This is a friend’s co-working space

By Jane M. Von Bergen

Let’s consider the problem of Alex Hillman, 23, Web entrepreneur, quasi-college student, and architect of the local version of an international trend known as co-working.

“Three months working at my house, I was talking to the cat, and I don’t even have a cat,” Hillman said, describing what had happened after he quit his job as a Web designer in December. “I was going crazy without the socializing.”

No, he didn’t buy a cat.

Instead, he got together with a group of work-at-home entrepreneurs, found some hip space in Old City, and set up desks so he and others like him could work-at-work.
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Anna Jane Grossman 07.20.07 | 2:00 AM

On a recent Thursday afternoon, in a butter-colored fourth-floor living room on West 39th Street in New York, six men were taking a work break, but it didn’t involve cigarettes or coffee. They lifted their attention from their laptops to discuss Jelly, the name of their bi-weekly gathering frequented mostly by self-employed web entrepreneurs.

One man challenged the others to explain in seven words or less why they’d come.
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by Worldchanging San Francisco local blogger, Britt Bravo:According to the U.S. Census Bureau, almost half (49 percent) of the nation’s businesses are operated from home. Working from home provides amazing freedom, but with that freedom can come isolation. Community and opportunities for collaboration can be lost when it is just you sitting down to work each day.

Coworking, a group of individual entrepreneurs sharing a work space, can provide that community while also being an environmentally sustainable choice. I talked to Chris Messina of Citizen Agency and Ivan Storck of SustainableMarketing.com about their green coworking space in San Francisco, Citizen Space for the Big Vision Podcast and have posted a transcript of the interview below.

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