AUTO-REPLY Re: [Coworking] Digest for coworking@googlegroups.com - 8 Messages in 4 Topics

2009-12-30 Thread eli
Hi there, The Centre for Social Innovation is closed until Monday, January 4, 2010. We look forward to seeing you in the New Year! Happy Holidays! Eli Malinsky Centre for Social Innovation -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To pos

[Coworking] Re: How important is having reserved/dedicated desks for members?

2009-12-30 Thread Kelly Brown
We're in the 1/3 dedicated 2/3 flex group. Although the dynamics are changing as we expand into additional locations. It's not so much 'dedicated' space that people want -- as a hovel to sneak away to when they need to make phone calls & have privacy. Sometimes they just want the comfort of a priv

RE: [Coworking] Re: My thoughts on the private office vs public space issue

2009-12-30 Thread Heidi Jesko
Clark I agree with your assessment - especially if they're a small business owner. For those folks that work out of their home seem to be different. It's just penetrating them seems to be the challenge. I followed your link and was not able to display your information. Would love to read i

Re: [Coworking] How important is having reserved/dedicated desks for members?

2009-12-30 Thread Judy Rosella Edwards
It doesn't surprise me. The ideal coworker doesn't function well in cubicles, or they'd be working in a 9 to 5 job in cubicle hell. I have signed a contract with WORKflow Peoriathat opens in April 2010. My membership level entitles me to a specific chair but, before

[Coworking] Let me introduce myself...

2009-12-30 Thread Sébastien
Hi everyone, My name is Sébastien Arbogast, and I'm a software developer/architect. I do Java, Grails, Flex and iPhone development, ideally with Agile methodologies (Scrum) I've been an employee consultant for more than 4 years now but I've always been looking for unconventional and better ways t

RE: [Coworking] Re: New to Group

2009-12-30 Thread Heidi Jesko
Angel Absolutely! Any suggestions or ideas are totally welcome. www.smartoffice.pro Heidi Jesko SmartOffice changing how we work www.smartoffice.pro 922 Surrey Drive Flower Mound, TX 75022 469.322.1482 -Original Message- From: coworking@googlegroups.com [mailto:cowork...@goo

RE: [Coworking] Re: Coworking web development?

2009-12-30 Thread Heidi Jesko
We signed up for the free trial with divvy and had some issues. We tried to contact them with no luck. They are located overseas. Heidi Jesko SmartOffice changing how we work www.smartoffice.pro 922 Surrey Drive Flower Mound, TX 75022 469.322.1482 -Original Message- From: cowo

[Coworking] Re: How important is having reserved/dedicated desks for members?

2009-12-30 Thread Angel
Congrats on your 4 members! I love the idea of the personalized mug as a space saver for the next day. I read that getting members to do their dishes is an ongoing challengedoes having names on mugs help with that? ;) I am thinking of starting a space with only flex membership to start. Depen

[Coworking] Re: How important is having reserved/dedicated desks for members?

2009-12-30 Thread Angel
Thanks Kelly, I've been hearing a lot lately about the need for phone booths or some kind of private area to duck into. Will remember that as I work on layout. On Dec 30, 7:38 am, Kelly Brown wrote: > We're in the 1/3 dedicated 2/3 flex group. > Although the dynamics are changing as we expand i

Re: [Coworking] Let me introduce myself...

2009-12-30 Thread Frederik Denkens | iLibris
Sébastien, too bad you're looking in Antwerp, as I'm seriously considering starting one in Antwerp :-) But somebody told me there is one in Brussels, but I don't know the name. Regards, Frederik. On 30 Dec 2009, at 12:24, Sébastien wrote: > Hi everyone, > > My name is Sébastien Arbogast,

Re: [Coworking] Re: Coworking web development?

2009-12-30 Thread John Sechrest
I am pretty sure that http://www.divvy.com is a Seattle company. On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Heidi Jesko wrote: > We signed up for the free trial with divvy and had some issues. We tried > to > contact them with no luck. They are located overseas. > > Heidi Jesko > SmartOffice > changin

Re: [Coworking] Re: New to Group

2009-12-30 Thread Matt Titsworth
Hi Heidi. Good to see you on the group. I got your email. Did you get my message back? Matthew Titsworth matt...@companydallas.com http://www.companydallas.com/ http://www.twitter.com/companydallas/ On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Heidi Jesko wrote: > Angel Absolutely!  Any suggestions or

[Coworking] Updates on Western Queens CoWorking

2009-12-30 Thread S. Kader
Hello! We have finalized our location and setup. Please check out the blog for more info - http://sanmcoworking.wordpress.com. The setup for now will be very simple. Just come in, sit down, and work. We want to open up within the next few weeks, but need to establish some workers to start off. If

Re: [Coworking] Re: How important is having reserved/dedicated desks for members?

2009-12-30 Thread Mike Pihlman
"I read that getting members to do their dishes is an ongoing challengedoes having names on mugs help with that?" Although the mugs are whitesome are now brown.. ;-) Mike On 12/30/2009 8:32 AM, Angel wrote: > Congrats on your 4 members! I love the idea of the personalized mug > as

[Coworking] Re: How important is having reserved/dedicated desks for members?

2009-12-30 Thread jesse
Of the 15 "dedicated desk" residents at Citizen Space, I'd say that 4-5 of them rely on the space for their stuff beyond their extra monitor, ie, lots of files, supplies, organizers, etc and the rest use their dedicated space for: a) a place for an extra monitor and b)a mental space that is their o

[Coworking] Does anyone know something about a Coworking in Brussels, Belgium?

2009-12-30 Thread Sébastien
Does it exist? Where? Has it been tried already? What went wrong? Lessons learnt? Anyone else would be interested? Cheers, Sébastien -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to cowork...@googlegroups.com. T

RE: [Coworking] Membership Data

2009-12-30 Thread Liz Elam
Better late than never. I'm organizing and opening emails from 2 weeks ago! I got creamed by a sinus infection, cold and the holidays. 1) around 30 2) max capacity for single seating - 75 for events 125 3) the website really helps, I'm challenged to update out via email. Need to formulate a plan

[Coworking] Re: How important is having reserved/dedicated desks for members?

2009-12-30 Thread Angel
Loving the idea of having the large monitors avail. My husband is an engineer and just couldn't "produce" until he had 3 monitors! Wondering if having a pool of monitors to check out for the day would be useful? I'm trying to do the "ultimate flex space"desks and chairs all on wheels so we ca