I received a call from Google just now to clarify my Places listing since I was listed as "Other." After I answered the question "What is coworking?", the rep tried a keyword search and turned up coworking.regus.com as a paid ad under "Coworking Space To Rent". I mentioned that several thousand coworking space owners are asking Google to add us as a category, but I doubt if she'll pass that up the chain of command.
-- Glen Ferguson On Friday, March 15, 2013 at 11:45 PM, Tony Bacigalupo wrote: > Nada :( > > > On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 6:53 PM, [email protected] > (mailto:[email protected]) <[email protected] > (mailto:[email protected])> wrote: > > Speaking of which, any word from your contact at Google Places team Tony? > > > > > > On Wednesday, March 13, 2013 11:02:53 AM UTC-5, Ramon Suarez BetaGroup > > Coworking Brussels wrote: > > > > > > I second Tony's request. There are over 2000 coworking spaces right now > > > and at the current rate they will be 4000 by this time next year. > > > > > > Other related categories that are not showing up: offices, shared > > > offices, business center, professional community, etc. > > > > > > > > > On Monday, January 14, 2013 6:25:04 AM UTC+1, [email protected] wrote: > > > > Hey y'all, > > > > > > > > I just wanted to reach out and share a concern of mine regarding Google > > > > Places and see if we might be able to solve this together as a > > > > community. > > > > > > > > It would appear (see attached screenshot below for context) that no > > > > combination of "coworking, coworking space, cowork space, cowork, etc." > > > > was available as a pre-existing category. > > > > > > > > I think this is something we should work to fix ASAP since a lot of > > > > services scrape Google Places to aggregate lists of places by category. > > > > If coworking were actually a category in their system rather than being > > > > a custom category, we might actually have a really solid self-curated > > > > list of coworking spaces everywhere. In general, this would help to > > > > raise visibility of all coworking spaces and make them more > > > > discoverable. > > > > > > > > So now I'm going to ask does anyone on these boards know anyone on the > > > > Google Places team that can make this happen? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Also while on the subject, I'd like to ask, given the current > > > > constraints of the Google Places system, what categories and custom > > > > categories space operators have been using to market yourselves? > > > > > > > > > > > > Also, I tried looking up in the annals of this Google Group a unified > > > > map of coworking spaces worldwide and only found the following dead > > > > link (http://www.coworking.info (http://www.coworking.info/)) on this > > > > thread: > > > > https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!searchin/coworking/google$20places/coworking/wSjlp2mBm58/03EQEA2PhI8J > > > > > > > > Does any one know if this has been migrated somewhere else or possibly > > > > know if a new project has taken its place? > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Oren > > > > -- > > Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com > > --- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Coworking" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > email to [email protected] > > (mailto:coworking%[email protected]). > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > > -- > Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Coworking" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > (mailto:[email protected]). > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
