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Sent from my iTouch On 2011-12-02, at 9:02 PM, Alex Hillman <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not so sure. I'd say that the elance community isn't "our" community. At > least not Indy Hall's community. Maybe we're different. > > Elance, along with lots of its competitors, have built massive enterprises on > the commoditization of freelance talent. Is there value in brokering quick > transactions between freelancers and companies that need them? Absolutely. > > But this removes one of the differentiating factors that coworking was built > on repairing & supplementing: the relationships we have with the people we > work with. > > Without that, it's the hiring transaction equivalent of desk rental > businesses. Complimentary to the desk-rental and "quick fix" model that Regus > is built on? Absolutely. But take a good hard look at the kinds of business > transactions and collaborations that go on in your coworking spaces and try > to find why people enjoy it so much. It's because they're working with people > they like, people they care about. > > I'm not anti-Elance, mind you. I'm also not anti-Regus. I just don't think > they're a fit for the elements that have made coworking a new and favorable > option for droves of workers around the world. > > It's like this post, but for hiring instead of office space: > http://dangerouslyawesome.com/2011/07/i-dont-think-were-solving-a-cubicle-problem/ > > -Alex > > > > /ah > indyhall.org > coworking in philadelphia > > > On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 8:46 PM, Julie Scanlon <[email protected]> > wrote: > Yes this is interesting, i posted the article on my fb page, the > elance community is our community. We should build a bridge. > > Julie > www.collaboc.com > 949.682.9141 > > > > On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 11:37 PM, Will Bennis, Locus Workspace > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Just thought this was interesting. Not sure how a bottom-up coworking > > community could coordinate well enough to offer things like this (or > > whether they'd want to), but my sense is it would be nice if we could. > > > > https://www.elance.com/p/blog/2011/10/build-a-virtual-office-with-regus-and-elance.html?utm_source=elance&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=elancer-client-201111-002 > > > > -- > > 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. -- 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.
