I was trained in strategic marketing and arts management. Currently I am doing a PhD research aiming at the interaction, collaboration and knowledge sharing and dissemination among creative SME's within the creative cluster in China.
Since 2007 I have co-founded Da-Tong China Desk Creative Industry in the Netherlands to provide services to European creative entrepreneurs, organizations and governments to establish collaboration in China. After coming back to China in 2008 I started to chair a monthly gathering of creative professional in Shanghai: 3S ReUnion to talk about the the social, economical and cultural embedding of new media, recently we are broading up this gathering to all the professionals who want to share knowledge across disciplines. In the coming year I am looking forward to setting up a coworking space in Shanghai for creative professionals for knowledge sharing and creative collaborations. 3S ReUnion will be integrated as one of the community building tools for the space to sustain space as a place of creativity, connectivity and knowledge sharing. I am now doing investigation of the concept of coworking and preparing a business plan for this coworking space. I find the information posted here are extremely helpful, thanks for creating this group!!!. The most important lesson I have learned is consider this coworking space as a community rather than a profit-center while operating more professionally by understanding the target customers of the space by segments and get the financial homework done by calculating the cost and budgeting the revenues... Meanwhile, I am leaving the project open to many friends from various of disciplines right now because we want to combine knowledge and resources to set the space up, I am little worried about fairness of getting everyone rewarded for what they do, either financially or non- financially,Ithink I should make clear with everyone about their motivation and interest in the project so as to avoid misunderstanding and misuse in the future? More posts come later... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
