Pat Phelan, Mulley and others hit on an idea they should have started long ago - superefficient office sharing. Arising from a Twitter discussion. Love it. If you’re Cork and interested, read more. Or read more about the existing co-working networks in Dublin or Belfast, here.
They could do well to avoid the “it’s like Silicon Valley” shite, though. It’s not. The trend actually started in high-density urban areas like Manhattan, where disaggregated homeworkers realised that, y’know, not seeing other carbon-based lifeforms for weeks on end can make you a bit crazy, like. Sell benefits, not features.
Anyway, I grew to appreciate Twitter when I stopped working in an office. Twitter re-creates the serendipitous conversations overheard in a great busy office, with the added benefit of being able to mute the annoying office dork.
So will re-creating in the physical world the office environment they enjoyed in Twitter make Mulley, Pat Phelan etc likely to Tweet more, or Tweet less?
It’s a great idea though. If you can take part, you should.
Twitter (TM) - Ireland’s most productive established floating crap session.
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4 responses so far ↓
1 James Corbett // Jul 1, 2008 at 10:10 am
Richard, great to have more people writing about Coworking, thanks. But… I think there’s a bit of confusion going on between the Jelly ‘movement’ and Coworking. As far as I understand it Chris Messina and Tara Hunt were the prime drivers behind the Coworking phenomenon and that it started in Silicon Valley. But like many of these things it’s rather difficult to tie down the facts,.. and I’d love to know the exact genesis.
2 Frank Fullard // Jul 1, 2008 at 10:40 am
I agree with your comment that
“disaggregated homeworkers realised that, y’know, not seeing other carbon-based lifeforms for weeks on end can make you a bit crazy”
Pre twitter, but partly to address that very issue, I set up http://www.irishbusinesswomen.com as a forum where people (women mostly, but not exclusively) could go to retain sanity and exchange ideas and information at the same time. The fact that it currently has over 2,000 members, and continues to grow speaks for itself.
3 Coworking Ireland » Cork’s fresh push on bedouin working // Jul 1, 2008 at 10:50 am
[...] Richard Delevan is a fan and comments on how much he appreciated the ‘virtual office’ ambience of Twitter when he stopped working in an office. He might though be slightly confused as regards the difference between the Jelly movement and Coworking as he seems to suggest it started in New York (which Jelly did), not the Valley. It doesn’t matter though - whether it’s bedouin working, hotdesking, Jelly or coworking it’s all good. And it’s time to get more going here. [...]
4 Silicon (Lee) Valley, Ctd | Richard Delevan // Jul 1, 2008 at 11:03 am
[...] part of that thread was Eirepreneur, aka James Corbett, who adds: I think there’s a bit of confusion going on [...]
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