Sweet, sounds like you're all ready to go! Just a matter of finding a suitable spot to Jelly it up and firing up that wiki page :-)
Keep us posted! T On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Elizabeth Trever Buchinger < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hosting a Jelly - or a series of them - is an excellent idea. And yes, > I am in contact with a few of the City expats, and each of them is in > touch with more and so on. > > I'm in Cooperstown, and yes, all coworkers are welcome to summer here. > No beach parties, but we have a beautiful lake, great museums, a > world-class opera and, hmmmm, what am I forgetting... oh yeah, a > little thing called the Baseball Hall of Fame. > > ~Elizabeth > > On 11/9/08, Tony Bacigalupo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Elizabeth, > > > > When I first started researching coworking way back when, I was thinking > > that a feasibility/market study was necessary-- to determine not just if > > there were enough people, but in what part of the city such a space would > be > > best situated. > > > > But honestly, I don't know how one goes about conducting a formal > > feasibility study. What I did figure out was how to connect with the > people > > in the area and informally determine where and what the needs were. > > > > It sounds like you know your town and its makeup pretty well-- are you in > > personal correspondence with many of those NYC-expat independents? If you > > hosted a Jelly, could you put the word out to a few folks and ask them to > do > > the same? > > > > Going that route should, relatively quickly and certainly inexpensively, > get > > you not only some very valuable information about the feasibility of a > > coworking community/space, but people to help too. > > > > PS: What town are you in? If you open a space, can us New Yorkers come > down > > in the summer and have a coworking beach party? :-D > > > > Best, > > Tony Bacigalupo > > New Work City > > > > > > On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Elizabeth Trever Buchinger < > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> Has anyone out there started their project with an informal > >> feasibility study? Even some kind of questionnaire or informal > >> personal research? I'm in a small town with unique demographics. It's > >> a major summertime destination, and lots of folks have second homes > >> here. But the core population includes a surprising number of > >> freelancers and creative people who have left the NYC area and moved > >> up here to start families, etc. > >> > >> I've been talking up the idea of coworking, and people have been very > >> positive. But I'm looking for suggestions on how to go about getting a > >> better sense of whether anyone would actually participate, as well as > >> how many people might be interested. > >> > >> Has anyone out there been successful at collecting that type of > research? > >> > >> ~Elizabeth > >> > >> > > >> > > > > > > > > > > -- > ~Elizabeth > > www.etbwrites.com > http://hive.typepad.com > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
