January 30 Coworking Convo: Hosting events your members want to attend
Now is not the time to relax your content and community outreach. Now is the time to lean into your story, your purpose and your
Workspace news can be overwhelming. The industry side of the shared space sector makes a lot of noise about billion dollar valuations, grand spaces and
Like most people, I’ve had waves of frustration, fear and overwhelm about work, virus, future etc. Uncertainty is hard and my temptation is to overmanage,
Passion can inspire us and it can drive us. But can it sustain us? If our business/space/project/company is sustained only by passion, what happens when
There’s an old saying in coworking circles that your competition is not other coworking spaces, but people working from their couch, or kitchen table, or…closet?
It’s Monday morning, I have a long-ass todo list, and I’m geared up to go into deep production mode between now and early-2020. But something
Women Who Cowork is changing the coworking game. What started as a blog post has grown into an international community of coworking space operators who
Still bathing in the afterglow of GCUC UK, I’ve readjusted back to Pacific time and have had a few days to let my London coworking
What are you doing with your coworking space? What are you really doing? What would it look like if your space and community exceeded your
I’m almost decompressed from a week in Denver, where the Women Who Cowork retreat, a workshop I taught on content and leadership, and GCUC USA
Coworking makes us happier. We coworking lifers know this anecdotally, but there’s data to back it up. A study by Emergent Research and GCUC found
Remote work looks great from the outside. You get to work from home; you can be a digital nomad wandering the world with your laptop;
Last week, two people who know me well both expressed confusion as to what I’m up to with Coworking Content. Is it a business? Is
I say it all the time because it’s true: coworking has nothing to do with desks and wifi. If all you need is a place
Updated 1/7/2023 One of the most powerful aspects of content marketing is that it can be used for just about anything. Coworking spaces, dog walkers,
This week a small business owner said something that made me want to scream. We were chatting on the sidewalk in downtown Santa Cruz and
If you’re looped in to coworking circles, you likely heard the collective squeals of delight last week when the AP Stylebook announced it would no
I spend a lot of my time thinking about stories. What I’ve found is that they’re everywhere. We are, in no small way, collections of
Jennifer, one of our community managers at NextSpace Santa Cruz, gives great hugs. You know the type of bear hugs that make you feel like
How are you feeling right now? It’s a pretty simple question, but it’s also a powerful one. How often do we stop and check in
A couple of weeks ago, I was thinking about how many of my friends and colleagues struggle with overwhelm, anxiety and depression. So I posted
If I see another article about how open workspaces are bad, I’m going to scream. It’s a tired old conversation that we long ago laid
If you follow coworking on social media, you’ve likely see the news that WeWork is no longer paying for meat for its employees. As Fast
I received a record number of responses to last week’s Coworking Out Loud Newsletter, so I decided to republish it here. If you want to
Let’s do a little thought experiment. What would happen if you lost your coworking space? I mean the actual building, with all your cool interior
A recurring topic of conversation during my record store years was around that period in music history when blues and early R&B—styles created by black
I was recently chatting with a fellow Peers Conference attendee in Austin, Texas. We were at a post-event happy hour swapping stories about working alone,
I spent my first year coworking in the wrong space. The long-story-short is that it just wasn’t a good fit for me. I didn’t really
Note: The following was originally published in the Coworking Out Loud Newsletter. I received such an enthusiastic response that I decided to republish it here.
Bennett Roesch was a fabulous part of the NextSpace Santa Cruz coworking community. He was known for juggling in the common space, organizing group plank