Are you the Founder of a rural or tiny coworking space?

[Anakowi_Paul]

Hi Angel,

What a lovely invitation. Thank you!

My place is tiny by comparison to most - will cap at 18. I’m growing extremely slowly - in a small town/village so at the moment we only have 4 permanent members and the day/week guests.

www.gouganheim.weebly.com

www.facebook.com/CoWorkingMullumbimby/

It’s Good Friday - everyone’s taking a break… Blues Fest etc. so can’t grab a quote from any of the crew.

The coworkers were all strangers until we met here. They like it… because it’s a bit different. It was an old community hall converted into an artist’s residence with studio gallery and now a coworking space with 2 bnb rooms. So it’s still set up like a home with comfy lounge-work areas, full functioning kitchen and vege garden plus the large gallery-office area. It’s a coworking home-office away from home.

We walk 3-minutes down a quiet dirt laneway into the centre of town… what else. We have a play room with a drum kit, PA and amps, guitars etc. and a punching bag.

Kerry Gray
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Dynamic Art &Text

www.facebook.com/CoWorkingMullumbimby/

m. 0412 597 107

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On 25 Mar 2016, at 06:14, Angel Kwiatkowski [email protected] wrote:

Hello rural and tiny coworking space owners!

It’s that time again–time for me to highlight 5 rural or tiny coworking spaces on my blog.

If your space has fewer than 50 members and less than 1,500 ft2 please email me the following if you have them and I’ll give you a gander:

-link to your website

-link to your facebook page

-a quote that answers the following question: what is the secret sauce of your community? What makes you special?

-ONE high rez image of your community in action

fccoworking at gmail dot com

Yay, can’t wait to learn all about you!

Angel

On Tuesday, January 27, 2015 at 9:23:33 AM UTC-7, Angel Kwiatkowski wrote:

Looking to highlight teeny, off the beaten path coworking spaces on Cohere’s blog. Who has set up coworking in a town of less than 25,000 or runs a space that is less than 1,000ft2? Ping me by Friday 1/30 at fccoworking at gmail.com

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[alex (Alex Hillman)]

Kerry - I looooove the coziness of what you’ve created here.

It reminds me a lot of what we are always trying to create, which is something that is as comfortable (or more comfortable) than the next best option which is usually working at home, in your underwear, for free

One suggestion for your website - try re-staging your photos with a couple of your members in them. The photo you posted here with people in view is so much more inviting than a photo of the same space with nobody in it. And bonus, something for you to do with your members!

Keep it cozy - you’ve got something special

-Alex

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On Thursday, March 24, 2016, anakowi [email protected] wrote:

Hi Angel,

What a lovely invitation. Thank you!

My place is tiny by comparison to most - will cap at 18. I’m growing extremely slowly - in a small town/village so at the moment we only have 4 permanent members and the day/week guests.

www.gouganheim.weebly.com

www.facebook.com/CoWorkingMullumbimby/

It’s Good Friday - everyone’s taking a break… Blues Fest etc. so can’t grab a quote from any of the crew.

The coworkers were all strangers until we met here. They like it… because it’s a bit different. It was an old community hall converted into an artist’s residence with studio gallery and now a coworking space with 2 bnb rooms. So it’s still set up like a home with comfy lounge-work areas, full functioning kitchen and vege garden plus the large gallery-office area. It’s a coworking home-office away from home.

We walk 3-minutes down a quiet dirt laneway into the centre of town… what else. We have a play room with a drum kit, PA and amps, guitars etc. and a punching bag.

Kerry Gray
::
Dynamic Art &Text

www.facebook.com/CoWorkingMullumbimby/

m. 0412 597 107

On 25 Mar 2016, at 06:14, Angel Kwiatkowski [email protected] wrote:

Hello rural and tiny coworking space owners!

It’s that time again–time for me to highlight 5 rural or tiny coworking spaces on my blog.

If your space has fewer than 50 members and less than 1,500 ft2 please email me the following if you have them and I’ll give you a gander:

-link to your website

-link to your facebook page

-a quote that answers the following question: what is the secret sauce of your community? What makes you special?

-ONE high rez image of your community in action

fccoworking at gmail dot com

Yay, can’t wait to learn all about you!

Angel

On Tuesday, January 27, 2015 at 9:23:33 AM UTC-7, Angel Kwiatkowski wrote:

Looking to highlight teeny, off the beaten path coworking spaces on Cohere’s blog. Who has set up coworking in a town of less than 25,000 or runs a space that is less than 1,000ft2? Ping me by Friday 1/30 at fccoworking at gmail.com

Angel

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[Cynthia_Dailey]

I think I’d already shared our info before but our space is 1 year old and is in the village center that is starting to emerge here - surrounded by dense rural apartments, townhomes and single family homes - lots of families so our space gets used for professional uses as well as kid, family and mom events and there’s even a farmer’s market now on our doorstep as well as vendors setup inside. We are adding a fresh coffee vendor inside at this week’s market and also acting as the checkin for the Easter egg hunt the market is putting on for 125 kids!

Our Facebook is full of photos and links to the events and the market - can find it easy searching for ScribbleSpace.

We are a shared space in many ways, not just coworking!

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On Friday, March 25, 2016, Alex Hillman [email protected] wrote:

Kerry - I looooove the coziness of what you’ve created here.

It reminds me a lot of what we are always trying to create, which is something that is as comfortable (or more comfortable) than the next best option which is usually working at home, in your underwear, for free

One suggestion for your website - try re-staging your photos with a couple of your members in them. The photo you posted here with people in view is so much more inviting than a photo of the same space with nobody in it. And bonus, something for you to do with your members!

Keep it cozy - you’ve got something special

-Alex

On Thursday, March 24, 2016, anakowi [email protected] wrote:

Hi Angel,

What a lovely invitation. Thank you!

My place is tiny by comparison to most - will cap at 18. I’m growing extremely slowly - in a small town/village so at the moment we only have 4 permanent members and the day/week guests.

www.gouganheim.weebly.com

www.facebook.com/CoWorkingMullumbimby/

It’s Good Friday - everyone’s taking a break… Blues Fest etc. so can’t grab a quote from any of the crew.

The coworkers were all strangers until we met here. They like it… because it’s a bit different. It was an old community hall converted into an artist’s residence with studio gallery and now a coworking space with 2 bnb rooms. So it’s still set up like a home with comfy lounge-work areas, full functioning kitchen and vege garden plus the large gallery-office area. It’s a coworking home-office away from home.

We walk 3-minutes down a quiet dirt laneway into the centre of town… what else. We have a play room with a drum kit, PA and amps, guitars etc. and a punching bag.

Kerry Gray
::
Dynamic Art &Text

www.facebook.com/CoWorkingMullumbimby/

m. 0412 597 107

On 25 Mar 2016, at 06:14, Angel Kwiatkowski [email protected] wrote:

Hello rural and tiny coworking space owners!

It’s that time again–time for me to highlight 5 rural or tiny coworking spaces on my blog.

If your space has fewer than 50 members and less than 1,500 ft2 please email me the following if you have them and I’ll give you a gander:

-link to your website

-link to your facebook page

-a quote that answers the following question: what is the secret sauce of your community? What makes you special?

-ONE high rez image of your community in action

fccoworking at gmail dot com

Yay, can’t wait to learn all about you!

Angel

On Tuesday, January 27, 2015 at 9:23:33 AM UTC-7, Angel Kwiatkowski wrote:

Looking to highlight teeny, off the beaten path coworking spaces on Cohere’s blog. Who has set up coworking in a town of less than 25,000 or runs a space that is less than 1,000ft2? Ping me by Friday 1/30 at fccoworking at gmail.com

Angel

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[FredXchange_Communit (FredXchange Community Manager)]

Hi, Angel,

My name is Kim Merritt. I am one of the community managers at The Foundry in Fredericksburg, Virginia.

We are located smack dab, at the half way point between Washington D.C. (nation’s capital) and Richmond, Virginia (state capital). So, our location is interesting when it comes to access to policy issues. Much of this area commutes to D.C., and we are hoping to draw some of that talent that works for all those federal agencies to either remote work out of our location, or to spark the next great scalable startups that will change industries.

We don’t quite meet the specs you were looking for, but I think that this location has it’s own sort of appeal. The population of Fredericksburg is roughly 28K and our square footage is 3400 in total, but 1100 or so of that is all used by a local magazine here in town.

Our parent organization, FredXchange, has as one of its main goals, to foster a healthy community and ecosystem of scalable startups in this area, and to add more creative professional options to an area that is currently saturated with retail and commercial jobs, federal contract work, and skilled trades. We hope to broaden the professional options of this area by offering a facility where new companies and startups can begin to get off the ground in their earlier stages of development.

I’m not sure if that is something that is appealing to you, and your purposes for this post, or any mention you might make of other facilities. In any case if you have any questions, please let me know! I’d love to discuss more or connect you with my Executive Director.

Kim Merritt

Community Manager
FredXchange

2324 Plank Road

Fredericksburg, VA 22401

www.FredXchange.org

Ph: 540-684-6053 — check out our new number! Put us in your contacts!!

FredXchange is fostering an entrepreneurial ecosystem in the Fredericksburg region! Want to be a part of this excitement? Contact me for more details or visit the website atwww.FredXchange.org!

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On Tuesday, January 27, 2015 at 11:23:33 AM UTC-5, Angel Kwiatkowski wrote:

Looking to highlight teeny, off the beaten path coworking spaces on Cohere’s blog. Who has set up coworking in a town of less than 25,000 or runs a space that is less than 1,000ft2? Ping me by Friday 1/30 at fccoworking at gmail.com

Angel

[samantha_sheehan]

Hi Angel,

My name is Samantha and I opened Valley.Works on march 1st in central vermont. My space is about 350 square feet but accommodates up to 9 members at a time with 2 printers and 2 permanent creative work stations. It was a challenge to make the space as productive as it is, the bookcases and couch are on wheels, and the desks can be re arranged into a conference table. We are brand new an membership is low but our small rural community of about 5,000 people is almost 50% telecommuter and has a large community of creative entrepreneurs and working artists, so I am hopeful that the Valley.Works membership will grow! Attached are some pictures, let me know if you have any questions, Id love to hear from you,

Thanks,

Samantha

www.valleyworksvt.org

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On Thursday, March 24, 2016 at 3:14:12 PM UTC-4, Angel Kwiatkowski wrote:

Hello rural and tiny coworking space owners!

It’s that time again–time for me to highlight 5 rural or tiny coworking spaces on my blog.

If your space has fewer than 50 members and less than 1,500 ft2 please email me the following if you have them and I’ll give you a gander:

-link to your website

-link to your facebook page

-a quote that answers the following question: what is the secret sauce of your community? What makes you special?

-ONE high rez image of your community in action

fccoworking at gmail dot com

Yay, can’t wait to learn all about you!

Angel

On Tuesday, January 27, 2015 at 9:23:33 AM UTC-7, Angel Kwiatkowski wrote:

Looking to highlight teeny, off the beaten path coworking spaces on Cohere’s blog. Who has set up coworking in a town of less than 25,000 or runs a space that is less than 1,000ft2? Ping me by Friday 1/30 at fccoworking at gmail.com

Angel

[KaraParlin]

So great to have a thread with us smaller spaces! We're going to be just under 2,000 SF in Lakewood Ranch (Bradenton) FL. @Cynthia I loved your space, I visited during my tour of the Orlando locations!

[Rimi_Chakraborty]

Hi there -

Working with a coworking space in the Azores: www.unoffice.pt. We’re in the middle of the Atlantic ocean but have an incredibly rich and diverse entrepreneurial culture.

I’m working to expand our coworking space internationally, i.e. help people find out we’re here! If anyone has any advice, let me know.

Beijinhos,

Rimi

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On Tuesday, January 27, 2015 at 3:23:33 PM UTC-1, Angel Kwiatkowski wrote:

Looking to highlight teeny, off the beaten path coworking spaces on Cohere’s blog. Who has set up coworking in a town of less than 25,000 or runs a space that is less than 1,000ft2? Ping me by Friday 1/30 at fccoworking at gmail.com

Angel

[Jean-Yves_Huwart]

Hey Rimi

You should attend the Coworking Europe 2016 conference, next fall. Location to be announced soon

Best

JY

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Le mardi 29 mars 2016 13:45:03 UTC+2, Rimi Chakraborty a écrit :

Hi there -

Working with a coworking space in the Azores: www.unoffice.pt. We’re in the middle of the Atlantic ocean but have an incredibly rich and diverse entrepreneurial culture.

I’m working to expand our coworking space internationally, i.e. help people find out we’re here! If anyone has any advice, let me know.

Beijinhos,

Rimi

On Tuesday, January 27, 2015 at 3:23:33 PM UTC-1, Angel Kwiatkowski wrote:

Looking to highlight teeny, off the beaten path coworking spaces on Cohere’s blog. Who has set up coworking in a town of less than 25,000 or runs a space that is less than 1,000ft2? Ping me by Friday 1/30 at fccoworking at gmail.com

Angel

[Anakowi_Paul]

NODO Cowork - your website link didn’t work

[West_End_Edc]

We are opening the Collective Mine Coworking Space in Naturita, Colo. in May. The population here is around 1,500.

Home

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Samia

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On Tuesday, January 27, 2015 at 9:23:33 AM UTC-7, Angel Kwiatkowski wrote:

Looking to highlight teeny, off the beaten path coworking spaces on Cohere’s blog. Who has set up coworking in a town of less than 25,000 or runs a space that is less than 1,000ft2? Ping me by Friday 1/30 at fccoworking at gmail.com

Angel

[Angel_Kwiatkowski]

It took a long time to get to this but I did! I only picked spaces that had easily findable photos of people either on your website or facebook page <—there’s a lesson there.

Tiny Coworking Spaces Around the World You've Never Heard Of

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On Tuesday, January 27, 2015 at 9:23:33 AM UTC-7, Angel Kwiatkowski wrote:

Looking to highlight teeny, off the beaten path coworking spaces on Cohere’s blog. Who has set up coworking in a town of less than 25,000 or runs a space that is less than 1,000ft2? Ping me by Friday 1/30 at fccoworking at gmail.com

Angel

[samantha_sheehan]

thank you angel! And great point about having a strong visual presence online, we preach it to our members everyday!

have an awesome weekend,

samantha

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On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 10:45 PM, Angel Kwiatkowski [email protected] wrote:

It took a long time to get to this but I did! I only picked spaces that had easily findable photos of people either on your website or facebook page <—there’s a lesson there.

http://coherecommunity.com/blog/tiny-coworking-spaces-around-the-world-youve-never-heard-of

On Tuesday, January 27, 2015 at 9:23:33 AM UTC-7, Angel Kwiatkowski wrote:

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Angel

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[Ehmandah_R]

Great article. Just read this today.

[Anakowi_Paul]

Hi Angel,
thanks for including Coworking 101 (Mullumbimby Australia) in your post.

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On Wednesday, 28 January 2015 03:23:33 UTC+11, Angel Kwiatkowski wrote:

Looking to highlight teeny, off the beaten path coworking spaces on Cohere’s blog. Who has set up coworking in a town of less than 25,000 or runs a space that is less than 1,000ft2? Ping me by Friday 1/30 at fccoworking at gmail.com

Angel

[Lars_Hasselblad_Torr (Lars Hasselblad Torres)]

Angel hello! I run a 3300sf coworking space in Montpelier, Vermont – America’s teensiest capital, and a pretty darn small place to boot. I’m carrying out some research related to economic development impact of coworking in rural areas and would love to connect with your research. Could you email me at lhtorres at gmail dot com? Thank you!

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On Tuesday, January 27, 2015 at 11:23:33 AM UTC-5, Angel Kwiatkowski wrote:

Looking to highlight teeny, off the beaten path coworking spaces on Cohere’s blog. Who has set up coworking in a town of less than 25,000 or runs a space that is less than 1,000ft2? Ping me by Friday 1/30 at fccoworking at gmail.com

Angel

[Elizabeth_Trice]

I’m looking to collect best practices in cowering as an economic development tool in rural/ small towns; can anyone recommend spaces to look at as models?
I’m particularly interested if the space has an active partnership with Main Street, economic dev’t, or entrepreneurship programs.

[Joel3 (Joel @ Veel Hoeden)]

Liz, our coworking space in a town of 10,000 had partnerships with some ED and entrepreneurship programs. Let me know what questions you have.

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On Sun, Dec 2, 2018, 7:20 PM Liz Trice <[email protected] wrote:

I’m looking to collect best practices in cowering as an economic development tool in rural/ small towns; can anyone recommend spaces to look at as models?
I’m particularly interested if the space has an active partnership with Main Street, economic dev’t, or entrepreneurship programs.

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[Scott_Tillitt]

I opened my first BEAHIVE in early 2009 in a town of 15,000 and have had (and am planning) several locations in towns of around 25,000. I don’t have official, ongoing partnerships with economic development groups, but I have ongoing conversations and events/initiatives with them (and have personally been active with them, as a board member or otherwise). And those folks often show up at our events.

Happy to share any insights.

Check out https://beahivebzzz.com.

scott.

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On Sunday, December 2, 2018 at 8:20:07 PM UTC-5, Liz Trice wrote:

I’m looking to collect best practices in cowering as an economic development tool in rural/ small towns; can anyone recommend spaces to look at as models?
I’m particularly interested if the space has an active partnership with Main Street, economic dev’t, or entrepreneurship programs.

[Jamie_Kutner]

I would really be interested in this model. I am currently doing a feasibility study around this exact email.

Thanks

Jamie

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On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 7:58 AM Scott Tillitt / BEAHIVE [email protected] wrote:

I opened my first BEAHIVE in early 2009 in a town of 15,000 and have had (and am planning) several locations in towns of around 25,000. I don’t have official, ongoing partnerships with economic development groups, but I have ongoing conversations and events/initiatives with them (and have personally been active with them, as a board member or otherwise). And those folks often show up at our events.

Happy to share any insights.

Check out https://beahivebzzz.com.

scott.

On Sunday, December 2, 2018 at 8:20:07 PM UTC-5, Liz Trice wrote:

I’m looking to collect best practices in cowering as an economic development tool in rural/ small towns; can anyone recommend spaces to look at as models?
I’m particularly interested if the space has an active partnership with Main Street, economic dev’t, or entrepreneurship programs.

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[Martshal_Kohn]

Liz:

I hate to troll you, but you might want to add “co-working” and it’s varients too your spelling dictionary, especially if you’re managing a coworking space. It will make your life much easier. (Although the original reading… cowering, it’s rather awesome.)

Mjk

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