Millions of entrepreneurs, freelancers, designers and startups were given the tool that brought them all together. Now in a buzzing hive of creativity and ingenuity, who knows what can be created? It's like building a think tank where you're simultaneously growing 20 different companies and they are all working together while still working for themselves. The sky is the limit.
Read moreBook Tour for Aliza Sherman and Danielle Elliott Smith’s new book Social Media Engagement for Dummies, Showcasing Flockd
Aliza Sherman is a very good friend of Flockd cofounder, Janice Caillet, from the early Internet days in New York City (‘93/’94). This is Aliza’s 10th book: Social Media Engagement for Dummies.
Aliza and her coauthor, Danielle, showcases Flockd as a great example of an in-person social media tool. They could not over emphasize enough the importance of getting out from behind our screens (any screen, phone included) to be with real people. Flockd is the real-space pyramid that does exactly that!!
Aliza and Danielle are on a book tour that includes:
NYC June 26 6/26/13 6PM - 7:30PM @ Office Links
PHILLY June 28 6/28/13 5PM - 6:30PM @ Benjamin’s Desk
ATLANTA June 30 6/30/13 2PM - 3:30PM @ Atlanta Tech Village
Savvy Social Engage Sponsors ~ so at every event there will be great wine and cheese in a terrific space.
The League of Extraordinary Coworking Spaces (LEXC) is a unique national network of coworking spaces with a common standard of excellence.
Wine Sisterhood is an online community where women can join the conversation about wine, food, travel, style and entertaining.
Cabot Creamery Cooperative - Founded in 1919 and owned by 1200 farm families in New York and New England. Makers of The World's Best Cheddar.
http://www.amazon.com/Social-Media-Engagement-For-Dummies/dp/1118530195
Coworking Serbia
Why would your office disappear?
If you work in a corporation, you certainly do in a commercial building with colleagues who are most of the time out of their jobs - at a meeting, lunch or business trip. Get ready for a drastic change. The global recession, the development of new models of economy and more concern for the abrupt climate changes are guidelines to growing - coworking wave.
Where you work?
You can find in Austin. For the second consecutive year, Austin will host innovators in the "design work" at the largest coworking conference in the world. - For those of you for whom this new, open workspaces for collaboration called themselves "coworking spaces" or work areas that are growing productivity, collaboration and togetherness. By Deskmag , the number of coworking spaces is growing around 200% per year for the last 7 years. If you are interested in folders, LiquidSpace will show you the various options in 350 cities of the world. Workspace Association of New York offers over 700,000 square feet of space in just three states so by presenting a fairly influential organization. UnConference Global Coworking Conference , or "Juicy" as it is called participants, aims to collect and combine the best and brightest minds of the movement to divide ideas and inspiration, and so developed a new strategy for the future...
How will your office look like?
Office setting will be structured in a more relaxed work. Leader in innovative, office design as Turnstone creates all relaxed and comfortable furniture for coworking spaces. Architectural solutions which separate sectors will disappear. You will know more about what is happening in other parts of your organization. Open office spaces will create an atmosphere reminiscent of the cafe, promoting creativity and transparency.
New office toys as Flockd will help people from different sectors to start a conversation so stimulating productivity. You will have to interact with a coworker's a much friendlier, more acceptable and transparent manner. Resources such as the kitchen, bathroom, coffee, office materials Delic more than before. Take a deep breath and get ready to split up with some of the pen that is in your hands ... maybe even a monitor!
17 camels - a coach approach
It 'fun and useful to use flock to this NY startup in a business setting. If you are a coworking something for you.
Source: http://17camels.it/
CoworkingBasics: Striking the social balance
Dear Anna,
My coworking space is great! I have really made friends here and we all help each other out. The problem is, sometimes I am really in the middle of writing, and when I get interrupted by a question from a coworker (which I am happy to answer) it breaks my flow for over an hour. How can I turn off without seeming 100% anti-social?
Anti-Social Sal – NYC
CoworkingBasics is a fortnightly column by Anna Cashman, market research and social media person for Deskwanted - online portal to find and book coworking spaces worldwide. Are you a coworker, coworking space operator, or just want to know more about coworking? Email her your questions.
Dear Anti-Social Sal,
In order to truly benefit from a coworking space, you need to set ground rules for yourself. Yes, the routine comes easier compared to when you’re working in a café or home office, but it still needs attention. One way to do this is to set personal times when you allow yourself to be distracted. Just before lunch, for example, is ideal, because it can’t interrupt you for too long, and your concentration is probably waning anyway.
Question time
Note the ‘allow yourself’ in this. Just because you have set yourself ground rules, doesn’t mean other people will follow them. Luckily though, just as ‘knowing the people in your space’ created your conundrum, it’s actually its own remedy, too.
If you know those people well enough to share advice and exchange ideas with them, you should also know them well enough to politely tell them that ‘now’s not the time’. Just because you’re not answering right then and there, doesn’t mean you’re not answering at all.
To avoid conflict, set another – more convenient – time to speak, and then devote your full attention to them then. Your fellow coworkers will be grateful for it.
Strike a balance with this strategy, too though. There’s value knowing the difference between a quick question and extended discussion; and setting a later date to discuss your favourite colour is a time waster. Understand the difference, then be strict with yourself: take simple questions as such, and avoid getting too involved or give responses to questions that haven’t been asked.
If it’s the act of being interrupted that really gets your goat, consider wearing earphones (my last column talked briefly about ear-phone etiquette) when you’re in the middle of a concentration streak, or when a deadline’s looming. There are also neat contraptions to help let others know when they’re able to approach you. Flockd is one of these, helping coworkers connect in the real-world when it suits them most. It was developed in partnership with Green Spaces and New Work City, so you can be sure it’s designed with coworking in mind.
It’s easy to switch off online connections… flockd helps coworkers connect – when it suits them – in the real world
You have to be strict with these rules, but if you deliver them politely, everyone will be happier for it. Remember too that sometimes it’s okay to say no. You joined your coworking space to work, and fellow community members shouldn’t expect you to share your know-how too often for free!
Happy coworking,
Anna
Being able to ask people questions – and offer your feedback – is one of the greatest advantages of joining a coworking space. Click here to learn more about coworking, and here to start searching for a flexible desk within a professional community in your neigbourhood. And here to ask Anna a question of your own.
Photo Credit: Curumuri and Flockd. Click here to see the original blog post.
Why Your Office Will Disappear
If you’re like most people, you work in a high-rise building alongside colleagues who, much of the time, are away from their seats in meetings, at lunch or traveling for business.
Get ready for drastic change. A global recession, emerging sharing economy and more buy in to climate change are each pointing boardrooms toward efficiency. Your office as you know it will be gone.
Where will you work?
You’ll have to come to Austin next week to find out. For the second year running, innovators in work design will host the biggest coworking conference in the world. For those of you new to the concept, collaborative work spaces everywhere are defining themselves as “coworking spaces,” or workplaces that foster productivity, collaboration and community. According toDeskmag, the number of coworking spaces has grown 200% annually for seven years. Want to see a map? LiquidSpace will show you options in 350 cities around the world. The Workspace Association of New York represents over 2 million square feet in the Tri-State area alone, managing a powerful center of influence. The Global Coworking Unconference Conference (GCUC), or “Juicy” as its commonly known, aims to bring together the best and brightest minds in the movement, to share ideas and inspiration and develop new strategies for the future.
The Future
COOs will not continue to pay high electric bills and real estate costs for people who use their space 30% of the time. Your HR departments have already started calling me and my peers for pricing, and booking tours and visits given by our “Community Managers”. We are the proud proprietors of the new world of coworking.
We design for efficiency; our business models depend on it. We are daring entrepreneurs who have challenged the status quo to create unique environments, building blueprints as we progress. The design of the traditional corporation and office suite will be dated, your company’s seats will be re-situated, or you will be relocated to wonderful coworking spaces.
The League of Extraordinary Coworking Spaces (LEXC), a unique network of coworking spaces with a common standard of excellence, has become the go-to resource for corporations expanding their workplace strategy to include coworking. Gathering industry pioneers, the organization’s first corporate customer is Accenture. Especially smart for its mobile workers, LEXC makes a compelling case to try a new work solution.
“Commercial real estate is no longer about a square foot; it’s a state of mind,” says Brian Macmahon of Your Office Agent, a commercial agency specializing in lean work space. “Facilities plans have been kept too separate from business plans for far too long. Forward-thinking companies of all sizes are exploring these new models.”
As big business comes aboard the revolution, the triple bottom line gets better.
American Express recently lowered its carbon footprint by 27.5 percent, citing a decrease in business travel and the creation of centers for virtual meetings. Widely recognized for championing economic development and entrepreneurship is Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh, now championing Las Vegas to become the coworking capital of the world.
What Your Office Will Look Like
Office layouts will be more structured for liquid, easy work. Office design innovation leaders like Turnstone make coworking furniture lighter and more comfortable. The architectural silos that separate departments will erode. You will know more about what’s happening in other areas of your organization. Open plans will create cafe-like atmospheres and promote creativity and transparency.
New workplace tools like Flockd will help people across departments start conversations while increasing productivity. You’ll interact with coworkers in a more friendly, approachable and transparent way. Resources like kitchens, coffee, bathrooms, conference rooms and office supplies will be shared more often. Take a deep breath and get ready to share that pen in your hand, and maybe your monitor too!
Don’t Fret, You’ll Benefit
FastCompany recognizes the serendipitous, positive function of proximity stimulating innovation. A recent study found “the best, most-widely cited research came from coauthors sitting less than 10 meters apart. ‘How closely they worked mattered as much, if not more, than their affiliation,’ says the study’s author, Isaac Kohane of Harvard Medical School. Coworking’s combination of casual relationships and shared spaces, he suggests, can lead to some of an employee’s most fruitful collaborations.”
Juicy Questions? We have them too. We’re gathering March 5th and 6th for panels on, “Corporations and Coworking,” “Alternative Funding,” “Can Coworking Have a Deeper Impact on Society?” among others. See the full list of events here. The hybrid conference-unconference mixes professional speaking with collaborative DIY sessions.
Led most recently by dynamo Liz Elam, founder of Link Coworking and president of LEXC, GCUC is largely a grassroots effort with support from a wide range of volunteers and sponsors. In a former life, Liz was a top sales executive at Dell; you can see where this trend started. It takes a tireless, inspired team to drive any behavior-change effort. Read more about them here.
How GCUC works
Keynote speakers include coworking space owners, property managers, investors, academics, and serial entrepreneurs. It’s a diverse crowd of professionals, all connected to the coworking movement in different ways. The official Twitter speak is @AustinGCUC, #GCUC and #unGCUC.
People are traveling from every continent to join the dialog that will define the future of how we work, so buckle up!
Purpose: Driving the New Economy
Financial crises, climate crises, and the growing iniquity of our market-dominated society have prompted a range of startups to ask what a New Economy might look like — and to start building it today.
James Slezak (Purpose Partner and New Economy Practice Founder) joins Aparna Mukherjee (Social Media Editor for a major consulting firm, formerly of The New York Times, Bloomberg), Marissa Feinberg (Green Spaces NYC Co-Founder) and Erica Berger (Storyful, formerly of The Economist) for a panel discussion and debate on what trends and movements are best poised to disrupt unsustainable and unjust economic models.
How can online strategies accelerate the movement towards sharing, co-production, renewable energy, and greater democratic influence on the economy? What’s working and what’s not? What role can big established organizations play, and where are the spaces for new social enterprises? Engage with our panel of experts on these questions and many more.
ON STORIFY :: Purpose: Driving the New Economy - #SMWneweconomy
Social media, collaborative consumption, and the sharing economy. 21 February 2013, Bloomberg Tower.
With the emergence of 'collaborative consumption' startups such as Zipcar and AirBnB, many are pointing to the rise of a 'sharing economy' geared towards access to services rather than ownership of goods. What are the characteristics of this new economy, and how should we shape it? At the very least, given the sharing economy's reliance on human-to-human connection, one can be certain that social media will be a key utility.
How does one define the sharing economy?
For those hearing 'circle of value' or 'circular economy' the first time, this video, presented as part of the 2013 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, serves as a concise overview.
Online and offline collaboration go hand-in-hand.
Everyone is a social media entrepreneur, not that one actually needs a Twitter handle to be one (Remember, social media is human-to-human connection, not merely tools for online engagement.).
If you have a twitter handle you're a social media entrepreneur?#smwneweconomy
To enable people to connect with each other as easily offline as they do online, Marissa founded Flockd so that individuals at a co-working space can quickly signal to each other whether and how they wish to connect in-person.
Everyone is a social media entrepreneur, not that one actually needs a Twitter handle to be one (Remember, social media is human-to-human connection, not merely tools for online engagement.).
If you have a twitter handle you're a social media entrepreneur?#smwneweconomy
To enable people to connect with each other as easily offline as they do online, Marissa founded Flockd so that individuals at a co-working space can quickly signal to each other whether and how they wish to connect in-person.
Why not give credit to those who try? Mass appeal is not necessary to succeed -- niche appeal works just as well (or even better).
Scepticism about Flockd from the audience.
I can do that with a cup #smwneweconomy
Why not give credit to those who try? Mass appeal is not necessary to succeed -- niche appeal works just as well (or even better).
@Hassanmirza @marissafeinberg What do you like about it?#smwneweconomy
@rikuniaku97 @marissafeinberg it's useful. Way less offensive than people saying 'I'm too busy' which makes me want to scream#smwneweconomy
@we_flock The Flockd analog device idea seems promising to #SMusers! How do I get one? @marissafeinberg#SMWNEWECONOMY #smw #networking
Apt example of marketing by social media entrepreneurs -- get a Flockd device by tweeting @we_flockd with #SMW.
@marissafeinberg @we_flockd entrepreneurs "Flockd" together. Awesome idea. #SMWneweconomy
How can a diverse set of stakeholders (or rather, brandholders), collaborate to shape the sharing economy?
@jslez reminds us that we need business and brand leaders with activists to shape the new economy. #smwneweconomy
Great concept @ServiceForLife: @marissafeinberg talking about@GreenSpacesNY and shared economy #smwnyc#smwneweconomy cc @clubworkspace
Keep in mind that co-creation, or bringing all stakeholders/brandholders into your value chain, is the future of business.For the full story, visit http://storify.com/yangbodu/purpose-driving-the-new-economy-smwneweconomy. Thank you to Yangbo Du for posting this great timeline and commentary on our talk!
FLOCKD: For Real-World Connections
We live in networks: Facebook, Twitter, and many more. People can easily connect online. What about offline?
To connect, at times we need an invitation.
INSPIRATION
Flockd will open conversation zones, break communication barriers, and disrupt social hierarchies. The effect will be a spontaneous Meetup, or live tweet.
However, Flockd uses basic communications that inspired the technology we know and love.
Note from Dewi: Marissa Feinberg is a friend based in NYC and Founder of Green Spaces co-share workspace in Tribeca. Her new company flockd is an exciting initiative that applies the concept of online status updates IRL "in real life". Learn more about what's poppin' with flockd!
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Co-Working Space,Green Spaces, Inspiration, Inspiring Women,Marissa Feinberg, New York City