Hi Everyone, I'm a little late joining this group, not sure how I managed to miss getting involved earlier.
I'm Jon, and I'm the founder of http://inuda.com a small web app development, coaching and support business based in Brighton. We work with all sorts of organisations to help them do more with the web. Our most high profile job to date has been working with Oxfam to help them experiment with using Facebook to build stronger relationships with their supporters. We've also built a handy little app on the side for measure the visibility of a brand on the social web: http://howsociable.com We love getting really involved in community stuff and have been participants in all three http://BarCampBrighton.org's, including organising the last 2 to take place at the University of Sussex. We have a hub for all our community focused activities here: http://inuda.org In the last couple of months we spotted an opportunity to take on a space in central Brighton and we're now in the process of moving in. I'm an old friend of James McCarthy who co-founded The Werks coworking space on the other side of Brighton and I've also worked closely with Steve Purkiss and Josh Russell who are creating the coworking cafe on the beach here. Having been inspired them and after reading up on Citizen Space we've decided we want to do the same with our space. It's all been a little rushed putting this together on the side of our main business but we think we're going to be ready for coworkers as early as next week. We've made use of http://CitizenSpace.us's Creative Commons content which we felt fitted well with our own ideas and with only a few modifications we've set up http://theskiff.org to tell everyone what we're up to. I realise this post isn't quite in fitting with the group's guidelines. I know I would have benefited a great deal had I got involved earlier. I hope that despite that my late entrance you might still be able to provide some feedback on what we're doing - we expect our approach to evolve over the coming weeks and months. I'm particularly conscious of the fact that about a quarter of the people using The Skiff will be Inuda employees rather than everyone being independents. We've got two great independents that will be joining us and they have played a big part in getting set up. We want to try and make sure that we sustain the open, collaborative, community feel that coworking is all about and avoid a divide forming between those that work within Inuda and those that don't. Looking forward to getting more involved in the wider coworking community, Jon. -- Jonathan Markwell Engineer | Founder | Connector Inuda Innovations Ltd, Brighton, UK Strengthening your relationships through the web - http://inuda.com Providing a nice place to work in the heart of Brighton - http://theskiff.org Helping people make a difference with technology - http://inuda.org Measuring your brand's visibility on the social web - http://HowSociable.com mob: 07766 021 485 | tel: 01273 704 549 | fax: 01273 376 953 skype: jlmarkwell | twitter: http://twitter.com/madmotive --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
