So great! We're actually thinking about following in SF footsteps and organizing a coworking tour up here as well. Just need to track down a Seattle-based biodiesel bus! :) And/or adding a bike-tour component to the adventures.
Best of luck! Susan __ Office Nomads officenomads.com 206-484-5859 On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Raines Cohen <[email protected]> wrote: > Iris - > > I agree, we're long overdue for a Bay Area/Northern CA coworking gathering, > since we put together the *Coworking Crawl* Downtown SF biodiesel bus > tour, (too) many years ago. > > I've long been working on making introductions between area coworking space > organizers, and I've been amazed to discover that some have been so busy in > their own spaces that they have never been to visit others, even ones just a > couple blocks or under a mile away, let alone talk with other space > organizers and active users. > > Especially now as several spaces are open in close proximity in downtown SF > and Berkeley and even in downtown Oakland, it will help us grow as a > movement, and get past perceptions of competition as the driving force of > what we're about, better understand each other, our spaces, our needs and > strategies, and maybe even find enough common interest that joint investment > in cooperative marketing/outreach to build the coworking brand and > community. Our space members, too, can benefit from cross-listing events and > seeing themselves as part of a larger community that stretches across > spaces. > > There's a dormant Bay Area > Coworking<http://www.meetup.com/coworkingBayArea/>MeetUp group I've been > holding onto in caretaker status that could be pretty > rapidly revived for this purpose. And I'm interested in collaborating on > making something happen. > > Of the SF spaces I've visited, Citizen Space and The Hub seem to be the > ones with the largest full-room meeting spaces available, although depending > on how widely we cast a net, it could probably fit several. > > Raines Cohen, Coworking Coach <http://www.CoworkingCoach.com/> > Mostly lately operating out of *The Hub* at the *David Brower Center* in > downtown Berkeley (CA) > (*currently at **Netroots Nation* <http://www.NetrootsNation.org/>* in > Las Vegas, at the moment learning how to leverage Twitter for political and > advocacy campaigns*) > > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Iris Kavanagh <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hey There Bay Area Coworking Peeps! >> >> I'm proposing a coworking meetup for all of us in this central California >> Area. I love what Seattle is doing with their comarketing and I think we >> could do some thing similar here to both raise awareness about coworking in >> general and to help foster a stronger bond between our individual spaces. >> >> -- > 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]<coworking%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en. > -- 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.
