February 2009
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NYC & Coworking Partnership
Some awesome news today out of New York City! Mayor Bloomberg is announcing a partnership with coworking spaces and others to bring investment and publicity to startups here in NYC. Tony’s currently mum on details, but he’s posted this.
Before the official announcement, it’s being reported by The NYTimes and several others:
From CNET:
According to a source in the...
January 2009
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For Tight Times, Office Space on Flexible Terms
Green Desk “really simplified the process of opening an office,” Mr. Humphrey said. “Sizing is flexible — if I grow, I can move into a larger space. And they handle office stuff, like receiving packages and making sure the Internet and phone work.”
Via NYTimes
'Starbucks without noise' MORE INFO
“If you’re a Web developer and you have an idea you can put your idea up on the whiteboard and then allow other people to make comments. It’s collaboration. It’s a sense of community, and that’s hopefully what we’re trying to build here,” Delagrange said.
Via The Free Lance-Star
November 2008
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The 'Trophy Kids' Go to Work
The Wall Street Journal how young people (“millennials”, a word that I still think refers to a flower) are changing our relationship to work:
If employers fail to provide the opportunities and rewards millennials seek, he says, they’re likely to drop out of the corporate world as he did and become entrepreneurs. “We get stifled when we’re offered single-dimensional...
Community-Driven News
The NYT describes a movement of community news, driven by groups of independent journalists who are dissatisfied by the shrinking newspaper industry:
Here it is VoiceofSanDiego.org, offering a brand of serious, original reporting by professional journalists — the province of the traditional media, but at a much lower cost of doing business. Since it began in 2005, similar operations have cropped...
WatchCubicle Haters Find New Home by ‘coworking’
September 2008
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A place to lay your laptop
The Globe and Mail
Brown and WorkSpace co-founder Bill MacEwen were inspired by Queen Street Commons, a site founded in Charlottetown in 2004 by artists and community activists. Using it as a template, they decided to create a for-profit co-working space in Vancouver to serve the tech community and other freelancers.
‘Jelly’ sweet opportunity
Denton RC
“It’s refreshing. You get an opportunity to see what other people are working on,” said Stephen Boudreau, the chief creative officer and co-owner of Asendio, a creative and technology consulting company.
July 2008
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Alternative Workspaces
Business Week
Why is a shared workspace better than a coffee shop? Well, for one, you don’t have to buy coffee by the cup. And the collegial atmosphere can spark big ideas and plenty of networking opportunities. Here’s a look inside some of the co-working facilities springing up worldwide to provide entrepreneurs and other members of the mobile workforce with desk space and a WiFi...
May 2008
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Tacoma catches on early to co-working trend
The News Tribune (via Suite133)
“It was like a miracle from heaven. It gave me the opportunity to have a place that I could land,” Giguere said. “It fits how I like to do business. I want to be casual. And clients think it’s kind of cool.”
March 2008
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Coworking: How to work solo, but not alone
Christian Science Monitor
“I was totally cut off from the world,” Mr. Jones says. “I was only working four or five hours a day because I’d keep looking for things to do just so I could get out of the apartment.”
After months of searching for alternatives, Jones found Office Nomad, a shared workplace in Seattle that sells itself as “individuality without...
February 2008
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They're Working on Their Own, Just Side by Side
The New York Times
“It’s nourishing on a fundamental level,” said John Vlahides, the executive editor of 71miles.com, a travel site covering Northern California, who rents a desk for $175 a month at one of Mr. Neuberg’s original sites, the Hat Factory. “And if you’re not nourished, how can you be creative?”
September 2007
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Whether Working Alone... or Working Together...
Orlando Sentinel
In Orlando, efforts to start a co-working space are still in their infancy, but [Ryan] Price and other organizers have been laying the groundwork for the past year with regular meetups at coffee shops and bars.
October 2005
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A Cubicle for You and Your Muse
The New York Times
“When you write at home, there’s a lot of distraction,” Ms. Parisi said. “You want to go clean out the fridge, or tweeze your eyebrows. But when you go to a space to write, that’s what you do.”