Weeknotes #186
The paperwork up front: As J. pointed out, weeknotes aren’t supposed to start at number #001 necessarily but rather at the first week of whatever it is you’re making notes on. I had a bit of a hard time finding a good starting point, but now figured one out: So from now on I’ll count [...]
Study: Are Coworkers Poor?
Spoiler: not necessarily. They tend to be under-insured, but they don’t seem to mind. Christoph Fahle and I conducted a short study on social and financial security among the coworkers at Betahaus Berlin. Betahaus is one of the largest coworking spaces worldwide, and certainly one of the coolest, too. We did the study simply because [...]
ZDF Auslandsjournal: Coworking
ZDF Auslandsjournal did a piece on a team working at Betahaus. The show was a special about the future of cities, and this being Auslandsjournal they usually film abroad. For the future of work it turned out, though, that Berlin is the place to go. So they filmed a bunch of us (Anna Lena Schiller, [...]
Digital Nomads on taz.de
German newspaper taz has a special edition this week: to celebrate its 31st anniversary, the editors under 31 years took over and produced the paper. One of the topics the focused on is digital nomads and new ways of working, in other words: knowledge workers, coworking, you name it. The talked to a bunch of [...]
Hamburg: Becks Camp, Barcamp
I’m back from my vacation and (after a brief health-related break) ready to rock again. So next week I’ll be headed up to Hamburg for two camps that I’m really looking forward to: The Becks Gold Urban Experience Camp (I’m assuming this is the official blog), in the following called only Becks Camp, and Barcamp [...]
Tag your laptop
In a discussion with Jay Cousins recently we talked about a small problem: If you’re coworking in a cafe or in a coworking space, you sometimes don’t know a whole lot about the other folks around, or what they’re working on. Online, Twitter or a coworking network like Hallenprojekt.de do a good job transmitting just [...]
Save the date: 26/27 Sept Barcamp “Atoms & Bits”
Update (26.August): We’re getting there! Official announcements both on my blog and (so far in German only) on the atoms&bits website. Note: We’re still in a very early planning stage, so please take this with some caution, it’s all very much in flow at this point. Update (18. August): Locations are confirmed: A&B Camp will [...]
Studio 70: New Coworking Space in Berlin
Café at Studio70 As many of you know, I’ve been very interested in coworking lately, a way of working much for fit for the freelancer & web crowd than 9-to-5 offices or a permanent desk at the local coffee shop. (See my interviews with founders of coworking spaces, some thoughts on coworking, or this Barcamp [...]
Coworking at Barcamp Cologne 3
At Barcamp Cologne 3, Axel Quack, Johannes Kleske and I did two sessions on the various forms of Coworking. Jörn “Nero” Sieveneck shot, cut and uploaded a brief video while we were talking. By the end of our session it was live on the web – Berlinblase style. BCC3 Session (Ausschnitt) über Co-Working from NERO [...]
The Folks Behind Coworking: Patrick Tanguay
Patrick Tanguay founded Station C, a coworking space in Montréal. (Currently, he’s coworking from Berlin.) Installment No 4 of my series of interviews on coworking, in which Patrick shares his thoughts on coworking. What’s does Coworking mean for you? I’m not sure it’s a good analogy but it’s been coming to mind often lately when [...]
