There have been many good stories on coworking in many newspapers across the US, the best one is probably coming out soon.
The story we've told a zillion reporters: Chris blogged about the need for civic spaces back in early 2005? Chris will have the reference to that...then he met Brad N who was doing the one day a week coworking thing at Spiral Muse. The two of them talked. Brad, of course, wanted to see coworking grow, but he was having a tough time getting it off the ground. Chris asked if it was okay to take it and run with it and Brad said, "Of course!" Chris first started helping promote Coworking at spiral muse by throwing a Mashpit there. It was successful, but Chris wanted something bigger. So, we posted an event on Upcoming for a coworking meetup and a whole bunch of people showed up! Ryanne and Jay were all over it and we started hunting for a space, all the time, posting photos, progress, budgets, blog posts, etc. Brad was really busy at the time, so he actually wasn't involved in the search, but he did join us as an anchor at The Hat Factory. Chris and I made the deal at The Hat Factory with Schlomo and we ran that as a collective. Didn't work too well and we decided to open Citizen Space, once again, using an open process. We were also communicating with many others interested in opening their spaces at the time, traveling in some cases to meet with them. We would go to BarCamps around the world and talk about how we were setting up our space. When we opened CS, we asked the HF peeps if we could make the coworking google group (this one) more public. There was a bit of a rouse, but it all ended fine and they started their own separate list. It really started to grow from there and soon, we were taking phonecalls and directing people to this list almost weekly. We wanted to encourage everyone to develop openly. Now Alex Hillman, one of the people we helped early on, has taken a huge leadership role as has Patrick Tanquay as has Jacob Sayles as has many great people from other spaces. It's no longer a 'Tara and Chris' project, really. It belongs to anyone, but the growth wasn't accidental. It was very much deliberate and driven by our passion for spreading it. The article makes it sound like there was none of that. Tara On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Geoff DiMasi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How did it happen? > > I probably should know that. > > Geoff > > > On Mar 2, 2008, at 5:45 PM, Chris Messina wrote: > > > > >> 'Every morning, Mr. Neuberg set up tables and waited for coworkers. > >> > >> '"For the first two months, no one showed up," he says, laughing at > >> his > >> initial hubris. "But people started trickling in and the word > >> spread." Soon > >> enough, he had started a movement.' > > > > Heh. > > > > Well, that's not how it happened, but it's nice prose. ;) > > > > Chris > > > > On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Tara Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > >> Talk about historical revision! Still...any article promoting the > >> movement > >> is good. > >> > >> Tara > >> > >> > >> On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 1:29 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>> > >>> > >>> At: http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0303/p13s03-wmgn.html > >>> > >>> Steve > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> tara 'miss rogue' hunt > >> coFounder > >> Citizen Agency (www.citizenagency.com) > >> blog: www.horsepigcow.com > >> phone: 415-694-1951 > >> fax: 415-727-5335 > >> > >> > >>> > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > Chris Messina > > Citizen-Participant & > > Open Source Advocate-at-Large > > Work: http://citizenagency.com > > Blog: http://factoryjoe.com/blog > > Cell: 412.225.1051 > > IM: factoryjoe > > This email is: [ ] bloggable [X] ask first [ ] private > > > > > > > > > > -- tara 'miss rogue' hunt coFounder Citizen Agency (www.citizenagency.com) blog: www.horsepigcow.com phone: 415-694-1951 fax: 415-727-5335 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
