Articles

A preserved collection of Coworking.com’s published writing and reference pages, brought into the current site.

Citizen Desk Now Open

August 13, 2007 · citizendesk

Who would have thought a small town in central Wisconsin would be on the cusp of Co-Working? After a few months of contracting in San Francisco, I was inspired by the “goings on” at Citizen Space. The energy and camaraderie was something

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Updates from the Philadelphia Front

August 2, 2007 · Alex Hillman

A lot has been going on in Philadelphia! Our ever-growing group of creative and independent business people is about to come together to open our first coworking space! We have a bazillion things to do to prepare for signing our lease on

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Berkeley Coworking Open House & Office Warming

July 30, 2007 · ChristopherA

This Friday, August 3rd, we are having an office warming and open house at our new Berkeley Coworking site at 2930 Shattuck Suite 305 (cross-street Ashby and near Asby BART Google Map & Street View) in Berkeley, across the bridge from San

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Coworking in East Village (cooperBricolage)

July 25, 2007 · Sanford Dickert

Hey all – been working up a storm here in the East Village setting up the new coworking space in Manhattan at Cafe Fuego (located on 9 St Marks Place, between 2nd and 3rd Avenue). In the past three days, we’ve had a number of people stop

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Coworking around the world, via Noel(noneck)

July 22, 2007 · Alex Hillman

Back in May, Noel Hidalgo shot some footage of Jelly in NYC (recently featured in Wired along with our Philadelphia verison). [blip.tv ?posts_id=231491&dest=-1] Now while on his ’round the world journey which he’s blogging at

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Seattle Updates

July 5, 2007 · Jacob Sayles

June was a very busy month.! It was great meeting folks and their families at the BBQ on Saturday. For those of you who couldn’t make it, here is an update of what is going on at Office Nomads. Office Nomads LLC I just finished up all the

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Need Anchors for Coworking Space in Berkeley, CA

June 27, 2007 · ChristopherA

(cross posted on the coworking list) I have found a prospective site in Berkeley, CA to convert into a small, Citizen Space-sized, coworking office, with room for about 7-8 anchors, and about 400 square ft of meeting/conference

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Constant Networking at The Network Hub

June 22, 2007 · olga7

I have just attended another one of The Network Hub’s monthly meet-ups. The meet-up is all about just that – meeting other business minded people, exchanging business cards and having a lot of fun. The event was a success. Over 60 people

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Office Nomads @ BizJam

June 5, 2007 · Jacob Sayles

This Saturday I’m going to be at BizJam, in Seattle, all day helping setup, handing out business cards, and getting people excited about coworking. We’ll have a 1/8 page ad in the conference program sporting our new logo and asking for

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NY Post Article: Creating a Wireless Hub

May 21, 2007 · noneck

“It’s impossible to go through life with blinders on in New York City,” says Economopoulos. “You have to figure out how to live with millions of other people. That’s what coworking is about.” when elliot winard transplanted himself to nyc,

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Philadelphia Jelly = Cream Cheese Sessions?

May 4, 2007 · Alex Hillman

This is a repost from my personal blog, dangerouslyawesome.com because I thought that the coworking community might be interested in this. I just left the inaugural session of Philadelphia Jelly coworking. As per a suggestion from Jacob

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CoworkingLA meetup April 24

April 22, 2007 · Chris Messina

There’s been some recent activity on the Coworking mailing list seeking support towards the establishment of a coworking space (or spaces) in LA. Heather has invited folks interested in the coworking concept to attend the 12th Geek Dinner

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The results of the Coworking Survey

April 21, 2007 · Miss Rogue

So…wow…we collected over 120 responses (including the first 11 via email that aren’t in the spreadsheet) and I spoke with quite a few people who said they didn’t get the chance to go take the survey, so I think this is representative of

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How to get involved…

April 21, 2007 · Miss Rogue

Just as a refresher to those just joining us and since there were a couple of questions about this on the mailing list, here are a few ways you can get involved in the Coworking movement: Join the Google Group mailing list (and join in!

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Please fill out our coworking survey!

April 8, 2007 · Miss Rogue

Hey there! We put together a survey to see what we need to be doing/building/paving in the upcoming months to support everyone’s efforts. Please take the 10-15 minutes to fill it out: http://citizenagency.questionform.com/public/coworking

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New playgrounds for new play

April 7, 2007 · Chris Messina

Gerrit Visser blogs about A paradigm for Coworking: There’s a chapter in the recently published Handbook of Experiential Learning about something called “Junkyard Sports.” The chapter, written by Bernie DeKoven, shows how creative play

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What’s in a name?

April 4, 2007 · Chris Messina

Patrick’s getting coworking going in Montreal and is stymied by that old branding foe: What to name the space? Alright so this past week has been very productive coworking space wise, a couple of meetings, new people showing interest in

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New coworking blog in Ireland

April 3, 2007 · Chris Messina

Looks like coworking is really taking off in Europe what with the many Open Coffee Clubs and now a new Coworking Ireland blog: The goal of Coworking.ie is to promote coworking in ireland, to provide a community space for coworkers to team

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Brooklyn Coworking March Open House

March 29, 2007 · noneck

Tired of arguing with your cat about a bad client? Wondering what is the next wave of social networking technology? Looking for an invigorating environment to call an “office?” You are invited to Brooklyn Coworking’s monthly open house and

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The economics of independents

March 21, 2007 · Chris Messina

There’s an old adage that claims to make money, you’ve got to spend money. While this can prove true over time, it’s not something that most independents are at liberty to consider — living project to project and figuring out how to make

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The cult of the bedouin hacker

March 11, 2007 · Chris Messina

Dan Fost of the SF Chronicle has been following coworking for some time and today has a cover story on the neo-nomads stalking out free wifi and power in San Francisco. While the article gives a good overview of the culture of independents

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Coworking: 2 Years and Going Strong

March 11, 2007 · bradneuberg

Brad Neuberg: Coding In Paradise: Coworking – Community for Developers Who Work From Home: “Join Spiral Muse and Brad Neuberg in creating a new kind of work environment for free spirits!” This was the initial blog post I wrote kicking off

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Barcamp Austin 2 – Coworking Meeting on Saturday

March 10, 2007 · noneck

for those of you who are at SXSW interactive and Barcamp Austin 2, TODAY (saturday) at 3.30, we’ll be meeting to talk about the coworking movement. please spread the word to your fellow attendants… Saturday, 10 March @ 3.30 pm Barcamp

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NYC cafeSlamming

March 8, 2007 · noneck

while the name is more violent than the actual practice. on friday, nextNY’ers are gathering to host a coworking session hang out, and talk: THIS FRIDAY, lets “cafeSlam” at ini ani cafe on Stanton between Orchard and Ludlow. From 1 – 6pm,

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Historical Collaboration

March 6, 2007 · Alex Hillman

“The Junto was a club established in 1727 by Benjamin Franklin for mutual improvement.” Sound familiar? I’m really excited about the interest in coworking that I’ve been able to generate here in Philadelphia. I’ve got a couple of agencies

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Green Coworking at Citizen Space

March 6, 2007 · Chris Messina

We’ve always wanted Citizen Space to be a green space — not just the walls (which they are) — but that we’d have as small a ecological footprint as possible in how we run and manage the space. And no, it’s not easy given that we work in

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