I got to judge this weeks social media blog carnival submissions. And the winner is… Diane Guercio, with her submission: Keeping Twitter Alive. There are plenty of articles out there explaining how to get more followers, how to increase your traffic, and how to get a top listing on one ranking site or another. But [...]

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Coming to the Coworking Meetup Friday evening? We’re getting lots of “yes” RSVPs — enough that we have to think about capacity issues. It’s a Friday, it’s the ultra-cool San Jose, and it’s not a private party. So get there early! You can still RSVP here.
About the weather
You probably all think we’re a bunch [...]

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Last year’s Coworking meetup was a great success, so we’re doing it again. Same venue — the lovely courtyard of the fabulous San Jose Hotel. And once again, it’ll be on the first evening of SXSWi — March 13 — so you won’t be all partied out :) Be sure to RSVP on the Meetup [...]

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Okay, early adopters — here’s your chance to help us get LaunchPad Coworking open and thriving as a new hub for business in Austin.
In our last post, we explored the idea of VIP memberships and some kind of profit-sharing program. We got a lot of good feedback via email, Twitter, and in the comments. A [...]

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Wow, what great response we’ve received from our last post! Your comments, emails, tweets, and calls have been so encouraging. And your ideas are fantastic.
As you know, we’re trying to raise the rest of the money we need — fast. We are still looking for investors, of course, but now we’re considering going down a [...]

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Being transparent is relatively easy when things are going well. When times are hard — not so much.
It was so much fun to post updates here — photos of the latest new wonderfulness to appear at LaunchPad Coworking. I was pretty active on Twitter, keeping up with the blog, and generally letting everyone know how [...]

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John Robb has an interesting short post over at Global Guerrillas talking about “highly decentralized hot spots of local innovation.” Say what? Allow us to translate: that’s apparently geek speak for “cool restaurant that acts as a magnet for forward thinkers who wish to gather and exchange ideas.” Robb is talking about how, in the [...]

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Eli Malinsky is the Program Manager for the Centre for Social Innovation, a sort of coworking space in Toronto that offers collaborative workspace to those working to “make positive change in the world.” The Centre opened in 2004 and since then their space has expanded considerably. So they’ve had a chance to figure out what [...]

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Over at her blog, The Medium, at NYT, Virginia Heffernan recently reminded us about cybercafes. Not really a predecessor to coworking spaces, these were places early adopter geeks could go and do their private virtual whatever in a public space. It wasn’t about collaboration or networking. It was about emailing in one another’s presence.
Heffernan mentions [...]

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Springwise recently called our attention to a cool project being sponsored by Swedish clothing company, Elvine. In the interest of promoting what they term Creative Social Responsibility (CSR) — a play on Corporate Social Responsibility — the company is offering creative types free, no-strings-attached accommodations in the form of a place called Creators Inn in [...]

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