[Coworking] Re: Coworking Space Owners/Managers - Please Take Short Survey

2010-10-21 Thread Will Bennis, Locus Workspace
the survey is not working for me. When I press next the first page just reloads. On Oct 21, 12:22 am, sk...@emergentresearch.com sk...@emergentresearch.com wrote: The Iowa City Development Group has created a very short survey of coworking space managers/ownersto help them with their planning

[Coworking] Re: CAN YOU GUYS HELP ME? COLLEGE PROJECT

2010-10-21 Thread Jeannine
Hi, Nancy, What knd of class is it? I asssume you are interested in the use of coworking in a creative career, since it's SCAD. (Hometown advantage, I come from Atlanta most recently, born at Fort McPherson). I now live in the Netherlands and am busy launching my coworking space here. Every

Re: [Coworking] Last ditch effort to survive

2010-10-21 Thread Ryan Price
MIke, I agree with Willie and Jerome. In the space I'm about to open, we don't have private offices, but that means we are leaving a certain number of potential members on the curb, if they (think they) need that kind of privacy. Peace, Ryan Price rpr...@ryanpricemedia.com @liberatr

[Coworking] Intro, New Space, Your Vote Needed to Expand Coworking

2010-10-21 Thread Joel Bennett
Hi, my name is Joel Bennett and I've been following this group for a little while but haven't officially introduced myself. We launched a new coworking space the 1st of October in rural Iowa. Although Iowa's big cities sport a handful of coworking communities, we believe this is the first rural

[Coworking] Tip: Desks near me

2010-10-21 Thread Cadu de Castro Alves
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[Coworking] Re: Coworking Space Owners/Managers - Please Take Short Survey

2010-10-21 Thread sk...@emergentresearch.com
Thanks for pointing this out. I will alert the survey owner. On Oct 21, 2:00 am, Will Bennis, Locus Workspace wmben...@gmail.com wrote: the survey is not working for me. When I press next the first page just reloads. On Oct 21, 12:22 am, sk...@emergentresearch.com

Re: [Coworking] Last ditch effort to survive

2010-10-21 Thread Jacob Sayles
Mike, This isn't selling out at all. Private offices are not against the sprit of coworking. They confuse the issue for sure. A lot of the talk I've heard or said on the matter is often trying to explore this blurry line. For example, the norm is for people to isolate themselves and our tag

Re: [Coworking] Last ditch effort to survive

2010-10-21 Thread Alexander Lang
On Oct 20, 2010, at 21:41 , Mike P wrote: I know everyone on this list (or nearly everyone) is doing very well. don't get fooled by the success stories. i know a lot of spaces who are at least struggling. even our own isn't making any money at all, but we have a software company to put

[Coworking] cobot needs your help

2010-10-21 Thread Alexander Lang
hi everyone, for those of you you've never heard of it: cobot is a web based software i developed that helps you run a coworking space. it does membership management, collects payments, allows people to book resources and other things as well (in short: it does a lot of the time consuming

Re: [Coworking] Coworking and Beer?

2010-10-21 Thread Alexander Lang
I guess that heavily depends on the country/state you live in. Here in germany we actually have a bar in our space and our coworkers can just grab any drinks they want (including beer) if they drop a € into a jar. i think in most places there's also a big difference between offering alcohol to

Re: [Coworking] cobot needs your help

2010-10-21 Thread Cadu de Castro Alves
Alexander, I tried cobot some months ago. It's a good tool but we need it in portuguese. I can help you with the translation. Are you interested in? Regards, Cadu de Castro Alves c...@beesoffice.com Mobile: +55 21 8464-3958(OI) SkypeID: cadudecastroalves www.beesoffice.com BeesOffice - Espaço

Re: [Coworking] cobot needs your help

2010-10-21 Thread Alex Hillman
I just want to let everyone know that we've been actively working with Alex and his team as we've moved a significant portion of our record keeping and member management workflow to Cobot. He's been awesomely responsive, and they've built a number of extremely powerful tools in a very simple

Re: [Coworking] Coworking and Beer?

2010-10-21 Thread Alex Hillman
So, a couple of things. But first: 1) I am not a lawyer 2) Your milage may vary. First, Mike brings up a good point: know the rules you're abiding by, not just local liquor control laws. Our insurance policy was built knowing full well that alcohol WAS a part of our business's culture, and so

Re: [Coworking] Last ditch effort to survive

2010-10-21 Thread Iris Kavanagh
Mike- I agree that offering private offices is not selling out. In our Santa Cruz location many people merge together to take a private office. Most of our offices don't have ceilings, so I consider them part of the Cafe anyway. People take them for different reasons, but the most common

Re: [Coworking] cobot needs your help

2010-10-21 Thread Alexander Lang
wow thanks alex :) and there's more in the making right now... excellent support is i think crucial for a non trivial product like this, so that's definitely one of the core areas where we try to be as good as we can. On Oct 21, 2010, at 20:22 , Alex Hillman wrote: I just want to let everyone

Re: [Coworking] cobot needs your help

2010-10-21 Thread Alexander Lang
Hi Cadu, unfortunately right now we don't have the resources to work on a translation, but that might change. if you leave a comment here (http://cobotme.uservoice.com/forums/38874-general/suggestions/961117-make-site-multilingual-?ref=title) you will be notified as soon as we start working on

RE: [Coworking] Tip: Desks near me

2010-10-21 Thread Joel Bennett
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[Coworking] I'm new to the group

2010-10-21 Thread herbalsorcoress
Hi I just joined this group a few days ago, I have been reading the posts and enjoying them. I don't really know if working from home counts in the coworking community? But I do enjoy serving the people in my line of work. Ok so I work for a company called Pre Paid Legal they are land based but

[Coworking] Who's shopping for electronic door locks?

2010-10-21 Thread Jacob Sayles
Hello, The topic of electronic (RFID) door locks has come up a few times and I wanted to revisit it. Who out there now is looking for a solution? Who is keeping an eye out for something cool to come along and interested if one does? Jacob --- Office Nomads - Individuality without Isolation

Re: [Coworking] Who's shopping for electronic door locks?

2010-10-21 Thread Willie Morris
We have a normal alarm system and everyone has their own access codes...seems to work well enough for now. RFID would be really cool though... On Oct 21, 2010, at 5:09 PM, Jacob Sayles wrote: Hello, The topic of electronic (RFID) door locks has come up a few times and I wanted to revisit

RE: [Coworking] Who's shopping for electronic door locks?

2010-10-21 Thread Joel Bennett
We went with a Schlagelink lock system that allows me to link it with our wireless internet and monitor entry to the building and see who is using the space. We also have a light module connected to it as well which allows us to turn on a sentry light after hours. I plan to also purchase a

RE: [Coworking] Who's shopping for electronic door locks?

2010-10-21 Thread MATSU TECHNICAL SERVICES, LLC
I am! Jesse L. Jones Sent from my Windows Mobile phone and protected by Norton Smartphone Security. -Original Message- From: Jacob Sayles ja...@officenomads.com Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 1:09 PM To: coworking coworking@googlegroups.com Subject: [Coworking] Who's shopping for

[Coworking] Global Entrepreneurship Week

2010-10-21 Thread Cadu de Castro Alves
Hello, coworkers! How are you? I've been talking with some coworking spaces owners from Brazil about the Global Entrepreneurship Week. In Brazil, it's a big event and lots of organizations and people will participate. I'd like to suggest you how could we participate together. Are you ready?!

RE: [Coworking] Who's shopping for electronic door locks?

2010-10-21 Thread Jesse L. Jones
I would be interested in hearing how the Schlage Link system is working for you. I've researched that product line and read a lot of mixed reviews regarding reliability and ease of use. Jesse Jones From: coworking@googlegroups.com [mailto:cowork...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of

[Coworking] Re: Coworking Space Owners/Managers - Please Take Short Survey

2010-10-21 Thread Mark in Iowa City
The issue with the survey is the last question on the first page needs to be a numeral, if you don't use a $ it should work. Thanks everyone. Especially those of you in New York and Chicago I have visited in the past few weeks. On Oct 20, 5:22 pm, sk...@emergentresearch.com

Re: [Coworking] Who's shopping for electronic door locks?

2010-10-21 Thread Bill Liang
At BootHK in Hong Kong, we are in the process of hacking together our own RFID door lock which checks membership database and logs entry data. The RFID system we chose is based on the ISO14443C Sony Felica standard, which is also used by the ubiquitous Octopus card. The card is used for small

Re: [Coworking] Coworking and Beer?

2010-10-21 Thread Kyo Satani
In Japan, there's no problem bringing beer to anywhere. And our space (PAX Coworking) allows coworkers to bring whatever he/she wants. We have coriander cuisine restaurant at 2 Floor, and everybody just went downstairs and buy mugs of beer. Kyo paxi http://coworking.jp/ 2010/10/22 Alexander Lang

[Coworking] Coworking Listing/Map Sites

2010-10-21 Thread Jacob Sayles
Hello, There are a lot of folks out there trying to list or map coworking spaces and I'm compiling a list. This is part of my effort to consolidate the data under the CoworkingDB project. My vision is to create a central home for the data and an API to hook into various interfaces around the

Re: [Coworking] Coworking and Beer?

2010-10-21 Thread Jacob Sayles
You have bar in your space Alexander?!? I'm looking forward to meeting you soon and checking out Co.Up! Office Nomads hasn't had problems and we regularly have beer/wine/whiskey in the office. For large events, with a wider invite audience, we get a banquet permit. Jacob --- Office Nomads -