[Coworking] Re: Best reads on community

[Marko Orel]

A while ago I published an academic article on bottom-up community building 
(entitled Coworking: A community of work) and a study case of Creative 
Centre Poligon, which has grown to the biggest coworking space and creative 
centre in south-eastern Europe. I think it's listed on Ramon's website, but 
you can also access it directly via Academia.edu 

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On Wednesday, 28 September 2016 19:58:43 UTC+2, Harleen Kaur wrote:
>
> Hey guys
>
> Can someone suggest some good books/blogs/reads on building and engaging 
> members of a community? Something that is tried and tested good. :)
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Cheers
> Harleen
>

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Re: [Coworking] Links with coworking resources

[Marko Orel]

Amazing list Ramon! You rock!

Marko
Creative Centre Poligon

On Tuesday, 19 January 2016 06:38:51 UTC+1, Ramon Suarez wrote:

> Thanks a lot everyone :) 
>
> Tony, you can include this list so people will end up in my website if 
> they are interested :) 
>
> I'm thinking how to integrate all the Open  Coworking initiatives without 
> giving them an OC category.  There are links already, but I think it 
> deserves more visibility. 
>
>

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[Coworking] Coworking: A community of work / Article

[Marko Orel]

 

Greetings,


For the last couple of years, I’m dealing with research (as a PhD 
candidate) on how relations between working individuals who use open 
collaborative spaces in certain period of time are being formed via both 
moderated and spontaneous networking processes. In the meantime, I managed 
to open with the two other co-founders a coworking space and creative 
centre (*Creative Centre Poligon* <http://www.poligon.si/en/>) in 
Ljubljana, Slovenia (Europe) which has grown to one of the biggest in the 
region (150 members & 250 events annually) with amazing community based on 
values of sharing, collaborating and helping each other. 

 

Anyhow, recently I have published an academic article (in co-authorship) - 
we tried to examine the specific needs of the rising creative class, 
identifying their urgent need for uninhibited sharing of information, 
knowledge, ideas and material resources. In the article, we argue that 
coworking spaces are favoured by the creative class, because they offer a 
community of work which facilitates the culture of sharing. To illustrate 
what it takes to establish such a community of work, we present a case 
study of before mentioned Creative Centre Poligon which suggests that 
community building is a multi-step process that needs careful management 
and plenty of time.

 

If anybody out there is interested on how (creative) community can 
co-create a coworking space and thus embodies a bottom-up process, I kindly 
invite you to take a look at the *article* 
<https://www.academia.edu/20097931/Coworking_A_community_of_work> and share 
your thoughts with me.

 

Best,

Marko Orel

Co-founder

Creative Centre Poligon 

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[Coworking] Re: Amazing article about the impact of leadership on community

[Marko Orel]

As it goes for me (I'm the co-founder of Creative Centre Poligon, coworking 
space in Ljubljana, Slovenia), I think the community manager (and therefore 
informal leader as the article states) needs to be present in space 
everyday (at all times) and be actively involved in community, i.e. talk 
with members, organize community lunches, gather them for informal 
meetings, etc. Basically, manager needs to (with his/hers presence) 
transform the space into something that is between home and office - it's 
all about establishing trust factor (which - as Elodie puts it - allows 
members to identify other members as ''roommates'') inside the space, which 
you can achieve not only by managing the community but also by setting the 
space right (i.e. self-service bar, fridge with shared food, etc.).

We have opened our space five months ago and have now almost 70 members up 
to present day. Most of them stay inside the space from morning till night 
and according to recent survey we made amongst them, they say that they see 
Poligon not only as working ground/shared office space, but also as a 
place, where they enjoy spending their time. And when you establish this 
kind of conditions in your space, spontaneous networking between themselves 
goes sky high and amazing projects start to arise. But that's another story.

On Tuesday, 1 July 2014 15:08:30 UTC+2, Tamara Acosta wrote:

 This article makes me think. What are the abilities of a good leader in a 
 coworking space? In my case I know people like to hang here because I am a 
 positive and smily person I am also very accesible and help them with any 
 thing they need. Sometimes it even becomes a kind of 
 coaching-coworking. What about you guys? 

 El viernes, 27 de junio de 2014 14:07:05 UTC-5, Alex Hillman escribió:

 If you somehow haven't checked out New Worker Magazine yet, you need to. 
 It's the best best best thing to happen to coworking in a long time. 

 My favorite story this month (the 2nd edition) includes a story written 
 by a member of Les Satellites, a coworking space in Nice, France. 

 http://newworker.co/mag/coworking-impact-leadership-community/

 She talks about joining a coworking space that was managed before 
 joining one that was led, and the effect/impact of her desire to stick 
 around. 

 A++ recommend reading RIGHT NOW. 

 Have an awesome weekend :)

 -Alex


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