Re: [Coworking] Coworking and hackerspaces in Asia

2011-08-24 Thread Liu Yan
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Tony! I am looking forward to reading your next post! Liu Yan On 2011-8-23, at 上午10:39, Satani, Kyo wrote: Tony, Thank you for your awesome report. I can understand well the coworking situation around us from the viewpoint of yours. I will never

[Coworking] Re: Membership turnover in the first months

2011-08-24 Thread Craig Baute - Creative Density Coworking
It should also be noted that some members upgraded their plans after trying it out for a month or two. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group,

RE: [Coworking] Indy Hall Turns 4

2011-08-24 Thread Veel Hoeden
Alex- Congrats on 4 years of awesomeness. I had a blast watching the two videos and sharing in your excitement. Although I'll miss the party, your space is definitely on my short list of visiting when I head East. Here's to many more years of awesomeness and JFDI-ing. [raises virtual shot of

Re: [Coworking] Indy Hall Turns 4

2011-08-24 Thread Alex Hillman
Thanks Joel Kelly! :) -Alex /ah indyhall.org coworking in philadelphia On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Veel Hoeden veelhoe...@gmail.com wrote: *Alex*- Congrats on 4 years of awesomeness. I had a blast watching the two videos and sharing in your excitement. Although I'll miss the party,

Re: [Coworking] Fwd: WORKTECH11 West Coast Email

2011-08-24 Thread Julie Scanlon
Thank you, it absolutely is interesting. Very much appreciated. Julie Collab Space, Costa Mesa Ca On Aug 24, 2011 9:13 AM, Will Bennis wmben...@locusworkspace.com wrote: This looked like something that might be interesting to a lot of coworking space operators (despite the price tag), and also

Re: [Coworking] Fwd: WORKTECH11 West Coast Email

2011-08-24 Thread Jacob Sayles
Good to see coworking is in there somewhere! Glad to see folks like Nokia recognize coworking within the context of The Future of Work. Jeremy, I'd love to know your thoughts on the conference and how you became involved with it. Jacob --- Office Nomads - Individuality without Isolation

[Coworking] Re: Membership turnover in the first months

2011-08-24 Thread Angel Kwiatkowski
Holla! I wish I'd kept better track but we've probably seen 20-30% of people come and go for lots of reasons. Maybe 5 total people left because coworking was just not a fit for their style, 3 people left because Cohere wasn't a fit with their personality. Recently, we lost 3 of our founding women

Re: [Coworking] Re: Application for coworkers?

2011-08-24 Thread Alex Hillman
Agreed with Angel - we actually don't allow members to sign up for memberships online, we require them to do a drop-in day first. If the day goes well for them and for us (to date I don't know of a single time it hasn't), we roll the $25 into a membership. It puts emphasis on human contact during

[Coworking] Re: Membership turnover in the first months

2011-08-24 Thread Craig Baute - Creative Density Coworking
Thanks Angel. We hit the ground running in June and signed up 11 people quickly. Boom. Smiles! The first few weeks of July kept the good times rolling and then half through July... (cricket cricket). It's good to hear that this is normal, at least in Colorful Colorado. Things are starting to thaw

[Coworking] Re: any problems with homeless signups?

2011-08-24 Thread Harold Maduro
I had a *similar* problem. After much consideration, I figured out it was best to sincerely talk to the person and explain why it wasn't cool for us having someone sleeping on the space, at work hours. If you are open, honest and direct, it shouldn't be a problem. But I think it should be

[Coworking] Coworking Core Value #5 - Collaboration

2011-08-24 Thread Alex Hillman
So...I've been working on my 5 part series about the Coworking Core Values last week Sustainability - http://dangerouslyawesome.com/2011/08/coworking-core-values-1-of-5-sustainability/ Accessibility - http://dangerouslyawesome.com/2011/08/coworking-core-values-2-of-5-accessibility/ Openness -

Re: [Coworking] Coworking Core Value #5 - Collaboration

2011-08-24 Thread Derek Neighbors
Alex, *You can’t do collaboration, you have to be a collaborator.* http://derekneighbors.com/2010/08/you-cant-do-collaboration-without-being-a-collaborator/ I think spaces have it in their DNA or they don't. -- Derek Neighbors Gangplank On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 8:42 PM, Alex Hillman

Re: [Coworking] Coworking Core Value #5 - Collaboration

2011-08-24 Thread Alex Hillman
Blammo. Amazing. A+ and a gold star goes to Derek, and that post is going into my archives for reference! Who else!? -Alex /ah indyhall.org coworking in philadelphia On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 12:31 AM, Derek Neighbors de...@gangplankhq.comwrote: Alex, *You can’t do collaboration, you have