Re: [Coworking] Co-ops and Coworking: the best-kept secret in coworking.

Trevor, how would you rate your co-op on each of the 7 cooperative principles? What works great? What could work even better? Other questions (answers to any of them would be great) : Are there any cooperative principles that don't match up exactly with what members want? Are there any

Re: [Coworking] Co-ops and Coworking: the best-kept secret in coworking.

Hi Trevor, I'm glad you like the concept. Here's some models of how I think about workplace democracy, and how it works. If you're into metaphors, there are two brand metaphors that work well for us: if it isn't like a cozy fireplace, we don't do it (although recently, community workplace has

Re: [Coworking] Co-ops and Coworking: the best-kept secret in coworking.

Alex, this is fascinating. I want to make sure I understand: are you saying that anyone can walk in off the street and have no financial stake in your organization, but still participate in making decisions? Trevor Twining trevortwin...@gmail.com 416-201-2254 twitter/skype/linkedin:

Re: [Coworking] Co-ops and Coworking: the best-kept secret in coworking.

This is a great thread. I'm interested in talking with everyone who has a co-op or workplace democracy and is interested in sharing more best practices. Collective Agency started very similarly, out of Jellies, then we did presales. Members have not wanted to be a legal co-op and have not

Re: [Coworking] Co-ops and Coworking: the best-kept secret in coworking.

Alex, I think I’ve mentioned before how much IndyHall has influenced the creation of our space. Without you sharing what y'all put together there I’d probably still be waiting for someone else to have built a space. You should come hang out for a bit with Jay Tennier and me and I’ll show you

Re: [Coworking] Co-ops and Coworking: the best-kept secret in coworking.

Hey Tony, happy to clear up #7. Membership in the Co-op is a pre-requisite to using our space, but many members join our co-op without using the space. If I were to compare it to other spaces, I’d say our base membership is similar to the community membership offered by IndyHall, except we

Re: [Coworking] Co-ops and Coworking: the best-kept secret in coworking.

Man, I love seeing the Indy Hall playbook in action like this <3 <3 Echoing lots of what's been said here - I look forward to a more detailed follow up post :) We have a few members that are VERY active in the co-op world and we often get together to talk about how much co-op DNA Indy Hall has.

Re: [Coworking] Co-ops and Coworking: the best-kept secret in coworking.

Trevor, you're quickly becoming my new favorite person. Thank you for sharing all of this! *Regarding Step 1...* Bravo!!! My heart sings when I see this. *Regarding Step 7...* "Our membership model also encourages participation that doesn’t directly involve the space, so we have a larger group

Re: [Coworking] Co-ops and Coworking: the best-kept secret in coworking.

Thanks all, for your feedback so far. Sounds like I need a (few?) follow up post(s). I’ll also post some links shortly to resources we used. In Canada, most co-ops are provincially incorporated, so I assume that in the US each state will have its own co-op legislation. I’ll share what we did

Re: [Coworking] Co-ops and Coworking: the best-kept secret in coworking.

Trevor, I think a lot of us are excited to learn more about how you pulled this off! I encountered early thoughts on this topic as well, but found it difficult to get a clear sense of how to go about in a way that would be viable. I think any more details you can provide on that would be helpful

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Ditto. Can you provide more details on the financial structure? Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 18, 2016, at 10:40 AM, Jacob Sayles wrote: > > I'd love to know more about this. I'm certainly sold on the value alignment > but I don't have a sense for how it works. > >>

Re: [Coworking] Co-ops and Coworking: the best-kept secret in coworking.

Hi Trevor   Your link to the blog post isn't working. Tried it on 2 different browsers, thinking that might be an issue, but neither worked.   I'm in Toronto, but followed Innovate Niagar for some time while I was self-employed so have some sense of trends in the Niagara Region and

Re: [Coworking] Co-ops and Coworking: the best-kept secret in coworking.

I'd love to know more about this. I'm certainly sold on the value alignment but I don't have a sense for how it works. On Thursday, February 18, 2016, Trevor Twining wrote: > Apologies. I used an internal link. > > Here’s the real link > > >

Re: [Coworking] Co-ops and Coworking: the best-kept secret in coworking.

Here is a link taken from their website: http://coworkniagara.com/blog/2016/02/10/why-co-operatives-and-coworking-go-hand-in-hand/ On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 9:46 AM, Alex Hillman wrote: > Hey Trevor - thank link is broken! :( looking forward to reading this. > >

Re: [Coworking] Co-ops and Coworking: the best-kept secret in coworking.

Hey Trevor - thank link is broken! :( looking forward to reading this. -Alex On Thursday, February 18, 2016, Trevor Twining wrote: > Hey everyone, > > When we were developing the business plan for our space two years ago, a > prospective member asked us if we had

[Coworking] Co-ops and Coworking: the best-kept secret in coworking.

Hey everyone, When we were developing the business plan for our space two years ago, a prospective member asked us if we had considered setting Cowork Niagara up as a co-operative. We didn’t know what that was, so we checked it out. It was the best thing that we could have done. We’re the only