[Coworking] Re: Video to Tell the Coworking Story

2012-05-11 Thread Felix Schürholz
Hi Jeff, great!!! Your video inspired us at CoWorking News to start a series on Great Coworking Videos http://bit.ly/INxp5W . Yours is the first and we hope that others will be inspired to follow your great example!!! Greetings from Munich, Felix (CoWorking News) Am Donnerstag, 10. Mai 2012

[Coworking] Re: are permanent desks necessary?

2012-05-11 Thread Eli Malinsky
Hey there, I think you could go either way - and I don;t think any option is necessary. BUT - four permanent desks feels too few to me. To have four permanent people in a sea of (part-time) coworkers probably won;t help the dynamic, and it does add admin complications. My own gut says that if

Re: [Coworking] are permanent desks necessary?

2012-05-11 Thread Jenifer Ross
Hey there- Grind in NYC has no permanent seating and only 2 price plans: day rate and full time. It seems to work very well for them! You should talk to Ben Dyatt- He is one of the co-founders. Good luck! Jen Ross On May 10, 2012 10:36 PM, Rena Tom bob...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Getting

[Coworking] Re: Video to Tell the Coworking Story

2012-05-11 Thread Jeff Donaldson :: Scrib Coworking
That's so cool. Thanks very much. I think we all get caught up in the day-to-day management and details of making the space perfect and members happy. We forget to step back and look at what's really happening and how coworking is impacting many, many people. If only we could live in a movie

Re: [Coworking] are permanent desks necessary?

2012-05-11 Thread Tom Brandt
Workantile in Ann Arbor has no permanent desking. One of the nice things about this arrangement is that the space is completely flexible because we can move desks and chairs whenever and wherever we want. We can quickly reconfigure the space for social events, and reconfigure it for video

Re: [Coworking] are permanent desks necessary?

2012-05-11 Thread Alex Hillman
Pros: 1) Flex desks provide the most opportunity for revenue (more members per desk) 2) The space itself can be used for events, etc, more easily without displacing full time members 3) People don't get as territorial with flex desks, other than preferring a certain desk on days they are in.

[Coworking] Co-working directory websites?

2012-05-11 Thread James Mee
Does anyone know of any good directory sites for coworking spaces. There are a lot of sites that look really good but they don't seem quite comprehensive enough. Am I alone in thinking this? The best one is the German one http://www.coworking.de/ [only problem with this site is that map isn't

Re: [Coworking] Co-working directory websites?

2012-05-11 Thread Jerome Chang
negative. That's why Jacob in Seattle is launching the coworking wiki project. LooseCubes, LiquidSpace, et al are the closest thing for a comprehensive directory. FYI, this question gets asked nearly every month. Jerome __ BLANKSPACES work FOR yourself, not BY yourself

Re: [Coworking] Co-working directory websites?

2012-05-11 Thread Jacob Sayles
Thanks for the shout-out, Jerome! The Coworking Wikihttp://wiki.coworking.info/w/page/16583831/FrontPage has a community-run, non-commercial Coworking Directoryhttp://wiki.coworking.info/w/page/29303049/Directory. We're currently at work on a project to