http://www.bandwidthcamp.com/2007/02/13/the-top-5-environmental-factors-of-creativity/ semi-daily ramblings on marketing, strategy, culture and research from a self-confessed geek Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:04:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://www.bandwidthcamp.com/2007/02/13/the-top-5-environmental-factors-of-creativity/#comment-16 Co-working facilities Are Growing Up at BandwidthCamp Tue, 27 Feb 2007 21:27:15 +0000 http://www.bandwidthcamp.com/?p=70#comment-16 [...] Last week I wrote about The Top 5 Environmental Factors of Creativity, which included the idea that people need to be able to interactive and break out in discusses with one another. Now on the heels of that post comes BusinessWeek.com with an article on co-working facilities called Where the Coffee Shop Meets the Cubicle. Snip from story: Over the past few years, co-working facilities—both grassroots, co-op-like versions and for-profit models—have started popping up across the country and the world, from Seattle to Copenhagen. A co-working wiki hosts pages for dozens of other cities with co-working initiatives in progress. And while the concept of shared office space is nothing new to entrepreneurs, an increasing number of them are signing on and finding that the community-building and networking benefits outweigh even the virtues of a shared fax machine. [...] [...] Last week I wrote about The Top 5 Environmental Factors of Creativity, which included the idea that people need to be able to interactive and break out in discusses with one another. Now on the heels of that post comes BusinessWeek.com with an article on co-working facilities called Where the Coffee Shop Meets the Cubicle. Snip from story: Over the past few years, co-working facilities—both grassroots, co-op-like versions and for-profit models—have started popping up across the country and the world, from Seattle to Copenhagen. A co-working wiki hosts pages for dozens of other cities with co-working initiatives in progress. And while the concept of shared office space is nothing new to entrepreneurs, an increasing number of them are signing on and finding that the community-building and networking benefits outweigh even the virtues of a shared fax machine. [...]

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