coworking

Coworking is a relatively new social activity involving loosely related individuals working remotely from a home or off-site from the office. Coworkers may or may not know each other, and are typically organized around creative social groups or independent contractors.

Metropolitan areas of Austin, San Francisco, Houston, Portland and New York are pioneering coworking activities; LaunchPad Coworking in downtown Austin, Texas describes itself as "the future of work." Another such coworking site named Caroline Collective sells space as a subscription, with membership levels announced as:

(1) Digital Drifters - receiving free WiFi, coffee, a bike rack, and the ability to network.
(2) Laptop Nomads - priority usage of desktops and workspace, printers, and conference rooms
(3) Professional Pilgrims - Dedicated desks with lock & key storage, space rental, 24/7 access. Your own key.

With the rise in single owner businesses, coworking is popular with entrepreneurs that want independence, yet crave getting out of their "bubbles." Coworking is still largely experimental with loose social connections making up the vast majority of coworkers. According to CNN: "Next phase of working at home:Leaving home."

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “coworking”

• Soma Vidas Work Well Social Event

  
  Spinuzzi — Authority: 121
  Soma Vida is hosting a Work Well Social Event on December 15. If youre in Austin, swing by for free coworking (9am-noon) and learn more about this unique coworking space. I plan to be there too.
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• Freeside a Hacker Space Collective in Atlanta

  
  TechDrawl — Authority: 129
  Click here to view the embedded video. A really smart guy I met on Twitter, Ken Wehr aka Eater , a former U.S. Army Ranger who works for Google, kept telling me  Freeside was like nothing else in Atlanta. No kidding! Wehr, Freeside Technology Spaces’ Founding President and Director, recently transferred ...
  3 days ago

• 49 Tools for Living the Location Independent Lifestyle

  
  ThrillingHeroics.com — Authority: 454
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  4 days ago

• Coworking in Austin: Cospace

  
  Spinuzzi — Authority: 121
  “We bring the co ,” enthuses Kirtus Dixon as he discusses Cospace ( http://www.cospaceatx.com ), a coworking site that he is planning to open with his business partner Andrew Bushnell. Heres what the co stands for , according to their website: Why Cospace? We feel it a simple yet effective name for ...
  5 days ago

• L’accompagnement

  
  Facilitating Change — Authority: 104
  I’m getting tired of hearing about how telecentres have failed. They haven’t. I know, I know. The name sucks. Here’s a quick definition: A telecentre is a public place where people can access computers, the Internet, and other digital technologies that enable them to gather information, create, learn, and ...
  5 days ago

• Workplace 2010

  
  mj — Authority: 119
  Workplace 2010 is an initiative within the Civil Service. I recently met with Mark Bennett, who works for the Department of Finance and Personnel (DFP) and is specifically charged with OpenDataNI along with a team of talented anarchists within the walls of the Civil Service. Mark took the time to show me around Clare ...
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• A meetup for Geeks in Hebden Bridge

  
  andrewmccall.com — Authority: 110
  When: Wednesday November 25th @ 7:00pm Where: Hole in’t Wall, Hebden Bridge ( map ) What: We’re holding a GeekUp style meet in Hebden Bridge, open to anyone who is a geeky about anything. There is no formal agenda or presentations planned, we’ll see how it goes, hope it works and if it does we can to turn ...
  1 week ago

• Coworking: The Cure for What Ails Me?

  
  Freelancedom — Authority: 414
  I’ve been lonely lately. I mean, freelancing has always been lonely. I sit in my condo, hunched over my keyboard, getting more and more used to not going out. I have full-on conversations with my three cats. I tweet, and retweet, and @reply, pretending that virtual conversations are just as good as actual human ...
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• MRBS [del.icio.us]

  
  Imran Ali — Authority: 135
  MRBS is a free, GPL, web application using PHP and MySQL/pgsql for booking meeting rooms or other resources.
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• Divvy · Free Scheduling and Billing Systems for Coworking Spaces [del.icio.us]

  
  Imran Ali — Authority: 135
  
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• Genbook [del.icio.us]

  
  Imran Ali — Authority: 135
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• STACKD helps people in office buildings get in touch – for business or beers.

  
  Guru of New — Authority: 113
  Do you know your office neighbors? That guy you see on the elevator everyday? Those familiar faces you see when you’re buying your morning latte? One of the ironies of our social networking world is that we often end up communicating more frequently with those across the planet than we do with the people living ...
  2 weeks ago

• Jelly, Casual Coworking in a City Near You

  
  WebWorkerDaily — Authority: 698
  Yesterday I took part in my first Jelly session — and I’ve got to say it was a fun and productive experience that I will be repeating in the future. Jellies are informal, free coworking events that are open to anyone. There were 10 participants at the Jelly I attended, from a range of different backgrounds ...
  2 weeks ago

• Hamburg: Becks Camp, Barcamp

  
  Peter Bihr on Social Media, Web 2.0 & Digital Life [www.thewavingcat.com] — Authority: 409
  I’m back from my vacation and (after a brief health-related break) ready to rock again. So next week I’ll be headed up to Hamburg for two camps that I’m really looking forward to: The Becks Gold Urban Experience Camp (I’m assuming this is the official blog ), in the following called only Becks Camp, and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Building on good bones vs. making room for a drive-thru

  
  Sprawled Out: The Search for Community in the American Suburb — Authority: 507
  The Former Herdas True Value Hardware Store in St. Martins With last weeks Economic Development Commission meeting canceled due to lack of a quorum (mass illness), I was able to attend and listen in on an organizational meeting of a group called Franklin Citizens for Community Development (formerly known as ...
  2 weeks ago

• Future of Work Redux

  
  The Marketing Fresh Peel — Authority: 408
  This is a content from: The Marketing Fresh Peel Jeff Brenman, of Apollo Ideas , adds his thoughts in a presentation about the future of work and they are a nice continuation to the future of work discussion . Here are a few key points from Jeff’s deck. The future of work is… Transparent – Your ...
  2 weeks ago

• Lists, and what others think of you

  
  alex hillman writes here — Authority: 406
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  3 weeks ago

• Justifying Coworking As an Investment

  
  WebWorkerDaily — Authority: 698
  Coworking is a great trend, one that is taking root in even the most unlikely of soil, including areas where it has a chance of making a big difference, like Detroit. For freelancers and small startups, a coworking space provides a great opportunity to work with others, and to have office space to show off when a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Blank Canvas: Where Do You Freelance?

  
  GoMediaZine — Authority: 536
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  3 weeks ago

• Co-working from a tropical island in Panama

  
  Popwuping — Authority: 478
  Whether you are a location-independent knowledge worker, a digital nomad or a webworker, whatever label you choose, if you are looking for an extreme change in scenery, Coco Vivo should be on your list of potential places to experience. Located in a rustic tropical island retreat in Bocas del Toro, a province of ...
  4 weeks ago

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