Re: [Coworking] Coworking interaction

2017-04-13 Thread Alex Hillman
*Great* questions about planning for introverts. We've got tons of them. I'll come back to that in a sec. Lots to cover here. If you're an owner/staff who doesn't like talking to people or do it naturally, that doesn't give you a pass for not doing it and then wondering why nobody interacts ;)

Re: [Coworking] Coworking interaction

2017-04-13 Thread Caner Onoglu
Alex, these advices are all nice and cool if you as the manager/owner is a people person and the members are also. Any ideas for those who are not able to or don't enjoy interacting much? This might sound inherantly wrong, "if you are so, why are you in coworking anyways?" might be a relevant

Re: [Coworking] Coworking interaction

2017-04-13 Thread Alex Hillman
I'm home fighting off a bug today and was digging through some old threads here on the group, and found this one that I never got around to chiming in on...and I wish I had because this question shows up more and more in my channels, especially for community staff that have been hired and are

Re: [Coworking] Re: Introduction (researcher who might sign up for co-working in orlando or detroit)

2017-04-13 Thread Alex Hillman
Big +1 to Robert's suggestion to try it yourself. Not enough researchers actually get their butts into the communities they want to know more about. It's a little like riding a bike - you can't really know what it's like from reading about it or watching movies. You have to move the pedals

[Coworking] Re: How RFID reader writer works?

2017-04-13 Thread sarahatworkandplay
Matt, We also use Nexedus, and are trying to work out access and check-in issues at one of our locations, so your answer caught my eye. To clarify, you are no longer using the RFID cards at all for check-in, correct, just the Nexudus app on the iPAD? Also, this is only for checking-in, not

[Coworking] Hi from Shanghai

2017-04-13 Thread Fan Zhang
Hi people, We basically build a facebook-like version of coworking.org, but intended for Chinese coworking or people visiting China. it's ios app enables location based search for spaces and events. We are also part of the VISA program so if you do visit Shanghai, let us know, and you can get

[Coworking] Re: Introduction (researcher who might sign up for co-working in orlando or detroit)

2017-04-13 Thread Robert Kropp
For someone just getting introduced to coworking, I would just start working / sitting in one for a little while. There are many subtleties to each place that are not always obvious from the outside. There are many traditional benefits but the true power and success of the coworking space is

Re: [Coworking] Re: rent-a-company

2017-04-13 Thread Jeannine van der Linden
They are findmentally commission agents, they handle administrative tasks for a percentage. It saes them having to pay or file VAT taxes for example, and will for some folks decrease their corporate income taxes and business costs related to maintaining the company to zero, though this