I agree with Rachel that this doesn't really worry me and just looks like a larger scale of the sorts of mistakes we've seen repeated. Most people will sniff test this and walk away.
But for the sake of an interesting conversation: Could something like this allow people like us - the people who DO care about community, collaboration, celebration, and the things that make coworking uniquely valuable - focus on *just that*, rather than have to ALSO answer the questions that we've all seen asked here over and over and over - Where do I find the money? Where do I find space? What scheduling software do I use? So the question this raises is: Is there value in a system that lets us focus on the important stuff, only? And what does that system take away from the important stuff? I'm not saying that this McCoworking thing is that system, but it does make me curious what elements of coworking "infrastructure" can (or should?) be commoditized without taking away from the valuable parts, or how possible the entire process is. -Alex /ah indyhall.org coworking in philadelphia On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 2:00 PM, rachel young <[email protected]> wrote: > > nah, they look like just another executive office franchise chain to me. > where is their community? where do they encourage collaboration? where do > they celebrate their members? where do they encourage continuity and > knowledge sharing? > > many times we've seen people or companies start spaces and then look for > the bodies to fill it and many of them have failed or became sterile stuffy > spaces. the old adage of "if you build it they will come" doesn't work, but > that's what this seems like. > r. > > *____________________ > rachel young > *[email protected] > > > * > * > > On 22 April 2011 11:41, CoCoMSP <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hey all you groovy coworking types. >> >> Even here at CoCo though we're doubling down on the notion of hosting >> a unique destination coworking space, I'm fascinated by the >> possibility that somebody will eventually introduce what I >> affectionately call "McCoworking." By that I mean a chain of coworking >> spaces that are deployed across multiple locations and that employ >> economies of scale (e.g., franchising model, common systems, etc.). If >> the predictions of the >> >> So I just got wind of an effort based in our home state that you might >> want to check out: http://allideasmatter.com/cms/ >> >> It appears to be a franchise model, which is interesting. Guessing >> that most of the franchisees will be in strip malls in the suburbs, as >> that's the most uniform real estate, in the most uniform markets... >> >> I'll let you know if I learn any more. I don't know the biz owner >> personally, but might be able to get through to him via intermediaries. >> >> -- >> 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. >> >> > -- > 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. > -- 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.
