Re: [Coworking] Coworking in Atyrau, Kazakhstan

[Tony Bacigalupo]

Caner, congratulations on your new effort!

I'm curious: I have a bunch of resources available through my consultancy
which should be of value to you, but they're currently all in English.
Would that be of interest?

Tony
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On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 3:07 AM, Caner Onoglu  wrote:

> Dear Coworking People!
>
> We are planning to start a coworking place within our Residential Complex.
> We rent apartments/condos to corporate clients and in our territory we have
> a seperate building which is suitable for coworking. Our residential
> tenants as well as others will use this new facility. It has 2 floors each
> around 100 m2, open space, total area around 200 m2. We also have a club
> house which can be used for parties, informal meetings.
>
> Is there anybody with design and coworking experience who will be
> interested contributing to my project for a fee or some kind of
> partnership?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Caner Onoglu
>
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[Coworking] Re: previous threads on having multiple locations?

[Jeannine van der Linden]

The rule of thumb for me now is: when the physical space is 50% full on an 
ongoing basis, it is time to start looking at real estate. Because for us 
that has been the tipping point/warning that it is about to get a lot less 
flxible with sharing, and that is not really negotiable for us.

This does not always mean moving, when the amsterdam location got a little 
too friendly recently we expanded within the building we were already in.  

We do not have any spaces in the same town or city.  We have one location 
near Schiphol Airport which is spitting distance to the location in 
Amsterdam but as the Real Amsterdammers *and* the people fo Rijsenhout keep 
telling me, outside the Ring (the perimeter highway around Amsterdam)  is 
Not Amsterdam in terms of identity. :-)

I would myself only try that under certain conditions, and thise conditions 
involve differentiation.  Either a different coworker community or a 
different type of space, something like that.  I woudl for example take on 
a new office type location in Den Bosch, because the current location is in 
a warehouse space and so the community is primarily retail.  FO rme that 
would be necessary to dare it; I think I would not try to balance the same 
community over two spaces.  I could manage two allied communities over two 
spaces though.

Does that make sense?

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[Coworking] Re: Known, not liked and a criminal record. What can i do?

[Jeannine van der Linden]

Yes.  I have found tbat making clear that we are working towards a community of 
earned trust does go quite a long way towards making some folks not come in.

My mother made a point of inviting all of our unsuitable friends and dates over 
quite a lot when I was young. This had a similar effect: often they went away 
or we saw them differently in the family context.  A little community-fu I 
learned at home. 

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[Coworking] Coworking in Atyrau, Kazakhstan

[Caner Onoglu]

Dear Coworking People!

We are planning to start a coworking place within our Residential Complex.
We rent apartments/condos to corporate clients and in our territory we have
a seperate building which is suitable for coworking. Our residential
tenants as well as others will use this new facility. It has 2 floors each
around 100 m2, open space, total area around 200 m2. We also have a club
house which can be used for parties, informal meetings.

Is there anybody with design and coworking experience who will be
interested contributing to my project for a fee or some kind of
partnership?

Thanks!

Caner Onoglu

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[Coworking] Re: previous threads on having multiple locations?

[Matt G]

Hey Jeannine,

Thank you for that reply to Alex, it's really really useful. While we only 
have one small location we hope to open a second next year by the success 
 we are fortunate to be having, so these sorts of questions also cross my 
mind.

You say your spaces are throughout the country? are any of them in the same 
town as each other?

Thanks,
Matt


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[Coworking] Re: Known, not liked and a criminal record. What can i do?

[Matt G]

Hey All,

Thank you so much for taking the time to share your experiences and advice 
with me on this one. 

To date he still hasn't completed the sign up process so I feel that 
actually in fact the branding and the collaborative environment may be a 
deterrent in itself for people who may be in a position to abuse the space 
or not be comfortable here. 

I have spoke to individual members who may know him and the general feeling 
was the same as you all described - we would not be opposed to his initial 
joining us, however we would have a period of time that it would take to 
trust and feel comfortable working around this new coworker. They also feel 
that he probably would not stay on for long.

Until then, thank you all so much for sharing your experience on this! 


Matt

On Monday, June 20, 2016 at 2:48:41 PM UTC+1, Matt G wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Firstly, this is my first post on here, however I have visited it many 
> times and have learnt so much from you all. I hope this post is in keeping 
> with the what should discussed, however I have hit a bit of a problem that 
> is bothering me.
>
> 4 months ago I started a cowork space in my hometown in the UK. We are 
> un-selective and this has been an amazing - we have built such a fantastic 
> collective of talented and interesting people from all walks of life. 
>
> Now, there is a gentleman in this town of 200,000 people who has a record 
> of fraud (convicted and served 2013), has rolled over multiple business and 
> upset many. Whilst never meeting him personally almost any business person 
> I have spoke to in town knows him. 
>
> He has just signed up as a member. I don't want to discriminate (also not 
> sure what legal implications are with this) however I seriously fear that 
> this will upset other members and it may take effect on my business.
>
> I'd appreciated it if anyone with some experience on this matter or 
> opinions to share could do so, his registration is not complete as is 
> awaiting payment.
>
> Thanks!
>

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[Coworking] Re: How to Staff the Door During Business Hours

[Elizabeth Trice]

We have 80 members in 4600 sf, and have a successful program with member 
ambassadors staffing the front desk. Our doors are unlocked and staffed 9-5 
M-F except holidays, and almost all members have 24/7 keys. They don't have 
to be at the desk, they just have to be within sight of the front door in 
case someone new comes in. There's a remote handset for the desk phone so 
they can take it with them. Our space has lots of other desks and couches 
right around the front door, so even sitting at the front desk they are 
part of the space; it's not like there's a separate lobby. At this point, 
most of the ambassadors have had the role for 2-3 years, and they're very 
happy as they get to know all the other members and take advantage of all 
the resources the space has. We have a quarterly dinner and meeting, and we 
also just started providing reimbursement for conferences or education they 
want to attend. I'm happy to provide more detail in direct message.  
Pelotonlabsportland.com

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[Coworking] Re: previous threads on having multiple locations?

[Jeannine van der Linden]

HI. Alex,

We are at five locations now, and we have the same vision as you describe: 
 the separate locations are very much particular to their cities.  This is 
partly because around here the identity of a city is a firmly established 
fact for the Dutch and is important to the identity of the people and 
businesses located there.  It is also partly due to my own belief that 
every place has a sort of energy, almost a soul, which ought to be 
respected. :-)  Each of our locations has a speciallty and each is a 
differnt kind of space with different sectors involved in its community as 
well.

It is important to be clear in communication abotu what they all share, and 
in how they all are different.  I made a great bollocks of this in the 
beginning and found it very tricky to get right.  In the end I settled on 
what we guarantee and why people should go with us instead of somebody else 
as what we share, which seems to work well.

To answer your quesitons:
:
*- the pros and cons of members of each location having membership at all 
the locations. (Most members at the main location will not want to switch, 
and all will want the ability to come to our main location, but about 1 in 
10 people are interested in mainly being at the third location.)*

After some fooling around we settled on everyone being a coworker in a home 
space and letting them use the facilities and attend events at the others 
"as if they were" or "on the same basis as" members in the other spaces. 
 Very few people are able it turns out to think of themselves as being 
members of a network coworking space and they are more comfortable having a 
home place and being welcome in the others like a cousin or something. 
 Everything int he other spaces is still organized by the one point of 
contact, usually the Community Manager in the home space.  SOme of my long 
term coworkers still have me do it even knowing that it isn';t really my 
job. I don't mind it, it really is just an excuse to touch base I think. .
 
*- the pros and cons of having multiple web pages, one for each location.*

We are just in development on one web page for all the locations, because 
it was a pain int he butt to have separate ones.  Probably if you are 
better organized than I am you can manage it; but if you are doing it you 
shoudl probably link them to each other to encourage the free flow of 
communicatiuon and information.
 
- *local experimentation: the best ways to try new policies at one 
location, and when to try something and when to not try something.*

We try new things out in whichever location dreams it up or has most need 
of it, and then we let the folsk in the other locations know anbotu it as 
it develops.  If it works well we then offer it to all the locations when 
it is out of beta as it were.

*- pros and cons of local parties vs combining locations for parties? Do 
you rotate locations sometimes, and combine sometimes?*

We have one monthly gathering to which everyone is invitied and it rolls 
from location to location, from north to south in the country actually, so 
nobody has it more than once every couple of months.  Coworkers have the 
option of inviting coworkers to their events/workshops/courses/what have 
you or only inviting members of their own space.  Each space is free to 
arrange anything other than the monthly gathering and invite whomever they 
wish.
  
*- local governance: including, when applicable, what benefits have your 
members said they've had from being involved in governance? Do any places 
have local representatives from each location get together to talk 
governance for the organization overall?*

The 80-20 rule applies here.  Though I have found that the people 
interested in governance also often want to run their own space. This has 
happenned so far twice adn is in the process of happening for one more.  I 
am considering creating a formal process to encourage this as it is a good 
deal of fun.

Let me know if you have any more questions, it's an inexhaustible source of 
conversation!

Best,

Jeannine

On Saturday, June 25, 2016 at 4:37:25 AM UTC+2, Alex Linsker wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Other than searching the Google Group for "multiple locations", what would 
> you recommend searching for, for info on coworking places with multiple 
> locations? Collective Agency is almost signed on our third location in 
> Portland and I'm curious to see what questions have come up for people 
> who've done this before. 
>
> The vision is for each location to be slightly different, with locally 
> influenced community and different amenities, but a similar overall feel. 
> This will be our second location for members (the other location is just 
> for event rentals right now, but could become for members in the future).
>
> Questions I have:
> - the pros and cons of members of each location having membership at all 
> the locations. (Most members at the main location will not want to switch, 
> and all will want the ability