A preserved collection of Coworking.com’s published writing and reference pages, brought into the current site.
June 17, 2015 · Massimo Carraro
As an active coworking community of more than 100 spaces all over Italy, with a spot in Switzerland as well, we are happy to announce that this year the Europe of coworking meets in Italy 🙂 We’re talking about the next Coworking Europe
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February 22, 2015 · Massimo Carraro
Microsoft recently broadcasted this awesome video, called “Future Productivity Vision”. The story goes that a young professional enters a coworking door and… L’articolo [ Video ] The Future of Productivity? According to Microsoft, from
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February 17, 2015 · anthony thompson
Post Author: anthony thompson. Say it with me, “Fit – Space – Don’t Sell It.” I’m still not a fan of pop up ads (although millions of blogs inundate you with them to sign up for their damn newsletter) but if I knew what would be better I’d
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January 27, 2015 · Jeannine
The Coworking Africa conference, the first major event organized on the topic of Coworking in Africa, is to take place in Cape Town, South Africa, on July 23rd and 24th 2015. During two days, Cape Town will be the African capital of
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January 11, 2015 · Massimo Carraro
We are happy and thrilled to announce the first Cowo® coworking space in Switzerland, thanks to Mendrisio’s fastERA company. Things happen because of people. If we are able to announce Cowo®’s first coworking space in Switzerland, we owe
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January 3, 2015 · Massimo Carraro
The idea of coworking is not a new one: “independent together” is something even the Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer knew, back in 1964. Enjoy this awesome video – first shared by Locus Coworking’s Prague coworkers and republished, with
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December 9, 2014 · Chris
Post Author: Chris. That building in your town, with lots of people coming in and out, working on tables and chairs, or even small offices. Everybody wants to know what it is all about. So how do you explain it? The truth is, that its just
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November 27, 2014 · Jeannine
It was fun and exciting, there were workshops and tours and laughs. Come and see, the Coworking EU Conference that was. #coworkingeu
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October 15, 2014 · Jeannine
Note: This blogpost was written by Faraz Majidulla, of Astana Multispace, as part of an informal series to introduce us to Coworking spaces and how they function all over the world. So let’s start the series off with a little bling bling
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October 9, 2014 · Community Contribution
Post Author: jeannine. This blog post first appeared on Jonathan Markwell’s blog and is republished here with permission. The subject of competing Coworking spaces within one city came up in the Coworking group, and during the discussion
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September 21, 2014 · Community Contribution
Post Author: Kat Haselkorn. Coworking is increasing in popularity to the point where, something that was once nearly unheard of, is now a common way to do business. From entrepreneurs to start-ups to small businesses, working in a shared
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September 2, 2014 · Massimo Carraro
Like every year, this coming November the Coworking Europe Conference will gather all coworking enthusiasts for a three-day program of networking, speeches and updating on everything coworking-related. This year, the European capital
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June 11, 2014 · Massimo Carraro
Having already discussed our Cowo® Manifesto, today we get deeper on point no.5:: In our model, relationships comes first, profit comes second. Since it was born in 2008, the Cowo® network has always had a staple in activating coworking
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April 22, 2014 · Massimo Carraro
The greatest thing about coworking is that you’re never alone. This is the basis of each and every Cowo space, as well as of the whole coworking ecosystem. And if you’re wondering what this “coworking ecosystem” is, all you have to do is
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March 10, 2014 · Massimo Carraro
People who know us also know that we care a lot about sharing a healthy communications of coworking’s best practices. That is why we created the Cowo Manifesto, 10 points that explain what coworking means to us. We have already started
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February 24, 2014 · Massimo Carraro
A movement of freelancers is building up in Europe: Freelancer Movement. They are currently organizing a major communications campaign to build support for the Freelancers manifesto and present it to candidates to the European elections in
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January 28, 2014 · Massimo Carraro
People in the coworking community know and love the “myth of the founding fathers”, a bunch of coders in California who created the first coworking space around 2005. If you go to coworking conference, you’re likely to hear names like Brad
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January 26, 2014 · Community Contribution
Post Author: Kat Haselkorn. When it comes to picking out the perfect coworking space for yourself or your business, there are a number of factors to consider. Here, we outline seven steps to help you find the ideal work environment today
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June 27, 2013 · Community Contribution
Post Author: Craig Baute. As space owners and coworking catalyst we work hard to create a culture and community that we view best fits the individuals in the neighborhood and our current members. We take careful considerations of the
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February 2, 2013 · Community Contribution
Post Author: Eddie Arrieta. Without a doubt Medellin is one of the most important and recognized cities in Latin-america. It is evident that the difficult that came as a result of the growth and consolidation of Narco-traffic in Colombia
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June 7, 2012 · Community Contribution
Post Author: Paul O’Brien. Entrepreneurship took a leap forward today in Austin, Texas with the announcement by Cospace of their partnership with Capital Factory, a leading startup accelerator, in managing a new facility sponsored by the
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May 21, 2012 · Community Contribution
Post Author: Kevin Skiena. Imagine what would happen if McDonalds and Burger King shared recipes and business models, or if Comcast and Verizon viewed each other as allies in their efforts to bring cable and high-speed internet to
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May 15, 2012 · Community Contribution
Post Author: gerard. I’m a writer and when I tell people I rent office space, I can tell they’re often thinking, “what a waste of money.” I mean, sure, I could work at home and save a little cash. We have an extra room with a door and
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December 8, 2011 · Craig Baute
Post Author: Craig Baute. Since Regus claimed a few weeks ago to be the pioneers of coworking in the late 1980s a lot of coworking evangelists, myself included, were struck by their audacity to rewrite coworking’s origin story. The
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November 8, 2011 · Tony Bacigalupo
Post Author: Tony Bacigalupo. Tony Bacigalupo is the Mayor of New Work City, a coworking space and community center for independents in NYC. This post originally appeared on Tony’s personal blog, HappyMonster. The world of work is
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October 24, 2011 · Tomomi Sasaki
Post Author: Tomomi Sasaki. Coworking is a growing worldwide movement, and Japan is no exception. Although known for its culture of long working hours and office-bound work style — traditions ingrained into the psyche of the salaried
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October 5, 2011 · Robert Wayne
Post Author: Robert Wayne. I’ll get to the meat quickly but first you must know, my passion for coworking erupted like many house fires, unexpected in the night. One early morning between 4:00 AM and 9:00 AM this blinding surge became a
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September 1, 2011 · Community Contribution
Contributed by Angel Kwiatkowski of the Cohere Coworking Community in Fort Collins, CO. Since Cohere opened in 2010 we’ve maintained about a 1:1 female/male ratio. We didn’t think this was odd until people started asking us, “how can you
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August 9, 2011 · Alex Hillman
Traditionally, society forces us to choose between working at home for ourselves or working at an office for a company. If we work at a traditional 9 to 5 company job, we get community and structure, but lose freedom and the ability to
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June 14, 2011 · Community Contribution
Please enjoy five of the best blog posts from Cohere on building community around coworking. Learn more about how and where communities form, marketing tips, story telling and how to start a Meetup group for coworking.
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