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

Hi Lauren! Lauren Grant (who started this thread) no longer is active in the coworking world so I'm not sure what the status is. But I'm sure any efforts you make would be useful. :) In other interesting news, a couple of our members recently noticed that the trend of using the hyphen seems to

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

Hi Lauren, I'd be interested in hearing what you have done with this since 2014. Any progress? I had recently posted a question here on this topic as well, and was directed to your original post. In New Mexico the prominent business journal is publishing a new coworking list but using

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

Hello everyone- A friend (and fellow member at my neighborhood coworking space) just forwarded me this blog . It made me laugh and also made me think of how

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

I'll reach out to him and see if he is close enough to stop in for coffee. Also, if it would help the cause, Open Coworking can buy a subscription. But a subscription without the leg work isn't worth much. Lauren and Oren, you two seem to have a good momentum on this. Go team! Jacob ---

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

I was doing some digging and found it not so easy to contact the editors of the AP Style Guide directly without a content subscription, but I did find this: https://twitter.com/apstylebook Does anyone want to join on a tweet campaign to get their attention #NoHyphenInCoworking anyone? Also,

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

Coworking mafia. On Tuesday, September 16, 2014 11:28:16 AM UTC-7, Tony Bacigalupo wrote: they did not hyphenate Coworking Visa as that is a name of a program but they did hyphenate the word everywhere else in the article. This illustrates the issue perfectly. If Brad had invented

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

The hyphenation battle is a tough one to win because of the AP stylebook challenge. I find I'm encountering camel-case more often though, and usually on city/county documents where they don't duplicate form data the same way I've entered it. CoWork is fairly annoying, particularly when it's part

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

Are there other approaches that could be used to standardize and legitimize the spelling? My first thought was registering cowork or coworking as a trademark/servicemark, but ownership issues seem to rule that out as an option. Is there a GPL equivalent that we could explore? --- Glen Ferguson

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

Hi Oren, I really appreciate your thoughtful reply about this. And it's definitely pushed me in the direction of greater support for the cause. Two particular points that I can agree with: (1) the name is being spelled in two different ways for no very good reason. We might be able to solve

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

Lots of great analogies in there, Oren. http://ihighfive.com/ -Alex On Tuesday, Sep 23, 2014 at 8:51 AM, Will BennisLocus Workspace wmben...@locusworkspace.com, wrote: Hi Oren, I really appreciate your thoughtful reply about this. And it's definitely pushed me in the direction of

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

Hi Will, I know what your name is, I was just trying to make a point. :) I respect and value your points about no horse in the race and that the indifference of the co-working fans would never lead them to debate this to such an extent and that clearly this is something the coworking fans

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

I'm with Marius on this one. I think the important thing here is to get us in the dictionary with the spelling we use. To me, the spelling issue has always been indicative of a bigger thing, which is official recognition as part of the English language. After 10 years, I think the movement

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

Hi Oren, I appreciate your reply about this! Actually, my name is Will, not William, damnit!!! : But I don't think this is really the same. First, coworking isn't a company name or a given name / proper noun. It's not your name or my name. It's not even the movement's name. If personal

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

YES! love this. Desk Union is in On Thursday, 1 September 2011 10:29:20 UTC+1, sop...@deskwanted.com wrote: Hi everyone, For a while now we've been annoyed about the resurgence in the use of the hyphenated version of the word coworking. As you all know, most major media outlets these

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

I would very much prefer coworking places to coworking spaces. Space is pictured by most people as outer space, empty space, emotionally cold and distant. Place is a physical place, like a fireplace or a workplace or a marketplace or meet me at the place where... When Collective Agency was

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

I am far more concerned that Apple likes to autocorrect coworking as cowering... :) On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Marius Amado-Alves amado.al...@gmail.com wrote: FWIW, I agree with Will's arguments except the cow one. To summarize, the spelling is irrelevant, because there is only one

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

On Tuesday, 16 September 2014 23:10:20 UTC+1, Aaron Cruikshank wrote: I asked a professional editor friend of mine and this is what she had to say: I think usually the style guides follow the dictionary, and the dictionary is descriptive, not prescriptive. I just had Roma check

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

Hi All, Apologies in advance for being intentionally controversial, but this conversation about coworking with or without the hyphen nags at me and I figure I should say what I think about it even if I know it's going to be unpopular (and even if I don't really have a horse in the race). *I

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

FWIW, I agree with Will's arguments except the cow one. To summarize, the spelling is irrelevant, because there is only one coworking, irrespectively of how it is spelt. As Will points out, working with others in a company is never referred to as coworking. Nevertheless, I think there is

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

I haven't heard any movement on it but I'd love to see us take another stab at it. Lauren, our newest employee, had some great ideas on what we could do to grease the skids for the AP but she's only worked here one week so she may need some time to settle in. :) Sometimes you just have to let

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

they did not hyphenate Coworking Visa as that is a name of a program but they did hyphenate the word everywhere else in the article. This illustrates the issue perfectly. If Brad had invented something that sounded more proprietary, like Bradworking, then there'd be no issue. But by calling it

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

Sounds like something Open Coworking could undertake if y'all aren't opposed. After all we do already operate coworking.com and coworking.org. I think the first order of business is figuring out who makes this call. Does anyone have any place where to start on discovering who's in charge

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

I asked a professional editor friend of mine and this is what she had to say: I think usually the style guides follow the dictionary, and the dictionary is descriptive, not prescriptive. I just had Roma check Webster's, and she says there's no entry for coworking, just coworker, which of course

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

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

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

Wow Liz - great work! We're going to devote some hours to creating a package of examples to send off. I'll report back when it is ready and we can coordinate how to present it to AP! Sophie -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To post to

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

Let me know if there's anything we can put at http://doescoworkinghaveahyphen.com/ -Alex -Alex /ah indyhall.org coworking in philadelphia On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 5:06 AM, sop...@deskwanted.com sop...@deskwanted.com wrote: Wow Liz - great work! We're going to devote some hours to creating a