Over the last several weeks coworking SpaceOwners have been organising a programme to allow members of one coworking location to use the facilities of other locations.
This has finally been implemented and is called the Coworking Visa. It allows a members when they travel to use other locations (total of 17 sites in 4 countries) as [...]
Author Archives: Steven
Coworking Visa Programme
September 12, 2008 – 4:34 pm
Nomads and Residents
September 12, 2008 – 9:36 am
Back when we launched AltSpace I had to come up with some names to describe the membership options we had. At the time we used ‘HotDesk’ and ‘Anchor’. Snazzy eh?
This week we have renamed the plans to ‘Nomads’ and ‘Residents’. We have also tweaked the agreement changing some of the aspects. As always [...]
Comparsion to a Serviced Office
September 1, 2008 – 4:03 pm
When talking about AltSpace and coworking a statement along the line of ‘oh, like a serviced office then?’ The answer that I currently use is ‘kinda’ and then try to explain how coworking is different from a serviced office.
In general a serviced office has a private office with space for 1-3 people. You then have [...]
Range of skills and knowledge of AltSpace members
August 20, 2008 – 11:48 am
In the span of 3 weeks we have the following skills (some people have more than one skill):
Contract Negotiation
Web Design and IA consulting
PHP and Perl programming
PR and Marketing
Project Management
Online advertising
Domain Name expertise
Several possible projects are already taking shape just from a broad range of skills and experience being in the same office.
Coworking article: Corporations Picking Up Bill for Co-Working
August 20, 2008 – 11:36 am
Summary of coworking article from Workforce Management website:
Co-working spaces have been around for a long time, but traditionally have been the domain of entrepreneurs and freelancers. However, owners of co-working spaces are seeing more corporate teleworkers coming in, and in some instances, they employers are footing the bill.
Further furniture
August 20, 2008 – 11:30 am
I realised this week that AltSpace will need more desks sooner rather than later. The initial setup had 8 workstations and 4 tables for break out areas or for over fill. At this stage we are coming close to using all 8 desks.
Now in the process of ordering another 6 desks and still need to [...]
Tim Norton/PlanHQ ’space’
August 18, 2008 – 3:53 pm
Just noticed that Tim took over the SilverStripe space in the building they are in on Courtney Place. I gather this is Version 1.0 compared to his wider plan of taking the ground floor in NZX building on Cable Street.
He has high level details and photos from July 28th post that I missed due to [...]
Online booking
August 18, 2008 – 1:36 pm
Pete is just working out the final touches of the meeting room online booking system. It is all working fine but he wants to get the interface looking just a little bit better….
At this stage the HotDesk booking is based on wandering down and grabbing a seat. As they fill up we will get more [...]
AltSpace Announce
August 18, 2008 – 1:23 pm
Thanks to our good friends at Google we have created a Googlegroup called AltSpace Announce which you can join. Will be low volume about AltSpace and items related to Coworking in New Zealand.
