Hi everyone,
I'm working on a definition of Coworking to make it easier to choose who to
include in the map of coworking spaces in Belgium
http://coworkingbelgium.be/belgium-coworking-spaces-map. I know it can be
a controversial subject and I don't want to start a flamewar, but I would
like to
I’m pretty sure that Emergent Research has a rubric they use for when they do
their research for their annual report, but I can’t remember exactly what is on
it. Having some consistency with that would probably be helpful!
I think it had some of the items you described, but it was a lot more
One of the measuring sticks I use more and more is related to defining
community rather than coworking.
As I stated at the conference in Durham, community is more about being, than
doing and fulfils needs beyond the practical. (space, tech, programs, etc)
A real community meets our human needs.
Tricky business for sure. One factor I've been looking more and more at is
the motivations and intentions of the champions behind each community, or
said another way, why the space was started in the first place. There are
many conversations that come up again and again that, with hindsight, I
If we can find neutral language to highlight distinctions like this it would
go a long way to that goal of finding like-minded spaces and filling our
communities with happy members.”
I don’t think that more neutral language is what we need. In fact, I think we
need the opposite.
The
Ah let me clarify. By neutral I didn't mean less specific I meant
less hostile or actually more open to the difference. Using terms like
Korean BBQ is a good example of this as it's not derogatory. Likening
another space to a fast food joint is a little less neutral.
Jacob
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Likening another space to a fast food joint is a little less neutral.”
Lots of people love fast food and don’t think of it as derogatory at all.
Again - the source matters.
-Alex
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Jacob Sayles ja...@officenomads.com
wrote:
Ah let me clarify. By
Case in point: WITHIN the fast food industry, they refer to themselves as
“QSRs” or “Quick Service Restaurants”. Sometimes it’s “Fast Casual”. That
industry by itself is huge and diverse, even as a subset of the larger
restaurant industry.
http://www.qsrmagazine.com/
I agree with Alex. I have been arguing for sometime the restaurant
metaphor. I think we would be better served trying to define the
categories instead of the industry. Hell one could argue that coworking
is already a category of an industry. :)
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