Re: [Coworking] Re: Strategic Partnership/Sponsorship Package Help

2013-02-05 Thread TCS
So cool. Saying thanks is a lost art in today's grab gift card and cheesy greeting card approach. Impressed and inspired. Props! Chad Chad Ballantyne 705.812.0689 c...@thecreativespace.ca Barrie's Coworking Community Perfect for small businesses, startups and entrepreneurs. 12 Dunlop S

[Coworking] Re: Strategic Partnership/Sponsorship Package Help

2013-02-05 Thread Shenoa Lawrence
As a follow up to our new sponsor program, I'd like to share the day's events. We decided to hold a Public Thanking for our new "Coworking Champion Sponsor," a great local tech company called &yet. All decked out in our Room to Think shirts, we invaded their office and started out by recreating

Re: [Coworking] How to address the "What's coworking" question in regions without coworking spaces

2013-02-05 Thread Alex Hillman
> Something else that I think was helpful to me was to not focus on what the > members of the space were doing (such as "it is great for developers and web > designers"). However true that may be, the problem you run into is it starts > to pidgeon-hole coworking in the mind of the person you are

Re: [Coworking] How to address the "What's coworking" question in regions without coworking spaces

2013-02-05 Thread Daniel Dudley
I completely agree with that approach. Since I moved from an area where coworking was common term, one of biggest turning points for me was when I dropped it from the initial description of the spaces I wanted to create. I discovered it is a word easy to visual and, in a way, trivialise, if you

Re: [Coworking] How to address the "What's coworking" question in regions without coworking spaces

2013-02-05 Thread Alex Hillman
In spite of being in the 5th largest cities in the country, I know this problem all too well. Be it from our early days when NOBODY knew what coworking was, to daily interactions with reporters who want to make it out to be anything except for what it is. So, if I only have a sentence or two,

Re: [Coworking] showers

2013-02-05 Thread Jacob Sayles
We don't provide anything with our shower and assume members bring everything they need. We keep it clean and occasionally need to do a towel purge, but other then that it's very low maintenance. Once we had a member put his towel in the laundry bin we use for hand towels and we politely explaine

[Coworking] How to address the "What's coworking" question in regions without coworking spaces

2013-02-05 Thread Daniel Dudley
For the last six months I have been working to get a coworking space off the ground in the Cleveland Metro area. Though the market definitely exists (and is growing) as more people in the tech space come to the area and then number of teleworkers in general continue to rise, my main roadblock ha

Re: [Coworking] showers

2013-02-05 Thread Glen Ferguson
We provide towels but ask members to bring their own soap/shampoo. We've also asked all members to donate any "hotel bottles" of shampoo/conditioner/etc they pick up during their travels. We don't have any real rules, other than please squeegee the glass doors after you finish. We have 3 bathroo

[Coworking] Indy Hall in Numbers 2012

2013-02-05 Thread Alex Hillman
I spent some time last night summarizing some figures from our 2012 P&L along with some insights and interpretations related to the numbers that people might find valuable for doing their own analysis & projections. For reference, 2012 was Indy Hall's 5th full year of operation, and included th

[Coworking] showers

2013-02-05 Thread rachel young
Of those spaces that have showers within the boundaries of your coworking space (as opposed to something that may be out in the hall shared by other commercial tenants in the same building, or some such) do you have any general usage rules for who can use it and when? And do you provide anything (s

[Coworking] Do you know of a good coworking space in Stockholm?

2013-02-05 Thread Will Bennis, Locus Workspace
Hi Folks, A former member of my coworking space is moving to Stockholm for a month and looking for a coworking space. Here's what he wrote: "I was fairly disappointed with the spaces I could find so far. The entries on Coworking Wiki are half no longer active and the other half has hardly any

[Coworking] Looking for GCUC Ticket

2013-02-05 Thread Daniel Dudley
I know this is kind of strange request but did anyone purchase a GCUC ticket already only to discover that they can no longer go? I would love to buy your ticket from you as I just realised I didn't buy an early bird and unfortunately (owing to the now increased cost) can no longer afford to get