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Employee Experience Design: Corporate Coworking, Part V
Over the past two weeks we have been writing about our new foray into corporate coworking. We’ve been chatting about leadership and community, which sit at the center of any organization or social movement. When we move the conversation from coworking in its native environment to coworking in a corporate environment (or Activity Based Work),
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Co-mmunity: Corporate Coworking Part, IV
Earlier in the week I wrote here about the concept of co-leadership as part of the social dynamic that has made coworking a successful movement over the past seven years. Even more fundamental to the movement, though, is community. While perhaps the notion of community has been so overused by so many people in the
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Co-Leadership: Corporate Coworking, Part III
Co-Leadership is the third installment in our series on ‘corporate coworking.’ In Part I we introduce the notion of corporate coworking to a broader audience. We have been kicking this around for a while, and apparently so have others in the world of HR (see John Sullivan’s parallel but rather different take on corporate coworking
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Designing Culture? Corporate Coworking, Part II
Within the past week we have begun sharing our vision for how we want to extend the coworking experience ‘beyond coworking.’ What we are calling corporate coworking is elsewhere referred to as Activity Based Work (ABW), but it is really more than that. At the heart of this is culture. Our growing passion is to
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Howdy Corporate Coworking- Part I
A Bit About the Journey to Corporate Coworking This is the first in a five part series on corporate coworking here at Conjunctured, We have been in the kitchen now for quite some time, and are starting to take some goodies out of the oven. Over the past couple of years we have been exploring
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Efficient, Cheap, and Soulless: The Global Afterlife of Capitalism
Donating to the problem In an NPR story this morning, The Global Afterlife of Your Donated Clothes, we learn yet more about the dark side of our cultural addiction to cheapness. Some 80% of donated clothes ends up in the hands of the textile recycling industry, which simply puts those materials back into the
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The Death of the Press Release
If for some reason you decide you want to irritate me by email, there’s a very easy way. OK, the easiest is telling me I’ve won the UK lottery or that you’re a Nigerian prince in a tough spot (unless there’s a funny typo in there — I’m a sucker for a good typo). But the
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SXSW 2011 Brings Together Global Coworking Community
Despite the geographic distance between coworking spaces worldwide, coworking space owners and community managers have done remarkably well at maintaining and building an online community of support to help one another grow the coworking movement. It’s not every day that you get to take a thriving online community and see it happen first hand in
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Recap: Two Years of Austin Coworking – Anniversary Party
It was definitely great to see some old friends as well as getting to meet some remarkable new folks too at our Two Year Anniversary Party on August 21 (205 RSVP’s!). It always AMAZES us the exceptionally genuine people we’ve been privileged to meet over time through the Conjunctured community of friends and supporters. So,
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Help A Classroom Out
Mr. K.'s Classroom On our 2 year anniversary party RSVP Eventbrite invitation we asked generous party attendees to contribute money to East Austin Schools. We are thrilled to have raised $85 via this casual request for donations. To top it off some, Conjunctured is going to pitch in an additional $25 to the cause. What