Comments on: Where the Coffee Shop Meets the Cubicle

By: Craig Baute

Craig Baute — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 17:16:56 +0000

I am the owner of Creative Density in Denver and have fallen in love with the coworking concept. By being among other professionals I am able to learn more and be more productive because I can simply ask a question to an expert besides me versus spending 2 hours searching Google.

I would also like you, RIchard Florida, to know that the name of Creative Density was inspire by your book ‘Who’s Your City.’ Your concept of clusters and the spreading of knowledge through close proximity resonated with me and I think the coworking concept does that on a micro level. Thank you for the inspiration.

By: Renee Chu

Renee Chu — Wed, 19 May 2010 21:14:39 +0000

Renee, community manager intern at Citizen Space here. Another good use of coworking spaces like ours is for flexible telecommuting. Companies who want to let their employees “work from home” but want to provide a focused workplace can look into options like Citizen Space.

For example, one of our members is a 30-person tech company based in Silicon Valley (1 hr outside SF). Many of its employees live in SF, so the company has a membership, and employees can work closer to home a few times per week to cut their commutes. It’s a flexible alternative to traditional telecommuting.

By: rachel

rachel — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:43:16 +0000

there is a renewed interest in a coworking space for toronto, and we’re taking cues from some of the best coworking facilities already in existence plus adding some of our own elements. we’re hoping to get something up and running within a few months.

the creative age does demand it, and what a third space it can be!
r.

By: Antonio Gould's Blog

Antonio Gould's Blog — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 11:06:16 +0000

Coworking space in Birmingham

Being someone who likes to move around between places while Im working, and who does sometimes miss sitting in an office with a group of other like-minded people, I was really interested by an post on Co-working spaces I read on the Creativity E…

By: Mark Kuznicki

Mark Kuznicki — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 18:33:28 +0000

For your readers' background info, that Coworking group was started by busy community beaver Chris Messina and others behind the global BarCamp community, the mother of all open tech communities. Chris and equally talented partner Tara Hunt work out of Citizen Agency, http://citizenagency.com/ in SanFran. Many interesting social, community and technology innovations coming out of this crew and good people to talk to sometime.

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 04:01:12 +0000

Michael – I agree: General idea is similar. But the space needs to be more appealing, more stimulating. Coffee house – Starbucks – has some elements. But it’s hard to work there – really work. A good hotel lobby is closer, but not quite right. An international airline lounge – sort of getting there. We can do a whole lot better. The creative age demands it.

By: Michael Wells

Michael Wells — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 03:47:07 +0000

Seems a lot like the Starbucks as conference room and Kinko’s as back office in Daniel Pink’s Free Agent Nation. Funny how all of these ideas seem to converge.