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Velocity Foundry is officially open, a free co-working space specifically for hardware, materials or life sciences startups (Are you a startup (hardware) working near Waterloo and you're needing space? 
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Want to get out of the basement and into a real office, but have no budget for renting a space? Look no further as co-working spaces are here. Given the intense interest in startups these days, India's young entrepreneurs are extensively using the co-work facilities. We spend a day at one such place to find why it's the perfect solution for so many youngsters, from film makers and entrepreneurs to social marketers and designers.
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We need you to help us build the first OPEN and COMMUNITY LAB in France !
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What secrets do the Boston, Chicago, Copenhagen, LA, London, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Francisco, Toronto, Utrecht, Vancouver (and other!) communities have to learn from each other? This talk surveys successful indie groups and collaborative spaces around the world, outlining the top 5 things that make them successful; the top 5 things they warn against; and what resources they can provide you.
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Over the last five months, I’ve researched a coworking space in Oakland, California’s Jack London Square called Port Workspace.
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In 1989, Scott Adams began publishing Dilbert, a comic strip that first focused on the title character’s life at home but soon moved to the workplace. It was there that it found its groove and came to capture something essential about life in late 20th-century America.
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In order for sharing to be a successful alternative to the status quo, we need one important ingredient: people. Sharing requires a motivated, passionate community, whether physical or digital.
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Coworking is one of the buzzwords of 2013. It has taken great leaps this year and we’ve seen collaborative workspaces in all shapes and guises spring up across the globe.
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The longer you sit sedentary in a cubicle farm, the faster your motivation approaches zero. Or at least that’s what happened to me. I was desperately craving a change of scenery so six months ago I applied to my employer’s "Work from Home" program.
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Do you set up your own home office or join a co-working community? Shop at a chain grocery store or a local food co-op? Bank or credit union?
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By Ward Plunet | peer-to-peer, crowdfunding, coworking, 3D printing, new economy, society 3.0 (RT @peers: Awesome new @Flipboard magazine!
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Sharing with strangers? The rise of coworking, ride-sharing, and sites like Airbnb, is taking sharing public. America, meet the Sharing Economy.
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From a single collaborative workspace in San Francisco in 2005, coworking as a concept has ballooned into a popular movement, with over an estimated 3000 spaces around the world.
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Something extraordinary is happening on Chicago’s West Side. CivicLab, a coworking space dedicated to collaboration, education and innovation for civic engagement, is building community around citizen participation in government. Featuring a number of social change, policy and organizing projects, CivicLab also builds and deploys tools for government accountability and civic involvement.
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General Assembly is one of New York's hottest and most unique coworking spaces. Learn why its founders decided to offer technology classes along with work spaces.
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But the most problematic aspect of the open office may be physical rather than psychological: simple noise. In laboratory settings, noise has been repeatedly tied to reduced cognitive performance.
jean lievens's insight:
what about co-working spaces?
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In order for sharing to be a successful alternative to the status quo, we need one important ingredient: people. Sharing requires a motivated, passionate community, whether physical or digital.
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In order for sharing to be a successful alternative to the status quo, we need one important ingredient: people. Sharing requires a motivated, passionate community, whether physical or digital.
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Jeremiah Owyang has a co-working space, not an office. He has an executive assistant that he assigns tasks online, but has never met in person. He outsourced decisions involving his new company’s logo, its web design, and even its name to a world of strangers across the internet, or whathe sometimes calls “the people formerly known as consumers.”
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The book “The Fifth Age of Work: How Companies Can Redesign Work to Become More Innovative in a Cloud Economy” by Andrew M. Jones is out now. Thanks to an advance copy provided by Genevieve DeGuzman of Night Owls Press, I am able to write a short review and put the book into perspective with regards to the most important trend I see in Coworking at the moment: Free Coworking
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No more rolling out of bed and walking across the hall to your office, jammies and all. Coworking is not a home office. Small business incubators tend to focus on tech startups looking for funds.
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Cubicles are out. Collaboration is in, writes columnist Thanh Tan. Seattle entrepreneurs in their 20s and 30s are redefining modern work habits in spaces designed to generate ideas and spark innovation.
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