  
  
  
   agent provocateur
   Citizen Agency (www.citizenagency.com)
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