Based on your responses I've got this:
- Calls itself a coworking space. - Has a fully dedicated space for coworking (not just a few hours or a cafeteria shared with patrons). - Has an active community of members, not just clients. - Has a facilitator dedicated to connect the members and build trust among them, engaging in activities to build the coworking community. - Treats coworkers as 1st class clients. - Promotes and encourages collaboration, interaction and serendipity. - Offers one or many kinds of membership (full or part time) I did not know how to phrase the open/closed part. What would you add, remove, change? Be specific :) Ramon Suarez Serendipity Accelerator, Betacowork Author: http://coworkinghandbook.com email & hangouts: [email protected] Phone: +3227376769 GSM: +32497556284 Twitter:http://twitter.com/ramonsuarez Skype: ramonsuarez Try coworking: http://betacowork.com <http://betacowork.com/free-coworking-tryout/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=468x60_banner&utm_content=girl-home&utm_campaign=ramon-signature> On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Ramon Suarez <[email protected]> wrote: > Jon, I do as you do. They are members of a community and at the same time > they are clients. They pay for a service, not only for belonging. > > Ramon Suarez > Serendipity Accelerator, Betacowork > Author: http://coworkinghandbook.com > email & hangouts: [email protected] > Phone: +3227376769 > GSM: +32497556284 > Twitter:http://twitter.com/ramonsuarez > Skype: ramonsuarez > Try coworking: http://betacowork.com > > <http://betacowork.com/free-coworking-tryout/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=468x60_banner&utm_content=girl-home&utm_campaign=ramon-signature> > > On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Jon Stever, The Office RW < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Re: "clients" vs. "members". >> >> I would definitely agree on the philosophical distinction. >> Essentially,it's trying to tease out whether the space exists to build a >> community ("members") or to earn a margin on real estate ("clients"). This >> is an important dichotomy, but it's also strictly false as we all exist on >> a sliding scale between these two extremes. >> >> I don't think we want to start to see "client" as a dirty word...at a >> nice restaurant the clients will be on a first-name basis with staff, have >> a special table, regular meal selections, and even Christmas cards in the >> mail (and may even be called "patrons" to distinguish the relationship), >> while at McDonald's "clients" are a mass of impersonal and transactional >> relationships. >> >> I find myself slipping interchangeably between terms when talking about The >> Office <http://theoffice.rw>, because as a coworking space manager and >> business manager I have to think both in terms of building and >> strengthening our community ("membership") and in terms of making the >> numbers work and communicating with potential partners and investors >> ("clients"). When I'm thinking in terms of investment and expansion, I >> intellectual categorize "members" as "clients"...this is often >> sub-conscious and I used to even feel ashamed when I realized that I had >> done it, but I wonder if this is really such a horrible thing. Because, >> when I think about why I do what I do and the people I work with and for, I >> think of "friends" and "members"... >> >> What do you think? >> >> - Jon >> >> On Friday, 12 September 2014 13:15:23 UTC+2, Alex Hillman wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> In my opinion a coworking space -- being a *community* of coworkers -- >>>> always calls and treats its coworkers *members*. >>>> >>> >>> I like this one a lot!! >>> >>> -Alex >>> >> -- >> Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "Coworking" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/coworking/Tvf2gg-WZ5w/unsubscribe. >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- 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/d/optout.
