#coworking

"Your employees will love it ... You can hire great people wherever you find them ... You will use better communication tools ... You can still be social ... Your offices will be more fun"

"Geeks can now find a home, build business success and form strong social bonds with others of their kind in the new private workspaces. Workantile Exchange, a co-working facility on Main Street, and Tech Brewery on the city's north side, have begun to offer workspace, peer support and networking to freelancers and start-ups, respectively. Neither is an incubator."

"a community of technologists, entrepreneurs & startups"

"Independent professionals and entrepreneurs no longer have to work at home (in isolation) or at the local coffee shop. Sandbox coworking facilitates the social gathering of like minded people who are still working independently, but share values and are interested in the opportunities that can happen from working with other talented people in the same space."

"As you probably know, Detroit’s industry is not doing so well, but a growing wave of entrepreneurs and freelancers have been given cause to fill the gap. While working from a home office has many benefits, sometimes people who work alone all day start to go a little nuts. Even though we are more connected than we’ve ever been, it’s easy to feel lonely without other people present. I was introduced to the concept of co-working by my friend Naoko McCracken and I immediately recognized that this was something that was missing from my life. I’ve been working alone from home for almost a year now and my only companion is my whining, socially inept dog. I realized that when I started talking to myself a few months ago, something needed to change."

"Here’s the idea: A mobile, outdoor co-working space. That’s pretty much it."

"I think Mike Kessler can actually do this. He’s already overcome the worst barrier to entry we faced when we were exploring a local coworking facility: the tendency to dilute your decisionmaking by being too communitarian. And I have a feeling he might even beat the second-worst barrier to entry: the cost of commercial real estate in downtown Ann Arbor."

"I am interested in organizing a coworking environment in the Metro Detroit/Ann Arbor area for independent web workers, designers, startup entrepreneurs, writers and freelancers who want to enjoy a shared space and network with like-minded folks."

"Jelly is an every-so-often casual coworking session. Anyone is welcome to come, bring a laptop, and work alongside other creative, fun people. Hope to see you there! See workatjelly.com and this blog post for more background. Email if you want to start your own!"

"I do love my home office and zero-mile commute (especially in winter), but there’s something about not having people around most of the day that’s starting to bother me again."

"You are invited to microcowork (e.g. work together, or alone but in the presence of others) at any of the times and locations on the calendar. You're likely to see logista, vaguery, edwardvielmetti, bkerr, mitten…"

"But being tied to the house isn't the antidote for being tied to the office, which is why coworking – working together, but separately – is gaining momentum in Ann Arbor and around the world."

"We do not work for you. You do not work for us. We choose to work together."

"The always-on, perpetual freelance culture of Web 2.0 has spawned its own "coworking" spaces, but are these new techno-optimists building sustainable communities?"

"A friend emailed and told me to come check out an open house for the Hat Factory, a Coworking community space in San Francisco’s semi-industrial Dogpatch neighborhood"