I do want to point out how fundamentally less public Facebook is, regardless of it's half-a-billion user count, when compared to resources like the blog, wiki, and google group which are all spidered by Google. (The internet has more than half a billion people on it, especially internationally).
Facebook has inherent sharing power, and that's valuable, but I just want to be clear that the goal of being "more public" isn't necessarily supported by a login-only sharing network being the engine behind it. Getting coworking ideas and ideals into the hands of the masses is going to take a lot more work than sharing press on Facebook...mostly because the press does an overwhelmingly a lousy job of talking about coworking in the first place. I DO agree that the internal back-patting on the google group is largely lost to the masses and belongs somewhere a little more structured. I think that curating those links with a little editorial and educational content is great blog-fodder, and something that a few people could really run with and build up "thoughts worth sharing", wherever people choose to share it. -Alex /ah indyhall.org coworking in philadelphia On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Anne Kirby < [email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Ryan, > > I'm actually on both of those pages. They just don't seem very active, > it would be great to bring all of us together in a more public setting > (i.e. facebook, focused website) the Wiki, google group and even the > blog is great but it's not very public friendly. Could we create > something or enhance something so as to bring us all together and to > educate the public? > > Whenever we get any press we're always giving props to other coworking > spaces in the country, i.e. CoinLoft, indyhall, citizen space or > Workbar. How do we share the love better on the current FB pages, > network better and promote the idea of coworking? That kind of thing. > > Cheers, > Anne > > P.S. The twitter hashtag is great and is a perfect way to bring us all > together on twitter! > > > On Oct 13, 11:48 am, Ryan Price <[email protected]> wrote: > > Both of these look pretty "official": > > > > http://www.facebook.com/pages/Coworking/77381078825 > > Alex Hillman likes it. > > > > http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2281332482 > > Started by Chris Messina, Tara Hunt is an officer. > > > > The "page" is favored by Facebook, since you can feed posts in there, > > and add "boxes". They both have about 400+ people. > > > > Peace, > > Ryan Price > > [email protected] > > @liberatr > > 407-484-8528 > > > > FloridaCreatives.com > > Next Likemind: October 15th @ Drunken Monkey > > Orlando Happy Hour: October 18th @ Crooked Bayou > > > > On Oct 13, 2010, at 11:38 AM, Anne Kirby wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hey Everyone, > > > > > I know there are a lot of facebook pages on coworking I was just > > > wondering if there was one specific FB page for this google group or > > > the wiki page? > > > > > If not, would it be beneficial to have one page setup to represent > > > this community better? I'd be happy to start one and add people as > > > admins if you're interested in being an admin. We could post our info, > > > press, discussions, actively promote coworking as a network. If a page > > > like this already exists could someone post the link? > > > > > I think we could take this group further and even create a website > > > with everyones info listed, really connect this network in the public > > > eye. > > > > > Thoughts, ideas, suggestions? > > > > > Cheers, > > > Anne > > > > > The Candy Factory > > > Where working together is sweet! > > >www.facebook.com/candyissweet > > > > > Coworking in Lancaster, PA > > > > > -- > > > 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 athttp:// > 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]<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.
