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New post on: Guardian Weekly

In his San Francisco diary, the Guardian’s Bobbie Johnson says that while there is little doubt the global recession has taken its toll on the US, nothing much has changed in Silicon Valley

It’s a crisp, late summer morning in San Francisco, and in the coffee shops that crowd along bustling Valencia street, an army of digital nomads goes to work. These itinerant internet workers – who operate out of cafes, bars and other makeshift office spaces – continue to bash away at their laptops while sipping cappuccinos and green tea.

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New post on: Datamation

This being the week after Labor Day I wanted to pass along an interesting concept called coworking. Most of you are familiar with the idea of a shared tenant services for small businesses that can’t afford their own office space but want to take advantage of a common collection of services such as fax machines, conference rooms, reception areas, and the like.

But what if the $400 or so a month fee for these services is still out of the park for your nascent business owner? And what if working out of a coffee shop or other free Wifi place isn’t really professional enough? In between these use cases is where coworking comes in handy.

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New post on: David Strom’s Web Informant

This being the day after Labor Day I wanted to pass along an interesting concept called coworking. Most of you are familiar with the idea of a shared tenant services for small businesses that can’t afford their own office space but want to take advantage of a common collection of services such as fax machines, conference rooms, reception areas, and the like. But what if the $400 or so a month fee for these services is still out of the park for your nascent business owner? And what if working out of a coffee shop or other free Wifi place isn’t really professional enough? In between these use cases is where coworking comes in handy.

Coworking goes under various names, including the “Jelly” movement started by Amit Gupta. The idea is that people who want more than just a virtual water cooler of email, Tweeting and posting online can actually get out of the house and spend some time nearby other humans doing their work too. The goal is to create a community of like-minded people but from different walks of life, skill sets, and interests – just like your local Faceless Big Company Cubicle Warren. Bring your own laptop and cell phone, tie into a Wifi connection, and partake of the included coffee. The “rent” is reasonable – about $50 a month or even less, depending on how often you need to show up. Some facilities have more, such as multiple-line phones and conference rooms, and some have less. All are a step up from Starbucks, though.

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New post on: Business Week

In the earliest stage of his startup Darius Roberts, 27, shared the de facto office of many a San Francisco techie: a coffee shop.

Working out of a Wi-Fi-enabled java joint in the Mission district was infinitely more pleasant and productive for him than flying solo in a home office at his Oakland apartment. And it provided the opportunity to meet other developers he might even be able to hire one day, as his Web-based car-sharing company, DartCar, grew.

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New post on: Office Space Coworking

The checklist is the stereotypical passion of the typical “type A” personalities. These individuals (ahem — me) are usually the ones you see wandering around the office supplies store looking for the next best organizational gadgets.

Yet, I’m gonna be a control freak & say it — checklists are underrated and underused as a business tool for most of us.

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New post on: News OK

There’s a saying that people like me, who spend a lot of time on the Internet, often use when talking about human interaction. “In real life.” Example: “How did you met Joe Smith?” “Oh, I talk to him all the time online and send him Tweets on Twitter, but we’ve never met ‘in real life.’”

Thursday at Nonna’s in Bricktown, Oklahoma City’s Web-savvy crowd will have a lot of ‘in-real-life’-time at the latest OKC Tweetup — a gathering of folks who communicate with each other on Twitter.com, the popular micro-blogging Web site.

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New post on: Coworking office

Heather Huhman: Welcome to “Come Recommended Comes to Your City,” a podcast series in which we uncover city-specific entry-level job market data, tips and techniques through an interview with a local expert. I’m Heather Huhman, founder and president of Come Recommended. As a reminder, Come Recommended is an exclusive online community connecting the best internship and entry-level job candidates with the best employers.

Today, we’ll be discussing the internship and entry-level job market in Columbus, Ohio with Dave Cofer. Dave is Founder and President / CEO of Cofer Consulting Solutions a Columbus-based consultancy that delivers expert solutions in the areas of attracting, developing and retaining young professionals. One of Dave’s current engagements is with the Columbus Chamber of Commerce where he serves as Internship Consultant providing outreach to local businesses for the purpose of creating new internship opportunities in the Region.

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New post on: Twestival

We are VERY excited to announce that Marieke Hensel of Branding Personality and the founder of Coworking-Fullerton has generously donated a 1-year Coworking membership valued at almost $1200 to Twestival OC benefitting The Orangewood Children’s Foundation!

Coworking focuses on bringing people across all industries into a collaborative shared workspace that gets them out of the home-office and/or provides a creative environment. Check out what all is offered to members of Coworking-Fullerton:

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New post on: Coworking office

Nick Noureddine keeps bankers’ hours at his Buffalo Speedway office. From 9 to 5, Noureddine, a 45-year-old technical writer, works at a round-top table by floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking a patio. There’s soft music — a combination of jazz and world pop — and limitless espresso.

His office is a Starbucks.

In the mornings, Noureddine rolls his office supplies across the tile floor in a padded carrying case: laptop and a standalone 19-inch monitor, air card, wireless mouse. Video conferences with the California optical company to which he telecommutes are punctuated by the drone of bean grinders and the frothy hiss of foaming milk. His bosses don’t seem to mind.

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New post on: World Changing

Doug Rushkoff had set out, as he told me in an interview on the WELL, to write one kind of book — “about money as a medium, and the way centralized currency and corporate capitalism were accepted as given circumstances of business, rather than inventions of particular people at a particular time.”

Rushkoff, who’s made a living as a writer, thinker and speaker who tries to step outside culture and see more clearly the patterns and processes at work, was ready to question fundamental assumptions about money and economies, and look for solutions to problems we all sense but barely understand — cycles of boom and bust, polarization of economic and political thinking (which are inherently linked), and how commitment to abstract concepts can make humans less human. Also how people can unthinkingly (or other-thinkingly) accept and follow cultural notions that actually undermine sustainable futures.

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