GCUC Takeaway: Regional Associations
Craig Baute - Creative Density Coworking
potential power of the city or regional collaboration associations. It
sounds like Seattle is the best organized with Toronto also starting
to have a strong group. These regional groups not only build positive
relationships and collaboration between spaces but also allows them to
build awareness together, sharing expenses, and allowing for more
creative ways to work together.
Here are a few ways that I recall regional groups coming together:
Seattle: Once a month social meeting rotating from space to space.
Toronto: Coworking Passport, Shared website for the city wide
initiative.
Austin and Philly (I think): Coworking Blood Drives
Austin: Kickball tournament between coworking spaces.
If you know of any other ways these groups are working together then
please list them in the comments. I am going to take steps to start
forming this type of group in Denver.
Craig
Creative Density
Will Bennis, Locus Workspace
We're doing this in Prague, Czech Republic, too. I'm actually sitting
at a co-sponsored Jelly (5 spaces are hosting Jellies) at another
coworking space, having just finished writing our meeting minutes for
our 2x/month meetings (that coincide with the Jellies). We have a
local visa program that's a bit different from the international visa
and do some shared marketing and are talking about how we can do more
to promote the idea of coworking and to bring more to our members and
to Prague by working together whenever possible. Here's our website:
http://coworkingvpraze.cz.
Will
On Mar 13, 5:20 pm, Craig Baute - Creative Density Coworking
Beth Buczynski
I really enjoyed this Unconference discussion and think it could be
really powerful as the coworking movement continues to grow. As
someone said at GCUC (probably more than once) our biggest competition
is home offices and coffee shops, not fellow coworking spaces. Working
toward more of these regional alliances, whether they are for raising
awareness of coworking in general, sharing members, or just
socializing, will go a long way toward showing the world we practice
the collaborative lifestyle that we preach.
Keep me posted!
Beth
@gonecoworking
On Mar 14, 4:15 am, "Will Bennis, Locus Workspace"
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Iris Kavanagh
Great recap Craig!
Another thing that alliances do, (whether they are formal associations or simply mutual agreements) is to allow for a marketing platform for the idea of coworking in general. I'm very excited by this as I think that the progression of the idea of coworking toward the common vernacular benefits the world of coworking (as well as the general population because coworking is just good for everyone!).
I wanted to add the newly formed League of Extraordinary Coworking Spaces (LEXC) to the list here. We are not limited to one region but are instead a multi-regional network of coworking spaces which:
1) Allows our members to enjoy shared trust across participating spaces and allows the spaces to enjoy shared trust of our members by employing the electronic visa system created by LiquidSpace.
2) Allows our members to easily locate friendly spaces in a region they might be visiting which will both suit their needs/expectations professionally and assure them a warm welcome on arrival.
3) Allows coworking owners/operators to take advantage of the combined marketing efforts/$$ of the collective spaces in the league.
4) Allows coworking owners/operators to enjoy automation of the coworking visa concept for visiting members, and offers the visiting members a consistent and understandable fee based on a predetermined discount applied to the visiting space's normal rates.
I'm excited to see more alliances form and was very delighted by the discussions around this topic taking place at the unconference last week! It will be interesting to see what happens next.
Warmly,
Iris
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