The coworking concept has so much power that it occupies all parts of speech. This thread celebrates that. We are evolving the basic service economy business model because technology has empowered us to work from anywhere - and we're boldly deciding where we want that somewhere to be.
"Space" got to be so important to me as regards coworking because like many others here, my work life evolved like this: 1. Chew myself free of a corporate job. 2. Start a business. 3. Work from home most of the time, using remote tools. 4. Rediscover the importance of face-to-face interactions. 5. Meet clients and colleagues in wi-fi coffeeshops and borrowed spaces. Find that limiting. 6. Create our own space for our team. 7. Share our space for coworking. Coworking (the movement, distinct from the kind of coworking I did with coworkers in the corporate environment) has never made sense to me outside the context of the ubiquitous, robust remote teaming now possible over the web. Is that an important difference to anyone else? So Dusty, I think the difference we love is, corporate "coworkers" are forced to cowork inside the salt mine, and we Coworkers have freedom to do it when and where we want :) Empowerment being the difference. I'm reading this in the cold predawn, so feeling expansive and not defensive. Just remember people, it's ALL good; take a moment to look where we are and celebrate the extent to which we control our own destinies :) Best regards to you all, -Susan Price --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
