[Coworking] Coworking in a small city in Greece

2013-01-05 Thread Kyriakos Sotopoulos
I live in the 5th largest city in Greece that has a university with many department including economics and computer science. In the city there are a lot of young people except for the students that' have studied abroad with knowledge and creativity. Those people are unemployed because of the

Re: [Coworking] Coworking in a small city in Greece

2013-01-05 Thread rachel young
Hi, As with any venture into coworking, someone needs to plant the seed to raise the profile of coworking. Some space owners and managers have started with an initial meetup at a local cafe or restaurant, spreading the word about the meetup and generally what it will accomplish, and starting

Re: [Coworking] Lets stop the stupid crisis · Initiatives

2013-01-05 Thread laura loenert
Awesome initiative, Manuel! Keep going... congratulations and success for your country to win the european crisis! :D On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 3:35 PM, manuel zea - coworkingspain.es manu...@gmail.com wrote: Coworking Spaces in Spain launch the Coworking Spain Solidary . Its a program that

[Coworking] Hello... How Can I Arrange My Hot Desks so as not to have Excess Members at the same time ?

2013-01-05 Thread Zee LaunchPad
Hello... How Can I Arrange My Hot Desks so as not to have Excess Members at the same time ? Can anyone help ? i have a bunch of packages but i need help regulating them.. -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to

Re: [Coworking] Hello... How Can I Arrange My Hot Desks so as not to have Excess Members at the same time ?

2013-01-05 Thread Alex Hillman
Are you oversold? If so, you may need to implement a reservation system to ensure that collisions don't take place. -Alex -- /ah indyhall.org coworking in philadelphia On Jan 5, 2013, at 2:15 PM, Zee LaunchPad zeelaunch...@gmail.com wrote: Hello... How Can I Arrange My Hot Desks so as not

[Coworking] Introducing myself

2013-01-05 Thread ion
Hi there my name is Ion Tsakonas and I m the founder of NewSchool.Athens (www.newschoolathens.org). Its a non profit social entrepreneurship venture aiming o create an educational hub in downtown Athens covering creative professions and new technologies. I m an engineer by training (Oxford) and

[Coworking] Re: Hello... How Can I Arrange My Hot Desks so as not to have Excess Members at the same time ?

2013-01-05 Thread Zee LaunchPad
well not yet.. but just to think ahead of time.. say we have the following packages: 5 hrz/month 20 hrz/month 60 hrz/month 100 hrz/month and our capacity 70 members. is there anything i need to do.. or do you think it's manageable? -- Visit this forum on the web at

Re: [Coworking] Re: Hello... How Can I Arrange My Hot Desks so as not to have Excess Members at the same time ?

2013-01-05 Thread Alex Hillman
I'd pay close attention to actual utilization and keep an eye out for your more popular memberships. We watch our memberships flux throughout the year, and sometimes start a waiting list on certain ones when utilization approaches full and only start signing up new members when we know that we

[Coworking] Re: Hello... How Can I Arrange My Hot Desks so as not to have Excess Members at the same time ?

2013-01-05 Thread Zee LaunchPad
Great... Thanks Alex :) -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.

Re: [Coworking] Lets stop the stupid crisis · Initiatives

2013-01-05 Thread Matija Raos
When we open up Zagreb Coworking Center we will be NGO based and plan to partner with local government / employment office / other partners to provide similar programs. I think its a great angle and approach, ;) also a smart way to partially fund coworking spaces. Keep us updated ;) Sent from

Re: [Coworking] Lets stop the stupid crisis · Initiatives

2013-01-05 Thread Tony Bacigalupo
Manuel, awesome! Please keep me/us posted on your progress! Same for you Matija! On Saturday, January 5, 2013, Matija Raos wrote: When we open up Zagreb Coworking Center we will be NGO based and plan to partner with local government / employment office / other partners to provide similar