Welcome Lauren! Some Cliff's notes of advice:
- Start one person at a time - Focus on people and community needs first, not space - Use a cafe or a house or otherwise free space as a staging area for your community - Consider starting a Jelly (http://workatjelly.com) - Hook up with as many other DFW-area communities as you can, including some folks who are already doing coworking there. - Be extra open and transparent in all that you do. Share photos, blog posts, tweets, and talk about what's good and what's hard. Engage people and get them involved. - Empower the would-be members of you community to take an active role in helping grow the community. You'll have more committed members and a lot more help :) - Read the messages in this group! Best of luck and keep us posted! Cheers, Tony ------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------- *New Work City - Coworking NYC style.* *Phone:* (888) 823-3494 *Email:* [email protected] *Web:* http://nwcny.com *Twitter:* http://twitter.com/nwc On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 4:53 PM, laurenw1021 <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > Just joined the group and am interested in starting a coworking space > in Fort Worth, TX. I was first introduced to the idea this past March > in Austin at SXSWi and find it refreshing and am passionate about > establishing a space for the Fort Worth community. For any of you out > there that have started your own space, what are some of your key > pieces of advice to get started? > > Thanks, > Lauren Smith > [email protected] > @laurenwsmith via twitter > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
