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 [...]
Radio interview on Radio Eins
Yesterday Igor Schwarzmann and I were invited to Radio Eins show Escape. In the studio we chatted with hosts Daniel Finger and Sven Oswald about our trip to SXSW, location-based services and how Igor managed become the mayor of the rooftop terrace of the Austin Convention Center. Good fun, thanks a lot Sven & Daniel! [...]
Likemind Berlin: 4 Dec 2009
Phew. It seems to be the day of organizing events. Besides TEDxKreuzberg (see my blog post), it’s also time for a brief update on Likemind Berlin (Facebook page). The next Likemind will be off schedule. Instead of the regular third Friday of the month, the November and December installment of Likemind will (globally) be merged [...]
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 [...]
The Folks Behind Coworking: Tony Bacigalupo
Tony Bacigalupo is one of the heads behind New York City, a New York-based coworking space. In the third installment of my series of interviews on coworking, Tony shares his take on coworking. What does Coworking mean for you? Coworking means so many things to me, but overall I think it represents a big step [...]
The Folks Behind Coworking: Alex Hillman
Alex Hillman cofounded Indyhall, Philadelphia’s answer to San Francisco’s Citizen Space. (On a personal note, when Indyhall was set up I closely followed the whole process in their blog, which I think really kick-started my personal interest in coworking. Go check out the earliest posts!) In this second installment of my series of interviews on [...]
The Folks Behind Coworking: Chris Messina
Chris Messina is one of the folks who started it all. Together with Tara Hunt he founded Citizen Space (San Francisco). Also, Chris and Tara put a strong focus on the philosophy behind coworking to put it all into context: Coworking is not just about space, but also ideal. So here’s the first installment of [...]
LeWeb Pre-Conference Interview: Nicole Simon asks about Berlinblase
Cross-posting from Berlinblase.de, a link to an interview Nicole Simon did with me a few days ago: As part of her LeWeb Pre-Conference interview series, Nicole Simon (@nicolesimon) kindly invited me to tell a thing or two about Berlinblase. You can listen to the full interview on CruelToBeKind, where we spoke in between Erno Hannink, [...]
How to pitch your service to TechCrunch? Mike Butcher knows.
Over on Blogpiloten.de, Mike Butcher of TechCrunch UK explains how to successfully pitch your service to TechCrunch. It’s that simple, eh? Klartext: Wie pitcht man bei TechCrunch? from Blogpiloten on Vimeo. Full disclosure: We had this video (and a whole lot more) produced for Blogpiloten.de, which I’m project lead of, and who are clients of [...]
