Comments on: Redefining Coworking

By: Why Coworking? | ThreeFortyNine

Why Coworking? | ThreeFortyNine — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:37:50 +0000

[...] Redefining Coworking [...]

By: Defining Coworking | Patrick McGuinness

Defining Coworking | Patrick McGuinness — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 23:07:09 +0000

[...] Conjunctured, Co-Space and Co-create to choose from - and via conjunctured found this: Redefining Coworking by Dusty Reagan. He asserts that co-working is a verb: “If you’re working and socializing, you’re [...]

By: shiftMode » Blog Archive » Will YOU cowork in Guelph?

shiftMode » Blog Archive » Will YOU cowork in Guelph? — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 23:11:39 +0000

[...] It’s been a while since I’ve talked about coworking here. If you’re not sure what coworking is, Dusty has a great post on redefining it here: [...]

By: Coworking with a social mission « Bluegrass reVISIONS

Coworking with a social mission « Bluegrass reVISIONS — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:00:23 +0000

[...] there was coworking without a space, aka coffeehouses with wi-fi. Then there were coworking spaces. Then came coworking [...]

By: Raymond

Raymond — Tue, 18 May 2010 17:07:51 +0000

You know what, i wish there was more co-working opportunities available. As an independently working therapist, a large drawback is the isolation. Which can largely be solved though such a co-working arrangement.

By: jace anderson

jace anderson — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 08:07:39 +0000

great work presenting this definition Dusty; ‘Coworking a verb not a noun’. Like this and will share!

By: Sasha Rudie

Sasha Rudie — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:27:42 +0000

As someone who has worked in Second Life full-time for almost 2 years, I can tell you that it’s not a great coworking space. I am lucky enough to be able to work on SL stuff outside of SL because I deal with video. However, if you’re popular at all in SL, there’s no way to go private one time and public another for your friends list in SL. You can only edit friends list visibility 20 at a time, so when your list tops 500-600 people, it’s impossible to go without being bothered.

By: Support Your Favorite Blogger(s) | david giesberg dot com

Support Your Favorite Blogger(s) | david giesberg dot com — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:01:13 +0000

[...] My friend Dusty just wrote a post about how “coworking” is a verb and not a noun – something that has been bugging me for a [...]

By: David Giesberg

David Giesberg — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 02:01:11 +0000

@David Good comment – I had to check to make sure that it wasn’t me that left that comment in a half-awake/asleep uncaffeinated daze this morning.

@Dusty I’m glad you wrote this, that noun/verb distinction has always bothered me. You should update the coworking wiki (offer as an alternative definition?) with this.

By: Dusty

Dusty — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:10:52 +0000

Thanks for all the feedback everyone! If you agree with this definition I hope that you’ll help me propagate it across the inter-tubes.

@Grumpicus – Yes. I believe people working 9 to 5 at an office, if they’re socially interacting while working, they are coworking. Thus, they are coworkers. Coworking seems novel to independents because we’re accustomed to working alone.

The concept of coworking came about when people who worked from home began to miss the social interaction that is usually available at a traditional office. Thus the term was born. The term coworking does not distinguish traditional workers from progressive workers. It distinguishes working alone versus working in a social group.