http://imouttaherethebook.com How coworking is getting us out of the office and into productivity Sat, 23 May 2009 16:50:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en On Wednesday, May 27, I'm piloting a Coworking Field Trip to coworking spaces in Manhattan and Brooklyn.  The plan is to highlight the diversity in coworking spaces in a city or metropolitan area.  This diversity—in design of the space, in the activities (other than work) that take place there, in ... http://imouttaherethebook.com/?p=653 We're not big fans of Lulu right now. For some reason, the book keeps getting pulled offline due to printing issues, despite the fact that every copy we've ordered has come through just fine. In any case, our eBook version is still up for sale here! If you want to buy a paperback ... http://imouttaherethebook.com/?p=650 The #1 question is still, "What is coworking?" if my day to day conversation about our book is any indication.  Most people on the street have never heard of coworking, so that question isn't a surprise. I'm interested in what people who have heard of coworking want to know about, so ... http://imouttaherethebook.com/?p=643 I was reading portions of Richard Florida's "The Rise of the Creative Class" yesterday, and it provided some great cultural and sociological perspective that overlaps in many ways with what we're exploring here. What I found interesting was his perspective on the workplace: Florida, too, acknowledges that a new generation of ... http://imouttaherethebook.com/?p=630 So, you want to start a coworking community? Awesome. We're glad to have you on board. Your first step? Don't start a coworking community. At least, not yet. Starting a coworking community is just like starting a business: do your due dilligence. Find out what else is out there. Find out who else ... http://imouttaherethebook.com/?p=626 I hate the phrase "the perfect storm".  I also feel like it's exactly what's about to happen around coworking. In 2006 there were only a handful of coworking and related alternative workspace facilities.  There were over 70 spaces worldwide by the end of 2008.  Based on the volume of discussion and ... http://imouttaherethebook.com/?p=620 Three years ago today, Amit Gupta put up a post on the House 2.0 blog Introducing Jelly - a semi-weekly work-together - and began what would become a global movement. Today, Jelly is in over 30 cities worldwide, has spun off Jelly Talks, and is growing every day. Thursday I met the guys ... http://imouttaherethebook.com/?p=617 Tony Bacigalupo is I'm Outta Here author-at-large at SXSW.  If you haven't had a chance to buy a copy of the book and want to leave SXSW with a copy, find Tony—he brought a pile of books with him.  The exact price will depend on how heavy his backpack is ... http://imouttaherethebook.com/?p=611 With roughly 600,000 people losing their jobs each month, it is getting difficult to imagine what all those people are going to do.  File for unemployment? Search Craig's list for gigs? Refresh that database of contacts? Massage your LinkedIn profile? Probably all of these at some point.  But increasingly, as Intuit's "The ... http://imouttaherethebook.com/?p=603 Every where I go I see signs like this.  Just on the 2 mile drive to drop my kids at school, 11 'spaces' are now available to rent as "office space."  What does this say?  What does it mean? First, it means that we are in the midst of one helluva ... http://imouttaherethebook.com/?p=599