Brent Ozar is a former member of Caroline Collective, a coworking space in Houston. As he posted regarding his departure — Ozar really loved the atmosphere but a couple of factors sent him back to his home office.
For starters, Ozar had a lot of gear, which, even after downsizing, proved too unwieldy to store in [...]

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Being an English major, I suffer from chronic metaphoritis, a wonderful affliction that often involves thinking visually. So I latched right on to the concept of “lattice” as presented in a recent business article in the New York Times. Up the Ladder? How Dated, How Linear by Cathy Benko, chief talent officer for Deloitte LLP [...]

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Move over virtual solitaire and online quizzes. Here’s a new time killer we found that should keep you entertained for a good ten minutes or so. It’s the Typealyzer, a web site that promises to analyze your website and determine, in Myers-Briggs fashion what “type” that site is. If you’ve never taken an MB quiz, [...]

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Cisco, in cahoots with the city of Amsterdam, recently opened a new variation on the ever-morphing coworking theme. This time, a corporation worked together with a city to create the Smart Work Centre, a space that serves both public and private sector workers working independently or in groups.
In a recent press release, Cisco outlined SWC [...]

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Perks — incentives offered to workers and clients by businesses seeking loyalty from both — are hardly new. Anybody remember S&H Green Stamps?. In more recent years, frequent flyer miles, hotel upgrades for regular guests, and credit card associated discounts have been but a few of the ploys enlisted to promote company/brand dedication.
That said, perks [...]

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Attention steampunk makers! Today we stumbled upon a place you’d love. Tina and I have been visiting Austin restaurant supply houses in search of new and used goodies for LaunchPad Coworking. This morning we visited AAA Food Equipment. They refurbish and sell all manner of stuff — monster mixers, refrigerators, fryers, popcorn makers, stoves, furniture. [...]

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The latest underground non-networking networking trend just got a little less underground. That’s something you can pretty much bet on when the New York Times uncovers a scene and gives it the nod. Not such a bad thing in the case of likemind, the all-lower-case brainchild of Noah Brier, head strategic planner for the internet [...]

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The public cafe area at LaunchPad Coworking is an atrium 3 stories high. The ceiling is all skylights, making for really lovely natural light throughout.
We decided to take advantage of all that space by cantilevering a 6th meeting room over the cafe. What you’re seeing here is the framework for the Sky Room. It’s small [...]

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I spoke at InnoTech last week — it’s always good to have a chance to spread the coworking word. Overall the gathering was okay — not great but okay. I prefer the more geeky BarCamp and similar events and InnoTech was pretty heavy on the suits. That said, telecommuters were well represented and seemed very [...]

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Sandbox Suites is a 4500 square foot coworking space in San Francisco founded by a husband and wife team, Roman Gelfer and Sasha Vasilyuk. They offer both monthly and daily rates plus additional pay-for services on demand including: mailing address, laptop rentals, concierge services and more. Sandbox just celebrated their first birthday. I hit up [...]

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