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Working Alone Sucks: Join the Coworking Revolution.

Event SXSW Interactive 2009
Format Panel
Organizer Alex Hillman Independents Hall
Description The world's workforce is shifting, and geeks are the early adopters. Learn more about how communities of workers are banding together to make their virtual workplace more efficient and exciting through ideas like "coworking".
Questions
Answered
  1. What is coworking?
  2. How has the workplace already changed?
  3. What drove those changes (management styles, economic factors, the "green" movement)
  4. What have current coworking spaces experienced in terms of their impact on their respective communities?
  5. Who is participating and benefiting from new mobile worker communities?
  6. What side-effects (positive and negative) have these new environments had on their workers, and the people who run them?
  7. What tools (besides shared office resources) make for a better working environment for the mobile work force?
  8. How do you get started building a community of mobile workers?
  9. Why does the press keep hyphenating the word "co-working"?
  10. What might make coworking NOT work for you/your community.
Level Intermediate
Category Community / Social Networks