Kategoriearchiv: Project of the Week

Die Coworking Week gibt es auch in Deiner Stadt. Schau einfach mal auf der Webseite der Coworking Week vorbei. Die meisten Veranstaltungen sind kostenfrei. Free Coworking gibt es natürlich auch, z.B. in Düsseldorf oder in den anderen teilnehmenden Spaces. Für mehr Infos zu Free Coworking siehe auch unsere Free Coworking Resources. Schaut Euch um und macht […]

Join this project, or set one up yourself. The idea: Everyone can contribute to the success of a project that aims to bring as many stoves as needed to people who are still cooking with open fire. Apart from reducing the toxic smoke, stoves because of their much higher heat efficiency also greatly reduce the consumption of […]

The „Summer of Smart“ in San Francisco is reaching its final with the last event on the 6th of October 2011. The Summer of Smart is a „new model for how citizens and government can work directly together to address urban issues. Developers, designers, city officials, urbanists, journalists, community members, and more are building rapid innovation prototypes […]

In week „26“ I presented the 2011 Bloomberg Businessweek competition America’s Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs. As voting finished after we went on holiday, we are now happy to present the winner. It was very close as the first three of the 25 competitors gained 15,7%, 15,4% and 15,3% of your votes respectively. The winner is Social […]

It is summer time. Your funds are low as you invested a lot of money and time  in your new project. Financial return will certainly not materialize before the end of the year. Does that mean that you cannot have a nice holiday this year? No!!! Of course not. Workaway.info the site set up to promote […]

We believe coworking events help to increase the attractiveness of coworking  a great deal anywhere on this globe. This holds true for current as well as prospective coworkers and coworking projects. A shared and open calendar that is directly accessible for all coworking space managers like the  “Open International CoWorking Calendar” is unique. It is easy to […]

In February 2011 Bloomberg Businessweek started to seek for America’s Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs. Now in June more than 200 suggestions have been narrowed down to 25 for whom you can vote until July 12, 2011 (see also Open International CoWorking Calendar).  The reason for choosing  ”America’s Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs” as “Project of the Week” for […]

For a long time coworking activists and space managers have been struggling to describe the „extra-value“ you create and receive when working in a coworking space instead of working from home. I believe the sociological concept of „Social Capital“ could provide this valuable description. In short, according to James Coleman, social capital is: “ … anything […]

One of my dreams has come true: Coworking in a Shopping Mall. Exactly 2 years ago today, when the German department store chain „Karstadt“ (which has been saved since) had filed for bankruptcy, we had the same dream. Now in Vilnius (Lithuania) Hub Vilnius opened a coworking space in a shopping mall right in the center of town. Mindaugas […]

Start coworking, you do not necessarily need a regular coworking space to do so.  In Wuppertal, a city close to the urban Ruhr-Area in Germany, there is a growing Coworking Community, not yet with a fixed coworking space. But for the second time CoWorkingWuppertal starts an intraregional project: After having initiated a European JellyWeek in January […]