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Posts about #coworking (Page 7 of 11)

Looking for coworking best practices from one of the oldest coworking spaces in the world? You’re in the right place!

This collection includes my full back-catalog of articles for coworking founders, staff and even coworking members!


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Technically Philly Q&A

coworking
2 minute read

If I had to pick the lead-in to be used on every piece of press I get from today until the day I die, it’d be the lead-in that Chris Wink wrote for my Q&A on this past Friday’s edition of Technically Philly.

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4 Years of JFDI

coworking
6 minute read

Bart had just handed me the telephone.

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How to get work in a coworking space

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3 minute read

This is reposted from the Coworking Google Group.

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Coworking Core Values 4 of 5: Community

coworking
4 minute read

This post is part 4 of a 5 part series exploring the 5 core values of coworking: Collaboration, Openness, Community, Accessibility, and Sustainability.

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Coworking Core Values 3 of 5: Openness

coworking
5 minute read

This post is part 3 of a 5 part series exploring the 5 core values of coworking: Collaboration, Openness, Community, Accessibility, and Sustainability.

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Coworking Core Values 2 of 5: Accessibility

coworking
4 minute read

This post is part 2 of a 5 part series exploring the 5 core values of coworking: Collaboration, Openness, Community, Accessibility, and Sustainability.

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Every Day is an Event

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1 minute read

After sharing recent growth stats and some specifics about our basic membership, I was asked:

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Coworking Core Values 1 of 5: Sustainability

coworking
4 minute read

This post is part 1 of a 5 part series exploring the 5 core values of coworking: Collaboration, Openness, Community, Accessibility, and Sustainability.

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A Crib Sheet for “Co” anything

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1 minute read

Coworking. Cohousing.

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Coworking Turns 6

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1 minute read

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 control our own lives. If we work for o...

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Coworking “First Day” Protips

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1 minute read

Interested in trying out a coworking space and seeing if it’s for you?

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A Hall Pass for Bureaucracy – Code for America Philadelphia

business
5 minute read

I haven’t really had a chance to talk much about Code for America since the team was in Philly. I won’t go into what the program is or how it works, because frankly I don’t think I can do a better job than their about page. But I really enjoyed having the CFA fellows in town e...

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Some Frequently Asked Coworking Questions

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7 minute read

I really do enjoy answering coworking questions that find their way into my inbox, and the best questions are the ones that are discreet and to the point. I recently was emailing with Joshua Hill, the director of a new coworking effort in Bozeman, Montana.

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Why do people love Indy Hall? We asked. They told.

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1 minute read

After nearly 4 years of working on making the best place in the world to work, we turned to our members to find out exactly what they thought about the experience. In their own words.

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What we can do about students leaving Philadelphia after graduation

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4 minute read

Retention is a big problem everywhere, and here in Philadelphia it’s no exception.

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A Coworking Parable: The Game of Chess

coworking
3 minute read

One day, shortly after we moved into our “new and improved” Indy Hall office in 2009, a bunch of chess pieces showed up on one of our kitchen tables. Interestingly, there was no board – just a bunch of chess pieces, arranged as if there was a board.

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What matters the most

business
1 minute read

Ask someone what they’ll remember about their job when they leave. What do you think the most common answer is?

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How to Automate your Coworking Space, and Why

business
3 minute read

I’ve noticed an increase in interest in systems like “swipe card entry” for coworking spaces, both from the perspective of security and automated billing. In a recent thread on the coworking google group, I mused:

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What does a week at Indy Hall look like?

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1 minute read

In the course of one week I spoke at length with Kelani about new media performance art happening in North Philly, had a discussion in Swahili about coworking spaces in East Africa, and met the girlfriend of my friend Elijah Dornstreich. It’s ridiculously clear tha...

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Designing Coworking for Collaboration

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3 minute read

Deskmag just published a piece about a Dutch incubator’s research project about physical proximity and collaboration. Among the things that stood out to me, these two sentences had the most tips for what was happening in space design as related to collaboration:

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