[Coworking] Too good not to share!

2012-05-03 Thread d...@cocomsp.com
Thought some of you might get a kick out of today's exchange with one of our members. Anybody have any similar experiences to share? So, a member sent this email to our host... (names changed to protect the innocent) +++ Here I am having to be the old lame again BUT My clients come into this

Re: [Coworking] Too good not to share!

2012-05-03 Thread Liam Gooding
Hey Don, Personally, I don't think it's much to ask to not walk around with stinky bare feet and the reply from your host probably alienated your *paying* member with the brick-wall reply. Why not simply say have you tried speaking to the bare-footed culprit and asked if they can wear some

Re: [Coworking] Too good not to share!

2012-05-03 Thread Joshua Marpet
And that would be fine, Liam. Look, I don't run a coworking space (grain of salt disclaimer). But each one is a community, right? If not, you're all Regis franchisers. A community, a culture, a group. There may even be subcultures, sub groups. (Which would be awesome!) Each community is not

[Coworking] Re: Too good not to share!

2012-05-03 Thread Toni Hogan
I was thinking the same thing! I could have just posted the SOCKS link and typed what Joshua said! LOL TH On May 3, 3:47 pm, Joshua Marpet jmar...@datadevastation.com wrote: Toni!  Great Minds!!!  :D  Awesome! On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Toni Hogan t...@theofficeconnexion.com

[Coworking] Re: Too good not to share!

2012-05-03 Thread d...@cocomsp.com
I'm not sure if stinky feet was really the issue. I suspect it's more of an aesthetic value judgement. But given that we have 300+ members, I'm not sure we can have members adjust their attire because one member has a client meeting. So, it's more a question of what the predominant culture is and

Re: [Coworking] Re: Too good not to share!

2012-05-03 Thread Jacob Sayles
Precisely. It's critically important to be yourself so people have something to gravitate towards and also away from. This provides the integrity and consistency of the culture which is what people are really looking for. I know how we do things turns some members off, and we lose customers,

Re: [Coworking] Re: Too good not to share!

2012-05-03 Thread Joshua Marpet
Which is why when I start a coworking space here in Philadelphia, I'll make it one with a different culture than Indy Hall, so Alex doesn't kill me. Alex, the Coworking assassin! ;) On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Jacob Sayles ja...@officenomads.com wrote: Precisely.  It's critically important

[Coworking] Yoga for Coworkers -- any interest from space owners?

2012-05-03 Thread Ashok
Hi everyone! I was a long-time member of a Coworking space in Fort Collins, CO called Cohere and am an evangelist in every other way to the Coworking movement which helped me escape the corporate world in 2010. I may have seen some of you at the Global Coworking Unconference this past month in