OfficeBlogNotes

Blog for The Office, a new coworking facility planned for Media, PA and the social networking movement in general.

New Work City! Coworking in Manhattan! →

This teaser site rocks. I love it!

Wed 02 Apr ∞ Permalink

Gary Vaynerchuk’s thank you. A message that we should all take to heart, don’t forget the people who take interest, who take time out of their lives to listen to what you have to say. I am posting this as a thank you to Gary for his inspiration and good will.

Wed 02 Apr ∞ Permalink

Social Networking 101 in Media PA →

Come to our meetup!

Discussion on Social Networking
How can each of us use it to promote our individual ‘brand’.
Feedback on content of this meeting and what’s on the agenda for next time

Mon 31 Mar ∞ Permalink

Progressions from Web 2.0

So why did I post all those diagrams by Marc Cantor? Well The Social Networking Progression of course. Let’s have some background.

The usage of the internet has gone from Web 1.0 - The Single user to Single Website - to Web2.0 - the use of inter-connected social networking blogs, wikis, miniblogs, photoblogs, podcasts and RSS feeds. This illustrates the resurgence and realization that the human need for interaction and cooperative function has never gone away.

We are starting to realize that living life as a single entity wrapped up in the stresses of our miserable little lives with the weight of the world on our shoulders is having hugely negative affect on our mental and physical health.

A lot of you reading this are going to realize where the next stepping stone is. Yep, that’s right, ladies and gentlemen, coworking. We have reached a point where the stopping point of virtually surrounding ourselves with our online buddies has made us even more lonely.

Case in Point:

[geekieboy] yo dude, thx for helping me with this.. sorry it took so long solving that issue, you know how txt is.

[servergod] np dude, was gr8 working w/you

[geekieboy] yeah wow.. that took it out of me.. I need a beer. Catch U l8r!

* geekieboy has left chat

[servergod] wow, beer sounds great. Yeah.. umm l8r.

Ouch.

We have lonely stares and neck strain from cubicles caused by passing visitors to our lonely Cubetown.

We have Tech Entrepreneur Guy on his laptop drinking his 5th uberlatte in the Wedon’tgiveoutnofreewifi BurntCoffee R Us trying to talk on his cell phone to a potential client while shrill toddlers demand a cuppa choc’late milk in the background.

I think you get my point.

So the next step? Coworking. Your own social network within an arms reach. Productivity skyrockets. Your health improves. You have little stress. There are fireworks! Most of your peers now have faces, not Buddy Icons.

Ok, I think I exaggerated with the whole fireworks thing. But this progression is not limited to one town or one city or even one country. This is worldwide and there is a coworking center in most of the major cities. Exciting stuff, don’t you think?

Sun 30 Mar ∞ Permalink

From Marc Canter

http://marc.blogs.it/

Sun 30 Mar ∞ Permalink

From Marc Canter

http://marc.blogs.it/

Sun 30 Mar ∞ Permalink

Gorgeous jewelry on Etsy →

Janet Kofoed creates unique pieces in silver, gold, and semiprecious stones. The daughter of a military officer and NASA engineer, her work displays the influences of the many countries where she has lived, as well as her love of nature and science. She studied jewelry making at the Smithsonian Institution, and has been making fine handcrafted jewelry for more than twenty years.

Sat 29 Mar ∞ Permalink

Legacy is greater than Currency by Gary Vaynerchuk

Awesome stuff!

Fri 28 Mar ∞ Permalink

New World/Moving Circus

No Office

Originally posted by Loic Le Meur! Incredible!

-no boss (self employed)
-no Country (world citizen)
-no race (does not matter)
-no diploma (who cares)
-no hierarchy (OK, not much hierarchy)
-no political party (!!!, we care more about people than parties)
-no tie, no suit: casual all the time
-no monopoly, no center, everything decentralized
-no religion (not has important as it was before)
-no mariage (not needed to live together)
-in sync: no email, no phone, just IM, twitter, social software…
-no off-line:Gmail Google apps rather than MS Office
-no distance: it does not matter where you are
-no mass media: they are here but do not matter as much as before
-no fear of embarrassment or of failure: the “always beta” culture
-icons: Hans Rosling, Sergey Brin, Lary Page
-book: The World if Flat from Thomas Friedman
-entrepreneurial or self employed
-ideas over systems
-sharing ideas instead of keeping them secret (authority and power
change from people protecting information to people sharing it)
-ethics: environment, …
-global citizen

Fri 28 Mar ∞ Permalink