Kategoriearchiv: CoWorking Calendar

For a long time coworking activists and space managers have been struggling to describe the “extra-value” you create and receive when working in a coworking space instead of working from home. I believe the sociological concept of “Social Capital” could provide this valuable description. In short, according to James Coleman, social capital is: “ … anything that facilitates individual or collective action, generated by networks of relationships, reciprocity, trust, and social norms.”" And how do we measure or quantify social capital? Here the definition of Nan Lin gives us a clue. Social capital is: an “Investment in social relations with expected returns in the marketplace.” To summarize, we are talking about a sociological concept with an economic focus.  Following the thought of Nan Lin, we therefore need to take a closer look  at “the  financial return in the marketplace”.  

Vor etwa 4 Monaten ist das Projekt Work Oase Kassel mit dem Eintrag ins CoWorking Starter Verzeichnis in die erste Realisierungsphase gegangen. Jetzt ist es soweit. Mit der Eröffnung am 18. Juni 2011 (siehe auch CoWorking Calendar) wird die Work Oase Kassel das 57. Coworking Angebot im deutschen CoWorking Verzeichnis. Herzlichen Glückwunsch dazu und viel Erfolg!!!

Start coworking, you do not necessarily need a regular coworking space to do so.  In Wuppertal, a city close to the urban Ruhr-Area in Germany, there is a growing Coworking Community, not yet with a fixed coworking space. But for the second time CoWorkingWuppertal starts an intraregional project: After having initiated a European JellyWeek in January 2011, Coworking Wuppertal now hosts a  Barcamp on Coworking  (open conference) on July 8th-10th 2011 (also see Open International CoWorking Calendar)  

This event, on the 13th of June 2011, was provided by our friend from Bristol David Saunders:  “This will be an exciting, fast-pasted conference introduced by Barbara Janke, the leader of Bristol council, in which sixteen great speakers have six minutes each to present. The day will be split into four sections, each section building on the last as we explore what it would take for Bristol to win the European Green Capital Competition.” For more details please see the “Open International CoWorking Calendar“.

Exactly two years ago we started our site with this article. One year later we celebrated our first birthday with over 30.000 unique visitors. Today we have reached more than 90.000 unique visitors. With 378 published articles (see archive or use search function) we managed to write an article a little more than every other day. And this is only the start!!!