Dear All I'm the founder of WorkSnug - A mobile app & website which connects mobile workers to the nearest and best places to work. We're growing rapidly and have a very active global community of users who use WorkSnug to find a place to work. Our community will soon reach six figures and we have contracts with various technology partners which will support our continued growth over the coming period. See for example: http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/26/is-that-a-wifi-hotspot-i-see-worksnug-to-add-skype-access-listings/
See www.worksnug.com or for a one minute overview of what we do, see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z_Q3yl4NjM&feature=related We currently list most of the world's coworking spaces, usually having been submitted by the location themselves, but we have no formal programme or focus around those spaces. However I'm personally very committed to the global coworking movement - We're based in a coworking space (The Hub in London) and I really admire the cooperative, grass-roots ethos. Equally, I believe that our user-base could benefit in many ways from choosing coworking spaces over Starbucks, hotel lobbies or the kitchen table. I wanted to float an idea for general discussion: Should WorkSnug introduce a system, similar to the Coworking Visa, which enables our users to drop-in to Coworking spaces? The spaces would offer at least one free session on a drop-in basis to all WorkSnug users, with scope to offer more sessions should they choose. WorkSnug will centrally manage the platform, providing location-based venue discovery, user-identification and navigation to the venue. Coworking spaces will be promoted within the tool as preferred spaces. There are a few implications to consider. Clearly any venue wishing to take part will need to be comfortable that they can support visits from our community. We can offer good & growing user numbers, variable by city, but there is the potential that we become a blunt tool. Also, we're a commercial entity and would charge a membership fee for such a service in order to make it viable. This would however be low, likely in the range of $100 annually, per coworking space. There is also the broader philosophical question: Does the coworking movement, which is distributed and independent by its nature, want to sign up to centrally managed programmes like this? And does it want to open up to a more corporate user-base? I'd like this to form the basis of an open discussion, but I can be contacted in person at richard.leyl...@worksnug.com Thanks Richard Leyland Founder, WorkSnug -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to cowork...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
