[Coworking] Background Music

2013-01-02 Thread Bradley Matson
We've just opened a coworking space in Traverse City, MI City, MI called CoWharf http://cowharf.com. Can anyone recommend a good Spotify playlist for our music? What do you play? -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are

Re: [Coworking] Background Music

2013-01-02 Thread Thomas
hello Bradley the background music is kind of a recurring topic, the archives might give you some hints and interesting things to try yet, as many things in coworking it seems that what works nicely is to open the music choice process to your coworkers. there is different low and high tech ways

Re: [Coworking] Background Music

2013-01-02 Thread Alex Hillman
Good advice from Thomas (and the archives). For Spotify, I'm a big fan of sharemyplaylists.com for finding new playlists for all occasions! -Alex -- /ah indyhall.org coworking in philadelphia On Jan 2, 2013, at 4:59 PM, Thomas ribou...@gmail.com wrote: hello Bradley the background music

[Coworking] Background Music in a Coworking Space

2012-08-14 Thread RedRokk
Hey everyone, I have a quick question I would like to get your perspective on. We just started offering co-working space here in Bellingham, Washington. Our space fits up to 20 people comfortably, but often times we only have 2 or 3. We have been playing with the idea of adding light

Re: [Coworking] Background Music in a Coworking Space

2012-08-14 Thread Alex Hillman
When one of our playlists end, the silence is deafening. It's a mad scramble to turn the music back on. Even if people don't like the music on, a little ambient noise has a huge impact on people's willingness to converse. They don't feel like they are breaking the silence. BONUS POINTS:

Re: [Coworking] Background Music in a Coworking Space

2012-08-14 Thread Tom Brandt
I think it is a good thing, depending on what it is. We have a couple of members who play quite a bit of music over the big speakers from their own collections or from rdio, spotify, etc. When they are not here it seems pretty quiet. On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 6:34 PM, RedRokk b...@redrokk.com

Re: [Coworking] Background Music in a Coworking Space

2012-08-14 Thread Thomas
hi, same thing here at Tau (France, Toulouse) we started plugging a pair of speakers to one laptop some weeks ago and now the cable jump from one laptop to another depending on who's here what's been played, the mood etc ... I think (and have experienced) that background music do help to keep a

Re: [Coworking] Background Music in a Coworking Space

2012-08-14 Thread Liam Gooding
We play background music at http://fruitworks.co usually rotating popular radio stations or Spotify. We used it to get through the quiet startup days but now we're busier we still play it. We use a pair of 2.1 speakers plugged into a laptop but because our space is quite large, it's hard to get