[Coworking] Re: Basic elements for a definition of coworking

2014-09-15 Thread Marius Amado-Alves
The space totally irrelevant. Members that never show up, even. Pure sense of belonging. Fascinating, indeed. But not coworking. -- 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

[Coworking] Re: Basic elements for a definition of coworking

2014-09-15 Thread Katherine Warman Kern
I totally agree with Alex L. about Open not being a requirement. We have chosen the path of being dedicated to the creative business and I think our members appreciate being a part of a community where everyone can find some synergistic benefits. Importantly, we consider the creative business

[Coworking] Re: Basic elements for a definition of coworking

2014-09-15 Thread Steve King
Alex: For the purposes of our coworking definition open means the coworking facility will consider anyone within their target segment as a member, make it easy for anyone within that segment to apply and has a membership process such that anyone within the target segment could potentially be

[Coworking] Re: Basic elements for a definition of coworking

2014-09-15 Thread Marius Amado-Alves
... the rapid hybridization of coworking means things are changing very fast - making any definition questionable in terms of accuracy. That's why threads like this are so useful. (Steve) Very useful indeed, for analysing the things in and around coworking. One important such thing

Re: [Coworking] Re: Basic elements for a definition of coworking

2014-09-15 Thread Randall Arnold
I think a general definition of coworking is entirely possible-- it's getting into *specifics* that twists people around. ;) Randy On September 15, 2014 at 4:10 PM Marius Amado-Alves amado.al...@gmail.com wrote: ... the rapid hybridization of coworking means things

[Coworking] Announcing SpareChair, a community for coworking and a marketplace for workspace

2014-09-15 Thread Sharona Coutts
Hi folks— I've been lurking on the list for a while, reading and learning. It's been a lot of fun =) Please pardon the self promo here but I'm very excited to let you know that SpareChair http://sparechair.me just launched, and that we were featured on Marketplace—the nationally broadcast

[Coworking] Re: Getting rid of the co-working hyphen

2014-09-15 Thread oren.salo...@gmail.com
There hasn't been any movement on this in 3 years. Anyone have an update? Liz? Alex? Tony? Jacob? Anybody? I had no idea how bad this issue was. I encountered this today with some press being written on Fort Work in the Dallas media today. When I saw the article posted, I saw a few