Category: Announcements

Join the Crowdfunders!

Home page of the crowdfunding campaign for the coworking handbook

Photo by Stefano Borghi

Last night we launched the crowdfunding campaign for the Coworking Handbook and we have already passed the 75% of our first goal :) With this money we will be doing the professional proofreading of the book in English.  We have set up a few stretch goals to be able to translate it and edit in in different management. Check the perks and support us.

Hurry or pay more

Discounted Coworking Handbook Offer

We have set up a special price for the duration of the Coworking Europe Conference. If you buy it after tomorrow it will be more expensive.

Help us

We need your help to spread the word and reach as many people as possible. We want to be able to help the most coworking space managers possible in their locations and languages. Here’s a list of things that you can do to help us throughout the campaign:

  • Buy the book
  • Promote this campaign among your friends and followers. Social Media are awesome, but if you can send emails or talk to the people even better.
  • Retweet, share, and like our updates on Facebook and Twitter.
  • Talk to journalists and online influencers about the Coworking Handbook and try to convince them to write about the campaign and the book.
  • Talk to your school directors and teachers and local authorities to try to get them to buy loads of books.
  • Talk to a publisher or media outlet that may want to print and distribute the book in your city/country.

This is the link for your convenient copying and pasting: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/coworking-handbook-the-practical-guide-for-coworking-space-managers/x/111478

November 12, 2013

New Chapters Coming to You!

The Best Chocolate Cake in Brussels: Patisserie Vermeulen. A True Treat!We have just released the Community draft, and previously this week we sent you the Finance chapter.  What a treat!

If you did not receive them:

  1. Are you subscribed to our mailing list.
  2. Did you check your email spam just in case?

We are now working on a crowdfunding campaign to be launched for Coworking Europe, with a special deal for those days only. If you want to learn about best practices and to get a lot of answers to coworking management questions you should attend, we wil :)

Until then, we will continue to release materials by email and through our website.

More coworking knowledge, facts and news will be released via  Facebook and Twitter.

If you want to get the next early releases subscribe to our mailing list.

November 7, 2013

We have taken this week off

Bobby Bowden relaxing with Charlie Ward's Heisman trophy: Doak Campbell Stadium, Tallahassee

You may be wondering why we’ve been so quiet this last few days after last week’s sprint. Well, we are taking a break from writing, we have two coworking spaces to run!

Last week we managed to get most of the first draft of our coworking how-to guide and a couple chapters have gonne out to our subscribers. Feedback is coming and we are also hooked on thinking how to improve what we have already written.

What’s coming next? We are finishing up what is missing next week and work on the feedback and redrafting. We will continue to release materials by email and through our website.  Bits of wisdom continue to be shared through our Facebook and Twitter, from us and from some of the many interesting people that are running coworking spaces around the world.

If you want to get the next early releases subscribe to our mailing list.

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October 17, 2013

Check Your Mailbox For “Legal, Coworking and the Law”

We have just released another chapter of the Coworking Handbook to all the people subscribed to our site.

This time is Legal: Coworking and the Law and it gives pointers for legal aspects of coworking businesses. Because of the huge differences in laws across the globe it contains general advise and things to keep in mind. This is a short chapter so you should all be able to contribute a lot with your feedback ;)

300-likes-facebook-coworking-handbook

We want to thank you all for your contributions and for your engagement in our Facebook and Twitter. In just two days we have passed the 300 barrier on both of them! Our first milestone where the first 12 apostles that bought the book, now we have our 300 coworking Spartans, what will be our next literary goal?

 

October 9, 2013

Progress and Sections of the Coworking Handbook

Here’s the latest update on the progress of the book:

  1. Chapters are progressing good. One has already been shared with the subscribers for feedback and received positively.
  2. The next draft chapter will go out today to subscribers only.
  3. We have figured out the issue with Google Docs: it always shares the emails of all the people that you share the document with in CC. We will not share it like this any more. You will receive a link sent with our newsletter tool to protect your privacy.
  4. These are the chapters we are working on:
  • Introduction
  • What is Coworking
  • Community
  • Space
  • Marketing & Sales
  • Management
  • Finance
  • Annexes with check lists and questionnaires.

What is missing?

October 9, 2013