August 28 Coworking Convo: How to Make Real Connection with Your Local Community
A: Acceptance B: Breathe C: Create and collaborate D: Dig deep and distance yourself E: Engage with your people F: Focus on friendship G: Give
It’s Saturday morning, I’m a pinch under the weather, and Shout and I are catching up on all the Kobe tributes. There’s a lot to
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
Time for some tough love: Stop thinking about content and create something today.
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?
These two things are true: 1. Every Thursday I send out the Coworking Out Loud Newsletter. 2. Thanksgiving in the States is always on a
For Coworking Day 2018, I wrote an open letter to community managers. They are the heartbeat of coworking, they have an almost-impossible job, and they
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 obsessed with a song right now. I’m hesitant to tell you what it is because it’s a bit too on-the-nose, but the story falls
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
One year ago today, with exactly zero sleep and a body flooded with blinding anxiety, I stood up in front of a group of people
Apparently it’s Friendly February. I saw this graphic last night as I was scrolling through one of the socials, and had to share it. The
I tend to be on-again, off-again with podcasts. I’ll get into them for a while, then I’ll fall away. When I’m in a podcast groove,
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
Way back in 1989, Queen Latifah dropped “Ladies First” on the world. The song called for the elimination of stereotypes and giving women due respect.
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
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
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
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
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
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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.
I love live tweeting conferences. It’s fun to share quote, insights, stats and takeaways in real-time with other conference attendees and people following along from
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
Each year, when the Global Coworking Survey comes around, I post all over social media that workspace operators, coworking members and everyone else should take
Talking to coworking people about the importance of community is, as my dad would say, preaching to the choir. Most of us coworking professionals understand
I recently read a thought-provoking blog post from Sarah Athanas, co-founder of Groundwork in New Bedford, Massachusetts. In it, Athanas asks the question, “Is coworking
Whether you love the Grateful Dead, hate them or don’t really care either way, the band offers a masterclass in marketing, building community and making