[Coworking] Re: What can Coworking do for Journalism?

2009-08-21 Thread BetaLoft
I'm with Scott from BEAHIVE, I think that as journalism is a changing landscape, one way to maintain journalism is to combine local journalism efforts with the coworking movement. I have a lot of ideas on this train, but not enough time to lay it all down here. =) We'll be trying a similar

[Coworking] Re: What can Coworking do for Journalism?

2009-08-20 Thread Sasha Vasilyuk
We have a few journalists at our space, including myself. One is part- time staffer for a local paper and part-time freelancer, so she spends her freelancing days here. We've also sponsored a few journalism events and hosted some of them at our space. But besides the obvious price issue that was

[Coworking] Re: What can Coworking do for Journalism?

2009-08-20 Thread Ralf Lippold
Hi all, It has been very eye-opening about what makes writers to come or not to come to CoWorking spaces. We face the same dilemmas over here in Germany, where the Web-2.0 and CoWorking ideas are not yet as popular as in other parts of the world. Who has experience about the situation in

[Coworking] Re: What can Coworking do for Journalism?

2009-08-19 Thread Julie of souk
Brian, You may want to check with Jerome in LA. When I visited, he mentioned some media using Blankspaces. souk doesn't experience many media types coming through, so I can't speak to it for you. Julie Duryea http://www.soukllc.com @soukportland On Aug 19, 6:32 am, BrianR anon...@gmail.com

[Coworking] Re: What can Coworking do for Journalism?

2009-08-19 Thread Susan Evans
Hey Brian, We have one journalist working at Office Nomads (Charles Redell of Sustainable Industries), and one publisher (Mike Jones of Morgan Claypool). I know we've had a few others come and drop in from time to time in those industries as well, but those are the two that come to mind right

[Coworking] Re: What can Coworking do for Journalism?

2009-08-19 Thread Charlie
As the aforementioned journalist at Office Nomads, I can tell you that one of the biggest reasons that journalists likely don't populate coworking spaces more is that people tend not to value our work anymore. I don't want to turn this into a scree about how you all should subscribe to your local

[Coworking] Re: What can Coworking do for Journalism?

2009-08-19 Thread BrianR
Thanks for reminding us Charles. Its not my intention to market to anyone who is out of work. My thoughts about this, from a sales perspective, where geared towards media companies and their decision makers. I'm very much into finding quality solutions to the business societal problems of our

[Coworking] Re: What can Coworking do for Journalism?

2009-08-19 Thread Scott Tillitt / ANTIDOTE collective
We have a few writers and editors (word and photo) in our space, but they're freelance (one is a staff photo editor at a major newsweekly but also freelance writes and does a million other independent things). But we actually want to start a local publication (online and/or print) that we'd