[Coworking] Re: In 10 days the First European Jelly Week is starting! Join Spread the Spirit!
Hello the Jelly Week participants from all around the world. Do not hesitate to take pictures and record videos of your Jelly. It should amplify the international coworking community's voice. A way or another, we will once put all this material in one virtual spot. Jean-Yves Huwart Coworking Europe conference Entreprise Globale On Jan 13, 3:40 am, Kyo Satani kyo.sat...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Anni Glad to have a message from you! Yes, I will definitely join the worldwide jelly week. And now I decided to join the first European Jelly Week on our own accord, though we are located in Tokyo. We also keep open house for anybody from 17 to 23 Jan. Cheers = Kampai! Kyo paxi PAX Coworkinghttp://coworking.jp/http://twitter.com/paxCoworking 2011/1/12 Anni Roolf anniro...@gmx.de Hi Kyo, thanks for your good wishes from asia. And it's great, that the coworking and jelly virus is everywhere! ;-) Read also this new article about the european jelly week: http://www.deskmag.com/en/first-european-jelly-week-coworking-167 Let's think about a worldwide jelly week as the next step. Are you joining? Best, Anni Am 12.01.2011 05:41, schrieb Kyo Satani: Very interesting! I will have Asian Jelly Week in the near future. Good Luck and enjoy European Jelly Week!!! I visited Saigon, Vietnam and Taipei, Taiwan last weekend, and talked with guys who are opening coworking space. Compared with the US and Europe, Asian coworking spaces are quite less, but the number is increasing. Anybody owning coworking space in Asia, please contact me. Kyo paxi PAX Coworking, Tokyo http://coworking.jp/ PS We are having Jelly on 15 Jan from 9.00 till 17.00. http://tweetvite.com/event/jelly7 2011/1/8 Ramon Suarez BetaGroup Coworking Brussels ra...@betagroup.be We will also be hosting a Jelly in Belgium on the 18th of January at the BetaGroup Coworking Brusselshttp://coworking.betagroup.be:) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.comcoworking%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en. -- Kyo paxi http://paxi.jp/ http://beemanet.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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 coworking@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.comcoworking%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en. -- Kyo paxihttp://paxi.jp/http://beemanet.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
[Coworking] Re: How do you handle more than one small business employee?
We have individuals and organizations rent coworking space from us. Our rule is that up to three people can share a single package (dividing the hours among them) as long as 1) they are from the same company 2) they have purchased one of our two highest packages (60 or 100 hrs per month - we won;t let them split the 5 or 20 hr packages). Alternatively, they are entitled to $50 off every subsequent package if they prefer to have separate memberships. For permanent desk members, they are welcome to divide the time among staff at no charge... they also get $50 off a second package if they want one. Eli Malinsky Centre for Social Innovation Toronto -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
RE: [Coworking] Re: To Go Defunct or To Downsize
James- I would love to see your marketing plan if you are willing to share it more broadly. Thanks God Bless, Joel Bennett Chief Dreamchaser Veel Hoeden, LLC veelhoe...@gmail.com http://veelhoeden.posterous.com http://www.twitter.com/veelhoeden -Original Message- From: coworking@googlegroups.com [mailto:coworking@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of james rock Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 11:25 PM To: Coworking Subject: [Coworking] Re: To Go Defunct or To Downsize hi... sounds like difficult times! you seem to have a very small membership, particularly after so long. we have been open 18 months and have recruited 55 members of different categories, though 15 have moved on due to moving to a new are, becoming too big and needing/ wanting own office space, got a full-time job again. But we still have 40 current members and plan to grow this by 25% this year - I have been developing the marketing plan to do that and happy to share some of our ideas if that helps. We are set-up as a social enterprise, protecting/generating jobs for the local community but have now become self-sustaining. Maybe there are other revenue opportunities you are missing? best regards James Rock - Cultivar Consulting : http://www.cultivar.co.uk working from Moseley Exchange : http://www.moseleyechange.com On Jan 11, 10:13 pm, Todd O'Neill t...@c4workspace.com wrote: Well, we have come to a major turning point in the San Antonio coworking story. We received our final past rent due notice and were on the brink of a lockout last Friday. We had personal resources to avert the closure but a big portion of the debt still remains. C4 Workspace has 3100 square feet of space smack dab between our downtown and our arts district called Southtown. We have three desk Residents, one office Resident and three shared desk Coworkers. Daily Desk drop-ins are almost not worth mentioning. We have 66 members on the books. We've hosted more than a thousand people at events since June 2009. Have appeared on local television three or four times, have a very strong Facebook presence. We have broken even one month, December 2009. With seemingly everything going for us; great location, free parking (very big deal here), easy access from outside downtown via major highways, awareness, apparent support; we can get very little traction for the concept of coworking. Conversely, Austin now has 9 coworking spaces. As far as I know from exchanges with their catalysts they are doing OK. Conjunctured just doubled their physical space. Go figure. (Well, if you knew San Antonio you may have figured it out already.) In the next few days we will determine if we can continue C4 Workspace in its current location, close it down or move to a smaller place. My vote and the vote of our committed community is to stay open. Our lease is up in about two months and the rent increases 20% to market rates. (Sorry LA and NYC; our market rate here is between $1 and $2.50 a square foot a month.) We have a ChipIn widget on our website and linked from our FB Page to close the gap on the back rent. We hope to be able to find a smaller place of about $1500 square feet or so. And in the background of all this... San Antonio city fathers are making lots of noise about drawing people to the urban core. Including our landlord who is president of the downtown property owners association. (Appeals to him go nowhere.) We are the 9th largest (or 7th depending on who you talk to) city in the U.S. and the largest, majority Hispanic(65%). We are twice as large as Austin. We're getting B-cycle bike rental later this year, they just got Federal dollars for a streetcar feasibility study and our river north and south of the city is a dream. Heck, the Culinary Institute of America has opened a campus here! Oh, and we have one of the highest first and second teen pregnancy rates in the country, 17% poverty rate, one of the highest obesity rates n the U.S. and our literacy rate is somewhere south of 50%. I've been at this for more than three years now and am committed to coworking as a way of work. The long term view makes this a bump in the road I know. There's lots we could have done or should have done or tried. Water under the bridge now but lessons learned for later and to pass on. It helps to vent to others that get it and have been there. Looking forward to seeing you all at the Coworking Summit (Can we call it CoworkCamp please!) at SXSW. Thanks all! Cheers! Todd O'Neill Catalyst - C4 Workspace http://c4workspace.com/ Organizer - TEDxSanAntonio http://tedxsanantonio.com/ FaceBook: C4 Workspace http://www.facebook.com/c4workspace | Twitter: c4workspace http://www.twitter.com/c4workspace -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
[Coworking] Coworking Unconference Update!
Hi everyone, We're really excited about seeing a lot of you in Austin in March! If you don't get through this whole email, here are the action items: 1. RSVP in Plancast if you haven't already (http://plancast.com/p/33pl) 2. Event website / swag design: We need help. There's a $2,000 budget and/or in-kind opportunity here (design the site and become a sponsor of the Unconference) 3. Contribute suggestions for keynote/panel speakers: http://bit.ly/hoMqo7 4. Sponsors: Help reach out to sponsors. A good excuse to call on behalf of the community. Email a...@loosecubes.com to get in the loop and help out. 5. Follow @coworksxsw for ongoing updates! Here's the detailed update: When: Thursday, March 10th from 3 pm - 11 pm Where: We recently locked in a really awesome (and brand new!) venue for the event called Hangar Lounge, located just a few blocks from the convention center in downtown Austin. Check out the pics here: http://on.fb.me/ib3M9N Who: 100 people have indicated their attending the event on Plancast ( http://plancast.com/p/33pl), including folks from the UK, France, Spain Germany!; Total capacity: 150. Sign up if you haven't already. Everyone on plancast will get advance notice when the Eventbrite page goes live. What: Unconference format with 2-3 pre-organized keynote panels. We'd love suggestions for the keynote speakers. I kicked it off with a couple ideas ( here http://bit.ly/hoMqo7). Please submit your own ideas. In the next few weeks we'll be issuing a 'call for submissions' so that you all can provide suggestions for sessions at the unconference. We'll then ask the community to vote on their favorites. Start thinking about a session you might want to host! Website: We need some support here. The designer we were going to work with backed out. We're talking to a couple other people, but if you'd like to design/code the page or have a referral to do it, please let us know! Right now we've got $2,000 budgeted for the website / tee shirt / bag designs. It would be awesome if someone that's already a part of the community wanted to take this project on. Basically it'll be a landing page with info about the event and link to the Eventbrite page. We'd like to get it up asap. Sponsors/Budget: In order to keep the per person 'registration fee' down as much as possible, we're working to obtain sponsorship by great companies to cover the baseline unconference costs (venue, food, drinks, AV, etc.). So far, we've received a verbal commitment by a founding sponsor to provide $4,000. Time for you to get involved! Our total sponsorship goal is $15,500, which will allow us to keep the registration fee to $30 (inclusive of everything -- food, beverages, swag!). Anything beyond $15,500 would lower the registration fee. If you are interested in reaching out to sponsors or collecting in-kind donations on behalf of the Unconference, please email a...@loosecubes.com. We're going to do a conference call with the sponsorship committee on Monday to make a plan of attack. If you have connections to in-kind donations, the big needs are: food for dinner, tee shirts, signage, and the website/branding. Alcohol must come from the venue. Spreadsheet with details on the budget here: http://bit.ly/haUMQ8 http://bit.ly/hoMqo7 (second tab) Twitter account: We reserved @coworksxsw. Let us know if you want to be on the twitter team and we'll give you the credentials for the account. Otherwise, follow us for more details! Look forward to having some margaritas with everyone in March! Cheers, Campbell Anna campb...@loosecubes.com a...@loosecubes.com @loosecubes www.loosecubes.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
Re: [Coworking] Coworking as a for Profit Business?
We're a for-profit business for the purpose of sustainably providing for our members, but my partner and I do not pay ourselves. He'd been involved in arts collectives that operated as co-ops and seen how they fall apart and create animosity between members. We wanted a model designed specifically to avoid that tension. I've written about this before. It's not about choosing between for profit or not-for-profit: http://dangerouslyawesome.com/2010/11/coworking-as-a-business-it-has-nothing-to-do-with-profit/ -Alex /ah indyhall.org coworking in philadelphia On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 12:56 AM, Orchestrator ray...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, As I'm reading through all the coworking discussions, I have a few questions: 1) Are you operating your coworking facility/office space solely as a for profit business or are you just gathering a bunch of like-minded people to help share in the cost of the rent? 1a) and did you receive a great deal from the landlord that you know very well (friend or family) because vacancy rates are probably at all time high? While I've heard some people with a coworking office/business say, We are profitable... 2) If so, are you doing this 100% as a for profit business and paying yourself and other employees (not including spouse, children or other family members who will work for peanuts) from this coworking business? 3) Or, are you having to run another business within the coworking office space (say a marketing consulting services company), thus combining both incomes to satisfy the take home pay range in order to support you and your family? I'd be curious to hear from those who are Coworking as True Coops and those who are in it as a For Profit business. Right now, I'm on the fence. Thanks! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.comcoworking%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com . 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 coworking@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
Re: [Coworking] Coworking Unconference Update!
My company can take care of the website. I'll only charge cost for hosting, registration, etc. If we could schedule a call for tomorrow we can discuss the details. MATSU TECHNICAL SERVICES, LLC 888.806.2587 www.matsutechnicalservices.com Sent via BlackBerry by ATT -Original Message- From: Campbell McKellar cmc...@gmail.com Sender: coworking@googlegroups.com Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 09:29:36 To: coworking@googlegroups.com Reply-To: coworking@googlegroups.com Cc: Anna Thomasa...@loosecubes.com; Angel Kwiatkowskifccowork...@gmail.com; tonybacigal...@gmail.com; jessicahlawre...@gmail.com Subject: [Coworking] Coworking Unconference Update! Hi everyone, We're really excited about seeing a lot of you in Austin in March! If you don't get through this whole email, here are the action items: 1. RSVP in Plancast if you haven't already (http://plancast.com/p/33pl) 2. Event website / swag design: We need help. There's a $2,000 budget and/or in-kind opportunity here (design the site and become a sponsor of the Unconference) 3. Contribute suggestions for keynote/panel speakers: http://bit.ly/hoMqo7 4. Sponsors: Help reach out to sponsors. A good excuse to call on behalf of the community. Email a...@loosecubes.com to get in the loop and help out. 5. Follow @coworksxsw for ongoing updates! Here's the detailed update: When: Thursday, March 10th from 3 pm - 11 pm Where: We recently locked in a really awesome (and brand new!) venue for the event called Hangar Lounge, located just a few blocks from the convention center in downtown Austin. Check out the pics here: http://on.fb.me/ib3M9N Who: 100 people have indicated their attending the event on Plancast ( http://plancast.com/p/33pl), including folks from the UK, France, Spain Germany!; Total capacity: 150. Sign up if you haven't already. Everyone on plancast will get advance notice when the Eventbrite page goes live. What: Unconference format with 2-3 pre-organized keynote panels. We'd love suggestions for the keynote speakers. I kicked it off with a couple ideas ( here http://bit.ly/hoMqo7). Please submit your own ideas. In the next few weeks we'll be issuing a 'call for submissions' so that you all can provide suggestions for sessions at the unconference. We'll then ask the community to vote on their favorites. Start thinking about a session you might want to host! Website: We need some support here. The designer we were going to work with backed out. We're talking to a couple other people, but if you'd like to design/code the page or have a referral to do it, please let us know! Right now we've got $2,000 budgeted for the website / tee shirt / bag designs. It would be awesome if someone that's already a part of the community wanted to take this project on. Basically it'll be a landing page with info about the event and link to the Eventbrite page. We'd like to get it up asap. Sponsors/Budget: In order to keep the per person 'registration fee' down as much as possible, we're working to obtain sponsorship by great companies to cover the baseline unconference costs (venue, food, drinks, AV, etc.). So far, we've received a verbal commitment by a founding sponsor to provide $4,000. Time for you to get involved! Our total sponsorship goal is $15,500, which will allow us to keep the registration fee to $30 (inclusive of everything -- food, beverages, swag!). Anything beyond $15,500 would lower the registration fee. If you are interested in reaching out to sponsors or collecting in-kind donations on behalf of the Unconference, please email a...@loosecubes.com. We're going to do a conference call with the sponsorship committee on Monday to make a plan of attack. If you have connections to in-kind donations, the big needs are: food for dinner, tee shirts, signage, and the website/branding. Alcohol must come from the venue. Spreadsheet with details on the budget here: http://bit.ly/haUMQ8 http://bit.ly/hoMqo7 (second tab) Twitter account: We reserved @coworksxsw. Let us know if you want to be on the twitter team and we'll give you the credentials for the account. Otherwise, follow us for more details! Look forward to having some margaritas with everyone in March! Cheers, Campbell Anna campb...@loosecubes.com a...@loosecubes.com @loosecubes www.loosecubes.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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 coworking@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at
[Coworking] Re: To Go Defunct or To Downsize
Thanks James We actually have 66 members on the books. We have a space Membership of $50 that includes two Daily Desk passes. Of the 66 we see about 10-15% on a regular basis, the rest are spotty - when they are downtown, when we have an event, etc. Would love to see your marketing plan. Always looking for new ideas! Cheers! Todd -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
[Coworking] Re: Coworking center operations (wifi, reservations, etc) - about to open...
Dana Our operations workflow is... 1. Membership or Desk Plan SIgn-up form on website 2. Feeds to Batchbook.com CRM 3. Push new person to Freshbooks via Batchbooks integration 4. Email invoice from Freshbooks. 5. Person pays through PayPal or credit card We also use Freshbooks to invoice for Daily Desks. The person gets a receipt and we get a payment record. We take conference room reservations only for non-members but warn members that if they NEED the room at particular time that they need to rserve it on the calendar. We have public Google Calendars for Events, Conference Room and Community Space listings. We JUST started taking Conference Room reservations through a Google Form, which is on our website, but it hasn't gotten much use. Our original business model was Conference Room dependent but usage was nowhere near our very conservative estimates. Maybe 3% utilization (actual divided by available). We forecast 10%. That screwed our first year forecast. I have no idea where our members or people like them go to meet with people. BIG criticism we have heard is that we lack privacy. Our conference room, phone rooms and offices do not have ceilings and we have a lot of echo off cement floors and 12' cement ceilings. If you use your inside voice it's cool but people tend to hear the echo, think others can't hear them and talk louder to compensate. That just becomes a viscous increasing volume circle. Cheers! Todd -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
[Coworking] Offices on the Move
Again an article appeared on one of major media about China to predict the future of work with Virtual Offices and our Coworking Space(or called hot desking if they prefer) http://www.chinaeconomicreview.com/cer/2010_12/Offices_on_the_move.html -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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 coworking@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
[Coworking] So I have some space...
Hello coworking group. I'm new on the block and was wanting to ask a fairly simple questions and hope to receive feedback. Background: I happen to have access to a Large floor space (4000sqft) and I'm only using maybe a 1/4 of the space. It's used to house a design group that has now down sized and the owner is letting myself and husband work out of it so it still gets some use. It comes compete with a conference room, kitchenette, 2 large/private desk spaces, and at the very least 4 work cubes that could hold up to 2 people. Desk's are still in place with lots of chairs, a project island and even some computer and printers remain. The decor isn't as natural looking as I've seen in other coworking space, mainly black, white and gray with some marble mixed in. Questions: Given what is left, my husband and I are wondering about turning the floor into a coworking space would be a good idea. Thoughts? We really don't have a lot to buy for the place, maybe a few high top tables and accent chairs for a Break Away Zone. More desk could be added if needed. Our location(Michigan) is in the downtown and strangely enough right across from another coworking space. Do any of your spaces offer onsite technical support? Data storage / Back up solutions? I hope I've given you enough details to help me out some. Thanks in Advance -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
[Coworking] Political startup seeks a third partner as CTO/Lead Developer
Hi, we are looking for someone to come on board on a fledging project in a Lead Developer role. You could help us build a revolutionary concept in democratic participation from the ground up. We are building a website that will be a citizen's central portal for all things political - updates on politicians and issues, users sharing expertise on the issues and discussing them with others, voting on various politicians, positions and bills. The goal is to make this the first destination for personalized government/political information and discussion with a social network feel, while motivating users to get involved. If you ever wanted to work on something with the potential to touch millions of users as well as change the entire political landscape for the better... this is the right project for you! The site has enormous potential for both social value and monetary returns based on a proven revenue model. Currently the team is made up of 2 people: -Mike is a PhD candidate in Political Science at UC Berkeley, with a degree and some experience in computer science. He has experience working on a startup team and developing a product from first concept to launch (a hyper-local community site). -Brian has a good amount of product development experience working both for established companies as well as startup-ups. He's taken various products from concept to market including a video chat website, a group chat application, a local daily deal site, and a virtual pets game. To complete the team we are looking to bring on a CTO/Lead Developer. This will be a *full partner* with the task of leading the development effort. Mike will share in development as needed. The ideal candidate will have - A degree in computer science and a good amount of successful development experience (preferably at a startup). - Experience with multiple platforms (php, servlets, rails, etc) and plug-n-play content systems (e.g. Drupal). - Dedication and passion, as we will all be working on this on our own until we are able to raise funding. We estimate we should be able to do so within 3-4 months after bringing this person on. - Bonus points for experience with novel forms of data visualization and social network/mashup programming (facebook, Open Social, iphone, android) If you are interested please email mvpolya...@gmail.com with your resume and cover letter or any questions. We are also thinking about applying to YCombinator and Techstars, so it would be good if you were open to these programs. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
RE: [Coworking] So I have some space...
Deidre- Since you have a coworking space across the street, do you know if they are booked up? Regardless, may be worth a conversation to understand your market and how they are faring before jumping in. May be an opportunity for them to use the space as an expansion point if business is good, or if business isn't, you may have a space that is less costly they'd be willing to move to (if lease was timed right) where you could combine and cross pollinate. Just a thought. Thanks God Bless, Joel Bennett Chief Dreamchaser Veel Hoeden, LLC veelhoe...@gmail.com http://veelhoeden.posterous.com/ http://www.twitter.com/veelhoeden -Original Message- From: coworking@googlegroups.com [mailto:coworking@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Deidre Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 2:04 PM To: Coworking Subject: [Coworking] So I have some space... Hello coworking group. I'm new on the block and was wanting to ask a fairly simple questions and hope to receive feedback. Background: I happen to have access to a Large floor space (4000sqft) and I'm only using maybe a 1/4 of the space. It's used to house a design group that has now down sized and the owner is letting myself and husband work out of it so it still gets some use. It comes compete with a conference room, kitchenette, 2 large/private desk spaces, and at the very least 4 work cubes that could hold up to 2 people. Desk's are still in place with lots of chairs, a project island and even some computer and printers remain. The decor isn't as natural looking as I've seen in other coworking space, mainly black, white and gray with some marble mixed in. Questions: Given what is left, my husband and I are wondering about turning the floor into a coworking space would be a good idea. Thoughts? We really don't have a lot to buy for the place, maybe a few high top tables and accent chairs for a Break Away Zone. More desk could be added if needed. Our location(Michigan) is in the downtown and strangely enough right across from another coworking space. Do any of your spaces offer onsite technical support? Data storage / Back up solutions? I hope I've given you enough details to help me out some. Thanks in Advance -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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 coworking@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
Re: [Coworking] Coworking center operations (wifi, reservations, etc) - about to open...
Hi Dana, I'm the guy behind http://cobot.me - cobot does member management, meeting room booking, payments (paypal, crest card) and other things for you. you can also hook it up to your wifi so that people have to log in with their accounts. we built it to help run our own space. you can sign up for a free 30 day trial. if you have any questions email me at a...@cobot.me or skype (langalex) Cheers, Alex On 13.01.2011, at 01:21, Dana VanDen Heuvel dvand...@gmail.com wrote: Hello! We're about to open our first coworking center in Green Bay, WI in the next few months (www.thedockingstation.net) and have a few questions about some operational aspects of the center. 1. Wifi - Is a simple password protected wifi router enough or do many coworking centers use something that's more enterprise level (like a Cisco system or something)? We're at 2400 square feet. 2. Scheduling - we have a couple of conf. rooms that can be scheduled. I've seen some several coworking centers using Wufoo or Genbook.com but was wondering if someone was actually really happy with a system for scheduling conf. rooms for members and for scheduling hot desk spaces for drop ins? 3. Payment systems - Simply billing through PayPal is what we're thinking today, but is there something better? We'd use PayPal virtual terminal if someone wants to use their card to pay that day, in the office, but again, we're wondering if there's something that people are really happy with that we're missing. That's what's top of mind today... What else should we be considering from an operations perspective? Thanks in advance for your advice! Dana VanDen Heuvel The Docking Station -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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 coworking@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
[Coworking] Re: Coworking Unconference Update!
What have ya'll lined up for lodging for sxsw? I started looking and I want to cry. On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Campbell McKellar cmc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, We're really excited about seeing a lot of you in Austin in March! If you don't get through this whole email, here are the action items: 1. RSVP in Plancast if you haven't already (http://plancast.com/p/33pl) 2. Event website / swag design: We need help. There's a $2,000 budget and/or in-kind opportunity here (design the site and become a sponsor of the Unconference) 3. Contribute suggestions for keynote/panel speakers: http://bit.ly/hoMqo7 4. Sponsors: Help reach out to sponsors. A good excuse to call on behalf of the community. Email a...@loosecubes.com to get in the loop and help out. 5. Follow @coworksxsw for ongoing updates! Here's the detailed update: When: Thursday, March 10th from 3 pm - 11 pm Where: We recently locked in a really awesome (and brand new!) venue for the event called Hangar Lounge, located just a few blocks from the convention center in downtown Austin. Check out the pics here: http://on.fb.me/ib3M9N Who: 100 people have indicated their attending the event on Plancast ( http://plancast.com/p/33pl), including folks from the UK, France, Spain Germany!; Total capacity: 150. Sign up if you haven't already. Everyone on plancast will get advance notice when the Eventbrite page goes live. What: Unconference format with 2-3 pre-organized keynote panels. We'd love suggestions for the keynote speakers. I kicked it off with a couple ideas ( here http://bit.ly/hoMqo7). Please submit your own ideas. In the next few weeks we'll be issuing a 'call for submissions' so that you all can provide suggestions for sessions at the unconference. We'll then ask the community to vote on their favorites. Start thinking about a session you might want to host! Website: We need some support here. The designer we were going to work with backed out. We're talking to a couple other people, but if you'd like to design/code the page or have a referral to do it, please let us know! Right now we've got $2,000 budgeted for the website / tee shirt / bag designs. It would be awesome if someone that's already a part of the community wanted to take this project on. Basically it'll be a landing page with info about the event and link to the Eventbrite page. We'd like to get it up asap. Sponsors/Budget: In order to keep the per person 'registration fee' down as much as possible, we're working to obtain sponsorship by great companies to cover the baseline unconference costs (venue, food, drinks, AV, etc.). So far, we've received a verbal commitment by a founding sponsor to provide $4,000. Time for you to get involved! Our total sponsorship goal is $15,500, which will allow us to keep the registration fee to $30 (inclusive of everything -- food, beverages, swag!). Anything beyond $15,500 would lower the registration fee. If you are interested in reaching out to sponsors or collecting in-kind donations on behalf of the Unconference, please email a...@loosecubes.com. We're going to do a conference call with the sponsorship committee on Monday to make a plan of attack. If you have connections to in-kind donations, the big needs are: food for dinner, tee shirts, signage, and the website/branding. Alcohol must come from the venue. Spreadsheet with details on the budget here: http://bit.ly/haUMQ8 http://bit.ly/hoMqo7 (second tab) Twitter account: We reserved @coworksxsw. Let us know if you want to be on the twitter team and we'll give you the credentials for the account. Otherwise, follow us for more details! Look forward to having some margaritas with everyone in March! Cheers, Campbell Anna campb...@loosecubes.com a...@loosecubes.com @loosecubes www.loosecubes.com -- Cohere, LLC Be Independent Together Cohere Website http://coherecommunity.com + Free Day Passes!http://coherecommunity.com/free Facebook http://facebook.com/coherecommunity.com Twitter http://twitter.com/CohereLLC -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
[Coworking] Re: Coworking Unconference Update!
I splurged a little and got a room at the Hilton as soon as they opened registration. Is everything sold out? You may be able to snag something a little farther out of town - I think SXSW just posted something on their website about how to get around if you are staying farther away from the conference. Let me know if there is anything I can do to help! Sent from my iPhone On Jan 13, 2011, at 12:59 PM, Angel Kwiatkowski fccowork...@gmail.com wrote: What have ya'll lined up for lodging for sxsw? I started looking and I want to cry. On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Campbell McKellar cmc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, We're really excited about seeing a lot of you in Austin in March! If you don't get through this whole email, here are the action items: 1. RSVP in Plancast if you haven't already (http://plancast.com/p/33pl) 2. Event website / swag design: We need help. There's a $2,000 budget and/or in-kind opportunity here (design the site and become a sponsor of the Unconference) 3. Contribute suggestions for keynote/panel speakers: http://bit.ly/hoMqo7 4. Sponsors: Help reach out to sponsors. A good excuse to call on behalf of the community. Email a...@loosecubes.com to get in the loop and help out. 5. Follow @coworksxsw for ongoing updates! Here's the detailed update: When: Thursday, March 10th from 3 pm - 11 pm Where: We recently locked in a really awesome (and brand new!) venue for the event called Hangar Lounge, located just a few blocks from the convention center in downtown Austin. Check out the pics here: http://on.fb.me/ib3M9N Who: 100 people have indicated their attending the event on Plancast ( http://plancast.com/p/33pl), including folks from the UK, France, Spain Germany!; Total capacity: 150. Sign up if you haven't already. Everyone on plancast will get advance notice when the Eventbrite page goes live. What: Unconference format with 2-3 pre-organized keynote panels. We'd love suggestions for the keynote speakers. I kicked it off with a couple ideas ( here http://bit.ly/hoMqo7). Please submit your own ideas. In the next few weeks we'll be issuing a 'call for submissions' so that you all can provide suggestions for sessions at the unconference. We'll then ask the community to vote on their favorites. Start thinking about a session you might want to host! Website: We need some support here. The designer we were going to work with backed out. We're talking to a couple other people, but if you'd like to design/code the page or have a referral to do it, please let us know! Right now we've got $2,000 budgeted for the website / tee shirt / bag designs. It would be awesome if someone that's already a part of the community wanted to take this project on. Basically it'll be a landing page with info about the event and link to the Eventbrite page. We'd like to get it up asap. Sponsors/Budget: In order to keep the per person 'registration fee' down as much as possible, we're working to obtain sponsorship by great companies to cover the baseline unconference costs (venue, food, drinks, AV, etc.). So far, we've received a verbal commitment by a founding sponsor to provide $4,000. Time for you to get involved! Our total sponsorship goal is $15,500, which will allow us to keep the registration fee to $30 (inclusive of everything -- food, beverages, swag!). Anything beyond $15,500 would lower the registration fee. If you are interested in reaching out to sponsors or collecting in-kind donations on behalf of the Unconference, please email a...@loosecubes.com. We're going to do a conference call with the sponsorship committee on Monday to make a plan of attack. If you have connections to in-kind donations, the big needs are: food for dinner, tee shirts, signage, and the website/branding. Alcohol must come from the venue. Spreadsheet with details on the budget here: http://bit.ly/haUMQ8 http://bit.ly/hoMqo7 (second tab) Twitter account: We reserved @coworksxsw. Let us know if you want to be on the twitter team and we'll give you the credentials for the account. Otherwise, follow us for more details! Look forward to having some margaritas with everyone in March! Cheers, Campbell Anna campb...@loosecubes.com a...@loosecubes.com @loosecubes www.loosecubes.com -- Cohere, LLC Be Independent Together Cohere Website http://coherecommunity.com + Free Day Passes!http://coherecommunity.com/free Facebook http://facebook.com/coherecommunity.com Twitter http://twitter.com/CohereLLC -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
Re: [Coworking] Re: Coworking Unconference Update!
I recommend looking in South Austin, just below the river. There's a lot of awesome places to stay (not hotel chains, but cool boutique hotels). You'll likely spend about as much as one of the nicer hotels downtown, but the experience is MUCH better than a chain hotel room. Makes spending the money less painful ;) -Alex /ah indyhall.org coworking in philadelphia On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Jessica Lawrence jessicahlawre...@gmail.com wrote: I splurged a little and got a room at the Hilton as soon as they opened registration. Is everything sold out? You may be able to snag something a little farther out of town - I think SXSW just posted something on their website about how to get around if you are staying farther away from the conference. Let me know if there is anything I can do to help! Sent from my iPhone On Jan 13, 2011, at 12:59 PM, Angel Kwiatkowski fccowork...@gmail.com wrote: What have ya'll lined up for lodging for sxsw? I started looking and I want to cry. On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Campbell McKellar cmc...@gmail.com cmc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, We're really excited about seeing a lot of you in Austin in March! If you don't get through this whole email, here are the action items: 1. RSVP in Plancast if you haven't already (http://plancast.com/p/33pl) 2. Event website / swag design: We need help. There's a $2,000 budget and/or in-kind opportunity here (design the site and become a sponsor of the Unconference) 3. Contribute suggestions for keynote/panel speakers: http://bit.ly/hoMqo7 4. Sponsors: Help reach out to sponsors. A good excuse to call on behalf of the community. Email a...@loosecubes.com to get in the loop and help out. 5. Follow @coworksxsw for ongoing updates! Here's the detailed update: When: Thursday, March 10th from 3 pm - 11 pm Where: We recently locked in a really awesome (and brand new!) venue for the event called Hangar Lounge, located just a few blocks from the convention center in downtown Austin. Check out the pics here: http://on.fb.me/ib3M9N http://on.fb.me/ib3M9N Who: 100 people have indicated their attending the event on Plancast ( http://plancast.com/p/33pl), including folks from the UK, France, Spain Germany!; Total capacity: 150. Sign up if you haven't already. Everyone on plancast will get advance notice when the Eventbrite page goes live. What: Unconference format with 2-3 pre-organized keynote panels. We'd love suggestions for the keynote speakers. I kicked it off with a couple ideas (here http://bit.ly/hoMqo7). Please submit your own ideas. In the next few weeks we'll be issuing a 'call for submissions' so that you all can provide suggestions for sessions at the unconference. We'll then ask the community to vote on their favorites. Start thinking about a session you might want to host! Website: We need some support here. The designer we were going to work with backed out. We're talking to a couple other people, but if you'd like to design/code the page or have a referral to do it, please let us know! Right now we've got $2,000 budgeted for the website / tee shirt / bag designs. It would be awesome if someone that's already a part of the community wanted to take this project on. Basically it'll be a landing page with info about the event and link to the Eventbrite page. We'd like to get it up asap. Sponsors/Budget: In order to keep the per person 'registration fee' down as much as possible, we're working to obtain sponsorship by great companies to cover the baseline unconference costs (venue, food, drinks, AV, etc.). So far, we've received a verbal commitment by a founding sponsor to provide $4,000. Time for you to get involved! Our total sponsorship goal is $15,500, which will allow us to keep the registration fee to $30 (inclusive of everything -- food, beverages, swag!). Anything beyond $15,500 would lower the registration fee. If you are interested in reaching out to sponsors or collecting in-kind donations on behalf of the Unconference, please email a...@loosecubes.com. We're going to do a conference call with the sponsorship committee on Monday to make a plan of attack. If you have connections to in-kind donations, the big needs are: food for dinner, tee shirts, signage, and the website/branding. Alcohol must come from the venue. Spreadsheet with details on the budget here: http://bit.ly/hoMqo7 http://bit.ly/haUMQ8 (second tab) Twitter account: We reserved @coworksxsw. Let us know if you want to be on the twitter team and we'll give you the credentials for the account. Otherwise, follow us for more details! Look forward to having some margaritas with everyone in March! Cheers, Campbell Anna campb...@loosecubes.comcampb...@loosecubes.com a...@loosecubes.coma...@loosecubes.com @loosecubes http://www.loosecubes.comwww.loosecubes.com -- Cohere, LLC Be Independent Together Cohere Website
Re: [Coworking] Re: Coworking Unconference Update!
Hi, I'm looking to attend this. For the SXSW registration, what ticket do you recommend? Platinum, gold, music, interactive, etc. badge? And I did not see the final thread for registering for the coworking unconference on eventbrite? Thanks- On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Alex Hillman dangerouslyawes...@gmail.comwrote: I recommend looking in South Austin, just below the river. There's a lot of awesome places to stay (not hotel chains, but cool boutique hotels). You'll likely spend about as much as one of the nicer hotels downtown, but the experience is MUCH better than a chain hotel room. Makes spending the money less painful ;) -Alex /ah indyhall.org coworking in philadelphia On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Jessica Lawrence jessicahlawre...@gmail.com wrote: I splurged a little and got a room at the Hilton as soon as they opened registration. Is everything sold out? You may be able to snag something a little farther out of town - I think SXSW just posted something on their website about how to get around if you are staying farther away from the conference. Let me know if there is anything I can do to help! Sent from my iPhone On Jan 13, 2011, at 12:59 PM, Angel Kwiatkowski fccowork...@gmail.com wrote: What have ya'll lined up for lodging for sxsw? I started looking and I want to cry. On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Campbell McKellar cmc...@gmail.com cmc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, We're really excited about seeing a lot of you in Austin in March! If you don't get through this whole email, here are the action items: 1. RSVP in Plancast if you haven't already (http://plancast.com/p/33pl) 2. Event website / swag design: We need help. There's a $2,000 budget and/or in-kind opportunity here (design the site and become a sponsor of the Unconference) 3. Contribute suggestions for keynote/panel speakers: http://bit.ly/hoMqo7 4. Sponsors: Help reach out to sponsors. A good excuse to call on behalf of the community. Email a...@loosecubes.com to get in the loop and help out. 5. Follow @coworksxsw for ongoing updates! Here's the detailed update: When: Thursday, March 10th from 3 pm - 11 pm Where: We recently locked in a really awesome (and brand new!) venue for the event called Hangar Lounge, located just a few blocks from the convention center in downtown Austin. Check out the pics here: http://on.fb.me/ib3M9N http://on.fb.me/ib3M9N Who: 100 people have indicated their attending the event on Plancast ( http://plancast.com/p/33pl), including folks from the UK, France, Spain Germany!; Total capacity: 150. Sign up if you haven't already. Everyone on plancast will get advance notice when the Eventbrite page goes live. What: Unconference format with 2-3 pre-organized keynote panels. We'd love suggestions for the keynote speakers. I kicked it off with a couple ideas (here http://bit.ly/hoMqo7). Please submit your own ideas. In the next few weeks we'll be issuing a 'call for submissions' so that you all can provide suggestions for sessions at the unconference. We'll then ask the community to vote on their favorites. Start thinking about a session you might want to host! Website: We need some support here. The designer we were going to work with backed out. We're talking to a couple other people, but if you'd like to design/code the page or have a referral to do it, please let us know! Right now we've got $2,000 budgeted for the website / tee shirt / bag designs. It would be awesome if someone that's already a part of the community wanted to take this project on. Basically it'll be a landing page with info about the event and link to the Eventbrite page. We'd like to get it up asap. Sponsors/Budget: In order to keep the per person 'registration fee' down as much as possible, we're working to obtain sponsorship by great companies to cover the baseline unconference costs (venue, food, drinks, AV, etc.). So far, we've received a verbal commitment by a founding sponsor to provide $4,000. Time for you to get involved! Our total sponsorship goal is $15,500, which will allow us to keep the registration fee to $30 (inclusive of everything -- food, beverages, swag!). Anything beyond $15,500 would lower the registration fee. If you are interested in reaching out to sponsors or collecting in-kind donations on behalf of the Unconference, please email a...@loosecubes.com. We're going to do a conference call with the sponsorship committee on Monday to make a plan of attack. If you have connections to in-kind donations, the big needs are: food for dinner, tee shirts, signage, and the website/branding. Alcohol must come from the venue. Spreadsheet with details on the budget here: http://bit.ly/hoMqo7 http://bit.ly/haUMQ8 (second tab) Twitter account: We reserved @coworksxsw. Let us know if you want to be on the twitter team and we'll give you the credentials for the account. Otherwise,
Re: [Coworking] Re: Coworking Unconference Update!
Hi All, Sorry for any confusion regarding registration for the unconference. The event website development is now underway thanks to the help of Sara at Greenpoint Coworking! Once it's launched in the next couple of weeks it will include a link to register on EventBrite. In the meantime, please feel free to 'RSVP' on the Plancast ( http://plancast.com/p/33pl) so we can gain an understanding of the size of the group. Thanks again to all of you who have reached out to help! We'll be in touch with more information soon! Anna a...@loosecubes.com On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 5:36 PM, The Orchestrator ray...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm looking to attend this. For the SXSW registration, what ticket do you recommend? Platinum, gold, music, interactive, etc. badge? And I did not see the final thread for registering for the coworking unconference on eventbrite? Thanks- On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Alex Hillman dangerouslyawes...@gmail.com wrote: I recommend looking in South Austin, just below the river. There's a lot of awesome places to stay (not hotel chains, but cool boutique hotels). You'll likely spend about as much as one of the nicer hotels downtown, but the experience is MUCH better than a chain hotel room. Makes spending the money less painful ;) -Alex /ah indyhall.org coworking in philadelphia On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Jessica Lawrence jessicahlawre...@gmail.com wrote: I splurged a little and got a room at the Hilton as soon as they opened registration. Is everything sold out? You may be able to snag something a little farther out of town - I think SXSW just posted something on their website about how to get around if you are staying farther away from the conference. Let me know if there is anything I can do to help! Sent from my iPhone On Jan 13, 2011, at 12:59 PM, Angel Kwiatkowski fccowork...@gmail.com wrote: What have ya'll lined up for lodging for sxsw? I started looking and I want to cry. On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Campbell McKellar cmc...@gmail.com cmc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, We're really excited about seeing a lot of you in Austin in March! If you don't get through this whole email, here are the action items: 1. RSVP in Plancast if you haven't already (http://plancast.com/p/33pl) 2. Event website / swag design: We need help. There's a $2,000 budget and/or in-kind opportunity here (design the site and become a sponsor of the Unconference) 3. Contribute suggestions for keynote/panel speakers: http://bit.ly/hoMqo7 4. Sponsors: Help reach out to sponsors. A good excuse to call on behalf of the community. Email a...@loosecubes.com to get in the loop and help out. 5. Follow @coworksxsw for ongoing updates! Here's the detailed update: When: Thursday, March 10th from 3 pm - 11 pm Where: We recently locked in a really awesome (and brand new!) venue for the event called Hangar Lounge, located just a few blocks from the convention center in downtown Austin. Check out the pics here: http://on.fb.me/ib3M9N http://on.fb.me/ib3M9N Who: 100 people have indicated their attending the event on Plancast ( http://plancast.com/p/33pl), including folks from the UK, France, Spain Germany!; Total capacity: 150. Sign up if you haven't already. Everyone on plancast will get advance notice when the Eventbrite page goes live. What: Unconference format with 2-3 pre-organized keynote panels. We'd love suggestions for the keynote speakers. I kicked it off with a couple ideas (here http://bit.ly/hoMqo7). Please submit your own ideas. In the next few weeks we'll be issuing a 'call for submissions' so that you all can provide suggestions for sessions at the unconference. We'll then ask the community to vote on their favorites. Start thinking about a session you might want to host! Website: We need some support here. The designer we were going to work with backed out. We're talking to a couple other people, but if you'd like to design/code the page or have a referral to do it, please let us know! Right now we've got $2,000 budgeted for the website / tee shirt / bag designs. It would be awesome if someone that's already a part of the community wanted to take this project on. Basically it'll be a landing page with info about the event and link to the Eventbrite page. We'd like to get it up asap. Sponsors/Budget: In order to keep the per person 'registration fee' down as much as possible, we're working to obtain sponsorship by great companies to cover the baseline unconference costs (venue, food, drinks, AV, etc.). So far, we've received a verbal commitment by a founding sponsor to provide $4,000. Time for you to get involved! Our total sponsorship goal is $15,500, which will allow us to keep the registration fee to $30 (inclusive of everything -- food, beverages, swag!). Anything beyond $15,500 would lower the registration fee. If you are interested in reaching out
Re: [Coworking] Re: Coworking Unconference Update!
Hey Angel! I started looking into this in November and then had a plate that started to overflow and I cried too :'( But now I'm not crying anymore and have Sara looking into a condo for us now. When are you planning on staying and what is your budget? We potentially have four peeps from our Santa Cruz Community, it looks like the more people we could get, the better deal we would have and would be more likely to actually find an available place. Iris On Jan 13, 2011, at 12:59 PM, Angel Kwiatkowski wrote: What have ya'll lined up for lodging for sxsw? I started looking and I want to cry. On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Campbell McKellar cmc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, We're really excited about seeing a lot of you in Austin in March! If you don't get through this whole email, here are the action items: 1. RSVP in Plancast if you haven't already (http://plancast.com/p/33pl) 2. Event website / swag design: We need help. There's a $2,000 budget and/or in-kind opportunity here (design the site and become a sponsor of the Unconference) 3. Contribute suggestions for keynote/panel speakers: http://bit.ly/hoMqo7 4. Sponsors: Help reach out to sponsors. A good excuse to call on behalf of the community. Email a...@loosecubes.com to get in the loop and help out. 5. Follow @coworksxsw for ongoing updates! Here's the detailed update: When: Thursday, March 10th from 3 pm - 11 pm Where: We recently locked in a really awesome (and brand new!) venue for the event called Hangar Lounge, located just a few blocks from the convention center in downtown Austin. Check out the pics here: http://on.fb.me/ib3M9N Who: 100 people have indicated their attending the event on Plancast (http://plancast.com/p/33pl), including folks from the UK, France, Spain Germany!; Total capacity: 150. Sign up if you haven't already. Everyone on plancast will get advance notice when the Eventbrite page goes live. What: Unconference format with 2-3 pre-organized keynote panels. We'd love suggestions for the keynote speakers. I kicked it off with a couple ideas (here). Please submit your own ideas. In the next few weeks we'll be issuing a 'call for submissions' so that you all can provide suggestions for sessions at the unconference. We'll then ask the community to vote on their favorites. Start thinking about a session you might want to host! Website: We need some support here. The designer we were going to work with backed out. We're talking to a couple other people, but if you'd like to design/code the page or have a referral to do it, please let us know! Right now we've got $2,000 budgeted for the website / tee shirt / bag designs. It would be awesome if someone that's already a part of the community wanted to take this project on. Basically it'll be a landing page with info about the event and link to the Eventbrite page. We'd like to get it up asap. Sponsors/Budget: In order to keep the per person 'registration fee' down as much as possible, we're working to obtain sponsorship by great companies to cover the baseline unconference costs (venue, food, drinks, AV, etc.). So far, we've received a verbal commitment by a founding sponsor to provide $4,000. Time for you to get involved! Our total sponsorship goal is $15,500, which will allow us to keep the registration fee to $30 (inclusive of everything -- food, beverages, swag!). Anything beyond $15,500 would lower the registration fee. If you are interested in reaching out to sponsors or collecting in-kind donations on behalf of the Unconference, please email a...@loosecubes.com. We're going to do a conference call with the sponsorship committee on Monday to make a plan of attack. If you have connections to in-kind donations, the big needs are: food for dinner, tee shirts, signage, and the website/branding. Alcohol must come from the venue. Spreadsheet with details on the budget here: http://bit.ly/haUMQ8 (second tab) Twitter account: We reserved @coworksxsw. Let us know if you want to be on the twitter team and we'll give you the credentials for the account. Otherwise, follow us for more details! Look forward to having some margaritas with everyone in March! Cheers, Campbell Anna campb...@loosecubes.com a...@loosecubes.com @loosecubes www.loosecubes.com -- Cohere, LLC Be Independent Together Cohere Website + Free Day Passes! Facebook Twitter -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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
[Coworking] CoWorking promoted on Group buying sites like Groupon
With the popularity of group buying coupon sites like Groupon, has anyone considered promoting their space on them? Well, we were curious about what results we would get and in an effort to get the word out about our new space, CoWorkative... .., we had contacted Swarm Jam ( a local group buying site owned by the National Post), and after weeks of waiting, they put our offer up today! (http://www.swarmjam.com/) Possible Pros- - publicity for CoWorkative - getting the word out about coworking spaces - members signing up to our space - members signing up to neighboring spaces Possible Cons- - may not bring in the right people to foster the right community based work atmosphere - by deep discounting the price with such a promo, may hold people back from paying regular prices Well, I guess we would have to wait and see. I will keep you posted. I'm hoping that this promo will not only help us get members, but also get the word out about coworking. Neil CoWorkative.com n...@coworkative.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
