On the 20th of March 2012 we published our 500th article. In this series we like to review the articles that you (the readers) and we (the authors) both consider most relevant and important to demonstrate what “CoWorking News” represents today. In part 1 we looked at our start in 2009. Today we like to continue with our most important articles in 2010.
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We are very happy to share and review with you the most interesting stages and developments of “CoWorking News” at this ”500-article-milestone” today!!! Thanks to your interest and feedback, it was very easy to identify about 25 articles that you (the readers) and we (the authors) both consider most relevant and important to demonstrate what “CoWorking News” represents today. This is the foundation we can build on and that we like to develop! Thank you for being our supporters and readers!!!
As I was just researching on an article on “Free Coworking” , more precisely on “Free Coworking Grants”, I noticed something that we should become more aware of. In trying to make a better coworking world, we run the danger of becoming slaves to an apparently “cozy” but artificial design world. In doing so, we tend to relate more to the building and things rather than to our coworkers. To give you an example. There are a lot of coworking sites now that promote coworking offers. A lot of them are very nicely done, with very attractive pictures. One example “SharedDesks”. The example chosen is random, I picked London, and this is what I found. Very beautiful, I think everyone will agree, but something is missing. It is not only the people that are missing in the picture, but more importantly there is no feedback loop. You cannot comment on this or any other coworking offer as a user. And this is the same on all the other sites I found in the net.
I just saw on Google Groups that there is a great opportunity for people who cannot make it to Austin to take part in the discussions tomorrow (8th of March). Claire Rodriguez is setting up various Google Hangouts (Panellists), (Unconference). As we will not be able to be in Austin this could be a great opportunity for us to take part and to discuss and develop “Free Coworking” with the panellists and visitors of the conference. I hope there will also be some people “on the ground” in Austin who are interested to discuss the subject. Looking at the schedule of the conference, the sessions from 9:30 to 10:30 “How to Design, Build and Grow your Space for Collaboration” and from 1:15 to 2:00 ”How to Get Government Funding, Operate as a Non-Profit and be Bad Asses” are probably most relevant for “Free Coworking“. I asked Claire if she might be able to set up a forum for “Free Coworking”. If we are lucky, she will succeed. In any case, I hope we will advance the idea and can develop “Free Coworking” during the conference in one way or another. Please join if you can!
