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To all talented and creative people out there: Share your talent and share your skills. Follow the great example of Nice Raymond from LA and enter your skills and projects. Skill Sharing can be extremely diverse and surprising. If you do not enter, we cannot connect with you: For more information on Free Coworking please […]

We are very happy to share and review with you the most interesting stages and developments of „CoWorking News“ at this  „500-article-milestone“ today!!! Thanks to your interest and feedback, it was very easy to identify about 25 articles that you (the readers) and we (the authors) both consider most relevant and important to demonstrate what […]

We are very happy to welcome 8 new coworking spaces to the „European CoWorking Directory„. The new spaces come from Hungary (Pécs), Germany (Cologne, Hannover) and Italy (5). The European CoWorking Directory in total now leads to 314 spaces in 26 countries.

As I was just researching on an article on „Free Coworking“ , more precisely on „Free Coworking Grants“, I noticed something that we should become more aware of. In trying to make a better coworking world, we run the danger of becoming slaves to an apparently „cozy“ but artificial design world. In doing so, we […]

I like to pick up the great ideas of Phil Shapiro (PC World) and SELC (Policies for a Shareable City #13: Public Libraries). Phil Shapiro suggests a very interesting „Free Coworking“ model for public libraries which the SELC supports: „Do you work as a computer programmer, writer, editor, animator, or graphic designer? Would you like […]

To develop „free coworking“ alongside „paid coworking“, it is necessary to focus more on team work and common projects. When we acknowledge the value of parallel thinking in concert with serendipity we are very close to practising „Free Coworking„. A lot of  us  „freelancers“ and „coworkers“ work by ourselves: Graphic Designers, Texters, Photographers, Translators, Programmers, […]

Situated in the „Northern Quarter“ of Manchester (UK), MadLab offers a new kind of  „coworking“ experience. Aimed at both creatives and technologists, the facility provides a space and resources for collaboration, professional development and discovery. As the primary focus of the laboratory has never been „coworking only“, it possesses a foundation or business model that, […]

Wow, this could be a world premiere!!! People from all over the world analysing a world movement right from the beginning and thereby shaping the development of things to come! Everyone can take part as the database is open. You can download the database to your computer and start to analyse. And then? Then starts […]

As Darren MacDonald from Canada says it in his TEDx talk:“ It is the team, that produces the breakthrough!“ I fully agree with him. Another entry in the „Free Coworking Skill Sharing“ yesterday, Jerry Stärker from Austria noticed, that there is no „extra field“ for videos. Thanks to these very valuable responses, we now have […]

Currently I see two very important developments in coworking. One is the increase in collaboration between coworkers for example in the jelly coworking mode (example Jellyweek). Secondly I see more collaborations between spaces and coworking operators like in Prague and Seattle ( as described in this article below). Both developments use „Free Coworking“ and help to […]